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Book Release: The Moonshine Messiah by Russell W. Johnson

We are please to announce the debut release by Russell W. Johnson, The Moonshine Messiah, the first book in the Mountaineer Mysteries. What to Expect inside… As if being a woman sheriff in the West Virginia coal fields wasn’t tough enough, Mary Beth Cain’s life is complicated by the fact that the local hillbilly crime […]

Book Release: Signs of Pain by Ilyn Welch

We are please to announce the debut novella by Ilyn Welch, Signs of Pain. What to Expect inside… Single, gay and unemployable, Cherry Orozco is resigned to care for her mildly incontinent mother Ida. While dropping Ida off at church bingo, Cherry notices the facility also runs an adult day care, and Paula, a client […]

Book Release: Magic City Blues by Bobby Mathews

We are please to announce the sophomore release by Bobby Mathews, MAGIC CITY BLUES. What to Expect inside… When low-level legbreaker Kincaid takes on a new assignment, he discovers it’s not really a step up — it’s a setup. The deal was supposed to be this: Protect Abby Doyle, the daughter of Birmingham, Alabama’s most […]

Book Release: Hard Mountain Clay by C.W. Blackwell

We are please to release Hard Mountain Clay by C.W. Blackwell, a harrowing tale of survival for two young siblings in an all too adult world. What to Expect inside… Siblings Ben and Maisy find they have no one to turn to after witnessing a gruesome hit-and-run that shatters their innocence. Not their mother, a […]

Book Release: Grit, Black, Blood by Ashley Erwin

We are please to release Grit, Black, Blood by Ashley Erwin, a uniquely grit-laden family saga that bleeds coal from hill to the holler. What to Expect inside… In the last conversation Ronnie reckons he’ll ever have, he’s finally forced to divest the blood lines, giving life to all those bad’ns that make up that […]

Book Release: A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White

Returning to print, Shotgun Honey Books is proud to re-release A Shelter of Others by Charles Dodd White. What to Expect inside… Following his release from prison, Mason Laws returns to the mountains of his youth where his estranged wife, Lavada, has been caring for his ailing father in Mason’s absence. The marriage, however, is […]

Book Release: A Mourning Song by Mark Westmoreland

It’s a pleasure today to bring our readers back to Tugalo County with A Mourning Song by Mark Westmoreland. What to Expect inside… Mack Dooley is a haunted man. After the events of A Violent Gospel left Mack at the bottom of a whiskey bottle, he’s back in A Mourning Song, forced to face his […]

Book Release: Hell of a Mess by Nick Kolakowski

We a please to announce the release of Hell of a Mess by Nick Kolakowski. In 2017, Nick introduced Fiona and Bill with A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps to readers, and quickly followed up with Slaughterhouse Blues and Main Bad Guy in 2018 and 2019. Two years later the series collected (and remastered with […]

Book Release: Lambs of Men by Charles Dodd White

We a please to announce the release of LAMBS OF MEN by Charles Dodd White. This marks the first print only release from Shotgun Honey, and is part of a two book deal with Charles Dodd White to reissue his first novels, Lambs of Men and A Shelter of Others (Dec 2022) in paperback form. […]

Book Release: Living the Gimmick by Bobby Mathews

We a please to announce the release of LIVING THE GIMMICK by Bobby Mathews. This is Bobby Mathews’ debut release with Shotgun Honey Books, the first of a two book deal which also includes next years MAGIC CITY BLUES. Buyers will get a preview with their purchase. What to Expect inside… When retired pro wrestler […]

Book Release: Money the Hard Way by David Tromblay

We a please to announce the release of MONEY THE HARD WAY by David Tromblay. This is the second outing for Moses Kincaid, directly following the events of SANGRE ROAD, which if you haven’t read you can catch up with the paperback or ebook. What to Expect inside… After Sangre Road comes to a dead-end […]

Book Release: Payback Is Forever by Nick Kolakowski

We a please to announce the release of “Payback Is Forever” by Nick Kolakowski. A throwback pulp novel in the vein of Donald Westlake’s Parker with the unique origin as an experiment in AI and seeing what a career’s worth of writing could produce when fed into an algorithm with certain prompts and parameters. The […]