Books by Millard Crow

Even in Heaven, sex sells. No one knows this better than Jesus Christ, the holy hostess of Heaven's most popular reality show THE NEXT GREAT DEITY. But what she doesn't know is how she'll deal with The Producer, a powerful entity who both funds the show and orchestrates strange rituals behind the scenes. After he orders the murder of one of the show's contestants, Jesus-and a growing contingent of the show's cast-attempts to unravel the conspiracies behind the camera lens. On the other side of reality, a pumpkin-man is born in Hell. Jack is shoved down an assembly line of supernatural industry, and is ground and broken by corporate greed. His only solace is in a little television show that nobody in Hell is interested in-one that, he discovers, might be the key to his salvation. The sequel to THE NEXT GREAT DEITY, Millard Crow's THE ANGELS ARE VOYEURS pushes his unique blend of humorous absurdism and emotional characterization into daring, seedy realms. The veneer of Heaven begins to crack, and a path to Hell is revealed.

Reese is a drifter in the small town of Dundolk. He doesn't know what day of the week it is. All of the energy in his delicate anatomy is spent crafting the underground virtual puppet show, SKELEVENTURE. It seems nothing can steal him away from his work-until the coffee shop boy, Jalen, flirts with him. After the coffee shop closes, Jalen edits video for a local wrestling promotion. Like Reese, he loses himself in his own colorful, niche fantasy world. Physical attraction brings them face to face, but it's the shared love of their medium that binds them together.Their romance is sweet and hot, but a new presence in Dundolk threatens to sour it. A monster from Reese's past stalks the lovers: it's on their dates, it's at their jobs, it's in their bedrooms, and it's not afraid to spill a little blood. The line between fantasy and reality blurs around them and threatens to expose the secrets sweethearts keep.Millard Crow's "Ghost Economy" examines the space where queer art clashes against heteronormative systems, and challenges their compatibility. Crow's heroes face down paranormal and socioeconomic threats simultaneously, for in this romantic-horror, they are one and the same.

"Even the gods watch reality TV."The producers of the multi-universe hit THE NEXT GREAT DEITY claim that their reality show is filmed in Heaven, but neither of the abducted human contestants on its latest season can bring themselves to believe that. Theodore Flores, a gay, atheist musician chasing a recording contract, and Robin Alleyne, a christian english teacher working out of Honduras, find themselves bound by their shared humanity amid a cast of monsters and demigods.They must put aside their theological differences to unravel a new world that's too mystical to be Earth and too steeped in human vice to be the afterlife. On their quest to understand the show-and, by proxy, Heaven itself-they encounter a cast of surreal allies and antagonists, perversions of mythology, and a reality TV prize too good to be true: the chance to become a god.Part delightful blasphemy and part rumination on the creative process, THE NEXT GREAT DEITY is the start of a novel series that pits a memorable cast of characters against each other in absurd, humorous, and metaphysical mayhem.