John Scheck - Author - Humorist

 

Check out my collection of humor essays called Nothing Personal .  

My first novel, La Frontera Saga , is now available at Amazon .   Get a free version in epub mobi, or pdf here .   In the Mexican criminal world where terror, cruelty, and homicide reign as the chief negotiating tactics, the biggest drug cartel decides to unilaterally renounce violence and hand over a huge portion of their illicit gains to the rural poor in a form of self-taxation, something economists call transfer payments. While this puts the Sinaloa Cartel off the radar of American authorities, the murderous Zeta clan see it as a sign of weakness. The ensuing war creates strange alliances between DEA agents, an elite Mexican military unit, and the ruthless Sinaloa head of security. Both frantically paced and thought provoking from prologue to epilogue, La Frontera Saga is relentlessly entertaining. "Relentlessly entertaining?" Is that going a little overboard? I'm crap at business and marketing.  

A book of about 80 humor essays on every topic you can imagine, and probably many others that you never imagined could somehow make their way into print. I hope that some of them will make you laugh as I laugh all the way to the bank to ask them for a loan to buy food. " Humor is without a doubt the most subjective literary form, and the author reassures readers that if they don’t find any of these eighty essays funny, it probably means that they are normal, well-adjusted human beings. For the rest of you, these sometimes penetrating, sometimes disturbing comedy pieces touch on topics ranging from gym teachers, to the war on Christmas. Sharp as a razor, edgy humor directed at every aspect of modern society, and out-of-work rodeo clowns." Buy on Amazon Buy on Barnes & Noble Critical acclaim for Nothing Personal “His writing is the moral equivalent of a really bad, really long drum solo.” - Tattoos & Beards Gazette “It has a certain ' je ne sais quoi ....

I have a short story called "Visiting Day" in this collection. Buy on Amazon . Short Stories From The Darkside Towards the end of 2017 Fahrenheit Press launched a short story competition to showcase talented crime fiction writers from all around the world. Our crack panel of judges whittled down the hundreds of entries we received to the 15 stories contained in this anthology. We believe these authors represent some of the most exciting crime fiction being written today. The paperback edition will be published on March 30th 2018 and you can now pre-order your copy direct from us. Buy Noirville on Amazon . Click here to buy your copy (ebook or paperback).  

I grew up reading National Lampoon so my modest, one essay contribution to National Lampoon Not Fit for Print was pretty cool for my inner adolescent child.