Winner of the second-place award in Contemporary Fiction for the prestigious 2025 Digital Book Today Literary awards, and currently in development to be a major motion picture, the Down and out in Seattle and Tacoma book series showcases the best in gritty contemporary indie fiction with a punk rock and satirical take on mental health and drug addiction.

Charming but flawed Jack was never "right," but that's a lot of what made him magnetic to others. His decades-long deterioration is chronicled in painful detail with a mix of dark humor, tragedy, and brutal self-awareness that is unlike any book you've ever listened to.

Sharp, poetic, and deeply human, but not a feel-good story. It's an unforgettable gut punch that is absolutely unforgettable. Author Christopher J. Stockwell's existential and absurdist masterpiece shows you a Seattle that is a medically-prescribed nightmare. It mirrors the best aspects of the alcohol-induced blackout that is Charles Bukowski's LA, and the blue-faced overdose that is Irvine Welsh's Edinburgh.

The Complete Down and Out in Seattle and Tacoma Series takes you there and shows you the view you can only get from the gutter. Enjoy!

"A gritty, heartfelt journey through the recent past."—Kirkus Reviews

"With a more than healthy dose of humor, the author paints a depressing picture of what life could be."—Elizabeth Connor, Reedsy Discovery

"Drawing from his own experience with alcoholism, drug use, homelessness, and the counterculture, Stockwell takes the reader to places on the underside of society that few dare to tread as they follow Jack through the social services and criminal justice systems."—Reader's Entertainment Magazine

"Through Jack, Stockwell acquaints the reader with lonely souls living on Seattle's streets and shows areas people often don't acknowledge in their day-to-day lives: a psychiatric hospital; a camp of unhoused folks living under the bridge of a freeway; a crack den; and the county jail."—South Sound Magazine