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A Tattoo And A Review Featuring, Action - Pulse Pounding Tales by Matt Hilton

Today I'm at Malefic Tattoos getting inked by not only Fabien, by my daughter Sam (the kid as I affectionately refer to her) and tattoo apprentice extraordinaire.

I've got Matt Hilton's Action - Pulse pounding Tales Vol 1 rocking my iPad to cope with the pain. The only thing distracting me is reading about other people's pain in this collection of deadly short crime stories about bad people doing bad things, usually to other bad people.
Did I say pain? Yes, in spite of the pharmaceuticals in m...

A Tattoo And A Review Featuring Pulp Ink 2

Meet Daniel. He stopped in Malefic Tattoos for a six hour session the other day on his full colour phoenix sleeve. So I put my iPad in his hands and had him take a look at Pulp Ink 2, just released last week by Snubnose Press.

Daniel doesn't read much noir or crime fiction. He reads biographies and he reads whatever his mom gives him, he says. Well, I did my best to lure him away from Mama's recommendations over to the dark side of fiction with these gritty stories of murder and mayhem. Sorry...

Review - Richard Godwin's Mr. Glamour

Richard Godwin is another of those talented British crime writers I've come to love. His style is unique--bold and gritty and entirely compelling. His second novel, Mr. Glamour (Black Jackal Books), is a dark and disturbing murder mystery with just the right amount of terror and suspense to keep you up late at night.

The police are on the trail of a cunning serial killer hunting London’s rich and famous, leaving a blood bath in his wake. A psychologically broken serial killer (aren’t they all...

Coloured Folk Invade Downtown Toronto

The 14th annual Northern Ink Exposure rolled into Toronto this weekend, held at the downtown Hilton, and brought a wave of coloured people to the event. This is the place where the audience is also the attraction with the vast majority of exposed skin being all sleeved up.

Malefic Tattoos had a booth this year and Fabien was tattooing up a storm. When he wasn't working hard he was playing harder at the after parties with the likes of the Detroit's legendary artist Bob Tyrrell.

If you have nev...

My Daughter The Tattoo Artist...

Meet my daughter Sam. She just started tattooing a couple of weeks ago. After doing a few small free ones on her friends, she decided to tattoo herself. It's a strange thing to tattoo oneself. I know, I've done it before just to see what it was like. I did a very small bee on my foot and it was definitely weird.

So when Sam said she was going to tattoo herself and showed me a picture of a rather large bee that she wanted to put on her leg, I gave her that mother look. You know the one, that...

An Evening Of Mystery At Ben McNally Books

The fabulous Ben McNally Books downtown Toronto, along with ECW Press, hosted a fun evening with some of Canada's coolest crime writers.
John McFetridge entertained everyone reading an excerpt from his latest book, Tumblin' Dice.

John's a great guy and a fantastic writer. Check out the review I did recently for Tumblin' Dice over at Spinetingler.

John McFetridge has written a number of crime novels all based in Toronto: Dirty Sweet, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Swap and now Tumblin' Dice,...

A Tattoo And A Review, Featuring Drunk On The Moon

Werewolves are always getting a bad rap. In movies and in stories the werewolf is typically portrayed as a vicious creature to be feared and loathed. But according to Eric, who came into Malefic Tattoos today to continue the work on his reverse tribal full leg piece, werewolves are just misunderstood.

"As long as they only kill the bad guy, it's fine," says Eric as he paused from reading Paul D. Brazill's Drunk On The Moon, werewolf PI anthology.

Eric said he liked how Drunk On The Moon has a...

Two Killer Anthologies...

I'm honoured to have stories in both of these amazing anthologies with some very hot crime writers.

The first one is Burning Bridges, A Renegade Fiction Anthology. It's a compilation of fifteen short stories featuring writers:

Allan Leverone, Paul D. Brazill, Julia Madeleine, Heath Lowrance, K.A. Laity, Mark Cooper, Darren Sant, George S. Geisinger, McDroll, Edith M. Maxwell, Benjamin Sobieck, Tace Baker, Joshua J. Mark, L. Vera, and B.R. Stateham

You can get Burning Bridges on Amazon for 99 ce...

A Tattoo And A Review Featuring, Allan Leverone

One of our favourite clients, Teresa, was back today at Malefic Tattoos for some more inking on her Japanese sleeve by Fabien. Teresa enjoyed a few stories from Allan Leverone's dark collection Postcards From The Apocalypse.

Teresa said she really liked that Allan's stories are all so varied. Her favourite story in the collection is Suspicions, about a serial killer.

"It reminds me of the TV series Dexter, with that twist at the end," says Teresa.

Teresa works as a prison guard in Toronto. So...

The Truth About Scarlet Rose Killer Blog Tour Schedule

April 16th: Cafe of Dreams - book review
April 18th: Life In Review - book review
April 19th: Daz's Place - interview
April 23: Psycho Noir - interview
April 26th: Crime Fiction Lover - book review
April 27th: Jersey Girl Book Reviews - book review and guest post
April 30th/May1st: Musings of an All-purpose Monkey - book review and guest post
May 1st: Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse - interview
May 4nd: Limerence Magazine - book review
May 7th: Lynnette's Book World - book review
May 10th: The Eclectic...