Yard Dog Press
March 2008
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Fairy BrewHaHa at the Lucky Nickel Saloon
Excerpt: Chapter One
Comments
If a whimsical, humorous fantasy in a western setting sounds interesting to you, look no further. You'll chuckle more than a few times, root for the right side, and end up entertained and feeling a bit lighter for a while."
[full review]— Lynn Nicole Louis
SFReader.com
"...an engaging tale."— Kathy Samuels
Romance Reviews Today
"This wacky, wild and wonderful urban fantasy takes place in the Wild West but instead of cavalry fighting Indians; fairies are fighting humans. Readers will chuckle out loud out with the snappy repartees and the zany situations that arise when two different species occupy the same space. Ken Rand is a grand storyteller whose historical urban fantasy will gather him a huge fan base."— Blether book reviews.
"Did the government test a nerve agent in the California town where Ken Rand grew up? Is that why they eradicated all traces of the city? What else can explain how a person can think the way Rand does? I'm halfway through his book, Fairy BrewHaHa at the Lucky Nickel Saloon, and I don't remember the last time I laughed as much. If Laramie hadn't passed its smoking ban, I swear I'd be on the next passenger train to the Lucky Nickel myself — where there's always room for one more under the baby grand piano while the fairies run amok, their itty bitty spurs making itty bitty clinking noises. Now I remember the last time I laughed that hard — I'd just had an itty bitty cigarette."— Little Chicago Review
Kemmerer, WY
"Ken Rand's Lucky Nickel is the kind of saloon we'd all like to visit in the old West — a sort of fusion riff on Mark Twain, Charles Fort and Charles de Lint, magic unrealism at its hilarious finest. Some of these tales have been circulating for quite some time beneath the skin of genre, but with this novel Rand is about to erupt as a master of that most difficult art — comic fantasy. So doff your hat, order up a drink, and don't sit near the piano. (Trust me on that last one.) Fairy BrewHaHa at the Lucky Nickel Saloon is a heck of a ride."— Jay Lake
Campbell Award winner
"If you've got a hankerin' for some belly laughs and a tall tale of the Old West, then rustle up a stool and have a seat. You've come to the right place!"— David Farland
Author of the Runelord series.
"A weird and wonderful bar where fantastical things happen, populated by a crew of loonies and weirdos, presided over by a Mick, and narrated by a garrulous goofball? It's such a great idea, I can't believe nobody's thought of it before! Ken Rand's Wyoming barflies are an intriguing crew, as colorful as an exploding rainbow, and as weird as a basketball bat. Rand is one seriously — no, one hilariously twisted fella, and Fairy BrewHaha at the Lucky Nickel Saloon is a most promising debut."— Spider Robinson
Author of Callahan's Con