K.S. Haddock, a graduate of the University of California (B.A. Psychology), is the author of the Gen-X noir novel The Patricidal Bedside Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). He is an active member of the San Francisco arts community, garnering three Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival Awards for Thanatics, A Rock Opera (2006), a musical adaptation of Sartre’s No Exit, entitled Hell, The Musical (2009), and his alternate-universe musical, Hitler in the Green Room (2017). From 2011-2019, he played with the metal-grass band, The Gravel Spreaders. From 2022-24, he directed the Cheapside Music Hall, the headlining stage show at San Francisco’s much beloved Dickens Christmas Fair. K.S. is married with children and resides in San Francisco. He makes his living as an Art Director for Industrial Light and Magic / LucasFilm.

“Haddock creates a truly unique premise and somehow pulls it off. The story balances hilarity with heart, ending in a satisfying showdown. . . . A story that readers will have trouble putting down.” — Publishers Weekly/Booklife“An engaging and amusingly crude must-read.” — Kirkus Reviews"Imagine My Surprise! is a novel that will make you laugh, wonder, and break your heart. It's a kind of Look Who's Talking meets Pulp Fiction written with the finely-tuned style of a virtuoso novelist."  — Wes Brown, author of Breaking Kayfabe: A Novel“Imagine My Surprise! is hard to put down, and it entertainingly pushes the crime genre to new possibilities. Mr. Haddock has written an edgy morality tale, a surreal existential crime novel that fuses comedy and tragedy in a surprisingly delightful way." — Jeffrey Weissman, Writer/Actor/Director

K.S. Haddock, a graduate of the University of California (B.A. Psychology), is the author of the Gen-X noir novel The Patricidal Bedside Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). He is an active member of the San Francisco arts community, garnering three Best of the San Francisco Fringe Festival Awards for Thanatics, A Rock Opera (2006), a musical adaptation of Sartre’s No Exit, entitled Hell, The Musical (2009), and his alternate-universe musical, Hitler in the Green Room (2017). From 2011-2019, he played with the metal-grass band, The Gravel Spreaders. From 2022-24, he directed the Cheapside Music Hall, the headlining stage show at San Francisco’s much beloved Dickens Christmas Fair. K.S. is married with children and resides in San Francisco. He makes his living as an Art Director for Industrial Light and Magic / LucasFilm.

“Haddock creates a truly unique premise and somehow pulls it off. The story balances hilarity with heart, ending in a satisfying showdown. . . . A story that readers will have trouble putting down.” — Publishers Weekly/Booklife“An engaging and amusingly crude must-read.” — Kirkus Reviews"Imagine My Surprise! is a novel that will make you laugh, wonder, and break your heart. It's a kind of Look Who's Talking meets Pulp Fiction written with the finely-tuned style of a virtuoso novelist."  — Wes Brown, author of Breaking Kayfabe: A Novel“Imagine My Surprise! is hard to put down, and it entertainingly pushes the crime genre to new possibilities. Mr. Haddock has written an edgy morality tale, a surreal existential crime novel that fuses comedy and tragedy in a surprisingly delightful way." — Jeffrey Weissman, Writer/Actor/Director