Literally making the world a better place.
PLAY NIGHT ONE
Free, right here in your browser.
Watch the trailer
You play the critic.
Aspen owns a second-hand bookshop in Portland. He is a vampire. He only eats bad authors, and tonight they keep walking in.
You don’t fight anyone. You listen, you judge, and you pick your moment.
STAREHold it. The silence makes them confess.
SIGHLet them go on. It gets worse.
READOpen the manuscript, if you dare.
BITEToo early and the critic was wrong.Tonight’s customers
How about a poem as payment?
My sci-fi western is genre-defying.
The reader is wrong.
Faith is a vibe.
It’s a love story. At a spelling bee.
Chapter one is a content warning.
Did I mention the book tours?
Five nights, one fire, one insurance claim.
- Every night changes the rules.
- Eight terrible authors, each with a best moment to bite.
- A silent-film paper puppet show, about half an hour long.
- No ads and no timers to pay off.
$1.99
The full game, on your phone.
Coming soonApp Store
Coming soonGoogle Play
It started as a book.
A Novel Appetite is a dark comedy in verse by Jesse Bray, written among the vitamin D deficient denizens of Portland, Oregon. Aspen dictated the About the Author page himself, and he was not kind.
Read it on Apple BooksLink coming
Merch
Rejection slips, the restroom sign, and a shirt that says what Aspen is thinking.
Visit the shopOpening soon
