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DEATH BY DRIVE-IN now available!

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Just in time for #CoffinHop (which starts on Thursday, don’t forget)

I just found this on the Amazons:

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DOZENS of amazing stories from the likes of Jessica McHugh, Dan Dillard, Pavarti K. Tyler and many many more of our great Coffin Hoppers.

Go get your copies now! KINDLE and PAPERBACK with all proceeds going to our friends at www.litworld.org

NOW LIVE ON SMASHWORDS!

Also available as of five minutes ago… This lovely little piece of horror antho from #CoffinHop ‘s own Katie John, and featuring dark poetry from yours truly, and a story from ol’ big sis Red Tash – NIGHT SHADE: VOLUME 1

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Now, housecleaning-wise, Scotty Phillips is unavailable for Saturday night’s scheduled movie time, which makes THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER just that little bit less appealing. In the hopes of making things a little more accessible to all of my tweeps, I’m switching up to a drunk-and-on-drugs-super-happy-fun-time viewing of BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW, which is readily available on the Netflix. 10PM (MST) this Saturday night. @AxelHow for all the 80’s retro-sci-fi-mindfuck-bizarro glory you can handle.

Also, don’t forget about the CH Art Show right here on http://www.axelhowerton.com . I’ll be taking submissions from the 24th to the 30th at axelhow@gmail.com, just e-me a photo of your creations… sculptures, paintings, doily-weaving, crayon-on-napkin-murals, burned-toast-Leatherfaces… whatever, man. Winner gets a painting and a book!

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Interviews for Coffin Hop? Death By Drive-In ARCs?

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Axel bwI am now making a schedule for anyone who may want to conduct interviews: to talk about #CoffinHop, the Death By Drive-In antho, LitWorld, or anything else under the black sun of All Hallow’s Week.

I don’t bite. Often.

 

And the ARC (advanced review copies) of DEATH BY DRIVE-IN will be available later today!

If you are a reviewer, blerger, blogger, bungler or even a Bumble, drop me a line and let’s set something up to appear between Oct 24 and 31!

axelhow@gmail.com

 

 

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Coffin Hop Art Show! Axel Howerton Coffin Hop Sched!

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So the Big To-Do starts in two weeks and I thought I’d give y’all a heads-up…

I want to throw an art show for the #CoffinHop

So get to work on your brightest, boldest and bad-assinest  objet d’art and get ready to submit it to my #CoffinHop gallery right here on AxelHowerton.com, I will provide the email addy for submission on the 24th.

Any kind of art, sculpture, fingerpaint, oils, acrylics, peanut-butter jelly on toast… doesn’t matter. I’ll make a gallery for the pics of all of your masterpieces and we will take votes-by-comment. The winner gets an original Axel Howerton acrylic-on-canvass of themselves transformed into some horroriffic legend.  Maybe you’re a Norman-in-Drag, a Frankenstein’s Manservant, or a hunchbacked Igor with a high heel fetish…

The winner of the art contest will also receive an autographed copy of DEATH BY DRIVE-IN (signed only by me, but whatchagonnado? Gorram expensive postal service, right?)

Also receiving an autographed copy of DBD, as well as a horde of other Axel Howerton books and swaggarillo will be the Best Hopper of the Week (visitor) on my site, as chosen by ME. There will also be a BEST IN HOP prize, including the 2013 Reaper Award for the Most Excellent Hopper (member). Previous winners include Red Tash and Julie Jansen.

Here’s some other highlights I have planned for AxelHowerton.com (subject to change, substitution and food-poisoning related dietary restriction) :

Oct 24 – Announcing CH2013, Death By Drive-In and the CH Art Show

Oct 25 – Some kind of shenanigans involving the giveaway of (2) sets of Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy and Career Guide to Your Job in Hell ebooks

Oct 26 – Movie Day! This years live-tweet monstrosity? The legend that is The Crow: Wicked Prayer! Mayhaps with extra Scott Phillips and guest Ramone!

Oct 27 – Poetry on the Fly! You show me yours and I’ll show you mine. Let It Snow and Clones Fairies and Monsters in the Closet giveaways

Oct 28 – Hot Sinatra, Deconstructing Moss and a new Moss Cole story?!

Oct 29 – TBD, Maybe a whole new horror short story?

Oct 30 – Devil’s Night! Who is Doktor Gravotronik?

Oct 31 – The Big NIght. Somebody wins an entire Axel Howerton e-library!!!

Nov 1 – Wrap-up and Art Show / GP Winners – 2013 Reaper Award Winner announcement!

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STAND UP FOR GIRLS Today! with @litworldsays

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tso1_500Our pals at LitWorld.Org are asking you to STAND UP FOR GIRLS!  Today at noon, wherever you are, whatever you may be doing and show respect for women, education and literacy the world over.

In the immortal words of the bard Tupac:

I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, ’cause if we don’t we’ll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies…

 
Stand Up at noon for the woman or girl who inspires you.
Stand Up for the 66 million girls around the world who are out of school.
Stand Up for all the girls in our LitClubs who so hunger to read and write.
Wherever you are, rally your community, in person and online, and stand up together for your global sisters.
Stand Up because recognizing that everyone in the world has a story is how peace begins.