Diane Hatz

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" meets "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 

(...in a 1990s record company!)

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Aliens have hatched a rockstar. Brain extractions, falling body parts, and blood-vessel explosions are the norm. Alex’s dream job has turned into a nightmare. 

What should she do?

It's the 1990s. Alex arrives at Acht Records, her improbable blonde hair streaked stress magenta and anger black. Her first duty is to wipe blood off her boss's walls. It goes downhill from there.

Rock Gods & Messy Monsters is a humorous story about life inside a record company. Yet between the lines of satire and nods to science fiction, the book is a thought-provoking female narrative and social commentary on the corporate world.

Join Alex as she weaves through a comedic cast of characters and down crazed corridors of power, where her boss attempts to thwart her at every turn. 

The 1990s New York City music scene never seemed so alien, yet so familiar.

Carol Anderson from the US Review of Books captures its essence perfectly: "The novel is so perverse it causes one to laugh out loud at the deranged storyline and detailed descriptions. This is truly satire at its best."

Buy Rock Gods & Messy Monsters today!

"Satirical, zany, hilarious—a gut-punching commentary about the inner workings of the music industry, its power complexes, and power plays." –The BookLife Prize

Accolades!

• Finalist, 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award (Adult Fiction Humor)
• Recommended Review – The US Review of Books
• Finalist, The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
• IndieBRAG Medallion 2023 Honoree
• Top 30 Impressive Indie Books of 2022 from Independent Book Review
• Most frequently wish listed book on BookBub (Dec 2022)
• #1 Hot New Release Amazon Kindle in Absurdist Fiction, Pop Culture and Pop Culture Music (Sept 2022)
• Starred Review, Independent Book Review (Oct 2022)
   

(Originally published as Rock Gods of Acht)