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Baby It’s Cold Outside

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My latest anthology from Coffin Hop Press is a delicious collection of  Holiday Horror, Christmas Crime and Yuletide Woe!

The fourteen stories in this book are as varied as their authors, with one thing in common: exploring the dark side of that most wonderful time of year. They’ll light your menorahs, stuff your stockings, and keep you warm through those long winter nights.

Featuring deliciously shocking stories from:

  • E.C. Bell – That Old A-Wassailing Scam
  • Alex Benarzi – Nerium
  • Rob Brunet – Blown
  • Chris Patrick Carolan – Circle of Steel
  • M. Jane Colette – Violets
  • S.A Cosby – Sweet Baby Jesus
  • Meredith Frazier – Brother’s Keeper
  • Therese Greenwood – The Power Man
  • Jim Jackson – King Wong & the Mistress of Christmas
  • Claude Lalumière – The Fixer, the Cop, His Ex, and Her Killer
  • Liam Sweeny – Christmas Confessions
  • Kevin P. Thornton – The Shih Tzu’s Present
  • Darusha Wehm – Mistletoe & Holly
  • Sam Weibe – In the Dead of Winter

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Edited by Sarah L. Johnson and Robert Bose, with a fabulous cover by the Axel Howerton.

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Pick it up now at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca or Kobo

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Enigma Front: Onward

Onward

This fantastic new anthology contains my latest short story, ‘One Foot in the Grave’, about a squad of soldiers on a perilous rescue mission.

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We’re living in troubling times. World leaders squabbling like schoolchildren on Twitter. Persistent grim economic forecasts. Unprecedented environmental disasters. Avocado toast. It’s rough out there. Featuring 21 stories from members of the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, ENIGMA FRONT: ONWARD turns a hopeful eye to the future and the past, to worlds real and imagined. Worlds in peril, worlds in their prime, and worlds on the edge of rebirth. Worlds inhabited by curious aliens and helpful Fae folk, by Golden Age heroes and rebellious robots, and by the regular people doing their best to get through it all. Now… ONWARD!

by Chris Patrick Carolan (Author/Editor), Calvin D. Jim (Author), Renee Bennett (Author), Brent Nichols(Author), Alecyn Lea (Author), Kevin Weir (Author), Adria Laycraft (Author), Mark Phillip Ross(Author), Dale McShannock (Author), Lucas K. Law (Author), Katie Harse (Author), Robert Bose(Author), Robert J. Sawyer (Author), Christopher M. Chupik (Author), Celeste A. Peters (Author), Chris Marrs (Author), James Grotkowski (Author), Dan M. Hampton (Author), Elizabeth Grotkowski (Author), Ashton Noone (Author), P. J. Vernon (Author)

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Available in digital and paperback at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com

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It’s a Weird Winter Wonderland

It's a Weird Winter Wonderland

Get ready to unwrap that present early this year! Stuff your festive stockings with this collection of the weirdest, wildest holiday fiction this side of Charlie’s Dickens. Get your bells jingling and jangling with these tales of mistletoe madness, festive fury, and holiday havoc from some of the most bizarre minds in fiction!

Featuring:

Steve Brewer (Jackie Nolan series; Side Eye)
Sarah L. Johnson (Suicide Stitch; Infractus)
David James Keaton (The Last Projector; Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead)
Jessica McHugh (Pins; Rabbits in the Garden)
Brent Nichols (Stars Like Cold Fire; Black Dragon Blues)
Scott S. Phillips (Pete, Drinker of Blood; Gun Up)
Will Viharo (Vic Valentine series; A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge)
Laurie Zottman (Dark Little Therapist)

Edited by myself and home town anti-hero Axel Howerton, with a fantastic cover by the esteemed Tom Bagley.

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Pick it up now at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca or Kobo

 

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Fishing with the Devil

Fishing with the Devil

Available now from Coffin Hop Press. Get your tacklebox packed, your pole ready, and your soul primed for adventure. Two-time Robin Herrington Memorial Award finalist Robert Bose (nEvermore; AB Negative; Enigma Front: Burnt) takes you on a guided tour all the way from the lakes of hell to the unforgiving sands of the red planet. FISHING WITH THE DEVIL and other fiendish tales collects stories new, and previously published, spanning the genres from Science Fiction to Urban Fantasy, from childhood terror to bizarre bathroom horrors, while always keeping the Devil himself close at hand.

An aptly titled collection, a dark lake where you drop your line with no idea what’s going to bite. You could end up reeling in steampunk, futurist ultra-violence, dark comedy, or sci-fi noir. But always you’re aware of the Devil in the boat, sitting right next to you. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

– Sarah L. Johnson, author of Suicide Stitch

 

A darkly hilarious twist on urban fantasy, a collection of stories full of suspense, grim confrontations, hellish stakes, and delightful absurdity. Highly recommended.

