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My brother and sister-in-law’s cat Francis is a big fan of Dying Is My Business.

This might be the most amazing Goodreads review of Dying Is My Business yet. It’s always nice when a reader gets what you’re doing!

Written with uncommon self-awareness, DYING IS MY BUSINESS is an urban fantasy that frequently satirizes the conventions of fantasy, noir, and horror….By acknowledging typical non-genre readers’ assumptions about his material and even poking fun at it himself, Kaufmann effectively offers himself as a reliable, entertaining tour guide to the “shadow world” of genre his novel occupies. 

Click through to read the whole thing (warning: contains very minor spoilers). It may be the most in-depth critical reading the novel has ever gotten!

Here’s your chance to win an ebook of Dying Is My Business, as well as 19 other urban fantasy novels! And a Nook Simple Touch to boot!

New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak runs an annual online auction for diabetes research, which instantly makes her awesome in my mind. Author Mia Marshall, also awesome, has donated a Nook Simple Touch pre-loaded with 20 urban fantasy novels by the likes of Rachel Caine, Linda Grimes, and yours truly.

So how can you get your paws on it? Go here and bid! (This page also has a list of which novels are included.) It’s for a good cause, and you might just wind up with 20 awesome urban fantasy novels you’ve never read before! The auction goes until May 31st, so get in there and get bidding!

Mystery Scene Magazine, the oldest, largest, and most authoritative guide to the crime fiction genre, has printed a late-breaking but extremely positive review of Dying Is My Business. Here’s a pull-quote:

Although Nicholas Kaufmann’s dark fantasy/urban noir Dying Is My Business is set in the Big Apple, it is a version of that metropolis that has rarely been seen before…The story moves forward at a blistering pace…If you’re in the mood for a fast, funny, inventive, and compelling read, your search is over. I strongly encourage you to check this one out.

Click on the excerpt to see the whole review. If you haven’t bought a copy of Dying Is My Business yet, what are you waiting for? (Also the sequel, Die and Stay Dead, is coming out September 30th! You don’t want to fall behind, do you?)