A NEW novella by Jeff Johnson! I Shop At Laney’s is available now!
I Shop At Laney’s, a novella, is available now!
Ralston Orley and Laney Bozeman didn’t like each other but it never really mattered. They made sure their two-week shifts at the lonely curio shop never overlapped, always leaving minutes before the other arrived. When Orley discovers an ancient, giant belt buckle buried in the desert, they’re forced to work together for the first time. In a desolate patch of New Mexico, an alcoholic ex-carnie and a breezy ditch digger discover the past and the future are both far bigger than they ever imagined, and even the present is out of proportion.
“I haven’t had this much fun reading anything since I read True Grit years back. I Shop At Laney’s an utterly original book with a wild strange plot made plausible by voice and setting details and exceptional writing. Overnight I find that I’m a Jeff Johnson fan.”
—James P. Blaylock, World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Rainy Season and The Last Coin
“Jeff Johnson is a master of characterization and suspense. I Shop At Laney’s will keep you riveted and enchanted from the first page to the last.”
—Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula and Hugo Award winner, author of The Oppenheimer Alternative
"…what seems like fantasy for most of the story becomes advanced science fiction at the end, and makes it into unified fiction that works wonderfully.”
—Norman Spinrad, Prix Apollo winner, author of BUG JACK BARON!!!
The I Shop At Laney’s audiobook is being recorded now! A note from Big J- Recording an audiobook is something so many people have been encouraging me to do for years. It turns out they were all right. This is fun! I Shop At Laney’s is the first of three novellas in a collection and I’ll be doing the audio recording for each of them. The Saucier and Fortune Cookies are on the way, stay tuned.
IN 2025, THE SAUCIER
Dan Gillard lost his job as the saucier at Chez Wolf in Chicago, got revelation drunk and bought a hotdog cart. This cost him his fiancé, and with her went his apartment and the future they’d planned together. Dan takes to the road, moving from city to city in front of permit violations and a growing fandom, serving cheap and otherworldly Creole out of the cart, changing the name with every location. His unusual culinary tour comes to an end when he finds a dead man in a laundromat on the outskirts of Muncie, Indiana.
*NOTE this will not be the actual cover, the above is from a presentation packet for the screenplay adaptation.
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