Release date:
February 16, 2027
ISBN:
979-8-951042-00-2
114 pages
Cover art:
Bert SG
Your gentle roommate is getting violent. Your Type-A girlfriend is neglecting her job. Your loving mother is creeping you out. Everyone is acting strange, but don’t fret: The narrator is here to guide you on your adventure! Who is the narrator? Well, you can call them whatever you like. Maybe Nate, or Natalie? Either one works; the narrator doesn’t have a gender, unless you want to give them one. The narrator doesn’t even exist outside your mind (yet). They just want you to relax and have fun! All you have to do is make a few choices and promise not to lie to them.
…You do promise, don’t you?
Phew—what a relief!
If you lied to the narrator, there would have to be consequences.
Grace Daly (she/her) is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated disabled author with multiple invisible chronic illnesses. She lives near Chicago and spends most of her free time with her dog, who is a very good boy. She is the author of horror comedy novel The Scald-Crow.
More Praise for Escapist Fiction
“Grace Daly’s Escapist Fiction is a riot. The unreliable and a-little-too-friendly narrator puts readers in charge of the story like the CYOA novels of the 80s and 90s, but presents you with the question of who is actually in control. The interactive elements bring unique and increasingly unhinged elements into the mix and turn reading Escapist Fiction into an experience. If you’re into camp and experimental storytelling—definitely give this a go!”
—Michael Bettendorf, author of TRVE CVLT
“Delightfully weird and playful. This book has a voice you’re gonna want to listen to—at your own risk, of course.”
—A.C. Bauer, author of the Navigating Nightmares series
