- Many Wild Stories from the famed Star-Gazer*
- A million bucks worth of laughs
- The others cost a mere pittance...
*The stories in these books appeared in "Morning Satirical News," a weblog dedicated to satirizing real and/or imagine events. The offerings represent a selection of the good, the weird and the utterly insane of investigative reporter Jock Stewart’s news stories and Night Beat columns.
Stewart, who refutes charges that he was raised either by alligators or hyenas, believes that modern-day journalism would be going to hell in a hand basket if hand baskets were still readily available. He has chosen to make his stand for old-fashioned reporting at the Junction City Star-Gazer, a newspaper that—while run by fools and buffoons—knows the difference between real news and “stuff that sounds like real news.
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'Jock Talks – The Collection’ Gobsmacks Readers
Everett, WA, May 29, 2011 (Star-Gazer News Service)–Vanilla Heart Publishing is seriously gobsmacked to announce that invesitigative reporter Jock Stewart might not be a real person.
Brought to you by the author of the satirical comedy novel Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire, a story about a hard boiled report at the Junction City Star-Gazer who's on the trail of horse thieves, murderers, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, a bottle of Scotch and a woman wearing a dazzling little black dress.
Author Smoky Trudeau Zeidel and I combined our wild views of the world in "Jock Talks Lightning Safety" which debunks real myths en route to its laughs.
Click on the book covers to see the Smashwords listings. ("Jock Talks Lighting Safety" will appear soon on Smashwords. It's available at Amazon and OmniLit.)
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Stewart, whose Jock Talks – The Collection was released by Vanilla Heart today, used an autopen to tell reporters that he’s just as real as Betty Crocker and Cap’n Crunch.
“Jock Talks – The Collection is, first of all, a collection,” the autopen said. “For only 3.99, readers who want to be seriously gobsmacked and/or laugh their butts off will find 117 pages of satire, parody and other lies from four stunning e-books:”
•Jock Talks… Satirical News
•Jock Talks… Politics
•Jock Talks… Strange People
•Jock Talks… Outlandish Happenings
At a press conference at high noon today, Vanilla Heart Publishing’s Satire Editor Bill Smith (not his real name) said he used the word gobsmacked after hearing Chef Gordon Ramsay use the expression a thousand times on Fox Broadcasting’s “Kitchen Nightmares.”
“Gordon also screams, IT’S RAW, IT’S RAW,” said Smith, “but the phrase seemed totally inappropriate for a collection of satire.”
"Jock Talks - The Collection" is available on All Romance.