New Release: Unauthorized Live Recording
Brain Jar Press launched issue 2 in The Kaleidoscope’s Children earlier this week. It’s shiny, in a LoFi kind of way; a 14,000 word novelette about unlicensed bootlegs, murder-happy fans, and family legacies being discovered. All in all, this is a very different beast to Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called the Band. We switch to third person, mess with the timeline and bring in a new protagonist. This was by intent. The series is a kind of mosaic built up around a central conceit, which means we skip ahead five years and introduce a younger protagonist who grew up with YouTube and Spotify rather than CD stores and songs taped of the radio. You can grab copies cheap at the Brain Jar Press website and slightly less cheap at Amazon (US | UK | AUS) or Kobo. And, of course, if you haven’t read issue one you can still pick it up for free.