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Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

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in Orillia, Ontario, Canada

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Action, Horror, Thriller

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He's always had a fondness for different types of fantasy, having grown up on superhero cartoons, action and horror movies and anime. As he got older, he branched out, discovering more works in these and many other categories, including various forms of Hong Kong cinema, exploitation cinema, science fiction (especially cyberpunk and dystopian tales), various subgenres of horror, and what he considers the 'golden age' of action films, all of which have heavily influenced his imagination and writing/drawing style. He can't stay on a computer too long without opening Microsoft Word and writing something down, even if that computer doesn't belong to him; and if he has a pen and paper of some sort, he'll be drawing something for sure. Since he w ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 57 ratings · 32 reviews · 22 distinct works

	The Tea Party Affair 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Keep My True Love in the Basement One-Shot (Dark Brothers One-Shots, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clockworld One-Shot (Dark Brothers One-Shots, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Keep My True Love in the Basement/REMIX 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobalt Rogue, Vol. 1: The Dead Blue (The Final Apocalypse Saga, #1) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She Watches Me Bury Her (The Coldwater Tapes #1) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobalt Rogue, Vol. 2: Sky Japan Welcome Party (The Final Apocalypse Saga, #2) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobalt Rogue, Vol. 3: Cemetery Rumble, Part I (The Final Apocalypse Saga, #3) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cobalt Christmas: A Cobalt Rogue Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bodycam (The Coldwater Tapes #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson's Blog: Way to Stay "In the Know"

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Been a while since I've updated this. A lot has happened these past few years, a lot of it bad, some good. I'm alive, though, at least for now.

I have been writing and drawing almost nonstop and working on outlining a lot of stuff to keep things comprehensive. Cobalt Rogue will be seeing a lot of releases soon, now that I've been developing and fleshing out a lot of stuff for it in the past few yea Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

Dark Brothers One-Shots (3 books)
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The Final Apocalypse Saga (5 books)
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings

The Coldwater Tapes (4 books)
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Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson (Goodreads Author)

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings

Alexander is Currently Reading

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Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

by Frank Herbert

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Batman/Punisher: Lake of Fire #1

by Dennis O'Neil

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Dandadan, Vol. 19

by Yukinobu Tatsu

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Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Help with "Unknown Book" topic " Hello again. The other day I asked a kind librarian to move two future installments to a series I'm writing. All fine and good there, except now the f ...more "
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“I’m starting to wonder if taking hostages was such a good idea.”
― Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson, Dark-Boy, Vol. 1: The Dead Blue

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“So wait, shooting someone seventeen times isn't okay, but shooting him seventeen times with a fifteen-round magazine doesn't raise questions?”
― Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

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“I didn’t say I was gonna kill anyone, but come on. I’m the fucking Dead Blue. I didn’t get my reputation from slashing dandelions with a metre stick.”
― Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson, Dark-Boy, Vol. 2: Sky Japan Welcome Party

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