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Wake-Up Call

Hard Times Blues reads like a wake-up call; a collection of remarkable stories that are as ambitious as they are personal. Cotman is a first-class stylist with a heart and a wit to match. He knows how to make us want to follow him and his marvelous characters down into the lovelorn, maddening, and scary places we already inhabit but so rarely recognize.

Paul Tremblay, author of Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye

Not pre-ordering Hard Times Blues is a nightmare from which you are trying to awake. Take the red pill.

Also, Print Playa & HTB cover artist Dan McCloskey was interviewed recently for this Forbes article on print in the digital age.