Modern Evil Press
Modern Evil Press is an independent micro-publisher which currently offers books exclusively by Teel McClanahan III. Many Modern Evil Press books are being made available as free ebooks under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org. Scroll down to see everything.
Novels & Serial Fiction Poetry & Short Fiction Endless Imagination
Latest Release:
Dragons' Truth is suitable for young listeners as well as adults.
Written by, read by, and music by Teel McClanahan III.
Scroll down to read the full description of the paperback, below.
Audiobook: MP3 CD (1 disc, US$12.99)
Coming Soon: Audio CD set (4 discs, US$25.99)
Dragons' Truth is also available in Paperback and E-Book formats:
Paperback: (list price: US$12.99)
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Novels:
Lost and Not Found
(252 pages, (c)2003-2004, ISBN: 978-1-934516-01-0) Lost and Not Found details one man's journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly dreams to be by following his attempt to write his first novel within the challenging timeframe of only four weeks. As his story unfolds we get to read what he is writing and can see the relationship between the author and his work unfold until his life literally unfolds around him.
From the back cover:
In this, the debut novel from creative mind Teel McClanahan III, we follow the stories of a young man trying to write his own debut novel. Faced with the added challenge of trying to complete a novel in only one month, he pours himself literally into the process. But are his attempts at fiction hitting a little too close to home? As he tries to live on one side and write on the other, he finds that the line between imagination and reality may not exist at all.
Will he finish his novel in time? Will he end up with the woman of his dreams? Will he choose to anchor himself in reality, or lose himself in his own fiction? And which of these would really be the better outcome?
Contains some mature content.
Paperback: (list price: US$13.99))
Dragons' Truth
(208 pages, (c)2004, ISBN: 978-1-934516-02-7) Dragons' Truth is not just the coming-of-age story of a boy who meets a dragon and the way the dragon's teachings change his life, but also represents a sort of allegory about some of the problems with the separation of the common man from higher education and the world of academia.
It is suitable for young readers as well as adults.
From the back cover:
When two young boys decide to skip school and seek adventure one day, they end up finding much more than they ever bargained for. More than the dragon and the mountain of riches they see at first, one of the boys finds the entire course of his life changed.
That boy, Larry, finds himself at the center of an adventure bigger than anything he'd ever dreamed of. And when Larry's continuing adventure begins to effect his schoolwork, and then his teachers and his entire school, Larry's not sure what he's gotten himself into. When the effects of that seemingly innocent day begin to spread throughout - and then to threaten - his entire nation, Larry is forced to take action or face the destruction of the entire human race as a result of a single day of hooky.
Join Larry as he grows from a little boy into the last chance for survival that humanity may have, and find out just how complicated a happy ending can become...
Contains some violent content.
Paperback: (list price: US$12.99)
E-Book: (available for free under)
Serial Fiction:
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction is made up of stories taking place within a vast, original universe populated by people and situations familiar and yet impossibly foreign, not only to readers but often to its denizens, at the same time. It is currently represented by a growing series of books, the Recollections of an Alternate Past, featuring a single central character's expanding understanding of the reality he is a part of.
The first three books of this series are currently available only as ebooks (a single volume containing all three books of the first trilogy is available in paperback), with at least six more Recollections books to follow. Each book is designed to be both thought-provoking and satisfying without becoming too large an investment of your time; many readers excitedly go through an entire book in a single sitting and find themselves asking for more. It is hoped that you will enjoy what they have to offer.
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past: Book One, Book Two, and Book Three
(416 pages, (c)2004-2006, ISBN: 978-1-934516-40-9) Erotic fantasies. Monstrous insects. A tragic accident. Out of body experiences. Teenage girls shopping at the mall. Mind reading and telepathic communication. High school teachers. A magical attack. Medical ethics violations. Dodgeball as youve never imagined it. An exploration of the mathematics of good and evil. A kidnapping. Playing in the championship game. A teenage three-way (complete with twins). A devious trap. Disembodied doctors. Birth pains. Religious war. A man made of mud, a woman with two heads, and a pair of popes. A grizzly, ineffective cesarean. A collapsing cathedral. Discussions with the devil. Tortured souls, torturing. An erotic nightmare that seems safe at the time. Lies about The White House lying again. A contract signed in blood. A meaningless maelstrom. Rocking out at a high school dance. Terrible revelations. An Unidentified Flying Object. And thats not the half of it. The Recollections of an Alternate Past are the Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction that tell the story of Trevors journey from a life of apparent innocence and normalcy through the uncovering of layer after layer of illusion and deception until he finally realizes his ultimate destiny. Books One, Two, and Three detail the first steps on this amazing journey. Imagine Nicholson Baker crossed with Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling; this is detailed, captivating, mind-blowing fantastical serial fiction for adults.
Paperback: (list price: US$24.99)
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball or Conception and Induction or How to Begin an Apocalypse
(191 pages, (c)2004) Book One is the introduction to this series of books which take place in a world where magic and psychic-like powers exist but are overlooked by most people, and centers on a teenage boy of remarkable magical and mental powers as he is introduced to a world that had been hidden from him his entire life by ignorance.
E-Book: (available for free under)
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book Two: The Twofold Invasion or Penetration and Destruction or How to Make Love With Twins
(193 pages, (c)2005) Book Two continues the boy's story from a few months after where Book One leaves off, primarily following his quest to save the life of his unborn child as he finds himself further and further from the life he knew before
E-Book: (available for free under)
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book Three: Escape from Exile or Confusion and Contraction or How to Get Out of Hell
(177 pages, (c)2006) Book Three picks up from the same instant that Book Two left off: in Hell. It is primarily concerned with the boy's attempts to free his companions from eternal damnation, but has a few twists and turns that will leave you wondering what really happened.
E-Book: (available for free under)
Poetry:
Worth 1k --- Volume 1
(124 pages, (c)2006, ISBN:978-1-934516-20-1) This book represents the sole record of an excursion that Teel made during the week of his 28th birthday. Instead of snapping pictures, Teel carried around a notebook - very similar to the book in your hands - and wrote poetry to try to create a more personal record of what he was experiencing as he drove around the American countryside.
This is the first volume of what Teel hopes will be an ongoing project; a revolution of the mind to realize that a few words may be able to capture a place and time and feeling in a way most flat, still images never can. It is often said that a picture is worth 1k words, and this is perhaps a first step showing that a few words carefully selected can express more than an entire roll of snap shots.
For free: PDF Preview (10 selected poems)
Paperback: (list price: US$9.99)
Worth 1k --- Volume 2
(128 pages, (c)2007, ISBN:978-1-934516-21-8) Exploring a world where digital photography is ubiquitous and the value of words is diminishing in a sea of noise (and of blogs, videos and photostreams), Worth 1k seeks the other side of the equation describing a picture's supposed worth. Examining a sometimes mundane daily life (including its pain and loss and longing) through words - not endless streams of words updated and distributed digitally to the world in an instant, but brief snapshots of experience and emotion hand-written and collected over months - this poetry seeks to illuminate what cannot be readily captured by one image or by a thousand images flashing by on a glowing screen, trying create the illusion of life.
Worth 1k is language leveraged.
For free: PDF Preview (15 selected poems)
Paperback: (list price: US$9.99)
About the Author:
(teel@modernevil.com)
Teel McClanahan is an Arizona native and a firm believer that in the changing future of the publishing industry, there will be room in "the long tail" for MicroPublishers and authors of revolutionary and sometimes unusual fiction. Along with experimental poetry, can't-put-it-down serial fiction, and engaging short fiction, Teel writes novels that test the limits of reality.
Looking toward the future, Teel decided that rather than teaming with the aging giants of Publishing he would start his own niche Publishing Company, Modern Evil Press. In the end, he cares more about sharing his stories with readers everywhere than about financial gain, and in the Content Economy of the future, he'll be one step ahead of the pack.
See him on: his blog - Twitter - flickr - friendfeed - facebook - Pownce - Goodreads - BookTour
Or spread the word about Modern Evil Press:
wretched creature
emotional artwork from a troubled mind
Teel McClanahan III is also an artist, and you can see his art by visiting wretchedcreature.com.
