A startlingly frank take on modern femininity, Michele Seminara's Suburban Fantasy combines finely crafted narratives with lyrical artistry and sure-footed eloquence. This is raw, fiery, firebrand feminist writing that manages to artfully co-exist with giddying intimacy and poignant soul-bearing.

"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Suburban Fantastic Cinema is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage boys living in the suburbs are called upon to combat a disruptive force that takes the form of popular cultural figures of the fantastic—aliens, ghosts, vampires, demons, and more. Beginning in the 1980s with Poltergeist and E.T. (both 1982) and a cycle of films made by Amblin Entertainment, the suburban fantastic established itself as a popular commercial model combining coming-of-age melodramas with elements drawn from science fiction, fantasy, and horror. The films that exemplify the subgenre generally focus on a young male protagonist who, at the outset, chafes at his stifling suburban milieu, wherein power is invested in whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality. A fantastic occurrence intervenes - the arrival of an alien, a ghost, or some other magical or otherworldly force - threatening this familiar order, thrusting the young man - at first unwittingly - into the role of defender and upholder of the social order. He is able to rescue the suburban social order, and in doing so normalizes (for himself and for the primarily white, male, adolescent audience) its values. This study discusses some of the key instances of this subgenre, such as Gremlins (1984), Back to the Future (1985), Jumanji (1995), and Small Soldiers (1998), as well as its more recent resurgence in Stranger Things (2016–) and IT (2017). Exploring the importance of suburbia as a setting and the questionable ideological blindness of its heroes, this book reveals these underappreciated Hollywood films as the primary cinematic representation of late-twentieth-century American childhood.

A supernatural coming-of-age novelNthe first book in a dynamic and dramatic new seriesNabout the shy Celia Balaustine and a mysterious group of misfits at her new high school, Suburban High.

Rachel Lin Smith is a shy geeky teenage girl who gets turned into a vampire against her will by a much older serial killing monster. Her friends help her cope with her changes, and adapt to modern life as a vampire, then help her find and stop her sire from killing again. They also have to deal with a time traveling mayor, a modern day wizard (Really more of a magical artifacts collector), and the protagonist finds herself in the center of a bisexual love triangle between her nerdy best friend and the most popular girl in school.COMING SOON: Subscribe for a dollar a month to receive every chapter of my future novels as I write them, as well as access to my entire back catalogue. Go to www.patreon.com/99geekURBAN FANTASY (Writing now, prologue available for free, and Chapter 1 available for subscribers at www.patreon.com/99geek)Rachel Lin Smith is only just getting used to being a vampire, and things couldn't be better. She has a boyfriend, and a girlfriend, and playing them both for affection, and blood. But is she getting more aggressive? Is she even still acting as herself, or is her rising confidence also a sign of the vampire taking control? With children going missing all around town, she better figure herself out fast. There's people that rely on her, like Jon Mason and his unstable Synesthesia. Or Tanya and her time traveling father being threatened by a time-traveler worshiping cult who think his death will bring the return of all magic in the world (a force long ago extinct). She'll be so busy, she might not even have time for the time traveling wizard from previously mentioned ancient era of magic who has come to present day with all his magic intact. Can she stop him from turning the CN Tower into his own personal Wizard's Tower, and the entire city into a hellish nightmarescape of monsters.Dakotah Slade (Script Written, Comic in production)I Wrote a script for a story that takes place within the same world as Urban Fantasy, following a love sick damaged alcoholic woman named Dakotah Slade, who learns that magic is real when one of her best friend Spontaneously Combusts. Teaming up with a jaded detective, they have to find out the truth behind a tainted drug that is spreading amaongst the sleepy Canadian community. Can they stop it before everything is in place for the endgame?ADRIFT (Script written, comic in production)A comic I've written and is currently being produced. Follows kids who wake up alone and scared on a derelict junk vessel not so slowly falling into a sun. Can they get free and find the pirates who took their parents, pirates who are using all the slave labour they can get to build the largest fleet to ever fly under a single flag. My artist has been working at it for a while, In a shared universe with my next novel after Urban Fantasy.ADRIFT: HOMELESS (In conception)A sci-fi novel about a doctor named David Stanfield living on a dying desert world with a dwindling populace. He's recruited by a secret government program to build a large colony ship to take their people to find a new home in the stars. Things won't be simple, however, with a growing resistance planetside fighting against what they feel is a waste of resources. Just when "The Rebirth" is finally ready to set off, things get worse as their captain is killed and Dr. Stanfield is forced to take command of their crew against an alien with technology far more advanced than theirs. One side has lasers and large energy shields that make them seemingly invincible. Stanfield's crew has technology only pejoratively more advanced than our own. They have infinite numbers. Stanfield has one ship.The Aldonn Chronicles (In development)My third novel series that I hope to start after finishing Urban Fantasy and Adrift Homeless. With those three novel series, I hope to jump back and forth between the settings, one medieval, on modern, and one in the future. I want to create a "channel" of book chapters or "episode

First in the military science fiction series that does “an excellent job of transferring Hornblower to interstellar space. A thoroughly enjoyable read” (David Drake). In the year 2194, seventeen-year-old Nicholas Seafort is assigned to the Hibernia as a lowly midshipman. Destination: the thriving colony of Hope Nation. But when a rescue attempt goes devastatingly wrong, Seafort is thrust into a leadership role he never anticipated. The other officers resent him, but Seafort must handle more dangerous problems, from a corrupted navigation computer to a deadly epidemic. Even Hope Nation has a nasty surprise in store. Seafort might be the crew’s only hope . . . This page-turning science fiction in the vein of Robert Heinlein and Orson Scott Card—with a dash of Horatio Hornblower—marks the captivating debut adventure in Feintuch’s hugely popular Seafort Saga.

A master poisoner works beside his sister to defend their city-state when the chancellor he worked undercover to protect is assassinated with an unknown poison at the same time an army lay siege to the city.