A SCARY SCENE IN A SCARY MOVIE is available now on preorder!
Info from the flap jacket:
I’m a freshman. I use hair spray, hair gel, and hair mousse. And Old Spice deodorant. I can quote from all the Batman movies. I am very organized and very clean. I use soap instead of hand sanitizer because I heard that hand sanitizer gets you high and kills brain cells. Because I need to hang on to all the brain cells I have left, I use soap. Lots of it.
Rene, an obsessive-compulsive high school student hell-bent on becoming a superhero, smells his hands and wears a Batman cape when he’s nervous, which is six to eight hours per day, depending on whether it’s a weekend or weekday. On a weekday, he witnesses his English teacher smash his head into the blackboard. Rene is convinced that he is responsible for this and all other tragedies. If he picks up a face-down coin, moves a muscle during a time of thirteen (7:42 is bad luck because 7+4+2=13), or washes himself in the wrong order, Rene or someone close to him will get left back in school, break a bone, fall into a coma, contract a deadly virus, and/or die a slow and painful death like someone in a scary scene in scary movie. Or worse.
Rene’s new and only friend tutors him in the art of playing it cool, but it’s not as easy as he makes it sound. Can Rene ever be safe—he doesn’t like to talk when not surrounded by security details like locks or walls or people he trusts—when the most horrifying place is in his head?
Matt Blackstone 