Execution, Texas: 1987

20th Anniversary Blog of a Novel I Wrote

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Press and promotion from my 2000 book tour in Australia with Jennifer Natalya Fink.

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Press from 2000 tour of Australia for Execution, Texas: 1987 with Jennifer Natalya Fink.

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Execution, Texas: 1987

Images related to my novel, first published in 1997 y St. Martin's Press. Download for free at archive.org/details/@d_travers_scott

New Flickr album

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XTX Free Stuff

It’s been 20 years since Execution, Texas: 1987 was published, so here’s some fun stuff:

First edition in PDF and other ebook formats:

https://archive.org/details/XTX19871stEdition

Annotation of original publisher’s website:

https://archive.org/details/XTX1987_SWI_WWW_Annotated

Collection of excerpts published in zines:

https://archive.org/details/XTX1987ZineCompendium2

Soundtrack: https://archive.org/details/ExecutionTexas19872017RetrospectiveSoundtrack

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Trailer for public domain rerelease of XTX - Groovy Italo disco goodness in suburban Dallas nightmares

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20th Anniversary Blog of a Novel I Wrote

Moved the blog for my novel to this URL, formerly Payphone Graveyard. Having it as a companion blog to my academic account wasn’t allowing me to separate followers and followings. 

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I wrote a book 20 years ago. Here's almost all the songs mentioned in it. "D. Travers Scott's novel is, in turn, both funny and disturbing...captures the mystery and confusion of an American youth where the search for love is equaled only by the search for drugs." --David Sedaris

Playlist for the book. Enjoy.

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Early notes on content for XTX. Probably from early 1990s. Names redacted, but you can see several stories that didn't make it into the book.

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The book was published in 1997, but I began writing scenes for it at least in 1987. Here’s a very early draft.

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Outline for the original, non-linear structure of the book. Folks thought it was too confusing. If Pulp Fiction had come out by then I might have gotten away with it. 

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An archive of the publisher’s website for the book when it came out.

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One of many many MANY Marc Almond songs in the book.

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Nice Ozzie review

Southpaw Grammar podcast reviewed XTX. You can listen here. http://www.cpod.org.au/download.php?id=2733

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There’s a brief mention of Sun Country Coolers in the book, but I didn’t know at the time frikkin’ Ringo Starr used to shill for them, or else I would’ve put that shit in the book

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My father and maternal grandfather in real life. Both described in the book.

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Brief review from the Advocate. I’m not tiresome!

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Review from the awesome queer zine Holy Titclamps!