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Awards Season! FURR! 90’s Karaoke!

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Hey kids! Do you like Primus? Wanna see me stick Nine-Inch Nails… Wait. Nevermind. 90’s Karaoke flashback.

Where was I? News!

Award season is in full effect, and I’ve got a couple of stories in for the Derringer Awards (Short Mystery Fiction Society) and the Arthur Ellis Awards (Crime Writers of Canada). It also looks like FURR made it’s way onto the Aurora ballot! (Canadian Science-Fiction and Fantasy Association).

So cross your fingers!

Unless you’re somebody who votes in those places, then use those fingers to vote… ahem… initial here… ahem…

I am still slowly muddling through the process of finishing up the HOT SINATRA stories collection UNO MOSS  (which email subscribers to the GotHow Crew will receive for FREE)

Then I’ll be working on edits for the single-book release of FURR sometime later this year from Tyche Books!

Of course, you can still get my weirdo werewolves in Twin Peaks-y modern Gothic fantasy fable FURR in the SPELLS & SPIRITS box set for a limited time.

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Right now it’s $1 on Amazon, Kobo and such! (And still #10 in Fantasy Anthologies!)I have it on authority that it may soon jump back to $2.99, so go git you some! Here’s a couple of recent comments on that bit of literary crazy-sauce:

“Man, that was one heck of a really good story. Dark, twisted, interesting.”


“Just finished FURR. Damn fine story. Now to see if there’s more…“

 

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RETURN OF THE BIG GIANT HEAD! Axel Howerton in POV Magazine!

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Who is that handsome motherfunker on the cover of this month’s Opal Publishing POV Magazine? Why, it’s the Return of the Big Giant Head!

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Click the pic, or go to http://www.opalpublishing.ca/ to read this month’s tremendous issue, full of writerly tips and tricks, and my Big Giant Head. And be sure to follow them on Twitter @OpalPublishing

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New reviews on #Furr – Get it while it’s HOT!

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Spells Spirits 200x300Two new reviews of the SPELLS & SPIRITS box set feature kindly words about my little modern gothic, werewolves-and-magicians tale #Furr !

“… Howerton hooks you in from the first page and never lets go, and not only because he concocted the perfect antihero to root for, but because he also brings you into a world so realistic that it hits quite close to home… rich storytelling with twists and turns that leave you breathless until you hit the last page… highly recommended for anyone who loves supernatural elements without annoying romance.” 5 STARS

“What do you get when you mix the twisted, the supernatural, ancient folklore, and the painfully real modern world? A crazy story that will make you wonder just what you got yourself into… Populated by a collection of characters you definitely want to have a drink with, but then hide in your basement while you count your fingers and toes afterward, this tale does not disappoint.” 5 STARS

ONLY available in the SPELLS & SPIRITS box set, and ONLY for a limited time. Pick it up now! 7 BOOKS FOR A BUCK!!!

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But What Are They Eating? #HotSinatra Edition

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I did a little guest post over on Shelley Workinger’s But What Are They Eating? blog (www.bookfare.blogspot.com)

It’s basically a rambling monologue from Mossimo Cole’s neighbour (Ooops. They live in L.A… Neighbor) all about Mossy’s favorite type of caffeinated beverage – which just so happens to be my own current brew of choice – the indomitable Flat White.

Go check that stuff out! And be sure to follow the blog. Also be sure to check out Shelley’s books in the SOLID series.

If you somehow stumbled onto this site and have absolutely no idea what the hell I’m rambling about, Mossimo Cole is the main schlub in my darkly funny (and Arthur Ellis Award-nominated) detective novel HOT SINATRA, which “reinvigorates the hardboiled genre” and is “filled with music and love and coffee and music and adventure and music and pain and hookers and drugs and I think there was a bit in there about a Frank Sinatra record…” It’s available all over hell’s half-acre, including Audible  audiobook! GET ON THE GOOD FOOT!

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