Drew Hayes Books

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Drew Hayes is an American author that writes science fiction and fantasy novels. He has gone out of his way to remind people that he is alive. This is because Drew Hayes, the writer and graphic artist responsible for ‘Poison Elves,’ died in 2007.

Order of Fred, the Vampire Accountant Series

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1 The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant 2014 Description / Buy
2 Undeath and Taxes 2015 Description / Buy
3 Bloody Acquisitions 2016 Description / Buy
4 The Fangs of Freelance 2017 Description / Buy
5 Deadly Assessments 2018 Description / Buy
6 Undeading Bells 2019 Description / Buy
7 Out of House and Home 2021 Description / Buy
8 Posthumous Education 2022 Description / Buy

Order of 5-Minute Sherlock Series

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1 The Case of the Damaged Detective 2019 Description / Buy
2 The Case of the Haunted Haunted House 2021 Description / Buy
3 The Case of the Felonious Faire 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Spells, Swords, & Stealth Series

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1 NPCs 2014 Description / Buy
2 Split the Party 2015 Description / Buy
3 Going Rogue 2016 Description / Buy
4 Siege Tactics 2018 Description / Buy
5 Noble Roots 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Super Powereds Series

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1 Super Powereds: Year 1 2013 Description / Buy
2 Super Powereds: Year 2 2013 Description / Buy
3 Super Powereds: Year 3 2015 Description / Buy
4 Super Powereds: Year 4 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Super Powereds Spinoff Series

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1 Corpies 2016 Description / Buy

Order of Villains' Code Series

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1 Forging Hephaestus 2017 Description / Buy
2 Bones of the Past 2020 Description / Buy
3 Chilling Reflections (Short Story) 2025 Description / Buy

Order of Drew Hayes Standalone Novels

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1 Pears and Perils 2013 Description / Buy
2 Second Hand Curses 2017 Description / Buy
3 A Decade of Death and Decisions 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Drew Hayes Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Aliens Wrecked Our Kegger (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
2 Holly's Jolly Christmas (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Drew Hayes Non-Fiction Books

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1 Deathreats: The Life and Times of a Comic Book Rock Star 2009 Description / