FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com

Title: Everything Happens to Me
Author: Peter Cherches
Category: Fiction
Publication Date: September 12, 2024
Pages: 218
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-949790-88-7
Suggested Retail Price: $20.00

Claremont, CA – June 14, 2024 – Pelekinesis is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Everything Happens to Me, new fiction from Peter Cherches, available September 12, 2024 worldwide.

This episodic novel chronicles the trials and tribulations of Peter Cherches, an obscure Brooklyn writer who suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous tormentors, most notably his next-door neighbor. Cherches’s world is overrun with doppelgängers, doppelgängers’ doppelgängers, malevolent technology, masks, doubts, and unreliable mirrors. Think of this as a kinder and gentler Book of Job, with New York attitude and borscht belt humor, as well as echoes of Kafka, Borges, and Serling. Rarely has one man’s misery been so much fun.

Everything Happens to Me by Peter Cherches will be available through Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Gardners, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.

The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/peter_cherches-everything_happens_to_me.html

For more information please contact Mark Givens at 909-293-9270 or mark.givens@pelekinesis.com

About the author

Called “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly, Peter Cherches is a writer, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in dozens of magazines, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist, Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer, was released in 2016. He is the author of three previous prose collections, including Lift Your Right Arm, Autobiography Without Words, and Whistler’s Mother’s Son, published by Pelekinesis. Cherches is a native of Brooklyn, New York.

About the publisher

Pelekinesis is a small book publishing company focusing on the development of independent authors and artists by creatively embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and utilizing modern distribution platforms. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com

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Supplemental Material

FRONT COVER (click to download)