”Acevedo has proven once again that he is a very disturbed man--and I mean that in the absolute finest sense of the term.” Tim Dorsey, author of Atomic Lobster. Welcome to the writings of Denver author Mario Acevedo. Urban fantasy. Mystery. Crime fiction. Hard-boiled sketchiness. Sarcasm and lies. The truth only when mandated by law.
Mark your calendars. University of Doom hits the streets. The launch signing will be at the Tattered Cover-Colfax, Wednesday, July 19, 7pm. Be there or be prepared for evil-genius cyborg zombies to hunt you down.
Hex Publishers put together this awesome trailer.
And I gotta share this nice blurb by Kirkus Reviews.
But wait, there's more. I was the editor for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2016 Anthology, Found, and we won the Colorado Book Awards for best anthology.
Most cool and a huge shout out to the writers and volunteers who made it possible.
University of Doom will be reprinted by Hex Publishers. Release date will be early this summer. Here's the awesome new cover.
And...
Felix Gomez book #7 is in final edits. As if Felix's world wasn't troublesome enough, he got sent to an alternative steampunk past. Much craziness! And all the sketchy sex and mayhem you've come to love and expect. What else could it be with a title like: Sex Slaves of Shark Island
More good news, a double-dose actually. The anthology I edited for Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Found, is a finalist for a 2017 Colorado Book Award. Plus, another anthology that published my story is also a finalist, CyberWorld, from Hex Publishers. So I'm up against myself.
I was crazy busy this year, attending a slew of big, BIG conventions this year with WordFire Press, starting with PensaCon, swinging back to the west coast for Emerald City Con in Seattle, then Planet City ComicCon in Kansas City, MO (my new favorite city outside of Denver), to Miami, then DragonCon. Shoehorned into all that I had LitFest, various other appearances, and I edited the anthology Found for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and co-edited another anthology for Hex Publishers. I was one mo-fo of a whirlwind.
So the big news:
First--> My newest novel, University of Doom is out, both an ebook and in trade paperback. My best endorsement so far comes from my eleven-year-old next door neighbor:
I laughed so hard, milk shot out my nose.
And--> I have a short-story in CyberWorld, from Hex Publishers. The release date is November 10, 2016, with a signing at the Tattered Cover, LoDo. The collection kicks serious ass... as does the cover.
I've had a busy year so far attending all kinds of comic cons with WordFire Press.
The next up is Florida SuperCon, July 1-4. It'll be my first time to run around in Miami so drop by the WordFire booth and say hello. For my other appearance, check out my Events page.
Also, here's the advance notice that University of Doom is finally available as an ebook.
Monsters, robots, a sinister villain... and a boy who’s about to discover
that the only way to defeat evil is with genius.
The adventures of Alfonso Frankenstein, future mad scientist,
at the
University of Doom,
the super-secret Center for Evil Genius Academia and Mad
Science.
My publisher, WordFire Press, has partnered with Humble Bundle to offer
a "Sci-Fi Specials Bundle" featuring 18 major titles in a limited time "pay-what-you-want" grab bag.
Featuring titles from Kevin J Anderson, F Paul Wilson, Dune author Frank Herbert, Alan Dean Foster, Quincy Allen, Josh Vogt and a slew of other fine authors. And of course, me.
Although Rescue From Planet Pleasure
is already lurking in the marketplace, expect a new Author's Preferred
Edition to be available before the end of the year. Stay tuned.
I have two short stories in Nightmares Unhinged, a horror anthology from Hex Publishing. Nightmares was a Denver Post bestseller and won two 2015 USA Best Books Awards, Winner in Fiction:Horror, and Finalist in Fiction:Anthologies.
And Jeanne C. Stein
and I were both given Yog Awards for Art, Service, and Dedication by
the Horror Writers of America Colorado chapter. Please excuse us if we
stand a little taller.
Rescue From Planet Pleasure, book 6 in the Felix Gomez detective-vampire series, will be available at Denver Comic Con at the WordFire Press booth. I'll be floating between WF and another booth in dealers room, with Quincy Allen.
Here's my panel schedule during the con.
Saturday, May 23
Room 203 12:10-1pm Writing Reality Into Fiction
Room 205 4:25-5:15pm Steampunk in the past, present and future
Sunday, May 24
Room 402 11:45am-12:35pm Minority and Women Authors of the Past
Room 205 12:55-1:45pm Sticking the Landing: Ending Your Story
Room 203 4:50-5:40pm Writing the Other
Room 203 6-6:50pm Finding Firefly: mixing genres in fiction
Monday, May 25
Room 205 11:45am-12:35pm Going Down the Research Rabbit Hole
