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S.C. Hayden

S.C. Hayden’s fiction has been published in magazines, journals and anthologies, podcasted, scrawled on bathroom walls and shouted from rooftops across the English speaking world. Authorities have recently placed him in Savannah GA but you can find him at:

Website:  https://www.schayden.com

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Kill Your Idols

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In an America where militias, doomsday cults and self proclaimed Prophets are as commonplace as gas stations and fast food restaurants, The American Idol Company is born.  Operating under the belief that scandal and controversy will increase sales, the company founders manage to insult everyone from the Pope to the Ayatollah, inspire a generation, and come dangerously close to starting World War 3. Also available in Ebook here:  Kill Your Idols [su_list icon="icon: book"]
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  • Paperback: 278 pages
  • Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books; 1st edition (June 8, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.7 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
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Rusty Nails, Broken Glass

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"A fantastic mixed bag of highly imaginative tales. Spectacular and strange, wondrous and wild. It felt like Hayden was The Hatter and I was a wide-eyed enjoyably dazzled guest sitting at his tea-party table. --HORNS, Author of Chophouse and Stationhouse No. 1 Also available in Ebook here:  [su_list icon="icon: book"]
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  • Paperback: 220 pages
  • Publisher: Black Bed Sheet Books; 1 edition (April 15, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
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Praise for S.C. Hayden

“Hayden has a laid-back and conversational writing style that is well-suited to the story and its multiple digressions. At times I was reminded of the great The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea. Faith, loyalty, synchronicities, and strange numerology as well as shifting perspectives and voices figure into both works. American Idol isn’t nearly as Byzantine or completely over the top as Illuminatus!, but the parallels are there, I think.

I was going to say that this is not a book for the easily offended, but I see that most other reviews have that covered. Hayden’s targets of parody and scorn are many, and odds are you or someone you love falls into at least one of the many groups within his sights. Hopefully you can take a joke, because this is a book worth reading. There is a great deal of interesting ideas and thought-provoking commentary to be found in these pages, along with an enjoyable and engrossing plot involving well-written characters. A book that can’t really be pigeon-holed in a distinct genre, American Idol should appeal to anyone with a sense of humor, an open mind, and an interest in the absurdities of modern American culture.”  –Amazon review of American Idol, later renamed Kill Your Idols

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