Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next horror superstar to compete with Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Peter Straub. It’s the ’80s, after all, and horror is the hottest genre.But as soon as she arrives, Lussi finds herself the target of her co-workers' mean-spirited pranks. The hazing reaches...

Who knew fighting for a living wage could be so deadly? Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z intern are drawn into a murder investigation in a small Vermont town in this hilarious spin on cozy mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery.Fall is bursting out all over Vermont, and while the rest of the Congress enjoys its recess, Senator Bernie Sanders has returned to his beloved home state for a weekend o...

Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama team up in this high-stakes thriller that combines a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes with the laugh-out-loud bromantic chemistry of *Lethal Weapon’*s Murtaugh and Riggs.Vice President Joe Biden is fresh out of the Obama White House and feeling adrift when his favorite railroad conductor dies in a suspicious accident, leaving behind an ailing wife and a trail of clues. To unravel the mystery, “Amtrak Joe” re-teams with the only...

Following a long but successful book tour, Joe Biden has one more stop before he can return home: Chicago. His old pal Barack Obama has invited him to meet a wealthy benefactor whose endorsement could turn the tide for Joe if he decides to run for president.The two friends barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps: Obama’s prized Blackberry is stolen. When their number-one suspect winds up full of lead on the South Side, the police are content to write...

For fans of SNL'S DEEP THOUGHTS BY JACK HANDEY and BILLY COLLINS, a new book of humor from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer.In his first full-length poetry collection featuring over five dozen new and selected poems, humorist Andrew Shaffer explores our modern world from Fortnite ("I don't care") to pretentious Instagram poets ("Lord Byron would have drunk wine from your hipster skull")."Look Mom I'm a Poet (and So Is My Cat)" is playful, hilarious, and accessible t...

Even the most jaded of Hot Topic clerks will crack a smile at this morbidly funny joke book compiled by New York Times bestselling humorist and low-key goth Andrew Shaffer.This illustrated collection is perfect for Halloween—or anytime, really, since true goths know that every day is Halloween.

The Office meets Stephen King, dressed up in holiday tinsel, in this fun, festive, and frightening horror-comedy set during the horror publishing boom of the ’80s, by New York Times bestselling satirist Andrew Shaffer.Out of work for months, Lussi Meyer is desperate to work anywhere in publishing. Prestigious Blackwood-Patterson isn’t the perfect fit, but a bizarre set of circumstances leads to her hire and a firm mandate: Lussi must find the next...

“Amazing stories! Incredible quotes! Sordid details! This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General MotorsWhat do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in common? That’s right: they were all hopeless failures when it came to romance. Author Andrew Shaffer explores the paradox at the core of Western philosophical thought—that history’s greatest thinkers...

When Halloween is threatened by bad weather, only one moth can save it.It's Halloween, the biggest day of the year on Mothman's farm. Schoolchildren from nearby Point Pleasant are scheduled to arrive all day long to pick their own pumpkins...until it begins to rain.By the time the skies clear, not only have the kids' field trips been cancelled, but it's too late to even go trick-or-treating. The day is officially declared the Worstest Halloween Ever (in the Entire Universe)...

A shadowy multinational tech firm sends two agents, neither very willing, to find a long-gone renegade scientist, who now runs a deprogramming center in the countryside.The scientist makes off with one of the agents and the other lassos two of her friends to help her find him, if only to save herself from being sent back to home base and meeting an unattractive end.

Jay Z. Catsby throws the sickest parties on the Jersey Shore. His neighbor Dick has heard all the rumors: Catsby killed a man. He's richer than Blue Ivy. He's Hugh Jackman's butt double in the X-Men movies.As Dick soon learns, the truth is far stranger. Catsby is a "furry" who spends his days and nights in a cat costume, pining away for Dick's cousin Dandelion, a manic-pixie Brooklynite with a brutish husband. Will Catsby's romantic obsession cost him all nine of his lives?...

Étienne has a secret pet no one else can see . . . Étienne has a secret pet he feeds and feeds and feeds . . .A young French boy harbors a dark secret in this delightfully illustrated picture book from New York Times bestseller Andrew Shaffer ("Mothman's Merry Cryptid Christmas").Funny and more than a tad disturbing, "The Secret Pet" is perfect for older children and adults who enjoy Edward Gorey, Lemony Snicket, and all things strange and unusual.