DAVID COMFORT

Simon & Schuster published David Comfort’s three popular nonfiction trade titles: For Dogs Only, The First Pet History of the World, Just Say Noel. In 2009 Citadel/ Kensington released his The Rock And Roll Book Of The Dead, The Fatal Journeys of Rock's Seven Immortals -- a study of the tempestuous lives and tragic ends of Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Kurt Cobain. The author’s pop culture blogs appear in The Wrap, Culture Catch, and BlogCritics.

Comfort’s publishing industry exposé, An Insider’s Guide to Publishing, was released by Writers Digest Books in 2013. Excerpts from the title appeared in Pleaides, The Montreal Review, Stanford Arts Review, InDigest, Writing Disorder, Eyeshot, Glasschord, and Line Zero. Another chapter was a finalist in the 2014 Narrative competition.

The author is a Pushcart Fiction Prize nominee, and has been a finalist for the Faulkner Award, Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren, America's Best, Glimmer Train, Helicon Nine, and Heekin Graywolf Fellowship. His short fiction appears in The Evergreen Review, Cortland Review, The Morning Newes, Scholars & Rogues, and Inkwell.

The author self-published his satiric novel, The Reborn Bible 2.0, The 2^nd Coming of the American Rapture, in the spring of 2013.

Comfort's is currently completing The New Dao: The Skeleton Key of Life and Afterlife. Chapters from the metaphysical title now appear in 3:AM magazine and Eclectica magazine. Later in 2021, other chapters will appear in the Truth Seeker and Free Inquiry.

The author is represented by Don Fehr of Trident Media.

Nonfiction:

• AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING

(Writers Digest Books, Nov. 2013) (Prescriptive nonfiction)

• THE ROCK AND ROLL BOOK OF THE DEAD: The Fatal Journeys of the Seven Immortals

(Citadel/Kensington, 2009) (Narrative, historic pop nonfiction)

• JUST SAY NOEL: A History of Christmas, from the Nativity to the Nineties

(Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1995) (Light Reference)

• THE FIRST PET HISTORY OF THE WORLD

(Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1994) (Light Reference)

• FOR DOGS ONLY: How to Live with Human Beings

(Pocket / Simon & Schuster, 1989) (Humor)