I recently appeared on Josh Pantalleresco’s JUST JOSHING for his special 100th episode celebration, and I was honored to share the mic with my Coffin Hop Press amigo Robert Bose, whose short story collection FISHING WITH THE DEVIL is coming out at the same time as CON MORTE. You can get a little preview of both during this podcast, as well as some of the in’s and out’s of publishing and writing. This episode also features the immensely talented Vanessa Cardui.  CHECK IT!

JUST JOSHING #100 – PODOMATIC

JUST JOSHING # 100 – iTUNES

JUST JOSHING #100 – PLAYER FM

I was also just interviewed by Aurora Award Nominated author Ace Jordyn for The Fictorians, an awesome blog about writing and publishing. Check that out HERE.

LIVE! At the Alexandra Writers Centre Society

A special summer series of genre-specific writing courses taught by Publisher, Editor, genre columnist, and Author Axel Howerton
(The Arthur Ellis Award Nominated Hot Sinatra; the modern gothic fairytale Furr; this summer’s noir thriller Con Morte; and the upcoming Wolf & Devil series)

REGISTER NOW! Limited space (only 10 seats available for each class)

Alexandra Writers Centre
cSpace King Edward
#460 – 1721 29 Avenue SW
Calgary, AB
403.264.4730
info@alexandrawriters.org
www.alexandrawriters.org

Urban Fantasy and Magical Realism

July 19, 2017        7-10pm

Take a closer look at the history and mechanics of one of the most prevalent subgenres of today. Vampires, and Witches and Ghouls, Oh My!

Gothic Horror

July 26, 2017        7-10pm

The history and traditions of Gothic Horror explored, exposed and explained. From Shelley to Poe, and Lovecraft to Gaiman.

Noir & Hardboiled

August 9, 2017     7-10pm

A one-night primer on the history, tropes and stylistic ins and outs of writing Noir and Hardboiled fiction.

Laughs, Thrills, Cool Cats and Literary Badassery

August 19, 2017   10am-3:30pm

A full-day workshop. How to infuse your work with danger, excitement, memorable characters… and just the right amount of levity.

Sherlockian Shenanigans

August 23, 2017   7-10pm

How the Victorian era’s great detective became today’s biggest cultural phenomena. An examination of Public Domain characters, how to write them, and where to get your stories published.

www.alexandrawriters.org

Those amazing bastards at Coffin Hop Press have just announced their new line of dark crime (and probably blackest of comedy) and noir novellas called, strangely enough, Noirvellas. And guess who’s bringing the dark skies and genre thunder right out of the gate? Axel Howerton. That’s who.

My novella CON MORTE, a long gestating, hitman-versus-every-goddamned-body story is the first release in the Noirvellas line, coming this July! Here’s the initial cover design!

Look for more in the Novella line a few times a year from CHP. (I’m already working on a couple of other ideas for it.) If you want to find out more, or if you have a novella-length (15-40k words) story that would fit the bill (dark, dangerous, full of noir and hardboiled conventions – Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, all the way up to Dennis Lehane-style) check out the CURRENT PROJECTS page at www.coffinhop.com to inquire.

After a long wait and a successful short run in print, my short story mini-collection of HOT SINATRA spinoffs UNO MOSS… is finally available to the public for FREE!

A fistful of previously published (and one brand new) stories featuring the misfits, mooks, and manbeasts of the Hot Sinatra famiglia.

Kobo, Google Play , Kindle (may still be $0.99, but those jamokes need a little nudging to give up their seventy cents), Smashwords, and coming soon on iTunes. Go pick it up! It’s funny, it’s sweet, and it’s filled with two-fisted dicks, literary badassery, and unseemly shenanigans! JUST CLICK HERE