Graveyard Shift, pitched as paranormal urban fantasy meets hard-boiled mystery noir, landed on my radar earlier this year and immediately had me salivating at its potential. Michael is a regular contributor to “The Long War” a premiere podcast and webcast dedicated to tabletop gaming, but especially to Warhammer 40,000. He has collected and played Grey Knights, Space Marines, Tyranids, Dark Eldar, Necrons, and Space Wolves. He devotes the largest share of the gaming pie to Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 tabletop game. He spends entirely too much time gaming or thinking (some might say ‘scheming’) about strategies and tactics in all kinds of gaming be it board games, computer games, or his passion, tabletop wargaming.

He has collected and made replica movie props for over twenty years and enjoys the way a particular collectible lets an individual connect with a meaningful story. Michael is represented by Sara Megibow of the KT Literary Agency and Adrian Garcia of the Paradigm Talent Agency. Lately, he devotes the bulk of his hobby time to assembling and painting miniatures for his tabletop wargaming addiction. When he isn’t writing, you can find him sharing stories with his role-playing group, cosplaying, computer gaming, or collecting and creating replica movie props. However, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror have whispered directly to his soul. He has written original stories for as long as he can remember and has dabbled in many genres. The art of storytelling called to him from a young age and he has plied his craft over many years and through diverse media. Air Force, he had the opportunities to serve as an ICBM crew commander and as a launch director at Cape Canaveral. Haspil is a geeky engineer and nerdy artist. Gritty urban fantasy and hard-boiled noir packed into a hand grenade of awesome! Mario Acevedo, author of Werewolf Smackdown

If they fail, the result will be a race-war bloodierthan any the world has ever seen. If they succeed, they'll be pariahs, hunted by everyone. While the city threatens to tear itself apart, Alex and Marcus must form an unnatural alliance with a vigilante gang and a shape-shifter woman in a desperate battle against an ancient vampire conspiracy. When someone starts poisoning the artificial blood, race relations between vampires and humans deteriorate to the brink of anarchy. They fight to keep the streets safe from criminal vampires, shape-shifters, blood-dealers, and anti-vampire vigilantes. Now, Alex and Marcus are vice cops in a special police unit. That was before the discovery of a blood substitute and a Supreme Court ruling allowed thousands of vampires to integrate into society. Police procedurals go supernatural in this gritty urban fantasy debutĪlex Menkaure, former pharaoh and mummy, and his vampire partner, Marcus, who was born in ancient Rome, once hunted evil vampires for UMBRA, a super-secret unit of the NSA.

Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil