PEPPERONI POWERHOUSE
a Pizza Boyzz legend
a pizza-themed gang corrupts the lives of three teenagers, part 1
BEING A TEENAGER IS HARD ENOUGH WITHOUT THE CITY TRYING TO KILL YOU
TJ, Nick, and Noa are best friends on the precipice. TJ yearns to join the world's biggest gang, the Pizza Boyzz. Noa seeks a purpose in life, disillusioned by what she "should" do. Nick just wants to hang out with his friends and eat snacks.
But everything changes when TJ starts making headway with the Pizza Boyzz. Nick tags along as the boys steal cars, instigate riots, and battle new rivals in the city streets. Meanwhile, Noa discovers a loose alliance of hidden mages, their war for the spirit realm raging in plain sight—and finds a diabolical purpose that's more than she bargained for.
HIGHEST EARNER, BOYZZ CLUB OF BELLEVUE ROUST-A-BOUT 2023
A SHIH TZU FANCY QUARTERLY BEST BOOK OF 2023
A WIZARDMAGIK.COM BEST BOOK OF 2023
SELECTED PRAISE:
"Pepperoni Powerhouse is an exceptionally funny, riveting story. The dialogue made me laugh more than most things I've read."
-TJ Altieri, author of Lowside Symphony, Controlling Interest, and Foundations
"It's The Warriors in Hogwarts! I frickin' loved it, the kind of book that keeps on giving. Couldn't put it down."
-Zia Wolf, All The Books of Babylon
"To the right reader, Sawan is a shaman. His observational prowess makes his bizarre worlds realer than real."
-Fiction on Fleek
"It's a truly Millennial tale: an old Cadillac painted like a box of Apple Jacks; pizza slang(!?); unending riots, ghosts, magic—the book should come with a bottle of Adderall."
-Cooper Montgomery, author of Don't Touch That
"I would recommend this book to anyone. TJ, Nick, and Noa are such a trinity of protagonists, real people on paper. I saw myself in all of them."
-Adrian Basel, @adrian-b-books