Garth Jones
Garth is a writer from Wilyakali country in the deserts of far western New South Wales, Australia – the Mad Max zone.
His first job was designing ads for phone sex lines; he did time as resident Atheist provocateur at a church newspaper, and drew comics for David Lee Roth just out of uni.
Garth’s first novel, Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets, was shortlisted for a variety of prizes. Walkley Award winning journalist Richard Cooke reckons “there’s nothing like Home Brewed… – it’s new, weird, and out there, and that makes it too good not to get into!”
Garth’s next project, Black Pills, is a collection of genre-bending short fiction exploring the unmitigated shit show that is our present reality. It features the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Award winning ‘Hugo Garrett’s Exemplary Mowing Technique’.
The award's judge, David Hill, OAM, called it “witty and clever… lucid, restrained and always appropriate.”
Pass The Amyl, Garth’s Ozploitation segment, appears semi-regularly on comedian Justin Hamilton’s podcast Big Squid.
He currently lives on the west coast of Aotearoa with his partner, their kid and a dog named Zodiac Mindwarp.
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
- Comedy
- Feature Articles
- Fiction
- Freelance Writer
- Review Writing
- Short Stories
Skills:
- Freelance Designer
- Freelance Writing
- Journalism
- Novelist
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
- Reviews
- Short Story Writing
- Website Content
Branch:
Central Districts
Location:
Publications:
Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets – The Novel
Undead pub rocker ED VON SATÁN is drafted to headline THE HARVEST, a music festival run by self-help cult THE ARCADIA TRUST.
Teaming up with riot girl band BABALÖN, Ed hits the road with a career resurrection in mind.
As the crew's shambolic westward quest approaches the gig, myriad malevolent forces gather to bring about the advent of a new Australian Utopia...
Collecting the trilogy of novellas (4.94 stars on Good Reads), Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets – The Novel features a unique QR-code driven soundtrack by that prince of the patch cable, Seattle-based synth wizard Half Majesty.
Print and Kindle: https://bit.ly/40vuIVT
Apple Books: https://bit.ly/3ChMZOB
Google Play: https://bit.ly/4jvjhX1
Get the score at Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/3YSsttc
Review it at Good Reads: https://bit.ly/4hqhMYm
PRAISE
“Explodes in a hell-fest of pulp fiction, dripping with blood and colour… international cream, however twisted, rises”
- Kirsty Allison, Psychomachia
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“Uproariously, deliciously weird and hallucinatory - part Ginsberg, part fictitious rock and roll bio, with plenty of otherworldly chaos”
- JM Donellan, Killing Adonis
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“Grotty, grimy larrikin smut – a rollicking outback word tsunami”
- Dr Lara Cain Gray, The Grown-Up's Guide to Picture Books
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“If Hunter S Thompson was dragged screaming from the corpse-pouch of marsupial roadkill, he’d write like this”
- J. Ashley-Smith, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ariadne, I Love You & The Attic Tragedy
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“Refreshingly original, often shocking, and utterly entertaining”
- Poppy Gee, Bay of Fires
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“Brilliant - reminds me of Richard Allen fuelled mayhem, Stewart Home and Deadline!”
- Jenny Valentish, Everything Harder Than Everyone Else
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“Garth’s writing is like Bret Easton Ellis, Nikki Sixx and David Lee Roth had a literary baby”
- Sebastian Vice, Outcast Press
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“There is nothing like Home Brewed, Vampire Bullets. It’s new, weird and out-there,
and that makes it too good not to get into”
- Richard Cooke, Tired of Winning: A chronicle of american decline
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“Satirical, violent, low-brow... Basically, it's loaded with the good stuff”
- Zachary Ashford, Polyphemus
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“F*cking great stuff – relentlessly funny and inventive. I was p*ssing myself!”
- Tony Martin, Deadly Kerfuffle
Black Pills – 7 Tales to Astonish & Confound!
Black Pills is a collection of genre-bending short stories exploring the unmitigated sh*t show that is our present reality. It features seven heroic doses of uncut gonzo fiction, each 110% guaranteed to astonish and confound.
“Garth’s work is not literary, and yet it is. He hides his considerable emotional intelligence under a bushel of belchingly funny, low brow humour and sickening concepts. I find myself throwing up and eating it up at the same time, which I put down to his talent for making me laugh while sliding a shiv-like human theme between my ribs, which is not so much a flex as a hex” – from Queensland Literary Award winner Steve MinOn’s foreword.
Preorders: https://linktr.ee/passtheamyl
EARLY PRAISE
“Garth Jones drags us into the uncanny vortex of the terminally online, overloading our smooth brains with homicidal gore, suburban perversities, and socio-political absurdity. He holds us captive like the best of barstool storytellers, pushing our faces down in the oozing muck of our new reality. Black Pills is my favorite dystopic action-packed B-movie that's never been put to film...yet” – Jillian Luft, Scumbag Summer
“An exciting and accomplished avant-garde writer who rips up the rules and produces genre-bending, provocative, action-packed pulp-fiction” – Poppy Gee, Vanishing Falls
“Oozes class, is bathed in cool, and sneers at you - daring you to open it and let yourself in. It’s Garth’s best work yet” – Dave Musson, Once More Around The Sun
“It’s vulgar and excessive, but also erudite and clearly informed by an extensive and eclectic stock of creative influences” – Dr Lara Cain Gray, The Grown-Up’s Guide to Picture Books
“Witty and clever… lucid, restrained and always appropriate” – David Hill, OAM, Seeya Simon
“Garth Jones isn’t pulling punches, he’s landing every bloody strike. Black Pills is a collection of seven relentless stories that blur the line between the mundane and the extreme, delivered in raw, rage-fueled prose. Each tale drags you through the mud, leaving you hobbled like the antagonists who stumble through Jones’ brutal, unflinching worlds. This is fiction that draws blood and breaks bones—you won’t walk away unscathed. Buckle up and take your lashes.” – William M. Brandon III, Eternity: The Long and Short of It, The Exile The Matriarch & The Flood, Welcome to Spring Street, and SILENCE & Selene. AGENTOFDISCORD.COM