‘WARNING – CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE, SEXUAL CONTENT, AND SCENES OF VIOLENCE. SHOULD NOT BE READ BY ANYONE.’
So reads the back cover shout line.
I got a giggle, glance and uptight squint from a few people who noticed this, and the title, when reading it in public. A book can be a good person filter. I’ve discovered this over time with books. And, you can judge a book by it’s cover… or its radiated reaction it would seem. It drew the right sort in. The more interesting people, the kind I don’t mind so much, smiled and asked me about it early on.
So, I knew I was onto a good thing.
‘Very addictive. Very noir. Very dirty and real.’ – John Bowie
‘Motel Whore’s deliciously real seediness is both revolting and addictive; it left me needing the next hit; page, chapter, whore-tale and book.’ – John Bowie
As he recommended it himself; Fatboy – here I come.
PAUL’S BIO
Paul Heatley lives in the north east of England. His short stories have appeared online and in print for publications such as Thuglit, Horror Sleaze Trash, Spelk, Near to the Knuckle, Shotgun Honey, the Pink Factory, and the Flash Fiction Offensive, among others. He also contributes music reviews to R2 magazine, sometimes.
His fiction is dark and bleak, populated with misfits and losers on a hellbound descent, often eschewing genre and geography to create a nightmarish vision of a harsh and uncaring world.