Universal Language (9 page)

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About the Author

 

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. According to Hugo and Nebula Award winner Mike Resnick, Robert "is a towering talent." Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel, 
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
, was named one of 
Booklist
's Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Visit him online at www.thefictioneer.com. You can also find him on Facebook and follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter. 

 

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Fantasy

6 Fantasy Stories

6 More Fantasy Stories

Blazing Bodices

Earthshaker
 
– a
n urban fantasy
 
novel

Girl Meets Mind Reader

Groupie Everlasting

Heaven Bent 
– a novel

Rose Head

The Genie's Secret

The Return of Alice

The Sword That Spoke

 

Horror

Bloodliner
 
– a novel

Diary of a Maggot

Dionysus Dying

Fear of Rain

Road Rage

 

Humor (Adults Only)

Dick by Law
 
– a novel

 

Literary

6 Short Stories

Getting Higher
 
–
 
a novel

 

Mystery
 
and Crime

6 Crime Stories

Crimes in the Key of Murder

Dancing With Murder
 
(a cozy mystery novel)

The First Detect-Eve

The Foolproof Cure for Cancer

The Other Waiter

Who Unkilled Johnny Murder?

 

Poetry

Flight of Ideas

 

Science Fiction

6 Scifi Stories

6 More Scifi Stories

6 Scifi Stories Book 3

Beware the Black Battlenaut

Give The Hippo What He Wants

Heaven Bent, Parts 1-12 
– a serial

Lenin of the Stars

Messiah 2.0

My Cannibal Lover

Off The Face Of The Earth

One Awake In All The World

Playing Doctor

Serial Killer vs. E-Merica

Something Borrowed, Something Doomed

Star Sex

Teacher of the Century

The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe

The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake

The Shrooms of Benares

Universal Language
 
– a novel

 

Superheroes

6 Superhero Stories

7 Comic Book Scripts

7 More Comic Book Scripts

A Matter of Size
 
(mature readers)

Forced Retirement
 
(Forced Heroics Book 1)

Forced Betrayal (Forced Heroics Book 2)

Forced Partnership (Forced Heroics Book 3)

Heroes of Global Warming

The Dream Lord Awakens (graphic novel script)

The Masked Family
 
– a novel

The Wife Who Never Was

 

Thrillers

Backtracker – a novel

Day 9
 
– a novel

 

The
 
Trek
 
It! Series

Trek This!

Trek Off!

Trek Fail!

Trek Script!

Trek Script 2

Trek Novel!

Trek You!

Trek It!

 

Young Readers

Dolphin Knight
 
– a novel

Lump

Tommy Puke and the Boy with the Golden Barf

Tommy Puke and the World's Grossest Grown-Up

 

Now on Sale
from Robert T. Jeschonek

A Young Adult Fantasy Novel That Really Rocks!

One of Booklist's Top Ten First Novels for Youth

Being trapped in a book can be a nightmare—just ask Idea Deity. He's convinced that he exists only in the pages of a novel written by a malevolent author . . . and that he will die in Chapter 64. Meanwhile, Reacher Mirage, lead singer of the secret rock band Youforia, can't figure out who's posting information about him and his band online that only
he
should know. Someone seems to be pulling the strings of both teens' lives . . . and they're not too happy about it. With Youforia about to be exposed in a national magazine and Chapter 64 bearing down like a speeding freight train, time is running out. Will Idea and Reacher be able to join forces and take control of their own lives before it's too late?

 

School of Rock
meets
Alice in Wonderland
in this fast-paced, completely unpredictable novel of alternate realities, time travel, and rock ‘n' roll. If your favorite band does not exist . . . do
you?

 

"Overall,
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
is a wacky and enjoyable trip...full of intriguing, imaginative concepts that keep a reader hooked." –Thom Dunn,
The Daily Genoshan

 

"This first novel has all the look of a cult fave: baffling to many, an anthem for a few, and unlike anything else out there." –Ian Chipman,
Booklist
Starred Review

 

"
Chaos theory meets rock 'n' roll in adult author Jeschonek's ambitious, reality-bending YA debut." "...this proudly surreal piece of metafiction could develop a cult following
..."–
Publishers Weekly

 

"Reading this reminded me of authors like Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman…" –
BiblioJunkies

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UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

 

Copyright © 2012 by Robert T. Jeschonek

www.thefictioneer.com

 

Cover Art Copyright © 2012 by Ben Baldwin

www.benbaldwin.co.uk

Published in May 2012 by Pie Press by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.

 

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

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