New Release: "Hi De Ho, Infecterino!: The Come Up" (The Parasol Files #1)
Hola flamingos!
Long time no speak. Am I the only one feeling the January in the air? After the Christmas / holiday rush, I'm sure I'm not the only one that has noticed the shift into what feels almost like a hangover. That feels a little bit of a euphemism, doesn't it? I mean, don't get me wrong, hangovers are nasty. But let's not mince words. January always feels to me like the season itself does for the world at large.
Death.
Things die in the wintertime. It's part of the cycle of the seasons. Mental well-being can feel off as well (it does for this SAD-afflicted MFer). No worries - you can always await springtime for rebirth. The pagans looked to Ostara, the spring equinox, as the celebration of resurrection that comes after the dead of winter, then that Jesus feller came about wit' he's story what fit the ancient mold. But our heathen forbears were tricked, for another holiday was made.
Imbolc.
It's coming on Thursday, February 1, and it's halfway between the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, and the spring equinox. One might call it a bit of a half-life holiday, since we're between death and rebirth. A melancholic writer type with his brow beaten by winter might say that it's something that stinks of the grave and yet is starting to kick.
I figure it's a great time to release a book about zombies.
That's right, Hi De Ho, Infecterino!: The Come Up (The Parasol Files #1) is available now to scratch your zombie-slaying itch - and itch is the right word, since the pathogen is based on some genetically modified ringworm (aka jock itch). Here's a little blurb from the foreword written by Nicole Little, author of Roxy Buckles and the Flight of the Sparrow and Uninvited (let's face it - I'm just copypasta-ing this absolutely jaw-dropping praise to puff up my own ego):
"...Andrew is truly a fantastic writer. We should all be so lucky as to have that kind of talent. I was absolutely blown away by this book. It is hilarious, of course. Racy, without a doubt. But there is so much depth, so much feeling, and such a distinct core of humanity. It can be difficult to translate that to paper sometimes but Andrew has undoubtedly achieved it.
Hi De Ho, Infecterino! is an absolute wild and crazy ride … you’re going to need to buckle up and hold on tight. There are dildos and glory holes and an enormous amount of bodily fluid. It wouldn’t be a book by Andrew Rowe if this wasn’t the case but that’s what makes it so perfect. He makes this whole writing thing just seem so effortless and you can tell that he’s poured his whole heart into the creation of it."
I also poured a whole bucket of zombie semen into it.
Catch you on the flip side,
Andrew