MIKE TRIGGS
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Great News!

Less than one month from our launch date, "You Can't Make This $#!+ Up!"
was #3 on Amazon's list of "Best Selling LGBTQ+ Humorous Fiction".   


You Can’t Make This $#!+ Up!

This can’t be happening! Mike Triggs had spent most of his life in politics, primarily working for the Republican Party. In fact, he was considered a political golden boy until his career is forever tarnished. While managing a governor’s re-election campaign, a right-wing opposing candidate unceremoniously OUTs him and he quickly spirals from the top echelons of the GOP to selling underwear at a high-end department store in Sheboygan, WI. Seriously!

Going from his comfortable closet to the retail world, Mike never expected the crazy drama he would encounter. From hoity-toity Sheboygan shoppers to crafty shoplifters, religious fanatics, screaming kids, racists, entitled “Karens,” and drag queens to an evil store manager and her slimy sidekick, a co-worker who thinks she’s an African queen and vicious coworkers scrapping over a whopping 1% commission - you just can’t make this $#!+ up! And Mike takes it all on with satiric flair while revealing his struggle with coming out, coping with the aftermath of the AIDs epidemic and finding true friends in unlikely places.
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Based on true experiences, You Can’t Make This $#!+ Up! is just as laugh-out-loud fun as it is undeniably heartwarming.
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Meet Mike

Prior to working for the Nordstrom and Von Maur department stores and a men’s boutique at the Phoenician Resort, Mike Triggs was a policy analyst for the Iowa and Wisconsin legislatures, worked for two governors and a secretary of state, and was a political appointee in the administration of former President George H. W. Bush and the executive director of the Minnesota Republican Party. He’s been a freelance writer and his guest opinions have appeared in newspapers throughout Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Arizona.

After his experiences with the Republican Party, he became an LGBT and Democrat Party activist and was one of Pete Buttigieg’s early supporters in the Iowa Caucuses. For six years, he published a children’s newsletter, Letters from Trigsey. Children from 39 states and seven countries received a monthly letter from his imaginary dachshund. Trigsey’s tales have now expanded into a weekend radio show on Kid’s Radio Mania on KDPS-FM in Des Moines, Iowa. Mike currently lives in West Des Moines with his husband, Rick, and their dog, Rhys.
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Here's what people are saying about the book:

"Mike Triggs' musings on human foibles resonates with all readers.
Take time for a rib tickling romp thanks to Triggs and his writing allure."
John Busbee - The Culture Buzz, KFMG-FM

"The book is brilliantly written! Stop reading my review, and start reading this book!"
Amazon Reviewer

"Mike Triggs must be a magnet for the oddest collection of shoppers
any high end de
partment store has ever seen.  The book is a unique
mix of true stories from the world of politics and retail."  
Scott Jensen, Former Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly




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 Media Features
(Click to read or listen)
Gay Life After 40 - Interview  -  February 2, 2023   
Interview on Michael Libbie's Insight on Business Podcast  -  February 24, 2023

Guest on Dan Bolin's The Courage to be Courageous Podcast - April 18, 2023​
Guest of Julie Gammack's Iowa Potluck Podcast - April 23, 2023

 
 
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Upcoming Events 

October 1, 2023 - Windsor Heights Book Fair - Windsor Heights, IA 
November 4, 2023 - 8th Annual Indie Author Book Expo, Iowa State Fairgrounds



Previous Appearances
WCPT - Chicago's Progressive Talk Radio - Interview with Turi Ryder
Insight on Business Podcast, Interview with Michael Libbie
KVFD Radio - Fort Dodge, Iowa - Interview with  James Devine
KFMG Radio - Des Moines, IA - Interview with John Busbee
Beaverdale Books, Des Moines, Iowa - Reading/Book Signing
Courage to be Courageous Podcast - Phoenix AZ
Iowa Potluck Podcast - Panel Discussion
Laurens Public 
Library, Laurens, IA -Reading/Book Signing


 
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Tales from Trigsey

Mike Triggs is also the creator of Tales from Trigsey, a weekly radio show that 
appears on Kids Radio Mania on radio station KDPS-FM in Des Moines, IA.  
Click here to listen to recent Tales from Trigsey episodes 


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