May 30, 2019

Hydra House Books has book news!!!

We are delighted to announce the acquisition of a collection of short speculative fiction by Lauren Dixon titled Welcome to the Bitch Bubble!

The collection will be comprised of stories both published and unpublished, including “Double Dutch,” “Floating Feathers, Red Wings and Wild,” “Sheela of the Good Shepherd,” “If You Can’t Take the Heat, Don’t Hire a Yeti,” and many others. Her fiction walks the line between the strange, the weird, and the humorous, often in unsettling ways.

Launch date is slated for early April 2020 through all major online retailers, and will be available in trade paperback, ebook, and limited edition hardcover formats.

Lauren Dixon knows how to shoot a rifle. She’s written lingerie catalogs for the Army, talks a lot about vaginas, and doesn’t eat animals unless they ask her to first. She’s worked as a gutter poet record store clerk, movie studio intern, pizza slinger, disaffected video store clerk, word nerd professor and counselor, gopher-extraordinaire for the Austin Film Society, and for Bill Hicks’ best friend. She’s also, basically, your garden variety cat whisperer.

She’s tried not to break into abandoned, derelict buildings and ruins since the age of seven, but can’t seem to help herself. Coincidentally, that’s when she started writing. Her work has appeared in Menacing Hedge, DIAGRAM, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, BookLifeNow, Scape, Extract(s), Oracle, Sojourn, INTER, Kadar Koli, and (R)evolve (Naropa). A Clarion West 2010 graduate, Dixon also edited the absurdist literary ‘zine Superficial Flesh. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry from Texas State University in San Marcos and a PhD in Humanities-Literary Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. She lives in complete and total sin with the writer Dallas Taylor in Seattle, Washington.