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Norm Cowie

Born: 1958 in Baltimore, Maryland
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: I escaped from Michigan after college and moved to the Chicago area where there weren't oustanding warrants on me . . . just kidding. I was transferred to Illinois where I soon learned to love cornfields.

Biography: I have three published fantasy/humor books, the Young Adult humor/vampire book, ''Fang Face'', ''The Adventures of Guy … written by a guy (probably)'' and the Preditors & Editor’s Reader’s Choice winner for best Sci-Fi Fantasy, ''The Next Adventures of Guy … more wackiness''. In addition, my short stories appear in the anthologies ''Heat of the Moment'' and ''Missing'' where all profits go to charity.In the real world I am vice president of an electrical supply company, a business lecturer and award-winning business humor columnist, where I get in trouble for calling attorneys names like “poo poo head” and ‘weasels’ and stuff like that. So far they haven’t sued me (though my publishers probably wouldn’t mind the publicity). I have also written humor articles that have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and Cynic Magazine. They haven’t sued me either.In the real world, I'm married, with two critters … er … daughters (weird beings who pretend to be women) and a bunch of critters that I'm allergic to.


Awards:
  • -- Best Sci-Fi Fantasy (Preditors and Editors), ''The Next Adventures of Guy''
  • -- Best Article - National Assn Credit Mgmt., ''collection of business articles''

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers; Young adult readers

Email: n.cowie@comcast.net
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=1065734421&ref=ts
Website: http://www.normcowie.com
Norm Cowie on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=norm+cowie


Selected Titles

  Bonk :
ISBN: 9781491574553 OCLC: 416860145

A whimsical assessment of the science of sexual physiology considers the lighter side of such topics as the arousal of cadavers, mythologies about a woman's ability to experience orgasm, and the ineffectiveness of Viagra on female pandas.

  Bonk and Hedz :
ISBN: 1461175135 OCLC: 779486921

[CreateSpace], [United States] : ©2011.

Fang face
ISBN: 9781493791903 OCLC: 1057703015

As if being a teenager doesn't suck enough. Erin has been bitten by a vampire, twice. As she starts slipping into the dark side, horrible things start happening, like pizza doesn't taste good anymore. Worse, she gets outed as a vampire during a dodge ball game at school. Her friends and family learn one more bite will turn her Undead forever, so they arm themselves with stakes and garlic to protect her from the vampires that want to turn her into a coffin sleeper forever.--

Fang face /
ISBN: 1590806204 OCLC: 465490631

Quake, Laurel, Md. : ©2009.

The adventures of Guy :
ISBN: 1933157089 OCLC: 69018279

Draumr Publishing, LLC, Columbia, MD. : ©2006.

Join Guy and his roommates Thurman and Knob, plus a comely Amazon (whose breasts, like the Big Gulp, are too big for the cup holder) on their Quest to get his little brother's brain back from sinister forces who actually believe a teenager's brain is worth something more than just playing Playstation. A Quest where they run into monsters too horrible to mention here ... but we'll give you a hint ... think "plumber's butt."

  The adventures of Guy :
ISBN: 1456590618 OCLC: 743233844

[publisher not identified], [United States] : [2011]

Join Guy and his roommates Thurman and Knob, plus a comely Amazon (whose breasts, like the Big Gulp, are too big for the cup holder) on their Quest to get his little brother's brain back from sinister forces who actually believe a teenager's brain is worth something more than just playing Playstation. A Quest where they run into monsters too horrible to mention here ... but we'll give you a hint ... think "plumber's butt."

The guy'd book :
ISBN: 9781453664209 OCLC: 739992593

Norm Cowie, [Place of publication not identified] : [2010]

Here's what guys are like, and what they think about-- during those rare moments they're thinking. This book is about -- Guys who know how to use tools and, (gasp) read instruction manuals (they aren't really guys). How guys don't lie-- ever-- and no, it's not a zit on my nose. I was bitten by the rare winter mosquito. Guys who watch beer commercials because we really need to know if they were triple-hops brewed, not because there are scantily clad women prancing around. How bald guys are the most macho of the macho, with hormone levels jacking our manliness into the stratosphere. Why cleavage makes us forget-- what was I going to say? And other stuff.

The Next Adventures of Guy :
ISBN: 9781933157191 OCLC: 156829193

Draumr Publishing, Columbia, Maryland : ©2007.

  Werewoof /
ISBN: 146099020X OCLC: 739103245

N. Cowie, Crestwood, IL : ©2011.

"When their friend Erin is taken by vampires, Trug and his friends strike an uneasy truce with a pack of werewolves to find the pointy tooth villains and save her. Everything unravels when the werewolves betray them, Nevin and Trug are converted into weredogs and their bat goes missing. Now the two dogs have to use their newfound powers of Kibbles and Bits to battle turncoat werewolves and bloodsucking demons without the benefit of opposable thumbs"--Amazon.

 

 

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