I have seen the finished cover for In the Cage, and it is magical…

This was posted in the week on social media, but I wanted to put it up here as well. There was a lot of work that went into this thing, not by me, but by the folks at Biblioasis, especially Chris Andrechek, and by Michel Vrana, who designed the cover. Thanks the most to those guys.

Also, I hadn’t seen how they were going to work the blurbs and such, but I am glad that they got them on the actual cover, as there are some good ones from John Irving, Donald Ray Pollock, and Waubgeshig Rice. I was very fortunate to get those, and am proud to have them printed on the cover.

As a bonus, you also get a colour photo of my older, slightly less fat head this time, thanks to Katrina Afonso, who has taken all of my author photos for a last couple of year since I sent her that hilarious Macbook photo for the Writers’ Trust Gala, when I was up for the Journey Prize, and she had to somehow make it fifteen feet tall. Katrina was a huge fan of that wall behind me, and that wall is certainly a very effective wall…

Even Alix Hawley got on there, with a line from her review of Debris for the National Post, from a couple years ago.

The book is out on September 12th, 2017. And we will be launching the shit out of it on September 20th, at The Garrison in Toronto. Check my events page for other launches, readings, festivals, and tour things…

Cheers. KH

I have received the magical ReLit Ring…

Fresh from the metalworks of Christopher Kearney, in Newfoundland, the famed ReLit Ring showed up at my door the other day. It is handcrafted, with moveable dials that hold each letter of the alphabet, so I can spell as many four letter words as I want before punching an ostrich in the face…

Thanks to ReLit Award founder Kenneth J. Harvey, for choosing Debris as the winner of the short fiction category last year. And, congratulations to Carellin Brooks (One Hundred Days of Rain – Bookthug) and Sue Goyette (The Brief Reincarnation of a Girl – Gaspereau) who won for novel and poems respectively, and who can now also seize power in their own realms.

Cheers. KH

If you get the latest issue of Quill & Quire, you’ll find this toeface person at the front of the big Fall Preview section. While that might be weird, please go ahead and read the article, because Steven Beattie had to hear me spew nonsense for over an hour just to get those few quotes.

More importantly, there is talk of my new novel, In the Cage, coming September 12th, 2017 from Biblioasis. I knew it would be in the preview, but didn’t know it would be featured as such, so I am flattered and very thankful to Steve, and to Sue Carter (editor of Q&Q), and all of the people who put this together.

The issue is on news-stands and in bookstores and should be all delivered to subscribers by now. If you do not think I, or the book, sound dumb, maybe you’ll investigate it this fall, and come by the launch (date TBA).

Cheers. KH