Political Satire/Fiction
Date Published: October 28th, 2025
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
The battle pits cereal titan Todd Swindell, head of Flakes Alive Incorporated, against Chad Scandalman of the Great American Flake Company. When Scandalman hires a diminutive assassin named Twinkle to bump off his rival’s top chemist, it sparks a war of the flakes that makes the bloody feud of York and Lancaster look tame by comparison.
But not everyone in the Cornflake capital of Domino, Indiana, is happy with the status quo. Ziggie Wexler, an unemployed pipefitter and all-around average Joe, knows that something is deeply wrong with his country.
All history prior to 2040 has been banned, but old-timers whisper about the days when people still voted for their leaders. After Ziggie posts fiery polemics against the state to the Clandestine Journal, he becomes a marked man. But in a world built on lies, there’s one truth he’s sure of. Somebody needs to fight back.
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
I write out all of my books manually on paper.
Transferring the books into typewritten form is the most difficult
part. The other difficult task revolves
around not coming off as an American hater.
My work I hope is not that of a destroyer but that of a motivator.
What are your most played songs?
Anything psychedelic or progressive rock. The albums Jimi Hendrix Experience – Axis: Bold As Love, and Love – Forever Changes are my favorites, and any song on those two fascinates me no matter how many times I hear it. No fillers on those two albums. But I do not listen to music when I am writing.
Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
Neither. I send out an advanced copy to my older brother. From his reaction, I gauge potential public interest.
What book are you reading now?
James Joyce – Ulysses, and man is it difficult to digest. Very poetic.
How did you start your writing career?
I did a lot of homemade comic strips in high school Art class. Filling in the balloons was as much fun as
drawing the cartoons.
Tell us about your next release.
Planet Globablob represent another indictment on capitalism, this one from a
parallel universe. When earthlings
stumble onto Globablob, they encounter big-time resistance to the notion of
corporate rule.
About the Author
Immensely curious about human behavior, James spent the 1970s hanging out on the streets to observe people, many of whom became inspirations for his fictional characters. Later, he worked in cube farms at conservative insurance companies, where the idiosyncrasies of corporate personalities sparked his imagination.
James has spent the last decade reading and writing offbeat fiction about bizarre protagonists. Corporate Almighty: 2098, a dystopian tale about the rise of the corporation and the fall of democracy, follows his first two novels, Animal Candy and Pods of Bubbledumb: A Study in Mass Depravity.
Born and raised in an industrial suburb on the south edge of Chicago, James lives with his wife Sue and four cats in Evansville, Indiana.
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