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I started Hesitation Press way back in 2003, to publish my books under
various pseudonyms. This website provides lists of the books, some
publishing information, and a contact e-mail address. I know this website is
pretty primitive, but I currently lack the time, skill, and funds needed to
improve it. On the happy day that I've made my first million from writing
fiction and poetry, I'll hire somebody to make it fancier.
Books written as James Hoby
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Cousin Tina
Disappears.
How does Cousin Tina disappear? Her mother—the narrator's Aunt Shirley—
kills her accidentally, by kicking her as she paws through garbage on their
kitchen floor. The narrator, Tina's cousin (hence the title), describes the murder, the disposal of the body, his family, an infestation of flies, an
automobile accident, and many other incidents.
Publishing information: Fiction, first published in 2003. Print and
e-books are available on Amazon and e-books are available on Smashwords and
the vendors it distributes to.
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A Year with the Hoopers.
A collection of
letters, lists, school essays, notes,
memoranda, greeting cards, e-mails, newspaper clippings, movie reviews,
investigative reports, medical reports, legal instruments, inscriptions,
transcriptions, pages from books, journal entries, brochures, and other
documents that were saved, shredded, and abandoned by the Hoopers.
Publishing information: Fiction, first published in 2006. Print and
e-books are available on Amazon and e-books are available on Smashwords and
the vendors it distributes to.
Knees Together, Arms Flapping.
When I wrote
A Year with the Hoopers,
my only goal was to be as funny as possible. Before doing any other work on
the book, I wrote more than 2,000 gags: one-liners, jokes, aphorisms, and
cartoons. About 70 of those gags wound up in the book, a few others were
shoved into stories and screenplays, and most of the rest were destroyed.
The remaining 129 gags are in this e-book.
Publishing information: Gags, first published in
2011. Free e-books are available on Smashwords and the vendors it
distributes to. Not available on Amazon.
Books written as E.D. Foxe
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Rosamund.
Eighty poems,
arranged
chronologically, that indirectly document the poet’s brief attraction to
Rosamund, her enlistment in the Air Force, the poet’s subsequent
hospitalization, and his marriage to another woman. Many of the poems are
comic, some are indifferent, some are serious. The use of meter, rhyme, and other
devices varies widely from poem to
poem.
Publishing information: Poems, first published in 2004. Print and
e-books are available on Amazon. Not available on Smashwords or the vendors
it distributes to.
Waking Up Naked on My Mother's Grave.
Before you get too excited, despite its title,
Waking Up Naked on My Mother’s Grave
isn’t a horror book. It doesn’t explore an alternative world of ghosts,
vampires, zombies, or the ultimate consequences of radical biblical
prophesy. Nor does this book tell a dark tale of a private investigator, a
trophy wife, and a sordid web of incest and indecent exposure. Instead, this
is just a short novel about a young man who travels from Ellensburg, in
Washington State, to Washington, D.C., seeking his fortune but being
overwhelmed by life.
Publishing information: Fiction, first published
in 2011. E-books are available on Amazon and on Smashwords and the vendors
it distributes to.
Exploring Orlando.
Orlando
is obsessed with sounds. His life has settled into a comfortable routine of
listening to environmental noises: a fork dropping on a tabletop, the splash
of raindrops on the water in his swimming pool, the rush of wind into his
attic, the three damaged clocks on the table beside his bed. But after a
freezer explodes outside his neighbor’s house—and Orlando is privileged to
hear what may be the mother of all sounds—he becomes dissatisfied with his
peaceful, unstructured lifestyle and is forced to seek sounds on a grander
scale.
Publishing information: Short fiction, first
published in 2014. E-books are available on Amazon. Not available on
Smashwords or the vendors it distributes to.
How to Contact Hesitation Press
To contact me, you may send an
e-mail to publisher at this website, hesitationpress.com, except of
course, using the @ sign instead of at this website. You'll need to enter
this address into your e-mail manually. I would have liked to have included a
direct hyperlink, but evidently spammers prowling the internet interpret this as an
open invitation.
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