The Earthworm That Blows No Trumpet
A UU church in a Texas university town finds itself, quite unexpectedly, the first target in a quiet religious war. The ministers and key members are determined to defend their church, and religious liberalism, non-violently. The other side has...a different idea. Earthworm features a large and diverse cast that reflects modern Texas: multi-cultural, proud of its heritage (the good parts, anyway), surrounded by natural beauty, and adjusting as well as possible to relentless change. Deep questions of faith share the stage with Tex-Mex, tequila, cannabis, soccer, softball, and the many ways people can define family. Retail price: Softcover edition, $19.95 E-book, $3.99 Where to get it: iUniverse Amazon Barnes & Noble Also available in iBook format from the iTunes Store. |
A Small Town for Its Size
In 2000, DBC published his Houston-based novel A Small Town for Its Size via print-on-demand service iUniverse. He has fond memories of writing portions of it on Amtrak trains and in the living room of a hostel in Seattle. Small Town explores performance art, art cars, music, day jobs, risk, love, gourmet sex, alienation, Generation X, and the fertile underground of Houston in the 1990s. As high school students in rural Sealy, Texas, Kat and Chaz were precocious, non-conformist lovers. After graduation, they went in very different directions, only to reunite ten years later in the wilds of Houston's Warehouse District. Retail price: Softcover edition, $22.95 E-book, $3.99 Where to get it: iUniverse Amazon Barnes & Noble Also available in iBook format from the iTunes Store. |