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Hot Singles in Your Area

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Pub Date Feb 04 2025 | Archive Date Jul 26 2024


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'Hot Singles in Your Area is a long joke, an experimental novel, and a conversation starter' Locus Magazine

'Shiveley writes like a ghoul living in the haunted house that is the internet' Meg Elison, author of 'The Road to Nowhere' trilogy

A biting, post-modern horror about day jobs and monsters – one of which will devour you whole, but perhaps not the one that you think.

Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with ‘No experience preferred’, he puts on his good shirt and marches down to their average-looking office to unknowingly sign his life away.

Malachia is the only human left in the City of Silence and she spends her time wandering its empty, bone-filled streets. Until one day she finds a lone figure hunched over a typewriter, his fingers enmeshed with the keys. Could he be the answer to finding her missing girlfriend?

Propelled by their pursuits for rent money and truth, Noah and Malachia are pushed to their limits by a sinister media powerhouse. Will either of them survive the darkness that ensues?

Everyone's talking about Hot Singles in Your Area. . .

'Came for the body horror, stayed for the detailed world-building and pinpoint satire' – Reader review

'If The Hitchhiker's Guide and The Ministry of Time had a horrific baby with multiple rows of teeth' – Reader review

'One of the most enjoyable reading experiences I’ve had this year. It’s unlike anything I’ve read before' – Reader review

'Hot Singles in Your Area is a long joke, an experimental novel, and a conversation starter' Locus Magazine

'Shiveley writes like a ghoul living in the haunted house that is the internet' Meg Elison...


A Note From the Publisher

Jordan Shiveley is the author of the Dread Singles (@hottestsingles) Twitter account. Their work has also been seen in a variety of short fiction venues such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 15 Nightmare Magazine, Voidjunk, Baffling (Neon Hemlock), and tabletop roleplaying games. They live and work in Minneapolis, Minnesota. More at jordanshiveley.com

Jordan Shiveley is the author of the Dread Singles (@hottestsingles) Twitter account. Their work has also been seen in a variety of short fiction venues such as The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 15...


Advance Praise

'Will leave you laughing, shuddering and looking over your shoulder.'
David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother

'Devastating in its bottom-of-the-grave black humour'
Jen Vaughn, author of Goosebumps: Download and Die!

'Jordan's writing is the sharpest and leaves the deepest marks.'
John Wiswell, author of Someone You Can Build a Nest In

'I cannot physically put this book down'
Joshua Mendenhall, Co-Director of Islands of Sina Una

'Will leave you laughing, shuddering and looking over your shoulder.'
David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother

'Devastating in its bottom-of-the-grave black humour'
Jen Vaughn, author of Goosebumps:...


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