GUFF ABOUT THE AUTHOR BIT
Andrez Bergen is an expat Australian writer, journalist, DJ, and ad hoc saké connoisseur who's been entrenched in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 12 years. He makes music as Little Nobody and Funk Gadget and ran groundbreaking Melbourne record label IF? for 15 years.
As a journalist Bergen has conjured up articles for The Age newspaper in Australia and the Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan, and also written for magazines such as Mixmag, Anime Insider, Australian Style, Impact and Geek.
He published noir/sci-fi novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat in 2011 and the surreal fantasy One Hundred Years of Vicissitude through Perfect Edge Books in 2012, which went to #1 at Amazon.
He's currently working on a third novel titled Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, which is a foray into comicbook/noir, is planning another novel called The Mercury Drinkers, and will be fine-tuning a short story/comic anthology (The Tobacco-Stained Sky) with Another Sky Press.
Bergen has also published short stories through Crime Factory, Pulp Ink, Shotgun Honey, Snubnose Press, Solarcide, Weird Noir, Big Pulp and All Due Respect, and worked on translating and adapting the scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii, Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani.
http://andrezbergen.wordpress.com
As a journalist Bergen has conjured up articles for The Age newspaper in Australia and the Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan, and also written for magazines such as Mixmag, Anime Insider, Australian Style, Impact and Geek.
He published noir/sci-fi novel Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat in 2011 and the surreal fantasy One Hundred Years of Vicissitude through Perfect Edge Books in 2012, which went to #1 at Amazon.
He's currently working on a third novel titled Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, which is a foray into comicbook/noir, is planning another novel called The Mercury Drinkers, and will be fine-tuning a short story/comic anthology (The Tobacco-Stained Sky) with Another Sky Press.
Bergen has also published short stories through Crime Factory, Pulp Ink, Shotgun Honey, Snubnose Press, Solarcide, Weird Noir, Big Pulp and All Due Respect, and worked on translating and adapting the scripts for feature films by Mamoru Oshii, Kazuchika Kise and Naoyoshi Shiotani.
http://andrezbergen.wordpress.com