Dan Boehl

Kindle Author interview about Kings of the F**king Sea and Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt.

Dan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:46:17 +0000

Thanks to Michael Davidson (aka. Herocious) for interviewing me for Kindle Author. I liked his questions. Like this one:

5) Is ignorance bliss? Not really. When people don’t know what is going on, bad things happen. Like the Great Recession. That happened because no one was watching the banks rape and pillage ordinary citizens who wanted to pursue the American Dream and own homes. There are other examples of this, but in general, ignorance is awful. My novel and my first full-length book of poetry deal with this a lot.

Videos of the CEO explaining the Economy to Naomi.

Dan — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:05:11 +0000

Three videos from Chapter 11: The Standard Paste Company, Inc.

The Esoterrorist names Kings of the F**king Sea a favorite of 2011.

Dan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:13:08 +0000

The Esoterrorist names Kings of the F**king Sea a favorite of 2011.

Hope I can live up to their expectations. Here is what they say:

Dan Boehl – Kings of the Fucking Sea

The strength of Boehl’s debut book of poetry is just that: it’s a debut. His voice is fresh and ripe with experimentation and with unabashed vulnerability, all of which we attribute to his youth and fresh face but at the same time hope that he can maintain as he develops his craft.

Readings on Knox Wirter’s House.

Dan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:37:29 +0000

Last summer I did a reading in Minnesota, and while I was there did a recording of some work for the Knox Writer’s House. They have a ton of interviews with poets talking about their home towns and reading their poems. And hand-draw portraits of everyone. I like mine, though it makes me look like I have a black beard. (I am blond!)

My business partners Chris Tonelli and Matt Rasmussen were interviewed a long with me here.

Check out me reading poems here, here, and here.

Kings of the F**king Sea named on of the best poetry books of 2011 on No Tell Motel

Dan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:53:21 +0000

Rob MacDonald named Kings of the F**king Sea one of the best poetry books of 2011 on the No Tell Motel website! And again here.

Check out the complete lists, which includes my Birds, LLC press mates Sommer Browning and Dan Magers!

My interview on the Fruitcake Files!

Dan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:14:38 +0000

Check out my interview on the Fruitcake Files. Thanks to Jude for asking the questions!

Where do you get your ideas?

My ideas arise from settings. I grew up in the country outside of Baltimore, MD and York, PA. Many of my stories have a country attitude. Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt came about because I traded the story to my friend Naomi for a T-Shirt. I asked her what kind of story she wanted and the book arose from her request.

Check out this HTML Giant interview with Katie Smither!

Dan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:10:57 +0000

Thanks to Katie Smither for taking the time to interview me on HTML Giant about Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt.

“Upon cover glance, it looks like reading “Double Rainbow,” Lisa Frank, and Dark Side of the Moon at once. After reading though, I was surprisingly left pondering our “war on terror,” the economic meltdown, Occupy Wall Street, and the euro crisis. Or Google-searching to see if “Pre-Chicken Nugget Paste” really exists, because Naomi provides descriptions of all things pasty, “for breakpaste, plunch, and dinner,” with an awareness of current corporate and economic issues I didn’t expect from something marketed specifically for youth.”

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt official cover T-shirts now available from Skreened!

Dan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:49:24 +0000

There are two official Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirts available.

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt cover T-shirt in Black.

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt cover T-shirt in White.

Noami and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt available November 15!

Dan — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:01:35 +0000

Six years in the making, traded to Naomi Tuchman for a t-shirt with a horse on the front, my first novel Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt will be available on November 15 in print and on Amazon Kindle readers and Kindle enabled smartphones and iPads. A sample of the book is available on the book page.

Here is a bit more about Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt:

Endless Ranches is a town like any other town in Texas. Everybody works for the Paste Company, eats paste for breakpaste, plunch and dinner, and walks to work. But things were different before the factory came to town and all of the horses disappeared.

Fourteen-year-old Naomi knows something is not quite right, but nobody talks about it. Naomi’s mom changes the subject when she asks about Naomi’s missing father and one of her teachers disappears after he tells the class about the town’s past. But on her birthday Naomi’s mother gives her an amazing gift that unlocks the truth about Endless Ranches: her father’s horse-flavored T-shirt. Accompanied by Sammy, a teenaged farmer forced to steal paste so he can feed his brothers and sisters, Naomi uncovers a devious Paste Company plot to subdue the townspeople and raise an army of mindless White People.

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt

Dan — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:15:58 +0000

Naomi and the Horse-Flavored T-Shirt is a science fiction novel for middle school readers set in a future without gasoline that follows fourteen-year-old Naomi, who, along with her farmer friend, Sammy, searches the paste factory for her father and the town’s missing horses.

Kindle version available from Amazon.com:

Paperback available from Lulu.com:

Kindle: $~~9.99~~ $2.99 sale, Paperback: $12.99
200 pages, Published by Dan Boehl
First Edition, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-9838463-0-7

Download a sample here.

Buy the t-shirts at Skreened!

Endless Ranches is a town like any other town in Texas. Everybody works for the paste company, eats paste for breakpaste, plunch, and dinner, and walks to work. But things were different before the factory came to town and all of the horses disappeared.

Fourteen-year-old Naomi knows something is not right, but nobody talks about it. Naomi’s mom changes the subject when Naomi asks about her missing father and one of her teachers disappears after he tells the class about the town’s past. But on her birthday, Naomi’s mother gives her an amazing gift that unlocks the truth about Endless Ranches: her father’s horse-flavored T-shirt. Accompanied by Sammy, a teenaged farmer forced to steal paste so he can feed his brothers and sisters, Naomi uncovers a devious Paste Company plot to subdue the townspeople and raise an army of mindless white people.