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The kind folks at Vampire Book Club have posted a rave review of Dying Is My Business. Here’s the pull-quote to end all pull-quotes:

“Dying is My Business reminded me of The Bourne Identity with a massive fantasy kick.”

Holy smokes! Now that’s high praise! Read the rest of it at their website.

Writing a book is often a grueling, terrible experience, but seeing the finished product on bookshelves is a much better one! Why, it almost makes it worthwhile!

Here is my latest novel, Dying Is My Business, at the Court Street Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn! Right between Robin Sloan and Junot Diaz? I’ll take it! These copies are now signed, by the way. Go get ’em, Brooklynites!

Here it is at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in Manhattan. Their stock is signed now, too. Go pick one up, Manhattanites! Also, if you’re looking for Dying Is My Business and can’t find it in the Science Fiction & Fantasy section, that’s because B&N is stocking it in Fiction & Literature. What, doesn’t all literary fiction have magic spells, undead ninjas, gargoyles, and a dragon that lives in the sewer?

Also: author copies!

In related news, don’t forget the launch tonight at 7 p.m. at WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn! Be there or be…somewhere else, but you really should be there!

It’s finally here! Today is the book birthday of Dying Is My Business, now available from your favorite bookseller! Go forth, legions, and buy!

Also, just a reminder that I’ll be doing a reading and signing at WORD in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Come support me and an awesome indie bookstore at the same time!

In other news, The Qwillery is running an excerpt from Dying Is My Business today, and there’s a fun giveaway, too. If you’re one of the more than 1,200 people who entered the Goodreads giveaway but didn’t win a copy of the book, here’s another chance!

Last but not least, I want to thank you, my friends, family, and fans, for all your support over the years. I never would have seen this dream come true without you. I’ll never forget that.

Criminal Element has posted a great review of Dying Is My Business! But even more gratifying is the fact that they’re the first so far to pick up on the novel’s comic book influences. Here’s a snippet:

The Urban Fantasy story with its blend of the Sword and Sorcery and Crime/Detective genres has proven to be a potent and fun literary cocktail. That doesn’t mean though that the mix can’t be improved upon or revitalized by adding in new elements to spice things up. Nicholas Kaufmann proves that in his new novel Dying is My Business by throwing in some ideas and elements from an entirely different medium, comic books, specifically Marvel ones. These simple story-telling ideas pioneered by creators like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are just as effective in prose and blend together nicely with the Crime and Sword and Sorcery conventions to make Dying is My Business a fun and unique story.

There’s more at the site. It’s really quite an in-depth write-up. It’s especially nice when readers and critics really get where you’re coming from.