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Jim Gavin

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Horror, Mystery & Thrillers, Entertainment

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June 2010

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Jim Gavin is a hard-drinking, cigar smoking, "unfrozen caveman" writer. Working from a wide range of interests and influences like action movies, horror, detective fiction, pulp and pre-war sci-fi and bizarro surrealism, his work tends to cross genre boundaries, ignoring some rules and tropes while freely using others. His goal is to write books that are tough to classify but fun to read.

His first novel, HARD BOILED VAMPIRE KILLERS, was published by Dark Regions Press in December of 2010. The story of two men who hunt vampires in Atlanta, it's a throwback to the days when vampires were the bad guys and human beings, flawed as they are, were the good guys; a buddy-action book that is both funny and thrilling, with lots of guns, explosions, k ...more

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My CONtraflow Panel Schedule etc.

Just as a reminder, I'll be a guest at CONtraflow this weekend. Here's a list of the panels I'll be on:

How to Write Your First Novel, Friday, 1pm, Event 1 The Art of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Saturday, 11am, Panel Room 4 American South as a Setting in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Sunday, 10am Event 2 Skeptics vs. Believers, Sunday, 2pm, Panel Room 2
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	Hard Boiled Vampire Killers 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Smartass of Mars by Jim Gavin (Goodreads Author), Alex McVey (Illustrator), Zach McCain (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Arena of the Wolf 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	Prince of Mars (Shifflett of Mars Book 2) 3.20 avg rating — 5 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
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“If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

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