Keith Rosson Backlist Bundle

With Keith Rosson's next book, Fever House, coming 2024 from Random House, now is the time to catch up on his backlist! We've got an exclusive backlist ebook bundle that includes digital editions of his first 4 books along with, you guessed it, a bit of digital SWAG!

Included in the package:

~ The Mercy of the Tide (paperback)

~ Smoke City (paperback)

~ Road Seven (paperback)

~ Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories (paperback)

~ Printable Sam & Trina bookmark from THE MERCY OF THE TIDE (pdf)

~ Printable Keith Rosson Illustration from THE MERCY OF THE TIDE (pdf)

~ Free story | Torch Songs by Keith Rosson | originally published in the Behind the Mask anthology (Meerkat Press, 2017) (pdf)

About the books:

THE MERCY OF THE TIDE | Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Award

Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening—a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town’s beaches. The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives—leading them all to a discovery that will change them and their town forever. Book Page

SMOKE CITY | 2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist, 2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner, Powell's Books Best Fiction of 2018

Marvin Deitz, the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Joan of Arc’s executioner, has just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it’s ever been . . . When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman, he’s picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife’s funeral. As they travel through a California landscape populated with “smokes” (ghostly apparitions that’ve begun appearing in the SW), each seeks absolution in his own way. Book Page

ROAD SEVEN | IPPY Bronze Medal Winner

Road Seven follows disgraced cryptozoologist Mark Sandoval—resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before—who has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and run. When a woman sends Sandoval grainy footage of what appears to be a unicorn, he quickly hires an assistant and the two head off to the woman's farm in Hvíldarland, a tiny, remote island off the coast of Iceland. When they arrive on the island and discover that both a military base and the surrounding álagablettur, the nearby woods, are teeming with strangeness and secrets, they begin to realize that a supposed unicorn sighting is the least of their worries. Road Seven will mark the third of Rosson’s novels to be published by Meerkat Press.  Book Page

FOLK SONGS FOR TRAUMA SURGEONS: STORIES | Foreword Indies Finalist

In this collection, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope, with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he’s explored in previous novels. With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humor, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday. Includes one new work as well as award-winning favorites.  Book Page