My new book cover art & blurb & first review

Stone Garden Publishing is not a  "vanity press" but I do the covers for my own books, and the boss likes them enough that he also sends me some other author's novels to do the covers for them.  Here is my cover for BAD MOVIES released today !!!

My VERY FIRST REVIEW: 

"Bad Movies is enormous fun. Swanson's mastery of colorful language creates well-drawn scenes, and his unusual characters are laugh-out-loud wacky as they wind their way through a zany  plot. A sad element of pathos tugs at our hearts at the same time. As we root for the main character, Jilly, to discover her past as well as her future, a full complement of riotous (or exotic) supporting characters provide a satisfying reading experience."

~~Shirley Ann Howard, Author, Tales Out Of School

  THE BLURB:

In the mid-70s, Jill, a sex-change in denial, buses west with the hope of becoming a star. She meets an aspiring gay photographer, Andernach, who instigates her discovery at a pool party. She pratfalls into a frenzy of tacky guerrilla film making, leaves her bonehead nudist boyfriend (who thought he was her manager) to live with a grand sex-change-not in denial-but dying of liver cancer. Jilly's cult fame finally allows her to save an elderly reclusive silent-movie glamour-queen from her hallucinations. A drag queen sewing circle gets her to a big gay bar, and her ensuing stand-up comedy and bad tabloid press lands her the underdog role in a major studio comedy. All the while bullets fly, as a mysterious man in an assortment of rubber monster masks stalks Jilly and the members of her new studio family.

I posted the first scene in another Gather article earlier today, if you want to see how it all begins.