Jupes’ admission photo at university of virginia, where he spent one semester before being expelled.
J. Jupes
J. Jupes writes pulp and dystopian novels and likes having a cover image in front of him before even thinking about penning the first word. He assembles books from notes written on the back of candy bar wrappers. Raised by a severe English playwright, Jupes can't stomach convention. His father made outlines. Jupes doesn't, yet at the same time respected the old man’s philosophy: ‘It’s all shittery and perseverance,’ in that preferring random sentences which smoke unfiltered cigarettes and flick the butts into a filthy puddles just to hear them hiss.
"I type real fast with two fingers," he claims, "like a two beaked woodpecker. I use a typewriter because I like pounding the keys, shoving the carriage over at the end of a line, ripping the page out and slapping it down on the Done Pile. I never went to writing school but been to the corner of Life and Anxiety, bought a pretzel there and slathered on the mustard. I have very few qualities people can relate to and stay indoors, every night falling asleep in front of my screen, whatever screen, and wake myself snoring at about one or two, claw my way along the floor onto my bare mattress maybe pee a little bit into the empty Gator aid bottle I keep by the lamp. I like waking up early to sit in front of the typewriter and warm my hands on a cup of Sanka, then when the sun comes up, make himself toast with butter and English marmalade. The world is toast and marmalade and crumbs. I'll open the fridge later on and have a look but usually end up closing the door without taking anything out but might come back later, open the door again, or might not."
Books Published through Orphan Print & Hekate
The Third Entry
Book Two of J. Jupes' speculative horror series. The Civil Service Trilogy, follows Nelson, a veteran Operator with the Department of Housing, as he attempts to understand the nature of his job as well as the predicament in which the last structure has placed him. The entities within, this time, have created something unfamiliar and immensely disturbing. Cover design and Illustrations done by Coates Walker, the premier collagist of mechanical despair and conspiracy in our age.
Available in paperback and ebook.
Product Information
Series: The Civil Service Series (Book 2)
Paperback: 83 pages
Publisher: Orphan Paper (September 23, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017938
ISBN-13: 978-1912017935
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.2 x 8 inches
Intersection Operator
In a double header tribute to Nikolai Gogol and Samuel Morse, J. Jupes and collage artist Coates Walker compile a dystopian struggle for love and identity in a ghostly world where traffic patterns are manually controlled by the Intersection Operators and job security has become a sadistic enterprise.
Available in paperback and ebook.
Product Information
Paperback: 93 pages
Publisher: Hekate Publishing (November 21, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017547
ISBN-13: 978-1912017546
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.2 x 8 inches
Hairspray and Lighter
Eckerly only wanted to make a bet on a horse that day. He didn't expect Darlene Johnson to walk into the office with her chocolate box. And certainly didn't expect he'd shortly be riding a Tilt a Whirl with no mounting bolts. Book One of the Noir series The Detectives That Don't Fit by J. Jupes.
Available in paperback and ebook.
Product Information
Paperback: 227 pages
Publisher: Hekate Publishing (November 20, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1912017512
ISBN-13: 978-1912017515
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 8 inches