Humorist Books

12/11/2024

Hell no! We won’t groan! LYSSA STRATA, the delightfully funny novel by , is available now!

She’s mad as hell, and she’s not gonna give it up anymore! Librarian Lyssa Strata has long begged the Town Council of Athena, Massachusetts to repeal its disgusting, old, misogynist, and racist laws, but the Council, an all-male entity for 400 years, has blown her off as a redheaded spinster—who, according to a 1673 law, should legally be run out of town at the end of a musket upon a poor fiscal year. When Lyssa seeks to invade the male bastion as the first woman ever on the Council, the men in charge treat her candidacy as a hilarious joke; that is, until Lyssa leads the women of the town on a s*x strike.

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30/10/2024

Just when you thought it was safe to Trick or Treat, those inexorable demons, Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb, make their obnoxious return! This Halloween, the demons have been summoned to shock, scare, and create general mayhem throughout the neighborhood. In this latest stand-alone volume, you become the unwilling accomplice with every turn of the page. So, before you crack open this latest volume, don’t forget to shut your windows and lock your doors. This year, Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb are Home for Halloween (ISBN: 978-1-954158-26-9)



In the fourth entry in the “Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb” saga, a collection of children’s storybook-style books that aren’t really for children, a trio of mischief-causing demons return to Earth to wreak minor havoc on Halloween. Like always, they fail to get the job done, and this time wind up having a very happy and super spooky Halloween.



A fun, festive, and slightly creepy seasonal book perfect for kids of all ages, Home for Halloween (ISBN: 978-1-954158-26-9) is available in paperback format wherever books are sold and on assorted e-book platforms.

About the Author



Brandon Hicks is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He’s the author of three other “Beezle, Buzzle, and Barb” tales (from Humorist Books): Curses for Christmas, Seven Easy Steps to Go to Hell, and The History of Human Achievement.

23/10/2024

🍸🍺🦃Folks of upstate NY get yourselves to this reading event October 23rd! 6pm! It’s time to celebrate the yearly family alcohol-filled holiday of DRINKSGIVING! The new humor novel by Dewey Lovett! There will be a reading, signing and discussion plus cookies! 🍪

link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-dewey-lovett-on-drinksgiving-tickets-1045574299877

22/10/2024

🚨📚BOOK EVENT ALERT! West Hollywood California! Sam Pasternack discusses & signs Walker! Event date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 7:00pm Event address: Book Soup 8818 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069

About WALKER: Back in the 1860s, you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone more famous and revered than Preston Dilettante, America’s greatest long-distance pedestrian. Preston’s descendants dispersed across the U.S.A., and his most devoted among them, Walker Dilettante, decides to literally follow in his ancestor’s footsteps and walk across the country. He just wants to reunite his family before his beloved Grandpappy walks his last steps. But Walker’s walk isn’t a solo trip — he’s joined by his social media-savvy cousin Ria, and trailed by mysterious forces and ancient rivals alike. Along the way, he embroils himself in a deadly national scandal and unearths shocking secrets about his family history.

15/10/2024

It’s the Wildest Thanksgiving Weekend Ever When Death, Crime, Love, and Booze Are on the Menu: Come for “DRINKSGIVING” by Dewey Lovett - https://mailchi.mp/weeklyhumorist.com/drinksgiving

15/10/2024

It’s the Wildest Thanksgiving Weekend Ever When Death, Crime, Love, and Booze Are on the Menu: Come for “DRINKSGIVING” by Dewey Lovett

It’s the night before Thanksgiving and Bernice is back home in Western New York, happy to chug $2 beers at the only bar in town. After a few too many Gennys, she goes home with a scumbag townie and wakes up next to his freshly dead body. She panics—now everyone will know she slept with this guy! Bernice’s attempt to “hide the body” gets tricky when Jeffrey’s very-much-alive-and-real girlfriend shows up asking what happened.

Now Bernice must go to absurd lengths to make it home for dinner while also clearing her name and without anyone finding out about her woefully ill-advised hook-up. The turkey and pie move all the more out of reach upon the arrival of a foe (or possibly friend) Happy Drinksgiving (ISBN: 978-1-954158-34-4) everybody?

“A nailbiter where horrible things keep happening to horrible people, but I still found myself rooting for everyone. This book is funny, unpredictable, and heartwarming. I loved it!” comedian Jo Firestone says of Drinksgiving. Joe Perra, of Joe Perra Talks With You, says, “A holiday novel set in Western New York featuring beer, crime, and Wegman’s? My dreams have come true.”

