Book Launch! The Last Train Out of Hell Is Leaving The Station Today!

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Today is the day! The book is dropping!

Have you ever wanted to take a road trip through Hell? Ever imagined what kind of terrible tortures awaited you when you arrived? Did you have reruns of The Apprentice on your list of horrors that await sinners? Do you like cats, no matter how evil they are? Do you hate corporations?

Well then…this book is for you. As a former evangelical, I have a lot of Hell buried in my brain and writing strange fiction seems to be the only way I can process it. Also, Hell seems to have leaked out over the political and economic systems we share. So, after years of stewing over a viscerally painful theology…voilà! A dark comedy about the bad place and how to get out of it is born.

Today, I’ll give you a blurb that also kind of explains the book. You can see what you think!

Jeff Weddle, author of When Giraffes Flew, has this to say about the book:

Julie Carpenter’s The Last Train Out of Hell holds a cracked mirror to the bleak landscape of 21st century America and the lost souls damned to exist here. Carpenter’s Hell, like our Earth, has bad food, bad beer, bad TV, cranky bureaucrats, and a host of beautifully drawn characters who light up the novel, but alongside whom you would not want to spend eternity.

Still, impossibly, for Brian, an affable demon in high-end management, and Liz, a mousy librarian whose last act on earth was an absent-minded step in front of a bus, there is also a chance at love. Unfortunately, all bad things must finally end, and, bringing Hell’s continued existence into question, is an ancient mystery. Just why are there train tracks going both into and out of Hell and what might that mean for all the souls and demons in danger of oblivion along with the underworld they call home?

Carpenter, the brilliant satirist behind the short story collection, Things Get Weird in Whistlestop, of a few years back, writes like an angel and proves her mastery of long-form fiction with her debut novel. One hopes that, Satan willing, there will be more to come.

I hope some of you—at least the weird people among you— will enjoy this book! Maybe not everyone needs a darkly comic book that, as Jeffrey Ford says in the Foreword, “pits self-sacrifice, the greater good, and the friendship of individuals against an immense bureaucracy of neglect, cruelty and selfishness”. But maybe some people do?

If this sounds like a book you could get into, you can order it at any of your favorite bookstores by typing “Julie Price Carpenter, The Last Train Out of Hell” into the search bar.

Amazon

Barns and Noble

Snail on the Wall (Local to Huntsville Alabama)

Books a Million

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There will be a limited books available for giveaways in the coming weeks so watch this space.