Joseph D. Newcomer is a speculative and literary fiction writer and the founder of DEAD STAR PRESS. He was born in the blue-collar, Northwest Pennsylvania city of Erie in 1980. Currently, he resides in the Arizona desert where he and his insanely more significant other, Andrea, run their indie press and strive to publish the weirdest writing they can find. Joseph's works include Diminishing Return, Thought & Other Absurdities, and El Camino Blue. All of his novels are available on Amazon, but Thought & Other Absurdities is also available on DeadStarPress.com. You can find Joseph's blog, Thought & Other Absurdities at JosephDNewcomer.com and his podcast, by the same name, most places podcasts are available.
Joseph spends his spare time curating Ari's, his daughter's, comic book collection. Other members of the family include their Boxer, Harvey, and Coonhound, Cooper. Despite their efforts to teach her how to say both of their names, Ari insists on calling them both Cooper. Her language skills are developing, but she doesn’t quite grasp the hard “C” sound yet. For the time being, both dogs are Pooper. Joseph would not mind if it stayed that way forever.
(*Update: Harvey is now “Arvey”, Cooper is still, and will hopefully always be, “Pooper.”)
(**2nd Update: Cooper starts with a "C" and the "H" is evident in Harvey now, but she calls them "Buddy" which is just as cute.)
Joseph is happy to answer any questions about his life, his work, or any inquiries regarding signed materials or events anyone would like him to participate in, just contact him on his website, the Dead Star Press Website Facebook, Instagram, or via email:
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Email: josephdnewcomer@gmail.com
About Diminishing Return From the Author:
Diminishing Return is a compassionate social commentary exploring a dystopian future caused by humanity’s overwhelming appetite for nostalgia and waning care for originality. While I am in no way arrogant enough to believe that it will change the world on a grand scale, my intention and hope is for this work to have a lasting impact on any individual who seeks validation that they are not alone and that they belong in this world. I would also love for Diminishing Return to connect with those who, like me, feel a general sense of ennui and anxiousness when they look out into our world’s inseparable concoction of absolute beauty and unimaginable suffering.
While expressing a variety of themes central to each of our realities: the value of compassion, the need to belong, the hope to make a difference, and the death of creativity in modern culture, this work is mostly inspired by my family’s and friend’s histories of suicide and depression as well as an appreciation for our world’s most tragic artists.
About Thought & Other Absurdities (Available at DeadStarPress.com)
Thought & Other Absurdities is a collection of modern witticisms, thought provocations, & other absurdities from the mind of Joseph D. Newcomer, author of Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and the soon-to-be-released through Dead Star Press, SciFi mind-fuck novel, Darkest Day. Originally posted on the Thought & Other Absurdities blog at josephdnewcomer.com, these brief essays are rife with the social commentary and compassion-invoking prose you have come to expect from Newcomer, but with a more direct and pointed purpose than his novels. This collection is designed to offer the reader daily vignettes of societal considerations to engage the mind well beyond the few moments it takes to read each entry. It is simultaneously thought-altering and painfully relatable. All proceeds from this work exclusively benefit the creation of Joseph D. Newcomer's passion project, Dead Star Press LLC. Thank you for contributing to Joseph's dream of releasing his and other writers' weirdness into the world.
About El Camino Blue From the Author:
El Camino Blue was originally written as a journal that was kept daily through the last four months of high school. A few years later, at the age of twenty-two, I picked it back up and rewrote the sixty or so handwritten pages of the journal into a loosely based on my own reality, coming of age, full length novel. The prose has been modified several times throughout the past years, but always with the intent to preserve the initial naivety of the formative years which shaped the tone of the original journal. It is intentionally self-indulgent, self-involved, and everything else we are when we are seventeen years old. My hope is that it will allow the reader to bask in the nostalgia of characters, situations, and emotions that were present in all of our lives during those all-too-important years.
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