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Out today! A Very Merry Manlove & Kickerdick Xmess!

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Hey! My Christmas tale, A VERY MERRY MANLOVE & KICKERDICK XMESS is back out from Coffin Hop Press, with new author’s notes and what-have-you, and finally available on Kobo, and Smashwords in various formats (iBooks, etc to follow). Here’s the release from CHP. You can comment on that site for a chance to win a free copy, or you can tweet as listed below, and I also have a couple of copies for commenters on this very post. Enjoy!

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Coffin Hop Press is very happy to announce that we’ve just updated and rereleased
A VERY MERRY MANLOVE & KICKERDICK XMESS, by Axel Howerton. Featuring the new odd-couple of the millennium, Jurgen Kierkedoek and Artie Menlowe, better known as Manlove & Kickerdick! When the boys end up hired out to bodyguard an irascible senator and his spoiled son, they end up on a collision course with the Christmas Eve from hell!

If you loved Axel Howerton’s Arthur Ellis-Award finalist HOT SINATRA, you’ll want to keep up with the Bad Boys of Burbank in their latest misadventure! Links and more info below!

To celebrate, comment here for a chance to win a code for your own free copy! Or RT the following on Twitter! We have FIVE copies available to win. (And more for reviewers, hint hint…)

RT! New Release Day! ‘s A VERY MERRY MANLOVE & KICKERDICK XMAS! Available now from Press!

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A VERY MERRY MANLOVE & KICKERDICK X-MESS

Coffin Hop Press
  • ASIN: B00M8R0JWC
  • ISBN: 9780993605512

Ain’t no messin’ with these back-door Santas!

L.A. tough-guys-for-hire and openly gay odd-couple Artie Menlowe and Jurgen Kierkedoek set out on a Christmas Eve job driving for an easily enraged Senator and his curious teenaged son. It’s holiday hi-jinx, seasonal shenanigans and merriness run amok when two bad mammajammas like Manlove & Kickerdick get their festive feet to stompin’! It’s a Very Merry Manlove & Kickerdick X-Mess! From the author of Arthur Ellis Award-nominated HOT SINATRA.

““Axel Howerton is one of the best new crime fiction writers out there—hell, one of the best writers, period. Do yourself a favor and settle into Axel’s groove.” – Scott S. Phillips, Author of “Squirrel Eyes” and “Tales of Misery & Imagination,” and Writer/Director of “Stink of Flesh” and “Gimme Skelter”

Available now at:

Amazon

Kobo

Smashwords

You can also pick up the original Manlove & Kickerdick tale 999 PROBLEMS on Kindle, or get the one that started it all, HOT SINATRA now!!

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LET IT SNOW! Seasons Readings… FREE! ON Amazon and Google Play!

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LET IT SNOW: Season’s Readings for a Super-Cool Yule! is now available (and free) on Google Play.

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A Speculative Fiction holiday anthology, featuring:

Red Tash, Jack Wallen, Jessica McHugh, Axel Howerton, Tim Tash, Mercedes Yardley, Claudia Lefeve, Marian Allen, Connie Roberts-Huth, T. Lee Harris and more!

Features A Very Merry Manlove & Kickerdick Xmess by Axel Howerton

Also available on Amazon (ALSO FREE!) and most other online retailers in both eBook and Paperback!

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#CoffinHop 2014 wrap-up

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Hey kids,

Sorry for the lateness of my wrap-up post. You know how it is… Halloween comes around, the kids get lit on cookies n’ cream bars, little bags of cheezies and full-size Coffee Crisp… next thing you know it’s up-all-night, barfin’-on-the-credenza, sleepin’-it-off-until-noon, and then another day long fight to keep the candy feed-bag hidden until their pancrease start functioning again. It’s a vicious fucking circle, folks.

In any case, another #CoffinHop has come to a close, hopefully with a few new fans, a bunch of new friends, and a throbbing headache the size of Baltimore about to subside just in time for winter to set in and the snow to bury us all for the nonce.

A million thanks to our most excellent participants, my glorious friends and supportive family, and all of you wonderful readers, creeprs and hoppers, for whom we throw this shindig every year. Again, special thanks to R.L.  Treadway of atrtink.com and the omnipotent Nina D’Arcangela for all of their help in keeping the train on the rails. NOW, without further adieu… here are the winners on AxelHow.com:

DEAD POETRY JAM WINNERS: (each winner will receive one of the listed eBook prizes – to be emailed later this week)
Johanna Pitcairn
Gigi’s Rants and Raves
R.L. Treadway
Jan Hersh
Ash Krafton

Kim Koning
R.L. Livesay

Coffin Hop:Death By Drive-In eBook (AxelHow.com)
Hayley Scully

Coffin Hop:Death By Drive-In Trade Paperback (CoffinHop Press)
@wagthefox

Mystery Swag Bag:
A.F. Stewart

I will be emailing all of the winners early next week. Thanks again for visiting http://www.axelhow.com , for Hopping with us, and for participating in our contests and fun! Stay tuned for more news on new Axel Howerton projects soon, and subscribe to our NEWSLETTER to stay up on all of the latest, as it happens!

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#CoffinHop Finale begins… HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The eeeeevil of the Thriller

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Be sure to enter to win – today is the last day on the #CoffinHop Dead Poetry Slam, as well as the last chance to enter your comments to win the Mystery Swag Bag including an autographed copy of HOT SINATRA.

You can also still enter the Coffin Hop Press contest, a Rafflecopter giveaway to win a copy of COFFIN HOP: DEATH BY DRIVE-IN

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And be sure to visit WWW.COFFINHOP.COM to check out the full participant list and get to all of their contests and giveaways as well!

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As an extra special Halloween treat! The spectacular Red Tash has some news and deals! A NEW WIZARD STORY! If you haven’t read any of these, get the hell on it, they are wonderful and hilarious.

 

THE HERMIT is live and ready for purchase!

 

TROLL OR PARK the pre-order button is live, and this long-awaited sequel to TROLL OR DERBY is available now for $.99!!!

TROLL OR DERBY is also $.99 for the holiday.  This book is one of the best and funniest Urban Fantasy books I’ve ever read. PICK IT UP FOR A BUCK, SUCKER!

So is THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS.  TBD is one of the most brilliant debuts in the history of Indie Fiction. Deep, troubling, touching, harrowing and absolutely can’t-put-it-down readable.

These prices will not last, so if you’ve wanted to read these books, now is the time. They also make great gifts!