Stoker Nomination Addendum

Per apexdigest : "You’ll want to mention your wonderful publisher will send copies of B&D to interested HWA Actives (or PDFs if they prefer)." If you are a voting member of the HWA and would like a review copy of Beauty & Dynamite, please email my wonderful publisher: jasonapexdigest.com. Apex also celebrates fellow nominees Maurice Broaddus, Wrath James White, and…

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An Honor to be Nominated

Hooray! Beauty and Dynamite has officially made the preliminary ballot (aka "the long list") for the Bram Stoker Award. (Greg Lamberson has the whole kit & Kaboodle here.) So…um…vote for me. And then go read The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft, by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt. Tweet

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Bookstore Heaven

It’s official — Sherlock’s Books is my new favorite bookstore. It helps that it’s only about 20 miles from my house, a lovely, backwoods, straight-shot, non-interstate drive. And doing it mid-November when all the leaves are changing — well, whichever ones didn’t just turn brown and fall already due to yet another heat-lamp summer — it was a pretty…

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Signing Reminder

Sherrilyn Kenyon, a passel of other authors and I will be doing a local signing (I know, they’re rare…) at Sherlock’s Books (support your local Independent Bookstore!) on Saturday, November 8th. I’ll have some Beauty & Dynamite on hand! See you there! NOV 8,1-5 PMLebanon, TNBooksigningSherlock’s Books200 Maddox-Simpson ParkwayLebanon, Tennessee 37090615-449-9807(Across From Middle TN Electric) **blue hair not included…

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It’s All About You

The November issue of Apex Magazine is live, including the latest Beauty & Dynamite entry entitled: "I Bet You Think This Essay’s About You." A great artist is an artist who has their own distinct voice. Their “certain something” stands out from the crowd. Certain aficionados can glance at a painting and tell a Renoir from a Picasso or…

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Books:$10. Crazy Picture: Free!

Don’t have your copy of Beauty & Dynamite yet? Good news! All our trade paperbacks on sale for $10 We here at Apex Publications always get a little over-excited for the haunting season. To celebrate this witching season, we’re using our own special blend of hocus pocus to brew up a spectacular Halloween Sale! Until Halloween night at midnight,…

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Me & Jenny Hime

The lovely agent extraordinare Jenny Rappaport is currently reading Beauty & Dynamite, and she asked me to please write an essay for the "Book Block" feature on her blog, LIT SOUP. In return, I asked her to say a few words of her own. I didn’t realize they were going to make me cry. Alethea is a magic fairy princess…

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Signing, Bay-bee!

Some of you may have not gotten the word yet that I won’t be at K-Con in New Orleans this weekend. (Um…well, now you have.) BUT, I will be doing a local signing (I know, they’re rare…) at Sherlock’s Books (support your local Independent Bookstore!) on Saturday, November 8th. I’ll have some Beauty & Dynamite on hand (and I’ll…

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Beauty & Dynamite for $10 — One Week Only!!

For ONE WEEK ONLY, select Apex Publications books are only $10, including Beauty & Dynamite! If you’ve been holding off, now’s the time to buy your very own copy! Other Apex books on sale: Unwelcome Bodies The Next Fix HebrewPunk Aegri Somnia Gratia Placenti Orgy of Souls Mama’s Boy and Other Dark TalesMake Alexander Hamilton proud. Spend ten bucks…

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