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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I’m thankful for getting to do what I love, both in my day job and with Eddie Hazzard and Company. Don’t forget to pre-order your copy of The Invisible Crown, which’ll be out just in time for Christmas (and you know you need a good read over the Christmas holiday; how else will you stand Uncle Albert’s rant about whatever it is he’s ranting about this year?)!
We are excited to announce the pre-sale for the wonderful sci-fi mystery novel, The Invisible Crown by Charlie Cottrell is officially here! Pre-order your digital copy on Amazon, more retailers coming soon! Click here to pre-order your copy on Amazon today! Release date is December 19, 2016. About The Invisible Crown: The city of Arcadia is a craphole, but it’s my […]
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We’re a little over halfway through November, and I’ve been busy writing in my spare time. This year, rather than creating a whole novel, I decided to work on a series of short stories in a variety of styles and genres. Most of them will probably never see the light of day, but it’s fun to flex some different creative writing muscles and try out some styles and techniques I don’t use when writing Hazzard stories.
As of Tuesday morning, I have just over 10,000 words written across a half dozen different stories. A few are complete, but a couple are still in progress. I’m not really sure where most of them will go. It’s kind of fun, creating new characters and situations completely independent of Hazzard and Arcadia. I’m not sure how much I’ll end up with by the end of the month, but it’s a nice break and a fun way to stretch my skills.
Help a guy out and review my book? I think you’ll dig it!
I mean, of course I’d think that. I wrote it. But still! Pretty sure you’ll like it.
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Pre-sale: November 21, 2016
Blog Tour: December 11-18, 2016
Release date: December 19, 2016
”The city of Arcadia is a craphole, but it’s my craphole. I’ve walked its streets my entire life, always searching for something: a purpose, a suspect, or a stiff drink. My name’s Eddie Hazzard, and I’m a hard-boiled detective. Yeah, laugh it up. It’s a ridiculous job description, but this is a ridiculous town. It’s full of every cliché you can imagine: corrupt city officials, police officers on the take, greedy businessmen, and crime so organized it has an accounting department, a health plan, and retirement benefits. Which is more than I can say for myself.”
Meet Eddie Hazzard: he’s tenacious, a certain kind of clever, and usually drunk. When a beautiful woman comes into his office and asks him to find her husband, Eddie takes the case because the alternative is having his creditors show up at his door and do terrible things to his limbs. But the case takes a series of bizarre turns, getting Eddie caught up in a tangled web of reluctant cops, sketchy businessmen, and shadowy crime bosses. The deeper he gets, the worse things look. Will Eddie solve the case? Will he save the day? Most importantly, will he get paid?
The Invisible Crown is the first full-length novel of a series featuring Detective Hazzard and the bizarre, bewildering array of tough mobsters, genetically-modified creeps, and ruthless scumbags who inhabit the city of Arcadia.
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Charlie Cottrell is a history and special education teacher in Northern Virginia by day and a writer of “speculative noir” (near-future, science-fictiony, hard-boiled detective stories) by night. He likes to blend action, mystery, and a healthy dose of humor and sarcasm in his work. He also writes music and draws comics and thinks he vaguely remembers what free time was, but he’s not one hundred percent sure on that. Charlie hates tucking in his shirt, because he is a rebel. To read more about Charlie, you can visit him on his website.
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It’s Tuesday, November 8, 2016. Election Day. Today, we elect a new president, some senators, all the members of the House of Representatives, and various state and local officials.
Regardless of your political affiliation, I hope you get out there and exercise your fundamental civic right. People fought and died for this right, so make sure you’ve carefully considered the candidates and ballot measures before you.
No matter how the election turns out, we’ve still got to live with each other tomorrow and the day after that. Don’t let your political position interfere with your ability to maintain a relationship with your loved ones or your coworkers or such. I have lots of friends and family with whom I disagree, politically, but I still love ’em.
(Even if they’re wrong)
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I love to draw (as anyone who follows the webcomic knows full-well), and I decided it’d be fun to do the #inktober thing for October: a drawing a day, in ink. Some of them were pencil drawings that I then inked with a variety of pens (some were brush pens, some were Prismacolor markers, and several were done with an ultra-fine Sharpie and a regular Sharpie for a bold outline). Others were done, start to finish, with regular ol’ ballpoint pen. Here’s all 31 inky drawings for your enjoyment!
Are you like me, and find yourself wanting to enjoy Halloween but struggling because of a dearth of decent songs associated with the holiday? I mean, in terms of inspiring music, it’s not Christmas, that’s for sure. I just find that I can’t stand listening to the Monster Mash and the Addams Family theme and the Munsters theme again and again on repeat this year. I need some actual, non-novelty music.
And we’re in luck! There are actually plenty of real, pretty awesome songs that have a stealth-Halloween theme to them. Here’s a selection of some of my favorites.
1. The Eagles, “Witchy Woman”: Sure, it’s easy to rag on the Eagles as being the dad-est of Dad Rock, but they did some fun songs. This one carries the witch metaphor throughout pretty strongly, and fits right in with our “real song but Halloween-y” theme.
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival, “I Put a Spell on You”: Yeah, I know, the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins version is probably better, and certainly more Halloween-y, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to include a CCR song on a playlist.
3. The Beatles, “Devil in Her Heart”: Not even a little bit of the right tone, barely even mentions anything Halloween-related (the titular devil in her heart, which is more metaphorical than actual), but it’s the Beatles, and it’s my playlist, so nyah.
4. Warren Zevon, “Werewolves of London”: There was a 0% chance I wasn’t going to include this. An obvious but classic choice.
5. Tom Petty, “Zombie Zoo”: “Sometimes you’re so impulsive/You shaved off all your hair/You look like Boris Karloff/But you don’t even care” is probably the best line in any song ever, and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
6. Josh Ritter, “The Curse”: A love song about a mummy told as sincerely as this is proof this world is sometimes better than we deserve.
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, “Red Right Hand”: Honestly, you could just put a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds album on for Halloween it’d be fine. If I have to go with one song, though, this is the one. The Pete Yorn version from the first Hellboy movie isn’t half-bad, either.
8. Jeremy Messersmith, “Ghost”: A haunting beautiful (get it?) song about disappearing out of someone’s life.
9. The Flaming Lips, “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1”: War of the Worlds, if it was fought between a Japanese pop singer who knows karate and giant pink robots that want to eat people.
10. The White Stripes, “Walking with a Ghost”: I don’t have a whole lot to say about this one. I just wanted another song about ghosts on here.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Charlie Cottrell 