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My new neo-noir novella GUTBUSTER is out today! It's quite mean and you just might hate it! Free on Kindle Unlimited. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0F...

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	Black Hat Blues 4.20 avg rating — 44 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Dogteeth and Other Tales of the Paranormal 4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Efficient and Divine: Almost Heaven 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Tiny Tales: Stories of Broken Elevators and Other Mundane Things 4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yeah, Shut Up. 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Efficient and Divine: Honey Locust 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Unofficial Guide to NYPD Blue: A Comprehensive Exploration of the Legendary Drama 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Gene Kendall made a comment in the group Review Group — Group 389. Novella - Mod Gene topic " Thanks, Clay. Your Amazon link isn't quite right, but this should be it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re... ...more "
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Gene Kendall liked Reader's review of Dogteeth and Other Tales of the Paranormal: "I heard the titular story as part on an episode of The No Sleep Podcast and immediately checked out other works for the author. I wanted to see if it was part of a full novel. That's how I discovered this collection of stories. I enjoyed them all and" Read more of this review »
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Gene Kendall rated a book liked it Absent by Chelsea O'Hara (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Chelsea O’Hara’s “Absent” opens strong, establishing an eerie, unsettling mood, and the promise of a haunted house story filtered through a fragile psyche. Unfortunately, that early momentum fades. As the novel progresses, the prose increasingly frag ...more
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Gene Kendall made a comment on Reader’s review of Dogteeth and Other Tales of the Paranormal " Thanks for the kind words. In the drawer is, in fact, a full-length novel set in the world of Dogteeth. "
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Gene Kendall made a comment in the group Review Group — Group 386. General - Mod. Gene topic " Thanks, Eliza. Those are your final reviews. Everyone -- I have every reviewer checked off. Thanks for a pretty smooth round. I'll keep this thread ope ...more "
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“The Inconvenient Sister” by Jennifer Reinoehl is a solid and occasionally engaging period romance. Although it is the second book in the Situations of Inconvenience series, it reads comfortably on its own; I hadn’t read the first volume and never fe ...more
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Gene Kendall liked C.R.'s review of Gutbuster: "Amen and Hallelujah This is my third Gene Kendall book, and I always appreciate his masculine style and wicked wit, as well as his well-drawn characters. I found these again in Gutbuster. The novel follows the misadventures of one Mac Doubleday, who a" Read more of this review »
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“The Tale of Krampus” starts with a genuinely fun premise: Father Christmas, facing financial trouble, hires Krampus as a business partner only to discover he’s an authoritarian bully who abuses the elves and possesses a dark interest in naughty chil ...more
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