Harriet Houdini

Harriet Houdini

by Philip Loyd…  I used to live with this actress girl, years ago when I was young. She was diabetic, had to take insulin shots every day. I couldn’t stand needles, couldn’t stand even watching. It was a good thing she had no problem injecting herself. The diabetes made her tired. She took naps a…

I Think I’ll Become an Alcoholic by Philip Loyd

Sober Thinking

Once after going on a 9-day drinking binge I thought I needed to sober up. So I did. After just one day of sobriety, what I needed most was a drink. Being drunk must be better than being sober, I concluded. Everyone knows you make better decisions when you’re sober, than when you’re drunk.

Trademark USA

by Philip Loyd, American …  My friend TJ Max isn’t just a sexist and a swamp rat, he’s an author as well.  In fact, he’s recently penned a treatise he calls Trademark USA, and plausible or not, it’s quite revolutionary.  The whole thing is more than two-hundred pages long and he wrote it all in…

Death Before Pity

by Philip Loyd …  When a woman is in love with you, I said, nothing can change her mind. But when she falls out of love, she would just as soon leave you bleeding in the middle of the road. Not my Betty Sue, he said. My Betty Sue would take pity on me. I…

Two Dollar Radio Submissions

Two Dollar Radio Publishing

Two Dollar Radio USA – Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Memoir, Satire, All Genres twodollarradio.com twodollarradio.com/pages/submissions brett@twodollarradio.com Two Dollar Radio is a family-run, independent publisher based in Columbus, Ohio. Specializing in literary fiction, it was founded in 2005 by husband-and-wife team Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood-Obenauf, with Brian Obenauf. In 2013, they launched their micro-budget film…

Fedor Jeftichew

Fedor Jeftichew

You may know him better as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, but his real name was Fedor Jeftichew. Fedor was a famous Russian sideshow performer who toured Europe with his father, the ‘Wild Man from the Kostroma Forest’, in 1873 and was brought to the United States of America in 1884 by P.T. Barnum. It was…

World Almanac by Skyhorse Publishing

Skyhorse Publishing Submissions

Skyhorse  Publishing USA – Novels, Literary Fiction, Non-fiction, All Genres skyhorsepublishing.com skyhorsepublishing.com/submissions submissions@skyhorsepublishing.com “America’s fastest growing small press” —Publisher’s Weekly Skyhorse opened its doors in 2006, committed to bringing the world a broad mix of books. With 112 New York Times bestsellers, more than 12,000 books on their backlist, and over 400 titles planned for…

Post Hill Press Submissions

Post Hill Press Submissions

Post Hill Press USA – Novels, True Crime, Non-fiction, Memoir, Bio posthillpress.com posthillpress.com/contact#submit contact@posthillpress.com Finalist Next Generation Indie Book Awards/Non-fiction, 2025 Founded in 2013 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and book industry professionals, Post Hill Press has successfully published a wide spectrum of books, with a focus on the categories of pop culture, business,…

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson is the queen of New England gothic horror. Did you know that she also wrote Haunting of Hill House which the Netflix series is based on? That’s right, many movies and even series are based not on novels but short stories. It seems to be the only way to sell stories these days,…