Hal Johnson Books
@haljohnsonbooks.bsky.social
I'm here to write books and chew bubblegum and…oh, wow, that is a lot of bubblegum I still possess!
Coming soon…
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Coming soon…
#137 on the only legitimate list of the 200 Best Songs of the 1960s! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-200-be...
#contours
#contours
December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#137 on the only legitimate list of the 200 Best Songs of the 1960s! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-200-be...
#contours
#contours
Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
•Longfellow, Evangeline (1847).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
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Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
•Longfellow, Evangeline (1847).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-...
A garland of quotations CXLIX
Culled from the finest delvers in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday
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December 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
•Longfellow, Evangeline (1847).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-...
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
•Longfellow, Evangeline (1847).
NEW GARLAND TODAY!
haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-...
COME FIGHT ME!
The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s part 3 of 10
#141–160
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
COME FIGHT ME!
Look at there horrible people! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-most-a...
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Look at there horrible people! haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-most-a...
Happening now! Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT!
November 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happening now! Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT!
#191 on the only definitive list of the best songs of the 1960s…
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October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
#191 on the only definitive list of the best songs of the 1960s…
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I'll be here tonight! At Badsons in Derby, CT. Come say hello if you like loud noises!
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I'll be here tonight! At Badsons in Derby, CT. Come say hello if you like loud noises!
I know everyone has strong opinions about this one! Fight me!
The Ten Best Movies of 1944
My favorite year for cinema
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October 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I know everyone has strong opinions about this one! Fight me!
Anyone interested in Piers Anthony studies should check out my new in-depth analysis...and tell all your friends!
What's up with Piers Anthony?
An analysis of his oeuvre, or rather poeurvre
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October 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Anyone interested in Piers Anthony studies should check out my new in-depth analysis...and tell all your friends!
It's happening now! The Conti Building in Shelton!
September 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It's happening now! The Conti Building in Shelton!
It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
#rhps
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
#rhps
A garland of quotations CXXXVII
Culled from the finest giggle-pusses in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday
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September 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes my face ache.
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
#rhps
•The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
#rhps
The ten best movies of 1994—FIGHT ME!
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The Ten Best Movies of 1994
(also, try my 99¢ books, on sale now)
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September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The ten best movies of 1994—FIGHT ME!
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Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook.
Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Too smart for its own good.” –Kirkus Reviews.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Too smart for its own good.” –Kirkus Reviews.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Immortal Lycanthropes
Amazon.com: Immortal Lycanthropes eBook : Johnson, Hal: Kindle Store
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September 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook.
Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Too smart for its own good.” –Kirkus Reviews.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Too smart for its own good.” –Kirkus Reviews.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Everyone should read it…a born classic.”
•E. C. Myers, author of The Silence of Six.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
“Everyone should read it…a born classic.”
•E. C. Myers, author of The Silence of Six.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Immortal Lycanthropes
Amazon.com: Immortal Lycanthropes eBook : Johnson, Hal: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Everyone should read it…a born classic.”
•E. C. Myers, author of The Silence of Six.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
“Everyone should read it…a born classic.”
•E. C. Myers, author of The Silence of Six.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect.”
•Cory Doctorow, author of The Lost Cause.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
“Perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect.”
•Cory Doctorow, author of The Lost Cause.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
Immortal Lycanthropes
Amazon.com: Immortal Lycanthropes eBook : Johnson, Hal: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh! Hey! My first novel is ALSO on sale for 99¢ as an ebook. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect.”
•Cory Doctorow, author of The Lost Cause.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
“Perfectly wonderful and wonderfully perfect.”
•Cory Doctorow, author of The Lost Cause.
www.amazon.com/Immortal-Lyc...
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook for the next few days! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“There can be something in the book that's ridiculously absurd, and yet it feels like Johnson has captured the reality in which we live perfectly.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“There can be something in the book that's ridiculously absurd, and yet it feels like Johnson has captured the reality in which we live perfectly.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
Sudden Glory
Sudden Glory - Kindle edition by Johnson, Hal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sudden Glory.
www.amazon.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook for the next few days! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“There can be something in the book that's ridiculously absurd, and yet it feels like Johnson has captured the reality in which we live perfectly.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“There can be something in the book that's ridiculously absurd, and yet it feels like Johnson has captured the reality in which we live perfectly.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“This novel has perhaps the highest joke-to-paragraph ratio of anything I’ve ever read.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“This novel has perhaps the highest joke-to-paragraph ratio of anything I’ve ever read.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
Sudden Glory
Sudden Glory - Kindle edition by Johnson, Hal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sudden Glory.
www.amazon.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“This novel has perhaps the highest joke-to-paragraph ratio of anything I’ve ever read.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“This novel has perhaps the highest joke-to-paragraph ratio of anything I’ve ever read.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“A really funny, bonkers satirical philosophical novel about life in NYC in the early 2000s, American masculinity, sex, and the epistemological state of masking/closetedness.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“A really funny, bonkers satirical philosophical novel about life in NYC in the early 2000s, American masculinity, sex, and the epistemological state of masking/closetedness.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
Sudden Glory
Sudden Glory - Kindle edition by Johnson, Hal. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sudden Glory.
www.amazon.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
My novel Sudden Glory is only 99¢ as ebook! Here’s what people are saying about it:
“A really funny, bonkers satirical philosophical novel about life in NYC in the early 2000s, American masculinity, sex, and the epistemological state of masking/closetedness.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
“A really funny, bonkers satirical philosophical novel about life in NYC in the early 2000s, American masculinity, sex, and the epistemological state of masking/closetedness.”
www.amazon.com/Sudden-Glory...
Well, as the gostaks say, these doshes aren't going to distim themselves.
August 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Well, as the gostaks say, these doshes aren't going to distim themselves.
Medusa, by Sam (Æ5).
August 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Medusa, by Sam (Æ5).
In two day! Tell your friends! Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT
July 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
In two day! Tell your friends! Old Stone Church, 251 Main St., East Haven CT
Calling all Nutmeggers (and those who like to drive)! Can you find me among the teeming throngs of authors at Wethersfield?
July 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Calling all Nutmeggers (and those who like to drive)! Can you find me among the teeming throngs of authors at Wethersfield?
Despite everyone telling me I shouldn't, I ranked and reviewed 104 @danielpinkwater.bsky.social books. It's 45K words long, so perh. no one will want to read the whole things, but def. look for your favorite book, get angry at me about its position, etc. haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/every-dani...
Every Daniel Pinkwater book, ranked
104 books in unimpeachable order!
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June 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Despite everyone telling me I shouldn't, I ranked and reviewed 104 @danielpinkwater.bsky.social books. It's 45K words long, so perh. no one will want to read the whole things, but def. look for your favorite book, get angry at me about its position, etc. haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/every-dani...
TOMORROW IN CONNECTICUT!
June 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
TOMORROW IN CONNECTICUT!