My novel, Sound Effect Infinity, is available exclusively, for now, through Amazon as a hardcover edition. We were busy prepping it for print-on-demand publishing by Flat Branch Press over the first two months of 2026.

Dropping a brief passage below, and not from the early sections of the book either. Deep in. You won’t likely have enough context to fully get it, but hopefully your interest will be piqued. If you love music and wonder why it has such a powerful effect on people, you will likely enjoy this book.

From Chapter 15: Mass Communication

Watching him was watching ourselves, didn’t matter the color of your skin or your sexual inclination, or your gender, or religion. Yes, of course he had an erotic effect on women (at least), but it always seemed they were actually as horny for themselves as they were for him. Here we were then, decades after his supposed demise—that truly sad, even pathetic, fat, drug-induced, death-choked heart attack—and we were still in search of that glimpse of him-as-us in the mirror.

Maybe he was just the first waystation, an intersection for humanity that rose out of the shadows of a world in the 1950s in the process of connecting to itself nearly everywhere. His fundamental, prominent state of being made it easier back then for everyone to cross paths and land on him, link arms, blend styles, cultures, and histories, come together, influence, gently steal from one another, turn all forms of sound and music into something endlessly new and noisy, dancing like crazy, trying out materialism as a worldview, amalgamating, dancing with an obtuse level of desire, always idiotically hopeful everywhere on the planet, even in the darkest most chaotic, atonal moments.

Full book is available right now. We’re calling it an early adopter special edition because it had been promised through Amazon’s pre-order system by my old publisher for three years. Flat Branch Press is finally making it available. Buy it now and support the early development of Flat Branch and, hopefully, offerings of ongoingly weird takes of America in fiction.

If you want to have a wild spring or summertime read, this book is definitely it. Buy six (6) copies! It’ll make a great gift for all the musicians you know, especially guitarists.

I’ve noted it before: this edition could become a collector’s item.

Also, sharing this post could at least go a long way to getting Sound Effect Infinity on a best seller list in some dimension or timeframe somewhere, somehow. So help a funky writer out if you please.