Political Satire/Fiction
Date Published: October 28th, 2025
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
The battle pits cereal titan Todd Swindell, head of Flakes Alive Incorporated, against Chad Scandalman of the Great American Flake Company. When Scandalman hires a diminutive assassin named Twinkle to bump off his rival’s top chemist, it sparks a war of the flakes that makes the bloody feud of York and Lancaster look tame by comparison.
But not everyone in the Cornflake capital of Domino, Indiana, is happy with the status quo. Ziggie Wexler, an unemployed pipefitter and all-around average Joe, knows that something is deeply wrong with his country.
All history prior to 2040 has been banned, but old-timers whisper about the days when people still voted for their leaders. After Ziggie posts fiery polemics against the state to the Clandestine Journal, he becomes a marked man. But in a world built on lies, there’s one truth he’s sure of. Somebody needs to fight back.
Interview with James Owens
What is your favorite part of the book?
Where Annie De Luca discovers the No-Sog, stay-crisp flake formula and, sexually amped, jumps her boyfriend.
Does your book have a lesson? Moral?
Recover your democracy, or pay with your life.
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
I try to invent characters, but, along the way, they seem to adopt attributes of real people I have met throughout life.
Of all the characters you have created, which is your favorite and why?
Ziggie Wexler, the protagonist, because he gives up his lifestyle to disseminate truth, and, ultimately gives up his life.
What character in your book are you least likely to get along with?
The CEOs Chad Scandalman and Todd Swindell. Their only cares are money and the upward thrust of the corporation.
What would the main character in your book have to say about you?
Dude, you’re a little weird but I love ya!
Do you want each book to stand on its own, or are you trying to build a body of work with connections between each book?
I want the book to stand on its own, but one figure, Ghant Wackersham, the last of the US Presidents, does sneak in from my previous book, Pods of Bubbledumb: A Study in Mass Depravity.
About the Author
Immensely curious about human behavior, James spent the 1970s hanging out on the streets to observe people, many of whom became inspirations for his fictional characters. Later, he worked in cube farms at conservative insurance companies, where the idiosyncrasies of corporate personalities sparked his imagination.
James has spent the last decade reading and writing offbeat fiction about bizarre protagonists. Corporate Almighty: 2098, a dystopian tale about the rise of the corporation and the fall of democracy, follows his first two novels, Animal Candy and Pods of Bubbledumb: A Study in Mass Depravity.
Born and raised in an industrial suburb on the south edge of Chicago, James lives with his wife Sue and four cats in Evansville, Indiana.
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