Book Tour with author copy purchase

This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should be required reading for anyone who's trying to understand America in 2017."
—Paul La Farge, author of The Night Ocean (Penguin)

About the Campaign:
This is pretty simple. You can pre-order my new book here at a discounted price of $20, and recieve a signed copy in the mail, from me,  just before the book is released in stores.

(Make sure to select the "reward" you want on the right, and enter your mailing address!  $20, equals one book, $40, two books, and so on, with some special discount packages. )

Proceeds from the pre-order sales on  Go Fund Me go directly to me, the author, to help cover the costs not covered by the press, of the upcoming book tour and additional promotion. 




The Discount:
“Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country," (short fiction) is a 200 page hardcover, which is being released by Seven Stories Press in May, 2017 (distributed by Random House).

It will retail for $25 (with tax) in stores, and you can pre-purchase it here tax free, at a discount, for $20.00 per copy, or select from one the special discount and reward packages, some of which include first edition copies of my two previous books. 


About the Book:

It's "Murakami meets the meth heads. Reader, you have never before seen anything like this."
- Samantha Hunt (National Book Foundation Award Winner)

“Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country” (short fiction) paints a vivid image of the bizarre characters that live on the fringes in America’s heartland. They don't do what you expect them to do. These aren't typical stories of triumph over adversity, but something completely other. 

The eight stories in this literary collection present a brilliantly surreal and sardonic landscape and language, and offer a periscope into the heart of the rural poor.

Among the singular characters, you'll meet: a “zombie” who secretly resides in a local cemetery; a queer teen goth facing ostracism from her small town evangelical church; a woman who leaves New York City once a year to visit her little brothers in the backwoods Midwest, only to discover they’ve been having trouble with some meth dealers and UFOs that trouble the area. In the backdrop of all the stories are the endless American wars and occupations, overshadowed, for these characters, by the many early deaths of their friends and family, that occur regularly, for a whole host of reasons.

Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. - Paul La Farge, author of The Night Ocean (Penguin)


Thank You
This is my first first hardcover release. Seven Stories Press has invested a lot in me, and this book, and I think it can be quite successful.  Thank you for supporting contemporary literature, and helping me fund a more extensive book tour. 

-Chavisa