Synopses & Reviews
What do you do when love goes wrong? If you're Tomato "Mad Dog" Rodriguez, the reigning queen of motorcycle-riding, bicoastal bisexuals, you do every wrong thing there is to do. What starts out as a low-rent revenge complete with whipped cream, Bic ballpoints, and a two-by-four turns into a murder charge. Before Tomato knows what's happening, she's locked away in the Big House with all the rest of the bad, bad, bad girls, hoping Ilsa the Wicked Warden will think she's too crazy to be convicted on a murder charge. They Call Me Mad Dog is a cross between Caged Heat and The Women, a wild and wonderfully hilarious search for the meaning of life and a place to put the cat box.
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Bethany Schneider
OutMagazine
Strap it on girls, and I mean your seat belts. Tomato's adventures in and out of the big house are grosser and sexier than you can imagine.
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Michael Thomas Ford
Philadelphia Gay News
Beneath the masterful use of language, sly pop culture references, and schizophrenic stream-of-consciousness style, she takes on some serious sacred cows of queer life.
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Carol Queen
Lambda Book Report
A side-splitting romp through queer and pop culture, a campy free-for-all that dances on the graves of the big literary themes: love, betrayal, freedom, free will.
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Connie Smith
Free Lance Star
Courageous as well as outrageous. And for an adventurous reader, this style may well even be contagious.
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Ricardo Ortiz
Advocate
Lopez gives great text....Her narrative voice is one of the sharpest you'll find among the hybrid arts at our cultural borderlands.
Synopsis
What do you do when love goes wrong? If you're Tomato "Mad Dog" Rodriguez, the reigning queen of motorcycle-riding, bicoastal bisexuals, you do every wrong thing there is to do. What starts out as a low-rent revenge complete with whipped cream, Bic ballpoints, and a two-by-four turns into a murder charge. Before Tomato knows what's happening, she's locked away in the Big House with all the rest of the bad, bad, bad girls, hoping Ilsa the Wicked Warden will think she's too crazy to be convicted on a murder charge.
They Call Me Mad Dog is a cross between
Caged Heat and
The Women, a wild and wonderfully hilarious search for the meaning of life and a place to put the cat box.
About the Author
Erika Lopez is a dame with a dirty bike and a dirty mind who's been scarin' her mom with obscene cartoons ever since she learned phonics in kindergarten. The collection of her dirty cartoons is entitled
Lap Dancing for Mommy. Her first novel was
Flaming Iguanas, and her most recent is
Hoochie Mama: The Other White Meat. She lives in San Francisco. You can visit her at www.erikalopez.com