– Brent Nichols, author of Stars like Cold Fire

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Pick it up now at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca or Kobo

 

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Enigma Front: The Monster Within

Monster Rises

Check out my latest short story – ‘Secrets and Lies’ – about a conflicted soldier willing to sacrifice everything to unearth ancient forbidden memories.

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The team who brought you the Aurora nominated Enigma Front: Burnt now presents you with twenty-two new stories of demon dentists and devilish wingmen, of psychic parasites and mad mathematicians. Hunters stalk the streets of Whitechapel and lurk in the hotels of Africa, and may – or may not – haunt a lonely road outside Saskatoon. First, Everything changed. Then, everything burned. Now, the monster rises!

By Renee Bennett,  Michael Gillett, Colin Maheu, Elizabeth Grotkowski, Kevin Weir, Robert W. Easton, Celeste A. Peters, Calvin D. Jim, Robert J. Sawyer, Erin Sneath, Chris Patrick Carolan, Ron S. Friedman, Brent Nichols, J. M. Dover, Selene O’Rourke, Ashton Noone, Stephen Swan, Robert Bose, Susan Forest, Shannon Allen, Al Onia

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Available in digital and paperback at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com

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Biketopia: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures

Biketopia

In a world with an uncertain future, do you imagine for the best or for the worst case scenario? Twelve writers tackle extreme utopias and dystopias—and the grey areas in between—in Biketopia, the fourth volume of the Bikes in Space series of feminist science fiction stories about bicycling. Some find love and fierce resistance in the end times; others imagine an ecological future of saving technology, with solarpunk ecotopian visions, at times paired with crushing social control. Whatever your own future or present reality, these stories will motivate and inspire you to envision something different… and maybe even better.

In my story, entitled ‘Taming the Beast’, a young woman gets a little more than she bargained for when she takes her new Cyclotronic ZEN9 for a spin.

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Available in digital or paperback now at Microcosm Publishing or Amazon.com or Amazon.ca

 

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AB Negative

AB negative

AB NEGATIVE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ALBERTA CRIME

Where the blood runs black as oil…

14 Choice Cuts from Alberta’s best crime and genre writers, playing in their own backyard. Canadian crime at it’s best!

I am exceptionally proud to have a story in this fine collection. Axel has delivered a fantastic package and it was a pleasure to work with such a great editor and publisher. The book is available now, in a variety of formats, so pick up a copy!

“14 tawdry tales that turn Alberta into a hotspot of murder, mafia hitmen, gumshoes, biker gangs, femme fatales and sexpots.” Eric Volmers, Calgary Herald

“Deadly Tales Told On Familiar Ground” – Calgary Herald, August 1, 2015

FEATURING NEW FICTION FROM

Jayne Barnard (The Evil Eye Of Africa)
Robert Bose (nEvermore!)
Susan Calder (Deadly Fall)
Dwayne E. Clayden (Crisis Point)
Therese Greenwood (Dead In The Water)
Axel Howerton (Hot Sinatra)
Janice MacDonald (Randy Craig mystery series)
Randy McCharles (The Necromancer Candle)
Brent Nichols (War Of The Necromancer series)
Al Onia (Javenny)
R. Overwater (Tall Tales Of The Weird West)
Sharon Wildwind (Some Welcome Home)
S.G. Wong (Die On Your Feet)
and Kevin P. Thornton (World Enough And Crime)

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Available in digital and paperback at:

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nEvermore!

nEvermore

“nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre” Authors Announced…
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is pleased to formally announce the featured authors in “nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre”
Compiled by multi-award winning editors, Nancy Kilpatrick and Caro Soles, nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre presents a tantalizing selection of imaginative stories by New York Times bestselling and prize-winning authors:

Margaret Atwood
Richard Christian Matheson
Kelley Armstrong
William F. Nolan
Tanith Lee
Christopher Rice
Nancy Holder
Michael Jecks
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
J. Madison Davis
Lisa Morton
Thomas Roche
Barbara Fradkin
Jason V. Brock and Sunni K. Brock (with William F. Nolan)
Robert Lopresti
Carol Weekes and Michael Kelly
Loren Rhoads
Robert Bose
Colleen Anderson
David McDonald
Jane Petersen Burfield
Rick Chiantaretto
with Non Fiction by Uwe Sommerlad

“nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre” is an homage to the great American writer, the incomparable Edgar Allan Poe. This anthology consists of original tales that blend supernatural and mystery elements in unique re-imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe’s exquisite stories.

“The stories in nEvermore! truly capture the macabre, mysterious essence of Poe. It’s a wonderful read for all Poe fans.”
Susan Jaffe Tane
Curator, The Persistence of Poe, the finest collection of the finest collection of Poe-related material in private hands.

Release Dates:
Kindle Pre-Order: June 1, 2015
Kindle Exclusive: July 1 – September 30, 2015
E-book: October 1, 2015
Print edition (CANADA): September 1, 2015
Print edition (USA): October 1, 2015

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Available in digital and paperback at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca

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