33 books · Written in the Adirondacks
Stories with scars, laughs, heart, and a pulse.
Campfire humor, rock-and-roll memoirs, Adirondack adventures, thrillers, and honest novels about starting over after fifty. Written by a punk kid turned concert lifer who's still here. Find the one that's yours.
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46 in 64 or Die Trying
Buffalo, 1964. Six thirteen-year-old friends promise to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks before summer ends. They have surplus packs, church shoes, a compass, forged permission, almost no money, and no idea what the mountains will demand. Storms, hunger, injuries, and dangerous decisions test Danny, Mikey, Penny, Charlie, Meg, and Artie. At the heart of their adventure is Danny’s grandfather’s map: forty-five old checkmarks and one unfinished mountain. A coming-of-age novel about friendship, courage, and the promise that nobody gets left behind.
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Boomer Gone Wild
The Day Retirement Got Real
Ninety Miles from Everything
The Online Store Trap
The 41st Trick
The Mercy Debt
The Last Full Tank
The Catalog
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The brand-new Boomer Gone Wild 2nd Edition trailer: shit, Sasquatch, spiritual hangovers, one rusty VW bus and one vintage Airstream. Tap play, turn the sound up, then come find the one that's yours.
He's back, and he brought the whiskey. A grizzled boomer, a vintage Airstream and one rusty VW bus head into the Adirondacks: trash-stealing bears, campfire lies, something big in the trees, and a whole lot of heart. Tap play for sound.
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Zen Stones
Why the name has stones in it.
Every Adirondack trail is marked by cairns — little stacks of stones left by someone who came before, telling you you're still on the path. That's what these books are meant to be.
“You don't have to have it figured out. You just have to stack the next stone.”
- Honest, not polished. Profanity, grief, and laughter all sit at the same campfire.
- Rooted in place. Lake Pleasant, Boonville, Twin Sisters Lake — real places, real dirt.
- Built for the second act. Stories about who you become after the job, the marriage, the band.
Audiobooks for Boomers
Ears blown out by Van Halen, AC/DC and NASCAR? Listen instead.
PhishStones audiobooks are on the way.
Our ears took a beating in the '70s and '80s. Our vanity won't wear readers. So we listen.
Clear narration, a sensible pace, and stories worth the porch time. Start with three minutes of Mick Chihuahua & the 39-Peso Dream — two tiny brothers, thirty-nine pesos, and one impossible road north.
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None of these audiobook editions are available yet. The free sample above is the only PhishStones audio you can hear today.
About PhishStones
Punk kid. Concert lifer. Still here.
PhishStones is an independent author and creator who writes without staying inside the lines. His books move through humor, heartbreak, friendship, survival, dogs, second chances, outrageous true-life stories, and the strange turns that make a life worth writing about.
Through PhishStonesBooks.com, he has built a growing collection of books with one rule at the center of it all: tell the story with personality and make it worth the reader’s time.
From The 41st Trick and The Mercy Debt to Friends After Fifty, Mick Chihuahua & the 39-Peso Dream, 46 in ’64 or Die Trying, and the evolving Still Here project, PhishStones writes in a voice that is raw, funny, personal, and unmistakably his own.
He isn’t interested in sounding like everybody else.
These are stories with scars, laughs, heart, and a pulse.
PhishStonesBooks.com — Life gave him stories. He decided to publish them.
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Raw & Unfiltered
- Outlaw. Hippie. Still free.
- No rules. No masters. No apologies.
- Camp like a savage.
- Same. Weirder. Wiser.
Stories with humor, heart, and an unfiltered soul.
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