David James Keaton's award-winning fiction has appeared in over 50 publications, including The Big Adios, Grift, Beat to a Pulp, Noir at the Bar II, and Pulp Modern. His first collection, Fish Bites Cop! Stories to Bash Authorities (Comet Press), was named the 2014 This Is Horror Short Story Collection of the Year and was a finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award. His first novel, The Last Projector (Broken River Books), was released in 2014. He lives in Kentucky with his wife, a furlong of western films, and an overflowing stable of senile felines.