Dogmeat by Justin Hamlin

And here's one of my own. By coincidence, the name of the dog on the front cover is 'Raffles'.

This is a collection of short stories I wrote between 1992 and 2014. As you might imagine, I had to polish the earlier ones up a bit. I try to deliver value, so there's 95,000 words in here - about the same length as an average-sized print novel, and considerably more than the average-sized eBook - spread among 30 stories.

The official blurb for this book reads "What is DOGMEAT? It's a young boy crouched trembling in a closet, waiting for the moment to stab a raging hooligan... it's a giant homeless simpleton, accompanied everywhere by the mysterious 'Kenny', searching frantically for refuge... it's macho transvestites nearing the end of their shift, aiming to hit the town in style... it's the Shankill Jedi Boys out marching with their lambeg drums and their light-sabres, hoping for a ruck... it's a biker gang attempting to cope with their leader being the reincarnation of a depraved Roman Emperor... it can only be a collection of Justin Hamlin stories! All the above and twenty-five others are to be found in DOGMEAT. You've never read anything like it."

What can I say, a man's got to promote himself. And on a further positive note, it doesn't have any zombies in it. And it's not post-apocalyptic. And there aren't any shopping scenes. And no one grows up agonizing over not being able to get laid. Well, not much anyway.

This is published on SmashWords for just four US dollars, although if you've got a Kindle device and come from England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada or Australia it's probably better to go to Amazon instead. Both Smashwords and Amazon offer sampling, so you can try-before-you-buy. Oh, what am I saying? Just buy the bloody thing...