Remember the weird kid in grade school with a mouthful of paste and britches full of waste? You know, the one that still had an imaginary friend in junior high? That creepy oddball with the belly that made it impossible for him to run a mile in under thirty minutes? The one you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt would one day get caught with a severed head in his freezer? Well, that kid grew up. He grew up, he convinced someone to marry him, he bought a house in the suburbs, he wrote a book, and he even stopped eating paste Goats Eat Cans is his story. In Volume 2, Steven Novak continues to recount the mostly woeful tales of his life in the peculiar way only he can. There are more inappropriate bodily functions, more awkward social mishaps, and a heck of a lot more obscure pop culture references that only the nerdiest of the nerds will recognize. Goats Eat Cans features 56 stories, 56 illustrations, and a carton rendering of his buttocks in a thong. If that's not worth the price of admission, nothing is.

A man and a young girl travel the roads of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, hunted by monsters and haunted by the past. Nothing is what it seems in this ravaged landscape where danger is all-encompassing and enemies come in every form. In this world surviving is hell. Staying dead is impossible.

For Tommy Jarvis, life has never been simple - quite the opposite, in fact. It is, however, about to become decidedly more difficult. Moments after stumbling through a doorway to another world, Tommy and his friends discover they are the key to ending a war in which the casualties are too great to count and their chances of survival are almost nonexistent.
After stumbling through a doorway hidden at the base of their tree fort, the brothers find themselves caught in the middle of a war that has raged for years and left behind more causalities than numbers dare count. Along the way they'll encounter creatures both bizarre and terrifying and find friends in the most unpredictable of places.
Fathers and Sons is the first in a trilogy that follows an unlikely group of children turned heroes and their adventures in a world that has nothing in common with their own, against an army of war mongering creatures led by a tyrant king and a young prince that will stop at nothing to see them dead.
The Forts series continues with Forts: Liars and Thieves, and Forts: Endings and Beginnings

Praise for Fathers and Sons
5 of 5 Stars
"No one should miss out on this series. It sticks with you long after the final page is turned." - Completelybooksessed
"What you don't expect are those singing moments of poetry, of beauty, and the life lessons woven behind every chapter. Novak isn't just trying to tell you a fantastic adventure story. Novak is trying to teach you something about himself, and, by extension, something about you." - MJ Heiser, Author of Corona
"There are moments along their journey, and even before it starts, where you simply want to cry for these children and what they go through. There are also those moments where you will find yourself cheering them along." - Moonlitreviews
"Novak skillfully spins his tale in a manner that allows the reader to understand and empathize with his protagonists and keeps the reader engaged in the narrative from the opening paragraph to the final lines." - UJA Greater Toronto
"What struck me about Fathers and Sons is that each character, hero and villain, human or otherwise, is so clearly drawn (Mr. Novak is an illustrator of exceptional talent)that I was able to connect with them. Family is an important theme in this action-packed story, with both good and bad aspects getting equal share." - James McShane, Author