Unnerving books: the Eddie generous fiction archive

Unnerving began as a more traditional small press outfit, albeit small, publishing leftward leaning fiction by authors from all over, using print-on-demand services. Most commercially notable, I guess, was the Rewind or Die series, though Unnerving was much more, including nine anthologies, 20 issues of a magazine, and several dozen non-series standalone titles. The budget was always shoestring slim, with editing, cover art, and marketing managed by one dude (me, Eddie Generous), which often left much room for proofing issues and less than perfect cover art (now and then I nailed it, but that was not the norm). Nothing sold all that well (to my remembrance, nary a title breached 9,000 copies sold, and in the biggest year, the bestselling author made more than I did). I routinely published books I knew wouldn't sell and I never made more than a few thousand bucks a year (most years it was under $2K for about fifteen hours a week of work). I grew up on a farm, then graduated from college in '08 during Bush Jr's grand economy crash, so I was already well used to working for no monetary reward. In 2023, I had an idea to take Unnerving in a new direction, hoping to create a co-op using small printers local to authors while internally sourcing duties between the members, but in '24 I decided I'd rather nuke the company and focus on something a little more productive. 

Now, UnnervingBooks.com is a bank of my fiction. Everything on this site is 100% human-written, by me, from 2012 to the present. For years I wrote compulsively (creating art had been the only reliable medicine I'd found to deal with quieting a steady barrage of suicidal thoughts...until learning Transcendental Meditation), which honed my ability to catch ideas and see them through. Many of these stories appeared in anthologies or magazines under a variety of pennames, though I never much cared enough to keep track of victories (125+ publications, 1,400+ rejections). 

The work is not for sale. It's not to be used to train AI. Good reviews are welcome. Please don't steal from me (this art made me virtually no money, so you might as well save your fucking time). Feel free to make personal-use POD 'mixtape' collections or lists, should you care to share favourites, but, again, this work is not for sale.

For recent additions, look for 'previously unpublished.' Though I've shifted to visual art (nearly all commercial aspects of writing benefits fascists, which has soured much of the act of writing itself for me...and maybe more than four million words of fiction is enough from one brain, who knows...plus, I've discovered seemingly limitless joy in painting...lots of reasons), I will do my best to keep this updated with fictions I've managed to buff and polish and go to the trouble of building eBooks for (artistic creation sooths, the rest of the process really does not). Probably I'll get it all up eventually, at least the good stuff.

- Eddie

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