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#NoirBarYYC coming August 12!

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NBYYC 500X185THE NEXT #NOIRBARYYC EVENT IS AUGUST 12, 2016

Hosted by Axel Howerton

Coffin Hop Press and Opal Publishing are proud to present the annual WHEN WORDS COLLIDE edition of  Calgary’s only official NOIR AT THE BAR event – #NoirBarYYC

Come on down and check out the Best of the West as crime fiction writers from around the world get to readin’, drinkin’ and raisin’ hell. Booze, bullets, broads and PRIZES! Criminal mischief and literary badassery from the best Crime Fiction Writers.

Sponsored in part by Chapters/Indigo/Coles, Vertigo Mystery Theatre, The Networking Web, and When Words Collide!

#NoirBarYYC
Friday August 12, 2016
9PM til Late

Boomtown Pub
Delta South Calgary
135 Southland Drive SE

Part of the WHEN WORDS COLLIDE convention

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#NOIRBARYYC is open to the public

You can also join our NoirBarYYC group on Facebook

And keep tabs on us by searching #NoirBarYYC on Twitter or FB

https://www.facebook.com/events/539110772966860/

Writing

Cover art! Airborne Heroes sneaky peek! Furr news!

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Yep! All kinds of news for you #AxelHow fans!

First up, a sneaky peek at the in-progress cover art for #AirborneHeroesinChainmailTights the collection of my weird and wild fiction coming later this year from Coffin Hop Press!

Art by the spectacular Chris Dow
AH sneak BC

Zombies, and white tigers, and cubicle monkeys with letter openers, oh my!

And in other news…

I just got word from Tyche Books that they’ve nailed down a cover artist for #Furr and I should have something to share with you all by this time next month!

And least, but also last,  I’m in the final death throes of finishing work on #UnoMoss – the mini-collection of #HotSinatra related tales, including a new Manlove & Kickerdick tale and a new, Christmas-in-the-seventies tale starring Moss Cole’s dear ol’ departed Pops hisself – Moe Rossi! If you want to get it early – AND FREE – go sign up for the GotHow Crew newsletter (You also get the exclusive Axel How’s HowDeeDoo mini-collection, just for signing up.)

 

Writing

How to Genre with #AxelHow – Coming soon!

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The good folks at Opal POV magazine (who did a lovely cover feature on me in December 2015) have invited me to write a new monthly column on genre and all things authorly. The first one, entitled “What the hell is Noir anyways?” will appear in the June 2016 issue, which you can sign up for at www.opalpublishing.ca

As you no doubt have come to expect from yours truly, this will be a truly serious and classy affair. No bullshit. As you can see from the advertising below, which is in now way sanctioned, approved or permitted by the good folks at Opal Publishing.  Now go sign up for your FREE copy before I figure out how to use that finger proper-like!

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