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Serial audio fiction comedy horror

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Soundtrack, story, & narration by Sean McGinty.

You find yourself in the dark one day and you can't remember your name.

Here's what people said about my 2021 YA novel, Rainbow in the Dark:

⭐️ "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets the Black Mirror treatment … McGinty deftly updates L. Frank Baum’s classic tale with modern-day existential angst, creating a unique world that’s terrifying in both its foreignness and its familiarity ... A page-turner that handles mental health with grace." — Kirkus 

⭐️ "Dark yet hopeful ... balances humor, existentialism, and Rainbow’s mental health with great aplomb." —  Publishers Weekly 

 

A line of velvet ropes, as if at a theater. A sign that says "have tickets out" meanwhile, the ground is crawling with seven or eight newts
a picture of ghost wolf, a floating wolf, and vampire witch, a short witch with a pointy hat. the ground is covered in newts ghost wolf says "excuse me, pardon me, sorry about that." vampire witch says: "boop! you're a newt" as she turns another person into a newt

In the style of a classic newspaper comic, VampireWitch & GhostWolf chronicles the adventures and conversations of a vampire/ who is also a witch and ghost who was once a wolf. VW&GW is published monthly in the print edition of Smokestack.

The End of FUN

FUN® is "fun," but it’s also frustrating, glitchy and addictive AF. Just when everyone else is getting on, Aaron O’Faolain wants off. A winding romp with augmented reality, heartbreak, and buried treasure (Hyperion, 2016).

Here's what people said about my 2016 YA novel, The End of Fun

"Wildly funny, bittersweet, and wholly original" -  Booklist starred review

"Big-hearted and generous" -  Kirkus

"McGinty has expertly crafted what is sure to become a cult classic for the tech generation." - Caitlin Baker, University Book Store, Seattle, WA

". . . So fresh, so smart, and so chock-damn-full of heart, I couldn’t bear when it was over." - Will Walton, Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA

"Warning - this is a bad book! My 15 year old checked out from library. I'm so glad I flipped through it -- sex, drugs, lots of swearing and crudity, low grade stuff I don't want my children reading. Certainly not pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, or praiseworthy." - one-star Amazon review

some stories, poems, autobiographical pieces, and other stuff here

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rainbow standing in the wilds