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Feast or Famine? – Your New Book!

Your New Book – Feast of Famine! This is the second anthology in which I have short stories. (The first one is linked below.)

What’s it about?

Feast or Famine? – the Third Purple Toga Anthology

On May 11th, 2026, we release the third of our anthologies: Feast or Famine!

This is our third theme based anthology at Purple Toga.

The first, It Takes A Village, contains stories centered around what life would be like if people were rewarded for helping others.

The second, Rainbows Aren’t Just For Leprechauns, has stories based on colors.

Book Details

Feast or Famine

For the third, Feast or Famine? we were looking for stories where food is central or pivotal to the plot.

In this anthology there are thirty stories with wide variety of themes and tones, set in fantasy locations, modern times, and even post-apocalyptic worlds. They vary in style and setting, but all are told around the basic truth: us humans love our food.

As in real life, some foods were life-changing while at other times disappointing. How many of you have read about Turkish Delight in Narnia and were disappointed when you finally got to try it? For me it smelled wonderful, but had no taste or texture. Just colored gelatin. (Be assured fresh Turkish delight has flavor and is quite nice, but not so the boxes sold for tourists/holidays).

Think of how food has been a big part of literature. Where would Snow White be without the apple (or Adam and Eve)? In movies like Thor: The Dark World you have Dr. Strange offer tea and Thor responding he doesn’t drink it and getting a big (self-refilling) mug of beer. Where would Star Trek: The Next Generation be without “Earl Grey, hot”? Think of all the meals in the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, or how Rincewind fantasizes about potatoes.

Where possible, the authors have provided recipes that are related to their stories. We at Purple Toga strongly recommend that you think twice before making some of them at home: they may contain magical or alien ingredients for which we know of no substitutes.

Feast or Famine? Get Your Copy Here!

Pre-Orders of Feast or Famine? are available. You can get the the ebook on Amazon by clicking here.

Let me know what you think by clicking here or emailing me at [email protected]. As always, everyone who responds with a comment or email will get a free book from me.

Grab Your Copy of Challenge Accepted Here!

Feast or Famine
Challenge Accepted

Here you’ll find the first Anthology that contained my stories.

What’s it about?

A blind spaceship pilot.

Cops and maintenance personnel in wheelchairs.

Taking on bad guys with only one leg or no arms.

It’s not what you are that makes you something special. It’s who you choose to be.

Seventeen stories about people who rise above anything that tries to stop them, even their own limitations.

Grab your copy of Challenge Accepted here! On sale too, 67% off.

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Your Wacky New News From Comic Author Andy Zach

Your Wacky New News From me, your friendly comic paranormal animal author. I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to tell you what I’ve been doing. Let’s correct that.

Wacky New News
Andy Zach at his first book convention, Chabanacon

First, I’m writing my science fiction short story anthology. If you want a taste, click below for a free short story that will be in the anthology.

By the way, if you can think of a great title for a collection of funny science fiction stories, let me know! I’ll give you credit and a free autographed copy my book.

More Wacky New News

I finally added my latest novel Secret Supers to my landing page and Welcome email. Go to my landing page and you’ll get the Welcome email when you subscribe to my newsletter.

Here’s a sample of the newsletter:

Here’s my landing page:

Finally, here’s a sample of Secret Supers:

Wacky New News
Secret Supers front and back covers

Before I became an author I managed a corporate internal website in the 90s. Now I have a full-time job writing, publishing, and promoting my books, I don’t have much time for my own web site maintenance. Let me know of any problems you find and I’ll fix them. As a thanks, I’ll send you a short story.

Breaking Wacky New News

I’ve just been dumping wild and crazy science stories and funny stuff at my Facebook page. Here are some juicy items.

Tell me if you want me to write the short story.

Zombie Dinosaurs? Could be another novel!

Worldwide internet by Elon Musk? Isn’t Tesla, The Boring Company, and SpaceX enough for you Elon?

Spider butts! What more reason do you need to read the article? Have some more spider body parts:

And now, for something completely different:

A Wallace and Grommit and Star Wars mashup!

Wow! That’s less than half the stuff I’ve got.

Upcoming Current Events

Then, I got a new cover for Paranormal Privateers.

I also contributed to this next book, a charity anthology. Buy it, if you love Special Olympics!

My recent appearance at Springfield ComicCon in the next photo, with my assistant Tori.

Closing Shot