Available this February from Cody Goodfellow and Swallowdown Press, with knock-out cover art by Alan M Clark:



“PERFECT UNION is Cronenberg’s THE FLY on a grand scale: human/insect gene-spliced body horror, where the human hive politics are as shocking as the gore. This book would make Marx and Thoreau’s heads explode. In other words, astounding.” —JOHN SKIPP, NY Times Bestselling author of The Long Last Call and The Bridge

“Look. It's very simple. If you're not reading Cody Goodfellow, then you're doing your brain a disservice. One of the best writers of our generation.” —BRIAN KEENE, author of The Rising and Darkness on the Edge of Town

“Cody Goodfellow's imagination is a freeway flyer, and his prose is a ride on a rocket-sled. He's one of the two or three god-damned best writers in the Genres today.” –MICHAEL SHEA, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Nifft the Lean and Copping Squid

THE FAMILY
When Drew married Laura, he also married into the Kowalski family. But on a trip with his twin brothers-in-law into the backwoods of northern California to find their abusive, estranged mother, buried secrets will be revealed, threatening his fragile marriage and his sanity.

THE COLONY
Mom has joined a new family: Leviathan— a utopian colony that has taken the communist ideal to radical biological extremes, using the mutagenic honey from genetically tweaked bees to make ideal workers and flawless warriors. But the once-human hive is divided by a strike and brutal internecine war, and its tyrannical Chairman is eagerly recruiting scabs.

With the Kowalski twins taking opposing sides in the colony's bitter feud, Drew is forced into a world where nothing is taboo and survival is the only law, where he must negotiate between the insane collective mind and the savage refugees, even as the battling forces of the commune work to reshape him into a tool to complete their…

PERFECT UNION

You wanted epic Bizarro? You wanted the old gooey, nasty, uncomfortable Cronenberg back? You wanted a fast-paced, bugged-out masterpiece?

Well, you've got it. I love this fucking book. PERFECT UNION is amazing and it's on its way.

Cheers,

Wow, this looks awesome.

Wow Jeremy, I didn't know you were publishing Iron Maiden novelizations.

Jeff- It's all I've ever wanted to do. This book is the fullest realization of Maiden's "Run to the Hills" that one could imagine.

Plus, Cody added mutants.

Jeremy have his own publishing house? Or is Cody Goodfellow his pen-name? Looks interesting. Love the cover.

Sounds to me like this book does everything short of giving sexual pleasure.

On the other hand, that might not be entirely ruled-out...

The artwork reminds me of the story, "In the Hills, the Cities" by Clive Barker.

This is such a great book. I loved Cody's Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars (which Jeremy put out a few months ago) but Perfect Union like, stunned me. It was even better, more epic, more fuckkkkkeeeeeddddd.

Randall: Cody and Jeremy are very much two different people. And yeah, Jeremy runs Swallowdown Press. A place I also call home.

William- The art is very reminiscent of "In the Hills, The Cities." Might be part of why I love it; that's one of Barker's finest stories. Actually, I might put it pretty high on my list of Best Short Stories.

Tangentially, a lot of the work that Cody does gives me the same kicks I got from that early Books of Blood Barker. Top notch writing, crazy ideas, incredible visuals. Cody is The Business. I'm so happy to have his books out on Swallowdown.

Next up for the press:

Title TBA by Forrest Armstrong

By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends by J. David Osborne

Skullcrack City by Me

Another Awesome Cody Goodfellow Collection

And, fingers crossed, Black Zone by Mitch Maraude, assuming the super-genius inventor decides to come back to the world of fiction and deliver the insanely great book I know he's got in his head (and in various drafts).

So, it should be a fun year. We might actually end up with more books in 2010, but I'm trying to be pragmatic.

Three Cody Goodfellow books in a year. Holy shit, that's awesome. And Forrest's book is super dope Jodorowskian madness. Glad all these books can come out before the world explodes.