Escaping a family vacation in a little town east of Yosemite, Skye Pelter sings "Nature Boy" in a karaoke bar and triggers the adventure of a lifetime. Given an open calendar, a stealth '86 Toyota pickup truck and cold, hard cash, the only limits are his imagination and the Interstate Highway System. A wild, free-wheeling novel from the author of The Popcorn Girl and Operaville. "A stylistic cross between Tom Robbins, Kerouac, and Wes Anderson at their finest. Vaughn writes with a wit, tenderness, cerebral intensity and outright raunchy humor which fast becomes addictive." --CSLowe

Arts group publicist Scootie Jones and his lovely trustee Juliana Kross conduct the most perfectly run affair in the history of adultery, filled with secret messages and CIA-level rendezvous points. But the forces of social position threaten their romance from the inside, and we all know who gets screwed when the poor take on the rich. A comic romance-with-brains from the author of The Popcorn Girl and Nature Boy.

Second Prize, 2017 San Francisco Book Festival. A scorpion who thinks he's a concert pianist. Packs of chocolate poodles haunting a dystopian beachfront. Mozart and Salieri playing volleyball in Tacoma. For a quarter century, Michael J. Vaughn has been that "weird poet" whose wild scenarios light up the overmannered fields of literary journals. Powered by his other life as a novelist, Vaughn imbues his poems with narratives, characters and (rarest of all) humor, and also the musical passion of an opera critic, singer and drummer. Vaughn's poems have appeared in more than one hundred journals,...

Zelda's life is in a rut, until the mascot of the local baseball team makes her the object of his comic gags. After an on-field game of musical chairs, Zelda opens her consolation gift to find her favorite candy and a poem that cuts to the heart of her loneliness. It would seem that the man inside the gorilla suit is someone she knows An unexpectedly deep romance from the award-winning author of The Popcorn Girl.

Honorable Mention, 2016 New England Book Festival. Top Five Pick, 2016, jennyredbug.com When the owner of an atheist bookshop falls for the girl who works in the moviehouse across the street, he has no idea what he's getting into. Jasmina is the survivor of a toxically religious upbringing, and has managed to escape only by losing her original identity and, when the pressure gets too much, etching a staircase of cuts into her arm. When Paul discovers a missing person flyer with a picture of a twelve-year-old Jasmina, the psychological fireworks are about the begin. A mind-bending thriller...

An amateur opera critic finds himself in an affair with the world's greatest diva in this rollicking, erotic comedy from the author of Gabriella's Voice.