Brett Cottrell

I'm happy to announce that my debut novel, The End of the World is Rye , will be available from Rosarium Publishing in June 2015. " The End of the World Is Rye  is a top-notch urban fantasy. Funny and sharp, it doesn't choke a good story in whimsy. Fans of Preacher and Sandman  will have a great time with this one." -- Garrett Cook,  Time Pimp What would you do for the perfect sandwich? Kill? Die? Well, if you were a rogue angel, you might just cause the Apocalypse. And it looks like that's just what he's about to do when he lands in a polygamist cult in Utah. So, now it's up to the rest of God's divine posse, including  Jesus and Lucifer , to save all of existence from certain destruction. In his debut novel, Brett Cottrell takes you on a provocative, celestial roller coaster ride that will have you laughing on the edge of your seat all the way to the gates of Hell.

  Fair. I expected more from my first Heinlein book, Starship Troopers . The story gets bogged down in military minutia and I found myself thinking, "get on with it..."   As for the characters' philosophy of morals, it was oversimplified, hyper-masculinized (based on contemporary stereotypes) dogma attempting to justify what, in the history of the civilized world, has always failed - rule by the military. It must fail either because by its very nature it will get conquered from without or toppled from within due to the oppression necessary to sustain it.   I don't know if Heinlein believes all this, but his characters did. For example, the idea of no moral instincts. Sounds good, that we're born with a tabula rasa , but it isn't true, nor is it provable, and even if it were, it wouldn't prove what he thinks it does.   There is no moral tabula rasa . The ability to think morally presupposes a capacity to do so. You can preach morals at sea...

Spoiler Alert: This book does not Contain a self-important memoir. Equal parts Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore and Jasper Fforde, Tom Holt’s Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages , is an insanely imaginative and hilarious read. There’s no point telling you what this book’s about, it wouldn’t make any sense. But, I’ve got to give you something.   There’s a pig who figures out the secret to transdimensional travel, a guitarist who gets turned into a rooster, a flock of chickens who learn that they’re really human lawyers, and a real estate boss who has no personal history but a knack for getting rich by eliminating the inefficiency of operating in only one dimension.   All this happens because somebody tries to cheat in a 700 year-old game of “chicken or the egg.” Cheaters never prosper, especially when they forget that lawyer-chickens revolt.   Don't mistake the humor for hollowness, there's a point behind the absurdity. A little Vonnegut seasoning. Th...

My Mother could have been Savita Halappanavar, the expectant mother who needlessly died recently in an Irish hospital. Due to harsh and confusing abortion laws, the doctors refused to terminate her pregnancy, even though it was apparent that neither she nor her child would survive it. They watched as Ms. Halappanavar writhed in pain, unable to expel the dying fetus that was killing her, and unable to get the doctors to act. In 1971, my mother was 24 and had two young children. She was five months along with a third when she experienced complications and began severely hemorrhaging. She went to the hospital afraid she would miscarry. Many painful hours later, exhausted from blood loss, she lay frightened atop a heap of bloody sheets and towels, scared that she would die, terrified that she would never see her young children again. She was shocked when the doctors finally told her she would bleed to death if she did not terminate her pregnancy. They brought her abortion papers ...

 Had a great time yesterday at the Baltimore Book Festival.  Yes. I do know Tico the Steeler Dog. And no, I won't get you his autograph.   I tried to show 'em that I'm the boss. It didn't work. It never does.     

Had a great time reading The Valley of Fire at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City.   1) No, I can't save you any money on your car insurance, but 2) yes, I do look like Brad Pitt.   Trump's hair is really this big! I swear! "To Trogdor the Burninator." Are you sure that's your name?

Oh, man! This car doesn't even have a steering wheel. Great interview on the 19th with GodDiscussion.com on Blog Talk Radio about my "fantasy/new weird" novel The Valley of Fire (available on Create Space , Amazon or through your local bookstore). "One of the funniest books I've ever  read...it is scream!" GodDiscussion.com Click here for the interview . My segment begins at 17:05 and ends at 54:00. This is half as long as I'd like to speak and twice as long as anyone should let me. I managed to prove myself a blasphemer, heretic and Mormon apostate in one brief discussion. Not a bad trifecta! "This is a great book, I guarantee you're going to love it." GodDiscussion.com If you're a free thinker, I highly recommend the God Discussion show and website . If you're not a free thinker or just don't like the God Discussion people, then I hope you spend the rest of your life eating nothing but the leather s...