About
In PLEASE DON’T BE WAITING FOR ME, author Todd Stadtman introduced Scott, Bridge, Micah, and Benny, a tightknit band of teenage punk rockers whose loyalty is tested when one of their number is falsely charged with murder. In that book’s sequel, SO GOOD IT’S BAD, he picks up with those characters for another adventure that is every bit as terrifying, suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious as the first.
SO GOOD IT’S BAD catches up with Scott and Micah as they are wrapping up a zero-budget DIY tour with their band Fist Music. At their last show, Scott becomes violently ill and awakes to find himself a virtual prisoner of a deranged super fan and her equally unbalanced mom. It is up to Bridge, Benny, Micah and Scott’s father to find and rescue him. Their efforts will be complicated by the exploits of a narcissistic serial killer called The Jackpot Killer.
SO GOOD IT’S BAD will be the second novel in what will be a trilogy, called the SF PUNK TRIO, with the third novel, DAYS OF MIDNIGHT releasing sometime in 2019.
Cover artwork by Andrew Nahem
Events
Meet author Todd Stadtman at San Francisco's GREEN APPLE BOOKS, Thursday, September 13, 2018.
I am proud to announce that my next in-store book event for So Good It's Bad will be held at San Francisco's Green Apple Books, one of the coolest indie book stores in the Bay Area. The event starts at 7:00, but be sure to get there early so you can get lost in the store's labyrinthine stacks of new and used books, music, comics and toys. And once I've signed your book, answered your questions and read selected portions from So Good It's Bad to you, hey, you're on Clement Street, so why not have a beer in one of several nearby Irish pubs or have a delicious Bahn Mi--or both?
Green Apple Books is located at 506 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA 94118. Their phone number is 415-387-2272.
Interview with author Todd Stadtman at A Great Good Place For Books, August 10, 2018
Writer Nancy Davis Kho interviews Please Don't Be Waiting For Me author Todd Stadtman about his new novel, So Good It's Bad, at Oakland's Great Good Place for Books.
SO GOOD IT'S BAD now available from Amazon
After all the waiting, all the teasing, and all the wondering whether you should even care in the first place, SO GOOD IT'S BAD is finally available for purchase from Amazon.com for the very reasonable price of $8.95. Get your copy today! (You don't necessarily have to fuck off.)
Book event for So GOOD IT'S BAD on August 10, 2018
I will be reading from and signing copies of So Good It's Bad at Oakland's A Great Good Place For Books on the evening of Friday, August 10, 2018 at 7pm. The launch event for Please Don't be Waiting For Me was held at GGP and went splendidly. I anticipate that this one will be just as fun and informative (for me) as that one was.
A Great Good Place is located at 6120 Lasalle Avenue in Oakland's Montclair District. PH: (510) 339-8210
Be the first on your block to own SO GOOD IT'S BAD!
A lot of people want to read So Good It's Bad, and most of them are content to wait patiently for the official release date of July 12, 2018 to do so. Not you, though. You want to read it right now, don't you? Well now you can, simply by visiting the So Good It's Bad Facebook Page and sending a direct message containing your email address and the words "me want". That way, when the time comes (and it won't be long), you'll receive an email with a link that will allow you to purchase the book well ahead of the release date. Hella rad, right?
Hear the Theme Song
“So Good It’s Bad” (Explicit lyrics)
Performed by Fist Music
Words and music by Scott Desmond
Carlsen, Micah Efrayim Riese, Fritz Gabriel
Fried, and Henry “Hank” Schizo.
Copyright ©1980 Fist Music Songs Ltd., BMI
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Hear “Nadia’s Song”
"Nadia's Song" was written by Scott and his band Fist Music to memorialize their friend Nadya Balucek, who was brutally murdered the year before. In SO GOOD IT'S BAD, it is the song that Fist Music is playing at Reno's Spur and Saddle when Scott takes ill and has to run off stage.