Awesome artiste, and Friend-Of-Axel, Nik Siezure (or Nic Caesar, or Nicky, or Big Poppa, or whatever you want to call His Majesty of the Dark Cartoon Arts), creator of Mosquito & Spider and official Coffin Hop artist, is offering his incredible line art at a TWO FOR ONE deal on Hyaena Gallery online http://www.hyaenagallery.com/scaryart.html

Here’s Nicky’s take on Yours Truly summoning the mighty Cthulhu:

Fucking BOSS, right? I know, kid.

PICK UP SOME ART!
Then head over to the Head Fred’s and see how RED TASH throws a Fight Club party. Cuz there ain’t no fight club party like a Red Tash Author Fight Club Party… This week? The Long Island Love Hammer of Uncle Walt Whitman brings the poetic thunder against The Dickensian Destroyer, Sir Charles himself! #AUTHORFIGHTCLUB 4.0

That really sounds like a whole lotta phallus for your click.

So I’m almost done my initial revisions before we start the line edits on HOT SINATRA, heading ever forward towards that December finish and January launch date (January 15, from Evolved Publishing, if you haven’t heard!)

Also, Red Tash swears she’ll be posting my picks for Author Fight Club today. Previous skirmishes have included Hunter S. Thompson vs. Dorothy Parker and her table of miscreants, and Gaimen vs Tolkein. This week she has my fight picks heading the card, with Master Chuck Dickens, the London Scrapper, taking on “Uncle Walt”, The Body Electric, Walt Whitman! Sure to be a rope-a-dope-doozy!

And since we’re on the subject of kicking ass and HOT SINATRA. Check out something from the inspirato vaults. Fun Fact: Cake’s album Fashion Nugget was in heavy rotation on the CD player during afternoon commute when I first daydreamed the genesis of what would become HOT SINATRA. Most of the songs from that record made their way into the unofficial S/T in my brain. Cake also probably contributed to the choice of Sunny El Lay as the prime location, what with the SoCal vibes and Mexi-Cali trumpets.

Stay tuned for more tidbits as I put the nose to the grindstone to polish up this masterpiece And get your eyeballs on the first three exciting (and non-finalized) chapters of HOT SINATRA on WATTPAD, while supplies last!

So here’s the final cover for my upcoming crime-comedy-noir novel HOT SINATRA, which will be released Janury 15, 2013 by the good folks at Evolved Publishing.

The cover, by the amazing Shane McDonald of Eye Crave Productions has already been commended as being Saul Bass-ish. With which I wholeheartedly agree. It is bad-ass, indeed!

My new BIO and new headshot, by the most excellent Liz Howerton Photography, are also online on the Evolved site, with a dedicated page for the book coming soon. Now to plow through the next three months of hardcore editing and polishing to make it pretty as can be.

And don’t forget, if you wanna be a BOSS, you can catch the first three (non-finalized) chapters of HOT SINATRA on Wattpad and you can find my Axel Howerton “mini-sampler” featuring 4 previously published stories on Amazon (for a buck!) and Smashwords (for FREE!) You can also visit my Amazon Author page for other treats like A CAREER GUIDE TO YOUR JOB IN HELL (,Also featuring stories by Victor Milan, Nathan Long and TWO Scotts Phillipses) and the Official Screenplay of Scott Phillips’ GIMME SKELTER (featuring interviews I conducted for ECN)

The lovely kids over at Last Writes were swell enough to let me participate in this months festivities for their annual Stephen King Month which has featured articles and reviews by the likes of Craig Garrett, C.W. LaSart, The McHugh, Jennifer Word, Kurt Reichenbaugh and Joe McKinney.

My “review” is more of a flash-from-the-past – a little bit mem-wah, a little bit ramble, but all Axel.

Check it the funk out! Do it for Big Steve!

http://www.lastwritesdmd.com/sneakers-reviewed-by-axel-howerton/

And then check out the rest of the amazing reviews and articles available on Last Writes

Also, give some love to Steely Dan for the greatest song ever written about Bad Sneakers…