Satire

From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice. Fashion influencer by day and grave-robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaels—a flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer icon—unexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddie’s body from the medical examiner’s office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up. Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs. Also by Chuck _Lucky Day Bury Your Gays Camp Damascus Straight_ At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A trans woman sets out to exploit a group of wealthy roommates, only to fall under the spell of their glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle in tech-bubble San Francisco. Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry mentions that he and his techie festival-goer friends spent $100,000 to transform a warehouse basement into a sex dungeon, Jhanvi starts wondering if there’s a way to exploit these gullible idiots. She returns to San Francisco, hatching a plan to marry Henry for his company’s generous healthcare benefits. Jhanvi enters a world of beautiful, decadent fire eaters and their lavish sex parties. But as her pretensions to cynicism and control start to fade, she develops a Gatsbyesque attraction to these happy young people and their bold claims of unconditional love. But do any of her privileged new friends really like or accept her? Her financial needs expose the limits of a community built on limitless self-expression, and soon she has to choose between doing what’s right, and doing what’s right for her. This darkly funny novel skewers privileged leftist millennial tech culture, and asks whether "found family" is just another of the 21st-century's broken promises.

A wickedly funny and audacious debut novel following a heartbroken academic as she lands in Iraq to lead a United Nation backed deradicalization program created to reform ISIS brides. When Dr. Nadia Amin, a long-suffering academic, publishes and article in the best journal in Criminology on the possibility of rehabilitating ISIS brides she lands a coveted lectureship and is freed from the misery of adjuncting. The United Nations comes calling offering the opportunity to lead a deradicalization program for the ISIS affiliated women in the UN camps. Looking for a way out of London after a painful, unexpected breakup Nadia leaps at the chance. In Iraq Nadia quickly realizes she’s in over her head. Her direct reports are hostile and unenthused to be taking orders from an obvious UN novice, her boss doesn’t provide direction yet demands results and to top things off there’s murmurs the concept of deradicalization is inherently unethical and possibly illegal. Frustrated by her situation and the unrelenting heat, Nadia decided to visit her camp with her sullen team comprised of goody-two-shoes Sherri who never passes up an occasion to remind Nadia of her objections to the program; and Pierre, a snippy Frenchman from a well-connected foreign ministry family who has no qualms blatantly and perpetually scrolling through Grindr. And who could forget Tom, the head of security who is the opposite of the heartbreaker Nadia is doing her best to forget. At the camp, a clumsy introductory with the women who were curious enough to meet with the team is where Nadia meets Sara whose accent gives her away as a fellow East Londoner. From their first interaction Nadia feels inexplicably drawn to the rude girl in the diamante headscarf. She leaves the camp determined to get Sara home. But the system Nadia is trapped in is a quagmire of inaction and corruption. One accomplishment—getting the sign-off to start the program doesn’t guarantee the women will ever be freed from the camp. And so, Nadia makes an impossible decision leading to ramifications she could have never imagined. A triumph of dark humor, FUNDAMENTALLY asks bold questions—who can tell someone what to believe? And how does one save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?