Falling Sky Hazard Philosophy

We at Falling Sky Hazard Press have one question for you: are you a demographic? Our books are not chosen by a group of marketers pie-eyed and bruise-kneed from worshipping at the altar of the god of demos (a creature with five heads, all of them grinning and bland). We believe that the obsession with image, gentrification of ideas, and "branding" of artists is making all of culture into a soul-deadening drive-thru experience. What's desperately needed are more unique voices that cannot be captured on an Excel spreadsheet. We won't promise that you'll always like what these voices have to say, but we will guarantee that their perspectives will be one-of-a-kind, passionate, and funny.

Oh, also, we promise that we won’t publish any books with the bared legs of young women on the cover. Have you noticed how many books there are with leggy covers on the shelves these days? What they’re trying to do is instill in your mind the promise of adolescent sex by having those legs all over the place (cause you know what’s waiting between them). And it’s probably a safe bet that if the cover art is that uniformly dull, uh, what’s written inside ain’t exactly inspired (after all, the same people who pick the covers, pick the books). But then again, marketers are counting on you not being able to tell the difference. As far as they’re concerned, the legs and cheeky titles alone will hypnotize you into buying their crap. It’s just another example of the insulting mindlessness of trends, and the people who swear by them. We think you deserve better.