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Burn Cards by Christopher Irvin, an Anthony Award finalist author, is a standalone contemporary noir crime thriller novella, free for a limited time courtesy of LGBT specialty publisher Lethe Press.

This was originally published in 2015 by 280 Steps, and if you happen to be interested, there's an old guest post over on author Chuck Wendig's blog about the ideas behind and writing of this novella and what he learned from its creative process.

The story is a gritty noir character study set in Reno, Nevada, starring a woman trying to escape her dead-end life, who finds herself in over her head as she inherits her estranged father's gambling debts in a tough town where the merciless come to collect.

Offered DRM-free worldwide, available at Amazon.

Dodging Bullets: Fortitude and Publishing

Last year television was introduced to a new network called PIVOT, and well there wasn’t a lot good with the channel save for one series starring Stanley Tucci as an American investigator sent to Fortitude to conduct an investigation of the death of a noted scientist. Fortitude is an isolated community in Arctic Norway, which is an amalgamation of nations, yet is under the rule of no particular…

Stand aside, Kayfabe. Here Comes Wrestletown.

I’m baaaaack. Thanks to head honcho and good friend Ron Phillips for having me. It’s been too long. I’m even getting the itch to submit soon, if you can believe it… But onto the topic at hand – looking back over the years of chatting with Ron on g-chat, hanging out at cons, etc. – one thing that we really connected on (besides crime fiction and Shotgun Honey, of course) was comics. Ron did some…

All packed and ready to head down to Necon this afternoon. To celebrate the ‘original’ launch date for the WRESTLETOWN crowdfunding campaign (you know, before I threw caution to the wind and jumped in with both feet a month ago) I have a little deal for anyone who pre-orders the book at the con. So hit me up! I’ll have copies of Safe Inside the Violence, What Happened Here, Burn Cards, and…

Inkshares Interview – Joseph Asphahani & THE ANIMAL IN MAN

An artifact of immense power puts Maxan in the middle of a secret war between mighty guilds. To overcome the resourceful and sinister masters who would use him, use everyone, as puppets, he must decide which nature defines him. Animal, or man? Who is Joseph Asphahani and what’s THE ANIMAL IN MAN all about? Legends say that Asphahani was a high school English teacher [turned corporate stiff], and…

Inkshares Interview – Matthew Poat & SQUIDS IN

When the world’s best online gamer turns out to be an octopus, it’s not long before he goes missing… Who is Matthew Poat and what’s SQUIDS IN all about? Squids In is an adult oriented story about a guy called Toby and an octopus which gets stolen from a military animal testing lab by activists and dumped into Toby’s pool. It turns out that the octopus is a demon at playing video-games and so Toby…

Inkshares Interview – Evan Graham & TANTALUS DEPTHS

The Diamelen’s survey mission to Tantalus 13 takes an unexpected turn when the entire planet turns out to be an ancient artificial structure. What lies in the heart of Tantalus? And why is the crew’s AI, SCARAB, willing to kill to keep its secret? Who is Evan Graham and what’s TANTALUS DEPTHS all about? It’d be great if there was an easy answer to “who is Evan Graham.” That’d be awesome. Alas,…