Artist Statement:
Indoor murals, serialized fiction, acrylic on canvas, interactive entertainment, hand-painted clothing, poetry, reverse painting, satire, comics, web design, metalworking, digital image manipulation, sculpture, oral storytelling, and more. The medium of expression is a tool of translation and my thoughts and emotions are the message. I have never been able to think or feel in sounds, words, colors, textures, shapes, weights, or other physical manifestations, yet neither have I found a way to express pure thought, pure feeling, directly to another person. And so it is translations, flawed representations, incomplete interpretations, and abstracted variations from my mind and heart that I share with you.
Speaking of incomplete, wretched creature is a compartmentalization itself; you only get the paintings, the sculpture, the media that fit within the lines of "artwork" and everything else is filtered from your view. My "artwork" thus becomes a window into my life, into my heart, into my mind, allowing you to get a glimpse of that which can be best expressed visibly, tangibly, physically before your eyes and one-of-a-kind in the world. Pain, heartache, confusion, loneliness, betrayal, guilt, love, passion, conviviality, generosity and joy are some of the things that come through most vividly via these media. You are encouraged to decide for yourself what each piece means to your own mind and within your own heart, completing the imperfect conduits they represent, connecting your pure thoughts and feelings with my own in one of the best ways I know how: Art.
Ordering, shipping, signing and personalization:
Dragons' Truth
--Now an Audiobook--
(4hr 24min, (c)2008, ISBN: 978-1-934516-75-1 (MP3 Audiobook)) Dragons' Truth is not just the coming-of-age story of a boy who meets a dragon and the way the dragon's teachings change his life, but also represents a sort of allegory about some of the problems with the separation of the common man from higher education and the world of academia.--Now an Audiobook--
Dragons' Truth is suitable for young listeners as well as adults.
Written by, read by, and music by Teel McClanahan III.
Scroll down to read the full description of the paperback, below.
Audiobook: MP3 CD (1 disc, US$12.99)
Dragons' Truth, MP3 Audiobook +$3 S&H
$15.99Add MP3 Audiobook CD to cartComing Soon: Audio CD set (4 discs, US$25.99)
Dragons' Truth is also available in Paperback and E-Book formats:
Paperback: (list price: US$12.99)
Dragons' Truth, Paperback +$3 S&H
$15.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - Blackwell - AbeBooksE-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (81pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Novels:
Lost and Not Found
(252 pages, (c)2003-2004, ISBN: 978-1-934516-01-0) Lost and Not Found details one man's journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly dreams to be by following his attempt to write his first novel within the challenging timeframe of only four weeks. As his story unfolds we get to read what he is writing and can see the relationship between the author and his work unfold until his life literally unfolds around him.
From the back cover:
In this, the debut novel from creative mind Teel McClanahan III, we follow the stories of a young man trying to write his own debut novel. Faced with the added challenge of trying to complete a novel in only one month, he pours himself literally into the process. But are his attempts at fiction hitting a little too close to home? As he tries to live on one side and write on the other, he finds that the line between imagination and reality may not exist at all.
Will he finish his novel in time? Will he end up with the woman of his dreams? Will he choose to anchor himself in reality, or lose himself in his own fiction? And which of these would really be the better outcome?
Contains some mature content.
Paperback: (list price: US$13.99)
Lost and Not Found, Paperback +$3 S&H
$16.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - Blackwell - AbeBooksE-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (153pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Dragons' Truth
(208 pages, (c)2004, ISBN: 978-1-934516-02-7) Dragons' Truth is not just the coming-of-age story of a boy who meets a dragon and the way the dragon's teachings change his life, but also represents a sort of allegory about some of the problems with the separation of the common man from higher education and the world of academia.
It is suitable for young readers as well as adults.
From the back cover:
When two young boys decide to skip school and seek adventure one day, they end up finding much more than they ever bargained for. More than the dragon and the mountain of riches they see at first, one of the boys finds the entire course of his life changed.