“Couldn’t put Dewey’s book down! Upstate turned city girl who’s too good for her hometown ends up in a hilarious night‐ mare one night stand. There’s comedy, crime, and hotmess — a trinity of a great read. Couldn’t ask for more from a novel!” —Katie Boyle, comedian

A fun, unpredictable, twisty, and deeply funny mystery about messy people who get things done when they absolutely need to, Drinksgiving (ISBN: 978-1-954158-34-4) is available in paperback format wherever books are sold! , distributed by IngramSpark, and on assorted e-book platforms.

About the Author

Dewey Lovett is a comedian from Los Angeles. Drinksgiving is her first novel. Visit DeweyLovett.com for performance tour dates.

23/09/2024

Dive Into Community Pool, the Funny, Filthy, Wild, and Sweet Second Novel From Acclaimed Author Keith James!

The entire town of Chubbuck, Idaho, loathes Jerry Yatsko. Even his family can’t stand him, including his openly cheating wife and huge dork of a son. Daily visits to the local municipal pool don’t quite bring the family togetherness that Jerry desperately craves, but it does help him stumble on a portal that blurs the lines between reality and dreamland. His actions in one place can change his fate in the other, and Jerry — as well as a young and unpredictable friend — can use this powerful tool to either take revenge on the monsters of Chubbuck or protect the people that he still, somehow, and begrudgingly, deeply loves.



Come on in, the water’s fine in Community Pool (ISBN: 978-1-954158-32-0). It’s a misanthropic and profane comedy that transforms into a powerful, moving sci-fi adventure through space, time, and the human heart.



“I wrote this book as a brand new dad, in the middle of the pandemic. My wife, my daughter, and I were living with my mother-in-law. I thought a lot about communities,” author Keith James says. “What is my obligation to the community? What is the community’s obligation to me? If I say, ‘screw this community,’ when would I be wrong and when would I be right?”



About the Author



Keith James is a writer and performer from San Diego. He has trained and performed at Pack Theater, iO West, and UCB. Community Pool is his second novel, following the acclaimed dark comic fantasy Greg Maxwell’s Inferno (Humorist Books). He also writes and hosts the Gus Biblowitz: Basketball Legend audio series.

23/09/2024

Dive Into Community Pool, the Funny, Filthy, Wild, and Sweet Second Novel From Acclaimed Author Keith James - https://mailchi.mp/weeklyhumorist.com/pool-press

28/08/2024

Walker is walking across America! From Idaho, down through California, across the Southwest, the South, the Carolinas, and up to Washington, D.C., just in time for Inauguration Day. Why? He pretty much has to! As a modern-day and devoted descendent of legendary 19th century long-distance pedestrian Preston Dilettante, the relentlessly sunny Walker Dilettante (and his trusty sentient bindle) will gladly traipse across the country to reunite far-flung family members for a photo with their common ancestor’s iconic boot — as a gift to his beloved, dying Grandpappy. Along the way, Walker is accompanied by his social media-savvy cousin, Ria, meets cousins he loves who loathe him back, and accidentally involves himself in a deadly scandal surrounding both the incoming and outgoing presidents. That’s the world of WALKER (ISBN 978-1-954158-29-0).

Debuting as a #1 new release in humorous fiction, WALKER is a book about America, yokels, Instagram, politics, intrigue, hot air balloons, mysteries, and, most of all, the weirdness of family and the burden of legacy. “It’s like if On The Road was an absurdist epic, filled with homespun Americana dreams, centered around a lovable naïf, seasoned with a touch of Simon Rich,” says Saturday Night Live writer Brian McElhaney. “Reading this was honestly, somehow, more fun than TV.”

“WALKER came about when my brother told me about pedestrianism, competitive walking popular in the Civil War era. I’ve always loved learning about sports subcultures that have gone out of style over the years,” says first-time novelist Sam Pasternack. “Once I started imagining the modern-day descendants of the most famous pedestrians, Walker’s story came into focus.”

Celebrate WALKER with live in-person at in NYC on Sept 4th at 6pm! in conversation with Olivia Rutigliano

About the Author

Sam Pasternack is a Los Angeles-based writer and Emmy-nominated producer for his work on The Drew Barrymore Show. He has written and produced for television shows on CBS, NBC, and truTV.

28/08/2024

Humorist Books presents WALKER, the hilarious debut novel from Emmy-nominated writer Sam Pasternack - https://mailchi.mp/weeklyhumorist.com/walker-press-13882882

25/07/2024

'Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane' by Jeff Giles, A Wildly Creative and Dazzling Take on What Could Happen After Death! -

First Die, Then Save the Universe — Jeff Giles’ Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane, From Humorist Books  

25/07/2024

A Wildly Creative and Dazzling Take on What Could Happen After Death!

Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane, by Jeff Giles
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Langley Powell died. Then, much to his surprise, he kept living. Sort of. And then he had to save the universe from erasure. Langley Powell was definitely the world’s most famous non-believer, a debunker of mysteries and exposer of hoaxes who lived a life of casual reason and lucrative celebrity. But then he died. Crushed by a falling piano. So it goes. Instead of immediately ceasing to exist in a vast expanse of nothing, as he’d expected, Langley found himself right back on Earth — but a different one. Aided by an extremely surly childlike guide, Langley goes to work for the network of the powerful elites that run whatever realm this is to stop his childhood hero’s mystical, magical mentor from resetting the entirety of existence. Along the way, there are secret decoder rings, rare foods, reborn rock stars, red herrings both literal and figurative, and blasts from the past and present, all terribly necessary to the mission of Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane.

Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane is part sci-fi, part fantasy, and part philosophy, a passionate and compassionately humanist novel full of laughs, tears, secret decoder rings, rare foods, reborn rock stars,
and red herrings (both literal and figurative), all to serve a wildly creative and dazzling take on what could happen after death. Jeff Giles, a prolific pop culture writer (Popdose, Rotten Tomatoes, Beer-Topia, Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live) and podcast host (The Record Player) delivers a staggering, entertaining, and thoughtful first novel.

25/07/2024

☠📚A Wildly Creative and Dazzling Take on What Could Happen After Death! New from Humorist Books!

Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane, by Jeff Giles
BUY IT NOW=> https://a.co/d/aD6r89q

Langley Powell died. Then, much to his surprise, he kept living. Sort of. And then he had to save the universe from erasure. Langley Powell was definitely the world’s most famous non-believer, a debunker of mysteries and exposer of hoaxes who lived a life of casual reason and lucrative celebrity. But then he died. Crushed by a falling piano. So it goes. Instead of immediately ceasing to exist in a vast expanse of nothing, as he’d expected, Langley found himself right back on Earth — but a different one. Aided by an extremely surly childlike guide, Langley goes to work for the network of the powerful elites that run whatever realm this is to stop his childhood hero’s mystical, magical mentor from resetting the entirety of existence. Along the way, there are secret decoder rings, rare foods, reborn rock stars, red herrings both literal and figurative, and blasts from the past and present, all terribly necessary to the mission of Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane.

Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane is part sci-fi, part fantasy, and part philosophy, a passionate and compassionately humanist novel full of laughs, tears, secret decoder rings, rare foods, reborn rock stars,
and red herrings (both literal and figurative), all to serve a wildly creative and dazzling take on what could happen after death. Jeff Giles, a prolific pop culture writer (Popdose, Rotten Tomatoes, Beer-Topia, Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live) and podcast host (The Record Player) delivers a staggering, entertaining, and thoughtful first novel.

Advance Praise for Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane:

“Saying this book is wonderfully mundane is the highest praise one can heap upon it.”

—Jimmy Pardo, Never Not Funny Podcast

“Langley Powell and the Society for the Defense of the Mundane is a delightfully zany romp through the afterlife. Smartly written and wonderfully imaginative, this wacky, dimension-hopping adventure from Jeff Giles tickles the funny bone and tugs at the heartstrings in equal measure. I gobbled it up like a plate of crispy dodo tenders."

—Lauren Thoman, I’ll Stop the World

12/07/2024

Decode Politics With This New Comedy Guidebook: Red Tie, Blue Tie: How to Tell if Someone Is Liberal or Conservative in Any Possible Scenario! - https://mailchi.mp/weeklyhumorist.com/redtiebluetie-13826830

10/07/2024

The Ultimate Political Decoder! Learn how to keep your allies close and your enemies at a comfortable distance with this new handy guidebook: Red Tie, Blue Tie: How to Tell if Someone is Liberal or Conservative in Any Possible Scenario!

During these tense times, and across an ever-increasingly politically polarized nation, it’s just too hard to identify exactly who your friends are… and who out there are your bitter adversaries. Democrat or Republican? Progressive or Conservative? What’s a person to do?

Fortunately, there are telltale signs that can be used to determine, with a 100% success rate, a stranger’s political affiliation. All these factors and more are detailed in Red Tie, Blue Tie: How to Tell if Someone is Liberal or Conservative in Any Possible Scenario In this extremely witty, hilarious, and eerily astute book, humorists and self-proclaimed political scientists Gary M. Almeter and Reese Cassard will equip you with the sociological tools necessary to keep your allies close and your enemies at a comfortable distance.

