Devil-May-Care newly discovered manuscript for third novel in Jody Scott’s classic “Benaroya Chronicles” to be issued by Strange Particle Press summer 2016!
Strange Particle Press (the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Digital Parchment Services) and the Estate of Jody Scott are thrilled to announce that among her effects the late author left behind the unpublished manuscript for the final novel about her two most famous creations, and unlikely lovers, Benaroya, the fish woman transplanted to a human body, and Sterling O’Blivion, the 700 year old vampire.
During Jody Scott’s lifetime only two Benaroya books were published (Passing For Human and I, Vampire (already released in paperback and as ebooks by Strange Particle Press).
According to Jody Scott’s life partner and heir, Mary Whealen, when Ms. Scott completed, Devil-May-Care, it was rejected by several major SF publishers who considered it too far out for commercial publication.
In her submission cover letter, Jody Scott described the book this way:
“Devil-May-Care is a literary, feminist-satire and send up of Stephen King gross-out horror novel, with lots of fast-paced action to blend the flavors. Benaroya, the alien anthropologist (in a replicate Virginia Woolf body), and her boyfriend Omark (in the body of Douglas MacArthur) plot to prevent suave alien archfiend Scaulzo from destroying Earth. As liaison they recruit 700-year-old lesbian vampire Sterling O’Blivion who struggles to kick her blood habit (aided, or prodded cruelly depending on one’s viewpoint, by a replicate “Just-Say-No” Nancy Reagan) in order to deem herself worthy of Benaroya with whom she has fallen madly in love.
“But when Benaroya’s Virginia Woolf body is killed Sterling must cope with the shock of finding that the “woman” she loves now inhabits the body of a young, tap-dancing Shirley Temple. The three must also cope with Scaulzo’s Agony Organ as it hypnotically invades their thoughts. Their solution: Benaroya as the talented tot, must become the hot new evangelist sensation, promulgating a religion based on Rysemian precepts.”
With Passing For Human and I, Vampire, Jody Scott established herself as an outrageous writer of wit and incredible imagination. In Devil-May-Care she surpasses all her previous limits to establish herself as a satirist fully the equal of Rabelais, Jonathan Swift, and James Joyce.
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The estate-authorized Jody Scott site (http://www.jodyscott.info)
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