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Sawney Hatton

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Sawney Hatton is an author, editor, and screenwriter who has long loved taking trips to the dark side.

Weaned on a steady diet of paranormal horror and creature features, he quickly developed an appetite for all things macabre and monstrous. With early literary influences as tonally disparate as Stephen King’s PET SEMATARY, Evelyn Waugh’s THE LOVED ONE, and Marquis de Sade’s THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM, he enjoys fusing the sinister with the satirical, the abominable with the absurd.

Other incarnations of Sawney have produced marketing videos, attended all-night film fests, and played the banjo and sousaphone (not at the same time).

As of this writing he is still very much alive.

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Sawney Hatton Hi Cid. Glad you enjoyed the anthology. Mucho thanks for the review. Here’s the book's Amazon link:

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Hi Cid. Glad you enjoyed the anthology. Mucho thanks for the review. Here’s the book's Amazon link:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Heads-Terr...

Salud,
Sawney

PS My next novel is coming. I promise :)(less)
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Sawney’s Top 10 Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Films

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to create this list. I adore so many sci-fi/fantasy films. (Some of which instead ended up on my favorite films of all time list.) Next to horror, these two genres have had the most impact on my storytelling. Like horror, you can make up your own rules, build worlds from scratch, and comment on weighty things ranging from politics to human nature without

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"The short stories are a lot of things ‐ bizarre, funny, dark, heartwarming at times. And all of them are great. Sawney Hatton's dark comedy style flows with ease and blurs the lines in a delightful and satisfying way. 

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"The premise of the author falling in love with an addict, without really knowing what all that would entail, combined with the cover art had me hooked.

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Hannah Ah the social awkwardness of laughing at death, I'm sure it will make for a rather interesting final meeting with the grim reaper. Thank you for the invite :)


Sawney Hatton Dean wrote: "Thanks for the friendship, man. You play the banjo, AND aren't afraid of beavers? I envy you.

Pleasure meeting a fellow author on GR. I read some of your blog - it's hilarious!"


Thanks, Dean! Pleasure making your acquaintance too. And, btw, I didn’t say I wasn’t afraid of Giant Beavers. In fact, I fear them very much. But we must confront our fears to overcome them... or to capture them.


message 5: by Dean

Dean Blake Thanks for the friendship, man. You play the banjo, AND aren't afraid of beavers? I envy you.

Pleasure meeting a fellow author on GR. I read some of your blog - it's hilarious!


Sawney Hatton Sam wrote: "Just checked out your site. Probably going to have to give your novel a read, simply because of the Giant Beaver Quest story! lol Bravo!"

Thanks, Sam. Alas, no Giant Beavers (or even normal-sized ones) in my novel, but it does have tiny hairy people, blubbery giants, and other fantastically absurd nonsense. Hope you get the chance to read it.


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Sam Funderburk Just checked out your site. Probably going to have to give your novel a read, simply because of the Giant Beaver Quest story! lol Bravo!


Diana (Offbeat Vagabond) Thank you for the invite hon. Hope you have a great Wednesday :)


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Susie Sexton thanks for the add!


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