Connor Coyne

I’ve decided to do a little promotion for my novel Hungry Rats for the month of January and discount the heck out of the electronic version.  Hungry Rats will just be 99¢ for the Amazon Kindle, and $1.25 for Adobe E-Reader here.  The book is also available at its regular prices for the Nook and  evidently iBookstore.

It may be a few days before I can read a detailed account of Skylar and my Western / Northern Michigan Book Tour, but I did want to share this bit of information: We put over 1100 miles on my car and delivered copies of Hungry Rats to bookstores in Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Grand Traverse, Ludington, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Benton Harbor, and more cities. Below I’ve posted a complete listing of all of the bookstores that are currently carrying copies of Hungry Rats. Of course, you can also order a copy online. Purchase details here.

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Let’s get Biblio Graphic: I’ve just completed a highly-informal annotated bibliography for Hungry Rats. It includes sources and commentary for research I conducted in five key areas: Michigan’s lumber era; Flint, Michigan; Serial Homicide; Noir; and Other Sources. Let me know what you think!

Click here for the bibliography.

Bibliography keyword list: hungry rats, bibliography, michigan lumber, noir, serial homicide, flint, michigan, tom powers, michigan rogues desperados cut-throats, stuart gross, frankie and the barons, william crowe, lumberjack, john fitzmaurice, the shanty boy, e.c. beck, they knew paul bunyan, forrest meek, michigan’s timber battleground, michigan history, harrison, clare, flint journal, picture history of flint, alice lethbridge, rivethead, ben hamper, michael moore, david halberstam, the reckoning, stephen dandaneau, deindustrialization, rhonda sanders, bronze pillars, gary flinn, remembering flint michigan, gordon young, incredible shrinking american city, sloan museum, flint and the american dream, flint broadside, flint uncommon sense, harold schechter, serial killer files, joseph fisher, killer among us, collector, john fowles, i was dora suarez, derek raymond, robin cook, felicia’s journey, summer of sam, young poisoner’s handbook, michael newton, bad girls do it, michigan murders, edward keyes, robert polito, american noir, paul duncan, noir fiction, dark highways, brick, veronica mars, teen noir, twin peaks, chicago noir, detroit noir, tartan noir, denise mina, garnethill, catherine orenstein, little red riding hood, heinrich heine, samuel taylor coleridge, radiohead, kid a, amnesiac, hail to the thief, outkast, atliens

I will be presenting Hungry Rats at the VPC123 Fine Arts Festival in Newberry, Michigan, presented by the Tahquamenon Area Schools.

VPC123 Fine Arts Festival
Saturday, May 14, 2011
11 AM to 5 PM
Tahquamenon Area School and Library
700 Newberry Ave., Newberry, MI

I will be presenting at 1 PM.

There is no cover charge, and this event is family friendly. For adult audiences, there will be an afterparty at Pickelman’s Pub from 9 to 12 PM.

You can also find information on this event on Facebook, here:

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=194906367220476

So I actually created the following before posting yesterday’s “poetic interpretation.”  Yes, it is another Friday parody, but this one was put together using all of the recorded footage from the Hungry Rats promotional shoots.  What do you think?  I like how it turned out.  All I ask is that, if it makes you laugh just once, consider sharing it!