rock gods & Messy Monsters | Fallen Spirits | The Light of Wounds | the journey home

The Mind Monsters Series is a genre-bending journey that blends absurdist satire, surreal fiction, and hard-won emotional truth. Following Alex, a woman whose hair shifts color with her every feeling, across four volumes, the series follows one ordinary person’s extraordinary quest to find happiness, reclaim her identity, and face the monsters that live both in the world around her and deep within herself.

The series opens in Rock Gods & Messy Monsters with Alex navigating the surreal chaos of an alien-owned record company in the 1990s, and it doesn’t slow down from there. Through inter-dimensional spirits, cross-country car chases, billionaire tyrants, and a dark force that feeds on shame and self-doubt, each book peels back another layer of Alex’s psyche and the absurdity of the world she inhabits. Hatz writes with the wry, winking energy of Terry Pratchett and Kurt Vonnegut, wrapping sharp social commentary on corporate culture, power, trauma, and the human need for connection inside a story that is genuinely funny, surprising, and at times deeply moving.

The Mind Monsters Series has earned an Eric Hoffer Award, a #1 Amazon Hot New Release designation in Absurdist Fiction, and praise from Kirkus, the US Review of Books, and the Independent Book Review, among others. Whether you’re drawn to absurdist comedy, surreal fiction, or stories about women refusing to give up on themselves, this is a series that rewards readers who like their adventure with a side of soul.