Urbantasm Media

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INTERVIEW: Hypertext Magazine publishes One Question answered by Connor Coyne (Summer 2022)

ARCHIVE: Photos from the Urbantasm book tour to Chicago in December 2018. (June 27, 2022)

INTERVIEW: Tom Sumner interviews Connor Coyne about Urbantasm, Book Four: The Spring Storm for the Tom Sumner Program (May 10, 2022)

INTERVIEW: A recording of the digital launch of Urbantasm, Book Four: The Spring Storm, moderated by Jan Worth-Nelson. (May 5, 2022)

PRESS-RELEASE FOR DOWNLOAD: Award-Winning Flint Novel Concludes this May with “A Spring Storm.” (PDF) (April 28, 2022)

INTERVIEW: Radio Free Flint publishes an Interview with Connor Coyne via Spotify, Audible, and Apple Podcasts. A short video clip is also available on YouTube. (April 12, 2022)

MAP: Updated for Urbantasm, Book Four: The Spring Storm. (April 4, 2022)

MUSIC: Here’s a playlist of some wonderful music that informed and inspired Urbantasm, Book Four: The Spring Storm. (February 16, 2022)
On YouTube.
Review by acclaimed Flint-based DJ Michael Absher.

INTERVIEW: Paranormalists publishes an Interview with Connor Coyne (November 1, 2021)

ESSAY: How to Nightwalk Like a Pro on I Smell Sheep (October 22, 2021)

EXCERPT: A Bewitching Guide to Halloween publishes an excerpt from Urbantasm, Book Three: The Darkest Road (October 14, 2021)

INTERVIEW: JB’s Bookworms publishes an Interview with Connor Coyne (October 8, 2021)

INTERVIEW: Tom Sumner interviews Connor Coyne about Urbantasm for the Tom Sumner Program (September 21, 2021)

PRESS-RELEASE FOR DOWNLOAD: Book Three in the Urbantasm saga is “an often gripping evocation of the throes of a struggling city.” (PDF) (September 16, 2021)

REVIEW COPIES: NetGalley will be hosting review copies of Urbantasm, Book One: The Dying City until March 15, 2022.  If you don’t have a NetGalley account, contact me to request a copy. (September 13, 2021).

INTERVIEW: John Brent Wilson interviews Connor Coyne about Urbantasm for AllPointsTV (September 9, 2021)

MAP: Updated for Urbantasm, Book Three: The Darkest Road. (September 7, 2021)

MUSIC: Here’s a playlist of some wonderful music that informed and inspired Urbantasm, Book Three: The Darkest Road. (July 20, 2021)
On Spotify.
Review by acclaimed Flint-based DJ Michael Absher.

INTERVIEW: Motown Writers Networks published Featured Writer Connor Coyne (May 2021)

EXCERPT: Welcome to Ninth Grade from Urbantasm, Book Three: The Darkest Road (February 18, 2021)

INTERVIEW: Hypertext Magazine publishes One Question answered by Connor Coyne (October 14, 2019)

EXCERPT: Hypertext Magazine publishes an excerpt from Urbantasm, Book Two: The Empty Room (October 14, 2019)

INTERVIEW: JB’s Bookworms with Brandy Mulder publishes an Interview with Connor Coyne (October 11, 2019)

INTERVIEW: Supernatural Central publishes an Interview with Connor Coyne (October 7, 2019)

GUEST BLOG: Creatively Green published How to Enjoy Your Michigan Cottage Garden from January to December (October 4, 2019)

GUEST BLOG: I Smell Sheep publishes How to Tell and Show Like a Champ (September 30, 2019)

BONUS EXCERPT: Solidarity Forever! from Urbantasm: Book Two, The Empty Room (September 15, 2019)

EXCERPT: TJ Did the Work from Urbantasm: Book Two, The Empty Room (September 12, 2019)

EXCERPT: A Note from the Jewel from Urbantasm: Book Two, The Empty Room (September 12, 2019)

EXCERPT: The True Story of the Michigan Coney Island from Urbantasm: Book Two, The Empty Room (August 22, 2019)

MUSIC: Here’s a playlist of some wonderful music that informed and inspired Book 2: Urbantasm: The Empty Room. (August 15, 2019)
On YouTube.
On Spotify.
Review by acclaimed Flint-based DJ Michael Absher.

