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Try Before You Buy! Excerpts from All of my Novels!

First one’s free! Excerpts from every single on of my currently published books, from my premiere novel Gutter Folklore to book six of my Skye Wright Rise and Fall series Needle Pictures!

Check out these free samples and bag a book or two, or three, or a dozen! Click the pic or the link just right below it.

The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright and The Return of the Dynamite Chicks

The first two books in my Skye Wright Rise and Fall series, consisting of six books with book seven, Circus tent, coming out late in May 2026 and Revenge of the Broken Hearts coming out in Summer of 2026.

The most popular excerpt from this series, Skye and here friends in a punk Biergarten!

The Mississippi Lounge – Novel Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright

Finding the Apex Devil Girl

Book three shows Skye working with her burgeoning band while trying to find out about her long lost best friend Casey as they travel with alt music sensation Gail Burp across the US.

A night time drive shows Skye still living the punk life as she has too many chance encounters in one night.

A Night Time Drive – Excerpt from my upcoming novel Finding the Apex Devil Girl

Nobody’s Hero

Skye and stage diving! And getting into the intrigues of the music industry, including the rumor mill. One of my longer excerpts!

Stage Diving into Nobody’s Hero – Excerpt from my newest novel!

Requiem Descent

Skye becomes lost in the face of enduring tragedy, just as her business and her band are taking off. Personal reflections and the haunting of hardcore loss threaten, not only Skye, but everything she’s built in the past couple of years.

Fwap! An Excerpt from my novel Reqiuem Descent, Book Five of the Skye Wright Series

Needle Pictures

Skye deals with the aftermath of her sudden road trip and strained friendships in the wake of loss and spite, a sudden turmoil that threatens to split apart her band and set her new business off course, as Skye tries to deal with her stormy rock and roll life.

Tattooed – An excerpt from my upcoming novel Needle Pictures

Trieste

My one and only novella! About strange and sudden family relations in the punk scene!

Du Nervst! – An excerpt from my upcoming novella Trieste

Short Songs

Tales from The Punk Side! A collection of short stories featuring the many characters from the Skyee Wright Universe, including members of her band, her best friend Preston, as well as other characters such as Gail Burp, the alt-star sensation and Lee, the twelve step Jedi formerly known as the hurricane disaster area Scather!

The Closet – A Short Story from my upcoming collection Short Songs

Blood, Skin, and Ink

Six feet tall, covered in tattoos and scars, a beautiful and imposing woman with a hundred yard stare. There is no way you could not notice her, and you will wonder who she is and what her story is. That’s what this book is about. A sex worker, a teenage runaway, a musician, an alcoholic and drug addict… few have lived the live of tumult and chaos that Miranda has known. A true woman of the world.

Living in a Squat – An Excerpt from my new novel Blood, Skin, and Ink

A Long Slow Aftermath

Another work about my main character Preston, the star of The Falling Circle. In this story, Preston is just out of rehab, trying to adjust to a world without the gauze of drugs and alcohol. He tries to make his way in a quickly gentrifying Oakland, California, caught between the working class and the upper crust techies pushing everyone out.

Coffee Walk – An excerpt from my novel-in-progress A long Slow Aftermath

Stella Maris

The sequel to What the Hell, even though it can be read as a stand alone book. Skye Wright, punk and party animal extraordinaire, faces the crossroads of her life as she turns the big three-oh. and an overheard song reminds her of a long-lost friend. Pagan weddings and fever-dream raves!

The Morning After – An Excerpt from my Novel-in-Progress Stella Maris

What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?

My punk road trip novel. This is Skye Wright’s first novel as an exclusive main character. A ride up and down the West coast as Skye searches for her long-lost boyfriend Yuri while traversing dives, underground clubs, squats, and sex worker parties.

A visit to CrustyLand – The Soup Cafe’ – An Excerpt from my Novel What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko?

Crash Shadow

My book about drug addiction, about two people: one trying to get clean and sober and another sinking deeper and deeper into her addiction. Two characters who used to be a couple try to navigate their drug-centered lives in the concrete jungle.

This is basically two books, as it follows the two stories.

Sample from my novel Crash Shadow – A Note

The Clubber

My anti-hero novel set in the San Francisco clubbing world of the Eighties. A self-absorbed artist is forced to confront his true self as he tries to become a rising star in the alt-underground art world.

“Omigod, I think this guy is straight!” – An Excerpt from my Novel The Clubber

The Falling Circle

My second ever book, this one will tell you what it’s like to be a gutter punk. Not just about the hardships of being poor, but how weird it is to be poor! Cramped houses, crazy roommates, and living life on the urban edge.

In this excerpt, my main character Preston has an interesting conversation with one of his roommates about talking genitals!

Talking to Gust – An excerpt from my novel The Falling Circle

Gutter Folklore

My first ever novel. A collection of short stories in the city of San Francisco! Follow a gang of crazy punks and offset urban types who are forced to live in the same house because they cannot afford $5,000 a week in rent for a single studio. In this excerpt, a junky finds an old craving and acts on it!

Yen – When the Cheeseburger Calls – An Excerpt from my novel Gutter Folklore

All of my Books

You can find all of my books on this page. Available on Kindle, KU, and paperbacks at BookShop.org!

Books by Jeffrey Vernon Matucha

Author: termberkden

I am a writer, a software engineer, and a refugee from the punk/metal/new wave/my-God-what-did-we-do-last-night daze of the San Francisco scene. I write, I run, I actually stop and smell the roses, I meow back at cats, and I pet strange yet friendly dogs.

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