That boy, Larry, finds himself at the center of an adventure bigger than anything he'd ever dreamed of. And when Larry's continuing adventure begins to effect his schoolwork, and then his teachers and his entire school, Larry's not sure what he's gotten himself into. When the effects of that seemingly innocent day begin to spread throughout - and then to threaten - his entire nation, Larry is forced to take action or face the destruction of the entire human race as a result of a single day of hooky.
Join Larry as he grows from a little boy into the last chance for survival that humanity may have, and find out just how complicated a happy ending can become...
Contains some violent content.
Paperback: (list price: US$12.99)
Dragons' Truth, Paperback +$3 S&H
$15.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - Blackwell - AbeBooksAudiobook: MP3 CD (1 disc, US$12.99)
Dragons' Truth, MP3 Audiobook +$3 S&H
$15.99Add MP3 Audiobook CD to cartE-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (81pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Serial Fiction:
Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction is made up of stories taking place within a vast, original universe populated by people and situations familiar and yet impossibly foreign, not only to readers but often to its denizens, at the same time. It is currently represented by a growing series of books, the Recollections of an Alternate Past, featuring a single central character's expanding understanding of the reality he is a part of.
The first three books of this series are currently available only as ebooks (a single volume containing all three books of the first trilogy is available in paperback), with at least six more Recollections books to follow. Each book is designed to be both thought-provoking and satisfying without becoming too large an investment of your time; many readers excitedly go through an entire book in a single sitting and find themselves asking for more. It is hoped that you will enjoy what they have to offer.
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past: Book One, Book Two, and Book Three
(416 pages, (c)2004-2006, ISBN: 978-1-934516-40-9) Erotic fantasies. Monstrous insects. A tragic accident. Out of body experiences. Teenage girls shopping at the mall. Mind reading and telepathic communication. High school teachers. A magical attack. Medical ethics violations. Dodgeball as youve never imagined it. An exploration of the mathematics of good and evil. A kidnapping. Playing in the championship game. A teenage three-way (complete with twins). A devious trap. Disembodied doctors. Birth pains. Religious war. A man made of mud, a woman with two heads, and a pair of popes. A grizzly, ineffective cesarean. A collapsing cathedral. Discussions with the devil. Tortured souls, torturing. An erotic nightmare that seems safe at the time. Lies about The White House lying again. A contract signed in blood. A meaningless maelstrom. Rocking out at a high school dance. Terrible revelations. An Unidentified Flying Object. And thats not the half of it. The Recollections of an Alternate Past are the Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction that tell the story of Trevors journey from a life of apparent innocence and normalcy through the uncovering of layer after layer of illusion and deception until he finally realizes his ultimate destiny. Books One, Two, and Three detail the first steps on this amazing journey. Imagine Nicholson Baker crossed with Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling; this is detailed, captivating, mind-blowing fantastical serial fiction for adults.
Paperback: (list price: US$24.99)
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past: Book One, Book Two, and Book Three, Paperback +$3 S&H
$27.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - Blackwell - AbeBooks
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book One: An Introduction to Dodgeball or Conception and Induction or How to Begin an Apocalypse
(191 pages, (c)2004) Book One is the introduction to this series of books which take place in a world where magic and psychic-like powers exist but are overlooked by most people, and centers on a teenage boy of remarkable magical and mental powers as he is introduced to a world that had been hidden from him his entire life by ignorance.
E-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (77pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book Two: The Twofold Invasion or Penetration and Destruction or How to Make Love With Twins
(193 pages, (c)2005) Book Two continues the boy's story from a few months after where Book One leaves off, primarily following his quest to save the life of his unborn child as he finds himself further and further from the life he knew before
E-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (78pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Untrue Tales from Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past - Book Three: Escape from Exile or Confusion and Contraction or How to Get Out of Hell
(177 pages, (c)2006) Book Three picks up from the same instant that Book Two left off: in Hell. It is primarily concerned with the boy's attempts to free his companions from eternal damnation, but has a few twists and turns that will leave you wondering what really happened.
