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, kung fu, and of course bloody vampire killings.
His new novella, ARENA OF THE WOLF, about a trucker kidnapped and forced to compete in a rodeo where the cowboys ride werewolves, will be released as part of Dark Regions' new novella series later this year.
He lives and works at night with his redoubtable wife in Atlanta and blogs about books, whisky, cigars, and the things that annoy and inspire him at www.jimgavin.net.