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A Scout is Brave
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Releasing in July of 2024!
Will Ludwigsen
"It was in Innsmouth where I met the greatest Scout I’ve ever known, a boy named Aubrey Marsh, and he’s the reason I’m still here and the reason I still believe it’s worth being human, even though he’s not quite either of those things anymore."
In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moved with his family from busy Queens, NY, to the bleak town of Innsmouth, MA, after a local oil consortium hired his father to help with a drilling platform off the coast. Bud meets a kindred spirit in the town library, Aubrey, the only other boy in town. Scouting is the cornerstone of Bud's life, and founding a troop in Innsmouth is the only way he can conceive of coping with what he is sure is a disastrous move.
But the delights of that summer are coming to an end, as Bud discovers that Reverend Pritchett of the Evangelical Progress Temple has plans to return Innsmouth to greatness and glory.
Paperback, 150 pages
Cover and interior design by Jeremy Parker
Will Ludwigsen
"It was in Innsmouth where I met the greatest Scout I’ve ever known, a boy named Aubrey Marsh, and he’s the reason I’m still here and the reason I still believe it’s worth being human, even though he’s not quite either of those things anymore."
In the summer of 1963, Bud Castillo moved with his family from busy Queens, NY, to the bleak town of Innsmouth, MA, after a local oil consortium hired his father to help with a drilling platform off the coast. Bud meets a kindred spirit in the town library, Aubrey, the only other boy in town. Scouting is the cornerstone of Bud's life, and founding a troop in Innsmouth is the only way he can conceive of coping with what he is sure is a disastrous move.
But the delights of that summer are coming to an end, as Bud discovers that Reverend Pritchett of the Evangelical Progress Temple has plans to return Innsmouth to greatness and glory.
Paperback, 150 pages
Cover and interior design by Jeremy Parker
"This short novel manages to pack into its 150 pages Bradbury-esque whimsy and imagination, the melancholia of memoir, the spirit of weird pulp adventure, and the bite of contemporary angst and satire. Will Ludwigsen is a treasure and his A Scout is Brave is f*cking brilliant." - Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Horror Movie
"Drawing parallels to Stephen King's It, this novel seamlessly intertwines elements of horror and coming-of-age." - Independent Book Review
"Drawing parallels to Stephen King's It, this novel seamlessly intertwines elements of horror and coming-of-age." - Independent Book Review