Bored Gay Werewolf

Atlantic Fiction has bought World all languages to Tony Santorella’s debut Bored Gay Werewolf. Dramatic rights were sold by Marc Simonsson of SoloSon Media Limited on behalf of Atlantic at auction to a major Emmy-winning TV production company. Bored Gay Werewolf sees a directionless college-dropout deal with minimum-wage jobs, lunar cycles, toxic masculinity and the everyday perils of life as a modern werewolf, and will be published in hardback, trade paperback and ebook in June 2023.

Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, forgets to clean his room and gets black-out drunk with his restaurant comrades, Nik and Darby.

He’s been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-entrepreneur determined to explore exponential growth strategies in the mythological wellness market. Tyler has got a plan, and weirdly his brand of self-help punditry actually encourages Brian to shape up and to stop accidently marking out guys who ghosted him on Grindr as potential monthly victims.

But as Brian gets closer to Tyler’s pack, and further away from Nik and Darby, he realises that Tyler’s expansion plans are much more nefarious than a little lupine enlightenment…

Tony Santorella was born and raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, site of the Salem Witch Trials and related hauntings. He moved to Washington, DC in 2005, where he waited tables until beginning his decade-long career in international development. When he’s not writing novels about werewolves, he’s spending time with his husband Robert and their cat Fannie Mae.

Atlantic Fiction Publishing Director James Roxburgh, says:

‘It’s called Bored Gay Werewolf. Who doesn’t want to read a book called Bored Gay Werewolf. But, if you need more than that, then it’s gorgeous and goofy and anarchic and funny and so smart on the doomsday logic of late capitalism and the nexus of masculinity and sexuality. It’s kind of like Nightbitch meets the buddy-movie joy of Stranger Things. With more sex and ennui.’