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GotClass? Writing Genre and Urban Fantasy with #AxelHow

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Got Class? In the #YYC this fall? Come join one of mine! #HowToGenre gets a 2-day intensive course! Urban Fantasy for the masses!

Just added to the Alexandra Writers Centre Society program for this fall:

Writing Genre (10 Seats Available)WGwAH

Axel Howerton
October 1 & 2, 2016
10-4:30pm
Member Price: $180
Non-member Price: $240
Author, publisher and genre columnist Axel Howerton guides you through the ins and outs of writing various popular genres from Noir to SciFi, from old school styles like the traditional Western and Science Fiction, to trendy sub genres like Noir, and modern mashups like Urban Fantasy.

Urban Fantasy (10 Seats Available)WUFwAH

Axel Howerton
November 12, 2016
10-3:30pm
Member Price: $75
Non-member Price: $135
Axel Howerton – editor, publisher, genre columnist and author of the “modern gothic werewolf fable” Furr – explains the history, traditions, and definitions of the Urban Fantasy genre and teaches you how to steer your writing towards this extremely popular, and highly creative fiction style.
book, Canadian, crime fiction, literature, mystery, Writing

Big Giant Head alert! Ides of March at Indigo Signal Hill

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Big Giant Head alert!! March 5, Indigo Signal Hill

I’ll be part of the Beware the Ides of March Multi-Author Mystery Celebration
I’ll probably be trying out some magic tricks and failing miserably!
Schadenfreude opportunity! Or come buy some books.
Yeah. Do that. ABBMB baby! Always Be Buying More Books.

Even if they don’t always have my name on the cover. 😉

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(c) Liz Howerton Photography

We are very EXCITED to announce that Axel Howerton will be part of our Beware The Ides Of March Multi-Author Mystery Celebration!!
Axel Howerton is the author of the darkly funny detective novel Hot Sinatra, and a finalist for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. His forthcoming novel Furr is described as “Twin Peaks meets Supernatural” in the Rocky Mountains. His short fiction and essays have appeared in innumerable anthologies and publications. Axel is also the editor of the anthologies Death By Drive-In, Tall Tales of the Weird West, the Alberta crime collection AB Negative, and the upcoming Sci-Fi Noir spectacular Black Hole Noir. He is currently in the running for this year’s Arthur Ellis, Derringer and Aurora awards.
He is the organizer of the quarterly Calgary crime soiree #NoirBarYYC, a member of the the Kintsugi Poets Collective, and the CSFFA, as well as serving on the board of the Crime Writers of Canada. When he’s not on-duty as a hometown anti-hero, Axel spends most of his time roaming the untamed prairies of Alberta with his two brilliant young sons and a wife that is way out of his league.
Visit him at: www.axelhow.com

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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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#Furr news! and special deal for GotHow crew!

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Spells Spirits 200x300Mere moments ago, I signed the contract for a full release of FURR, my werewolf-strippers-mad-magicians-and-boozehound-heroes novel, currently available for a very short time in Cornucopia Press’ spectacular box set SPELLS & SPIRITS

Scheduled for sometime in late 2016 to early 2017, Tyche Books will be doing a paperback, ebook and possibly audio release for a new bigger, badder, and wolfier version of this “Supernatural meets Twin Peaks in the Canadian Rockies” book.

That being said, if you want to get your hands on it now, in the original form, best get it while the gettin’s good! The box set will only be available for a short time! One whole dollar for SEVEN books!

AND!!! If you are a member of the GotHow? crew (the official Axel Howerton newsletter and unofficial support group for previously mentioned werewolf strippers) I’ll be announcing something extra-special later today directly relating to the announcement about FURR. Just click HERE to join. You’ll immediately get a FREE eBook AxelHow’s HowDeeDoo, and you’ll be first on the list for new announcements, special deals, more FREE eBooks (like Uno Moss coming next month! You get it before it goes up for sale anywhere!)

Just sign up for my once every (hang on, let me just check this… yep) three or four months at best, email newsletter.

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