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.

I’m going to come back and talk about this release a little more next week, largely because it feeds into some of the thinkings I’d started doing about writing prose like it’s a comic (largely derailed by a Pandemic and publishing a hose to books by other people that went gangbusters).

For now, I’m just going to breathe a sigh of relief that it’s out in the world (which seemed like a dicey proposition at several points over the last two months) and get started on issue three.