Convention of Fiends

Magdalena Wallace is the greatest writer in the world.She just doesn't know it.When she wakes up chained to a desk next to a stack of typed pages and the corpse of the person who read them, she learns just how dangerous her book can be. Rescued by a vampire, a werewolf, and a golem, she's on the run with the manuscript - and the fate of humanity - in her backpack, and a whole lot of monsters hot on her heels! "Don't Read This Book is a whimsical, fast-paced, delight; snappily written, deliciously funny and smart, and full of affection for its characters. Benjamin Gorman may be the coolest high school English teacher ever. Just reading this book taught me how to write better dialogue." - New York Times bestseller Chelsea Cain,author of Heartsick, Mockingbird, and Gone "At once hilarious and heartbreaking, fantastical and ripped-from-the-internet real. DO read this book, if you dare!"-Karen Eisenbrey author of Daughter of Magic and The Gospel According to St. Rage "Witty, sinister, and smart as hell. ...a hot, bloody, socially conscious riot with a Black, Latinx, lesbian, atheist protagonist at the heart of it, and a book within itself that may eat your mind."-Charles Austin Muir author of This is a Horror Book "Read this book twice - once for the fantastical tale and once for the deeper observations."-Kim Cooper Findling author of The Sixth Storm and Day Trips from Portland "... smart, determined, and filled with really stunning prose ... maybe one of the best books I've read!" -Sydney Culpepper author of Pagetown, editor of Strongly Worded Women Benjamin Gorman teaches high school English in Independence, Oregon, where he lives with his essentially perfect son, Noah. Ben completed his first novel while in high school and has been trying to hone his craft ever since. Besides studying literature and writing in order to teach about them, he tries to practice on a number of platforms like his blog (www.TeacherGorman.com) and Twitter (@teachergorman).Ben is a graduate of Whitworth University (B.A. in Philosophy), George Fox University (Masters in Teaching), and the Oregon Writing Project (part of the National Writing Project) at Willamette University. He's been named to the National Writing Project's Council of Writers. His novel The Digital Storm was selected as a Top Five Book Pick of 2018 by the San Diego Union Tribune. He has been told he looks like Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins but has the voice of Steve Buscemi.