Learn all about how to spot liberals and conservatives:
• On a first date
• By the car they drive
• At youth soccer games
• In the park, grocery store, or at a bar (dive or fancy)
• In many major American cities
• During a pickleball match
• Learn political leanings of animals
• Throughout popular culture

And much, much more.

Vote ‘YES’ to buying it today!

13/05/2024

The Shocking, Twisted, and Alien-Infused Origin Story of the Letter H, in the 'Vowels of the Earth' by Matthew David Brozik -

13/05/2024

Unravel the Alphabet Like Never Before with “The Vowels of the Earth”
Link: https://humoristbooks.com/vowels/

Prepare to be enthralled by the zany, out-of-this-world adventure that is “The Vowels of the Earth” by Matthew David Brozik. Hailed by critics as a groundbreaking mash-up of sci-fi, comedy, and mystery, this book will take you on a whirlwind ride through time, space, and the English alphabet!

1948, New York City: Jeremiah Carp, a mild-mannered professor with a penchant for gentle pranks, finds his tranquil life upended by a seemingly innocent collaboration. Tasked with promoting the introduction of a new letter, “aitch,” to the English alphabet, Jeremiah unwittingly becomes a cog in an otherworldly scheme centuries in the making.

It’s A Linguistic Laugh Riot: From cover to cover, Brozik weaves an original narrative filled with sharp wit, linguistics, and an intergalactic conspiracy that will keep you guessing.

Mystery and Mayhem: Described by Jason Roeder, former senior editor of The Onion, as blending “mystery with jokes, linguistics, aliens, and heart,” this book promises a unique reading experience that delivers both intrigue and bursts of laughter.

Characters You’ll Adore: Get ready to meet a cast of endearingly odd characters whose peculiarities and charm fill every page, courtesy of Brozik’s brilliant storytelling.

Unexpected Twists Galore: Rob Kutner, famed writer for Conan and The Daily Show, warns readers to “give up and surrender to Brozik’s fevered imagination,” as the tale is packed with twists so unpredictable, they’re better experienced than anticipated.

Join Jeremiah in his dubious quest today and find out if the English alphabet will ever be the same again! Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and anyone who loves their humor served with a side of cosmic intrigue.

Don’t miss this chance to experience one of the most original and laugh-out-loud stories of the year. Grab your copy of “The Vowels of the Earth” and let your imagination soar to new, hilarious heights!

13/05/2024

Unravel the Alphabet Like Never Before with "The Vowels of the Earth"
BUY HERE: https://amzn.to/3UWaKSN

Prepare to be enthralled by the zany, out-of-this-world adventure that is "The Vowels of the Earth" by Matthew David Brozik. Hailed by critics as a groundbreaking mash-up of sci-fi, comedy, and mystery, this book will take you on a whirlwind ride through time, space, and the English alphabet!

1948, New York City: Jeremiah Carp, a mild-mannered professor with a penchant for gentle pranks, finds his tranquil life upended by a seemingly innocent collaboration. Tasked with promoting the introduction of a new letter, “aitch,” to the English alphabet, Jeremiah unwittingly becomes a cog in an otherworldly scheme centuries in the making.
Why "The Vowels of the Earth" is a Must-Read:

It's A Linguistic Laugh Riot: From cover to cover, Brozik weaves an original narrative filled with sharp wit, linguistics, and an intergalactic conspiracy that will keep you guessing.

Mystery and Mayhem: Described by Jason Roeder, former senior editor of The Onion, as blending “mystery with jokes, linguistics, aliens, and heart,” this book promises a unique reading experience that delivers both intrigue and bursts of laughter.

Characters You’ll Adore: Get ready to meet a cast of endearingly odd characters whose peculiarities and charm fill every page, courtesy of Brozik’s brilliant storytelling.

Unexpected Twists Galore: Rob Kutner, famed writer for Conan and The Daily Show, warns readers to “give up and surrender to Brozik’s fevered imagination,” as the tale is packed with twists so unpredictable, they're better experienced than anticipated.

"The Vowels of the Earth" isn't just a novel; it's a wildly entertaining expedition into the absurd. Matthew David Brozik takes you on a narrative joyride that combines the exploratory depth of sci-fi with the soul of a comedy, all while unraveling a mystery that threatens the very fabric of language as we know it.

Join Jeremiah in his dubious quest today and find out if the English alphabet will ever be the same again! Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and anyone who loves their humor served with a side of cosmic intrigue.

Don’t miss this chance to experience one of the most original and laugh-out-loud stories of the year. Grab your copy of "The Vowels of the Earth" and let your imagination soar to new, hilarious heights!