So here’s the final cover for my upcoming crime-comedy-noir novel HOT SINATRA, which will be released Janury 15, 2013 by the good folks at Evolved Publishing.

The cover, by the amazing Shane McDonald of Eye Crave Productions has already been commended as being Saul Bass-ish. With which I wholeheartedly agree. It is bad-ass, indeed!

My new BIO and new headshot, by the most excellent Liz Howerton Photography, are also online on the Evolved site, with a dedicated page for the book coming soon. Now to plow through the next three months of hardcore editing and polishing to make it pretty as can be.

And don’t forget, if you wanna be a BOSS, you can catch the first three (non-finalized) chapters of HOT SINATRA on Wattpad and you can find my Axel Howerton “mini-sampler” featuring 4 previously published stories on Amazon (for a buck!) and Smashwords (for FREE!) You can also visit my Amazon Author page for other treats like A CAREER GUIDE TO YOUR JOB IN HELL (,Also featuring stories by Victor Milan, Nathan Long and TWO Scotts Phillipses) and the Official Screenplay of Scott Phillips’ GIMME SKELTER (featuring interviews I conducted for ECN)

The lovely kids over at Last Writes were swell enough to let me participate in this months festivities for their annual Stephen King Month which has featured articles and reviews by the likes of Craig Garrett, C.W. LaSart, The McHugh, Jennifer Word, Kurt Reichenbaugh and Joe McKinney.

My “review” is more of a flash-from-the-past – a little bit mem-wah, a little bit ramble, but all Axel.

Check it the funk out! Do it for Big Steve!

http://www.lastwritesdmd.com/sneakers-reviewed-by-axel-howerton/

And then check out the rest of the amazing reviews and articles available on Last Writes

Also, give some love to Steely Dan for the greatest song ever written about Bad Sneakers…

My ol’ pal Scottdammit, Devil of the Dust, Master of the City of Sin, has put up another little nugget on Wattpad… a little something we worked together on back in the day. Imagine, if you will, Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn facing their mortal end, having been ushered into the hereafter by a snarling Tom Waits in a crusty Komedy Kafe’ mens room…

Check it out: HELLWAY TO HIGH

Also featuring appearances by Lemmy and a pre-Better Butter Bacon Burger Henry Rollins!

Then be sure to check out his amazing homage I AM CHUCK PALAHNIUK’S INNER EAR, one of my all-time favorite short stories, by anyone, anywhere, EVER.

And keep in mind, we first wrote this back in ought-five or so, long before Waits played ol’ scratch in Terry Gilliam’s Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus… We were groundbreakers, I tells ya! Groundbreakers!