About Me
In 2021, Ellysian Press published Fate Accompli, the first book in Keith's humorous mythic fiction series, The Water Nymph Gospels. Fate Accompli was a 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Best Book of the Year (Humor). Life Indigo, which is Book 2 of the series, is a revised and expanded edition of Kasper Mützenmacher's Cursed Hat (Curiosity Quills, 2017), a 2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist (Fantasy). Keith also has published short stories, one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and humor pieces in Defenestration and The Satirist.
Keith recently retired from the Federal Trade Commission, where he practiced consumer protection law. He now works for an industry self-regulatory organization focused on responsible food and beverage marketing. A proud graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., Philosophy, J.D.), Keith lives in Kensington, Maryland with his wife, Laura, also a Michigan alum, and their dogs Lulu and Archie, who sadly remain illiterate. Their adult son Stoney is a computer software engineer in New York City. Their beloved daughter Bay passed away in 2021. Her fighting spirit and offbeat sense of humor continue to inspire.
Keith was an avid baseball card collector as a kid. His most treasured cards date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries — hence, his cheap attempt at baseball card fan fiction pictured left.
About Life Indigo
Berlin’s cabaret night life offers an explosion of artistic expression in 1923. While Kasper makes custom hats by day, his nights are spent in that dazzling world. But his life takes a perilous turn when Isana, his flapper girlfriend, is kidnapped.
The notorious Klaus is a Nazi interrogator who renders his victims blind to their own faces. With only a short time to rescue Isana, Kasper turns to a family secret – a magical hat stolen from Hermes long ago.
Kasper teleports Isana to freedom, but the daring rescue has unforeseen consequences that overshadow their future.
Using everything he has learned from his dark and twisted past, Klaus is hellbent on learning the truth behind the secret escape. And if he gets his hands on Kasper’s wishing hat, the entire world will be at his mercy.
From the author of Fate Accompli, a 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist for Humor, Life Indigo is part comedy, part noir, and part high-octane fantasy.
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About Fate Accompli
Tuscany, 1603. Andolosia Petasos dreams of being the next Da Vinci. Only Fate has cursed him to make hats. It’s not Andolosia’s fault. It was his Greek ancestor who stole Hermes’ teleportation hat and brought down all of Olympus. Turns out, the gods frown on that sort of thing.
Twelve centuries earlier, Olympus is crumbling. The goddess Moira tries weaving a future that will spare her from an eternity in Oblivion. Short on time and Destiny Thread, she intertwines her destiny with the fates of a hatter and a water nymph.
Back in Andolosia's time, the powerful and eccentric Sansone de Medici hires the young hatter to create a fantastical hat — a job that will upend Andolosia's life.
At Sansone's Florentine palazzo, Andolosia stumbles upon the belligerent yet beguiling Carlotta Lux. Sansone has kidnapped Carlotta because she descends from the water nymph Daphne. Of course, Andolosia rescues her using Hermes’ hat. But instead of thanking him, Carlotta is livid. She was within inches of killing her captor.
Sansone is driven by a supernatural urge that compels him to catch her or die trying.
And now Andolosia and Carlotta can’t run far enough to escape him . . . or their fates.
Fate Accompli is Book 1 of The Water Nymph Gospels, a humorous work of mythic fiction honored as a 2021 Foreword INDIES Finalist in the humor category.
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Other Publications
Short Stories
The Ark (3rd Place, 2018 Bethesda Magazine Fiction Contest)
World War I enemies find a common bond during a battle with biblical consequences.
Non Compos Mentis, Stonecoast Review Issue 6 (2016) (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
A ghost has sued the estate of a deceased werewolf. Now a judge must settle the dispute.
Exodus, Running Wild Press Anthology of Stories, Vol. 1 (2017)
A Brooklyn transplant follows his beloved Dodgers to L.A. and then unexpectedly reunites with his boyhood crush.
Humor & Satire
Amazon Prime’s Dating Marketplace for the Socially Inept [beta] (Defenestration Magazine)
Sonny and Me: A Watermelon Picker’s Fond Missives to a Very Special Plutocrat (The Satirist)
A migrant farmworker thanks the federal government for allowing farms to pay workers in produce instead of cash.
Instagram Reels
Video shorts touching all things absurd and philosophical — a minute or less of pure stupidity that you will never get back.