Writing Update

My next novella, THE LAST PORNO THEATER, is scheduled for a late June/early July release from Grindhouse Press. One early review says:

"Nick Cato has done it again -- he brings the strange like no one else can.  THE LAST PORNO THEATER is a wild ride of smut n' sleaze and WTF weirdness told from the POV of a native New Yawker who obviously loves his city as much as he misses the days when '42nd Street' was more than just another number.  Fun stuff with a capital F!"

        - James Newman          (author of MIDNIGHT RAIN, ANIMOSITY, and UGLY AS SIN)
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SATANIC CELLULOID: A GUIDE TO 1970s OCCULT CINEMA, a year-by-year examination by me and Sheri Sebastian Gabriel, is coming along quite nicely, and we expect this to be the ultimate authority on the subgenre. We're currently tackling films released in 1975 and 76, and hope to have the first draft finished sometime mid-summer. Besides film reviews, there will also be a couple of essays and (hopefully) interviews with actors and directors who contributed to the 70s occult film outbreak.
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I began work on a short story titled THE SMALL INTESTINES OF LOWER MANHATTAN, which is taking on a larger size than I had intended. The tale deals with two middle-aged buddies (one an artist, the other a slacker) who befriend a nun who moonlights as a camera operator at a local cable access channel. It's a quirky modern beatnik tale that continues to grow stranger by the minute. I might change the title to CHANNEL 79, after the aforementioned cable station.
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My press, NOVELLO PUBLISHERS, is set to released Peter N. Dudar's hysterically creepy novella BLOOD CULT OF THE BOOBY FARMERS. Check the Novello page as it should be available any day now. The novella features an introduction by author L.L. Soares and a great foreword by the author. ALSO, this fall will see the release of the full-length novel HARD by L.L. Soares...picture BOOGIE NIGHTS meets PULP FICTION (this will be released under a new imprint). It will be Novello Publishers' first original full-length novel release.
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My 2009 debut novel, DON OF THE DEAD, will be going out of print in June. Publisher Coscom Entertainment will be giving me the rights back on July 1st, and I've decided to release the second edition through Novello Publishers. Wheels are already in motion for an all-new edition, featuring new page layouts and a much needed updated cover. Hoping to have this out sometime this summer.