a dark satire...
John Smith is sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades’ television station, where the station manager tells him he should be grateful that he doesn’t have to wait out the next millennia 'down the hall' and sets him to work as an associate producer.
John gets to know the menagerie of peculiar characters populating the station, and becomes familiar with the amazing array of local shows popular with the citizenry of “Hades and outlying suburbs”; programs such as “The Hot Seat”, “Up All Night With Miss Constance”, “Moments of Our Nonexistence”, “Tell it to Judge Roy”, and “Debbie’s Kitchen”.
He befriends Janice the Janitor, who will help him through those first difficult days, and Troy, a gnome-like little man with a friendly yet unsettling manner, and who may or may not be a cousin of Mr. Horn, Hades’ founder.
And speaking of the founder, Founder’s Day is quickly approaching. Hades’ mayor, speaking on Mike Johansen’s morning program “Good Morning with Mike Johansen”, hopes that Mr. Horn will be making an appearance this year. He’s missed the last few.
Come Founder’s Day with its midway and the “Parade of Souls”. Bizarre, incredible, and with a haunting grand finale.
And the following morning John Smith is brought before the recently returned Mr. Horn...
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Industry Feedback:
"The concept is brilliant and eye-catching."
"The situation is entertaining, the shows are fun, and life at the station with all its quirky characters is easy to become invested in… a fun script and a very talented writer.”
"The author has come up with a very inventive concept and gives us a very sympathetic protagonist. Not only that, the author understands how to balance the wit of the set-up with the real emotional issues faced by the characters."
Feedback re book:
"If you like Neil Gaiman or Terry Pratchett you will enjoy this book. I was chuckling along from the first couple of pages and the whole book kept me entertained."
"An enjoyable read and something distinctly different from the usual fair... Beshears has an interesting and dark sense of humor, which definitely appeals to me."