PRESS-RELEASE FOR DOWNLOAD: Book Two in the Urbantasm saga is a magical teen noir serial novel dealing with young love and violence in a decaying Rust Belt city. (PDF) (August 8, 2019)

INTERVIEW: Gary Fisher interviews Connor Coyne and Boyd Craven for Fish and the Flint Chronicles (July 31, 2019)

NEWS: Urbantasm: The Dying City is selected for the New School 2019 Alumni Summer Reading List (June 4, 2019)

NEWS: Urbantasm: The Dying City wins 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Young New Adult Fiction (May 20, 2019)

INTERVIEW: Pulp publishes Connor Coyne’s Novel Urbantasm: The Dying City Deals in Nuances, not Dichotamies, About His Flint Hometown, by Patti Smith (May 15, 2019)

NEWS: 2018 – 2019 Book Tour announced for Urbantasm, Book 2: The Empty Room. (April 23, 2019)

INTERVIEW: John Brent Wilson interviews Connor Coyne about Urbantasm for AllPointsTV (March 28, 2019)

ESSAY: When You’re Praying, Don’t Fuck Around on The Open End (March 26, 2019)

2018-2019 TOUR POSTMORTEM: The Wisdom of the Cities (March 26, 2019)

INTERVIEW: Tom Sumner interviews Connor Coyne about Urbantasm for WFOV 92.1 Flint (February 19, 2019)

COVER REVEAL: The cover for Urbantasm, Book 2: The Empty Room. (January 1, 2019)

INTERVIEW: The Chicago Word with Sam Larsen interviews Connor about Urbantasm for WHPK 88.5 FM Chicago. (December 26, 2018)

VIDEO from the December 2018 Tuesday Funk reading, at Hopleaf Bar in Chicago, Illinois. (December 4, 2019)

NEWS: Fupping.com includes Urbantasm: The Dying City in its 7 Awesome Fiction Books to Read This Christmas 2018. (November 9, 2018)

INTERVIEW: WOCA, The Source Radio hosts a live interview about Urbantasm. (November 2, 2018)

GIVEAWAY: Book Bite Reviews hosts a book giveaway. (September 22, 2018)

VIDEO and PHOTOS of the Urbantasm Launch Party, at Totem Books in Flint, Michigan. (September 20, 2018)

INTERVIEW: Belt Magazine publishes Beyond Good and Bad: A Conversation with Connor Coyne, by Kelsey Ronan (September 11, 2018)

INTERVIEW: Hypertext Magazine publishes  One Question answered by Connor Coyne (September 9, 2018)

EXCERPT: Hypertext Magazine publishes an excerpt from Urbantasm: The Dying City (September 9, 2018)

IMAGE: Urbantasm: The Dying City, final cover, front-and-back (August 28, 2018)

EXCERPT: Belt Magazine publishes an excerpt from Urbantasm: The Dying City (August 24, 2018)

Darcie Rowan PR: PRESS RELEASE FOR DOWNLOAD! (PDF) (June 19, 2018)

IMAGE: Urbantasm: The Dying City Word Cloud (January 23, 2018)

MAP FOR DOWNLOAD! (JPEG)

AUTHOR PHOTO FOR DOWNLOAD! (JPEG)

MUSIC: Here’s a playlist of some wonderful music that informed and inspired Book 1: Urbantasm: The Dying City.
On YouTube.
On Spotify.

VIDEO: Connor reading Urbantasm: The Dying City, from Chapter 25 (December 11, 2017)

VIDEO: Connor reading Urbantasm: The Dying City, Chapter 21 at Greater Flint Creative Alliance Collab Night Open Mic · Good Beans Cafe, Flint, MI (October 18, 2017)

ARCHIVE: Urbantasm.Com: Urbantasm: A Romance of Industrial America. Book Cover (Late 1996) (October 13, 2017)

ARCHIVE: Urbantasm.Com: An Urbantasm, A Play (Early 1996) (October 6, 2017)

PRESS RELEASE: ConnorCoyne.com: Urbantasm to be published! (September 22, 2017)

VIDEO: Connor reading Urbantasm: The Dying City, Chapters 1-2 at Tuesday Funk Reading Series · Hopleaf Bar, Chicago, IL (December 6, 2016)