E-Book: (available for free under
)PDF - Printable PDF (72pp) - HTML - RTF - mobi - .epub - plaintext, or purchase the E-Book: kindle
Poetry:
Worth 1k --- Volume 1
(124 pages, (c)2006, ISBN:978-1-934516-20-1) This book represents the sole record of an excursion that Teel made during the week of his 28th birthday. Instead of snapping pictures, Teel carried around a notebook - very similar to the book in your hands - and wrote poetry to try to create a more personal record of what he was experiencing as he drove around the American countryside.
This is the first volume of what Teel hopes will be an ongoing project; a revolution of the mind to realize that a few words may be able to capture a place and time and feeling in a way most flat, still images never can. It is often said that a picture is worth 1k words, and this is perhaps a first step showing that a few words carefully selected can express more than an entire roll of snap shots.
For free: PDF Preview (10 selected poems)
Paperback: (list price: US$9.99)
Worth 1k --- Volume 1, Paperback +$3 S&H
$12.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - AbeBooks
Worth 1k --- Volume 2
(128 pages, (c)2007, ISBN:978-1-934516-21-8) Exploring a world where digital photography is ubiquitous and the value of words is diminishing in a sea of noise (and of blogs, videos and photostreams), Worth 1k seeks the other side of the equation describing a picture's supposed worth. Examining a sometimes mundane daily life (including its pain and loss and longing) through words - not endless streams of words updated and distributed digitally to the world in an instant, but brief snapshots of experience and emotion hand-written and collected over months - this poetry seeks to illuminate what cannot be readily captured by one image or by a thousand images flashing by on a glowing screen, trying create the illusion of life.
Worth 1k is language leveraged.
For free: PDF Preview (15 selected poems)
Paperback: (list price: US$9.99)
Worth 1k --- Volume 2, Paperback +$3 S&H
$12.99Add paperback to cart, or buy from:Amazon - Barnes & Noble - Powell's - Blackwell - AbeBooks
About the Author:
(teel@modernevil.com)
Teel McClanahan is an Arizona native and a firm believer that in the changing future of the publishing industry, there will be room in "the long tail" for MicroPublishers and authors of revolutionary and sometimes unusual fiction. Along with experimental poetry, can't-put-it-down serial fiction, and engaging short fiction, Teel writes novels that test the limits of reality.
Looking toward the future, Teel decided that rather than teaming with the aging giants of Publishing he would start his own niche Publishing Company, Modern Evil Press. In the end, he cares more about sharing his stories with readers everywhere than about financial gain, and in the Content Economy of the future, he'll be one step ahead of the pack.
See him on: his blog - Twitter - flickr - friendfeed - facebook - Pownce - Goodreads - BookTour
Or spread the word about Modern Evil Press:
wretched creature
emotional artwork from a troubled mind
Artist Statement:
Indoor murals, serialized fiction, acrylic on canvas, interactive entertainment, hand-painted clothing, poetry, reverse painting, satire, comics, web design, metalworking, digital image manipulation, sculpture, oral storytelling, and more. The medium of expression is a tool of translation and my thoughts and emotions are the message. I have never been able to think or feel in sounds, words, colors, textures, shapes, weights, or other physical manifestations, yet neither have I found a way to express pure thought, pure feeling, directly to another person. And so it is translations, flawed representations, incomplete interpretations, and abstracted variations from my mind and heart that I share with you.
Speaking of incomplete, wretched creature is a compartmentalization itself; you only get the paintings, the sculpture, the media that fit within the lines of "artwork" and everything else is filtered from your view. My "artwork" thus becomes a window into my life, into my heart, into my mind, allowing you to get a glimpse of that which can be best expressed visibly, tangibly, physically before your eyes and one-of-a-kind in the world. Pain, heartache, confusion, loneliness, betrayal, guilt, love, passion, conviviality, generosity and joy are some of the things that come through most vividly via these media. You are encouraged to decide for yourself what each piece means to your own mind and within your own heart, completing the imperfect conduits they represent, connecting your pure thoughts and feelings with my own in one of the best ways I know how: Art.
Ordering, shipping, signing and personalization: