Axel Howerton is a former entertainment journalist, and the author of the Arthur Ellis Award nominated detective caper "Hot Sinatra", the modern gothic fairytale "Furr", and the forthcoming "Wolf & Devil" urban fantasy series. His work, including short stories, columns, poetry and essays, have appeared the world over, in no fewer than five languages. Axel is the Prairies director of the Crime Writers of Canada, and a member of the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, the Calgary Crime Writers, and the Kintsugi Poets. He is also the editor of the books "Death by Drive-In", "AB Negative", and "Tall Tales of the Weird West", and is the organizer behind one of Canada's first recurring "Noir At The Bar" events, #NoirBarYYC.
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My Vegas Zombiepocalypse novella Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy has been removed from Smashwords and affiliate sellers to try out on Amazon’s Kindle Select program, which means it is now available to “borrow” from the Amazon library, and will also occasionally be FREE at certain points over the next 90 days. It will be going FREE this Friday and Saturday as a celebratory introductory un-birthday extravaganza of death and destruction!!
Blood and Coffee. Cowboys and Zombies. Welcome to the Last Diner at the End of the World. The coffee’s hot and the ghoulish army of the undead isn’t due for a few more minutes. Take a load off, fill your cup and listen to the last story of how the world ends. Not with a whimper, nor a cry, but with the roar of white tigers and the blazing neon of the Vegas strip.
This one is 5-star rated, much ballyhooed and was a featured book on 5-Star Books last month. Get it now for a buck! Or pick it up FREE Friday and Saturday on Amazon. Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy
That’s right, the ass-kickinest anthology around, A Career Guide To Your Job In Hell is currently #2 in Kindle’s Anthology listings! It is also FREE for the next two days!
So, being that the resolutions thing never works out, I’m just going to throw down my Best Laid Plans…
#1 – Hot Sinatra – I’ve been sitting on this thing for more than a year. It must needs be finished and sent out into the world to live its life. April. That is my deadline. It will be done and out there by April 12, 2012. That means one last revision, a line edit, and sending it out for a pro-job. Then I need to finagle the lovelies at Eyecrave Productions into finalizing the cover before mid-March so I can have Hard Copy in hand by my birfday. Watch here for news on that front.
B – New Projects – Airborne Heroes in Chainmail Tights and O’ Sweet Nothin’ – I want to have the short story collection done by summah and the first draft of the novel finished by year-end. Mark it, Dude.
Tres’ – Short story submissions and Amazon/Smashword singles – I’ll admit, while LD@Z&R has been “critically acclaimed” and gotten nothing but raves from readers, it has made nary a damn cent. So unless a story really begs the treatment, I think I’ll put this stuff aside to focus on the big projects. That being said, if any of you pubbers out there need a little specialized action for an anthology or publication, give me a holler and I’ll see what I can do. I may bang out the Zombie Love Juice story just to get it out of my head and off my plate. If nothing else comes of that loosely-planned (and disturbingly silent) project, it will, at least, provide fodder for the collection.
(4) – Personal stuff – That’s personal goddammit! Suffice it to say, we should all appreciate the gifts we’ve stumbled upon and treat our loves with respect and fierce loyalty.
Cinco! – Coffin Hop! I am dedicated to continuing to make October’s Coffin Hop the preeminent web event for Indie authors. We are going to smash shit UP!
Sixthly – Get thee to an institute of Higher Learning, my lad. I will get myself back into some writing courses this year. I will! There is no end to what can be gleaned from our forebears, nor to what we can innovate and deliver unto the next generation.
Finale! – This place – I may be moving these digs to a “host” come Hot Sinatra season, so as to not violate any of wordpress’seses policies on using these sites to sell stuff. Being that I already domained and what-have-you, I would imagine this would be a seamless transition and offer the opportunity to tailor things to my own particular tastes and add a more professional flair to the selling of my wares.
As the pig is wont to say, “badee, badee, badee… That’s All Folks!”
Catch youse on the flip-side and I leave you with this inspirational ditty as we leave the damnable echoes of 2011 behind us and move on to greener pastures.
My Vegas Zombiepocalypse novella Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy has been removed from Smashwords and affiliate sellers to try out on Amazon’s Kindle Select program, which means it is now available to “borrow” from the Amazon library, and will also occasionally be FREE at certain points over the next 90 days. It will be going FREE this Friday and Saturday as a celebratory introductory un-birthday extravaganza of death and destruction!!
So, being that the resolutions thing never works out, I’m just going to throw down my Best Laid Plans…
Got How? 