SCARECROW HAS A GUN Blog Tour
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SCARECROW HAS A GUN by Michael Paul Kozlowsky Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Title: SCARECROW HAS A GUN
Author: Michael Paul Kozlowsky
Pub. Date: August 2, 2022
Publisher: Imbrifex Books
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 266
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org
Never trust other people’s memories, and watch out for your own
Sean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and the key is nowhere to be found.
Nearly two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.
While the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean’s life. He pushes his family further and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about his past, Sean must fight for his very life.
Reviews:
“Suffused with an atmosphere that suggests J.G. Ballard and Paolo Coelho chained together in a basement while a carbon monoxide alarm goes off, Scarecrow Has a Gun is at once disquieting and illuminating, eerie and sincere.”—Martin Seay, award-winning author of The Mirror Thief
“Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s brutally eccentric Scarecrow Has a Gun is a masterclass in Cartesian storytelling—simultaneously evoking Christopher Nolan’s clockwork precision and JG Ballard’s ultra-modern sense of irony.”— Jeff Chon, author of Hashtag Good Guy With a Gun
“Scarecrow Has a Gun is a propulsive read that spirals deep into the intersections of memory, technology, and the shifting boundaries between the real and the unreal.”— Nicholas Rombes, author of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing and The Ramones’ Ramones
“A whodunit wrapped inside sci-fi story and blended with a compelling and clear-eyed examination of how memory works.”— Brett Riley, author of Comanche, Lord of Order, and Freaks
“With writing that’s both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky’s Scarecrow Has A Gun is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. Dick adaptation. It’s a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief.”—Tex Gresham, author of Sunflower, Heck, Texas, and This Is Strange June
“This engrossing and inventive novel entertains on multiple levels. It’s a mind-bending mystery, in which the pursuit of the truth about his wife’s murder threatens the main character’s trust in his powers of perception and his very sense of self. It’s a horror-show-worthy take on corporate ambition, overreach, and villainy.”—Beth Castrodale, author of I Mean You No Harm, Marion Hatley and In This Ground
“What an original and captivating sci-fi read! I totally loved the real life references and often found myself so intrigued I had to then go search for confirmation and further information. Things really ramped up towards the end and I was glued to the text. I enjoyed the dark undercurrent and found the ending deeply satisfying as well as super clever.”—Caroline Lewis, Librarian at St. Jospeh’s College Mildura
EXCERPT
SCARECROW HAS A GUN Blog Tour Excerpt
About Michael Paul Kozlowsky:
Michael Paul Kozlowsky is a former high school English & film teacher, and, writing as M.P. Kozlowsky, the author of four children’s books — Frost, Juniper Berry, Rose Coffin, and The Dyerville Tales. He lives in New York with his wife, two daughters, and a rescue beagle named Huxley. When he’s not reading or playing chess, he continues to write everything from poetry and screenplays to short stories, articles, philosophical essays, and books for readers of all ages. SCARECROW HAS A GUN is his first novel for adults.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a finished copy of SCARECROW HAS A GUN, US Only.
Ends August 9th, midnight EST.
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
| 7/25/2022 | Rajiv’s Reviews | Review/IG Post |
| 7/26/2022 | The Underground | Review |
| 7/27/2022 | Jazzy Book Reviews | Review/IG Post |
| 7/28/2022 | @just_another_mother_with_books | IG Review |
| 7/29/2022 | One More Exclamation | Review/IG Post |
Week Two:
| 8/1/2022 | Lifestyle of Me | Review |
| 8/2/2022 | The Momma Spot | Review |
| 8/3/2022 | BookHounds | Excerpt/IG Post |
| 8/4/2022 | GryffindorBookishNerd | IG Review |
| 8/5/2022 | Brandi Danielle Davis | Review/IG Post |
Sounds like a heck of a first novel. I’m in. I’d love to read it.
Best wishes on the publication of your first novel, Scarecrow Has a Gun!
What an intriguing book! Great excerpt. I’d love to read more.
Sounds like a good book.
thanks for the contest and your scarecrow story sounds very interesting
Love the title!
odd title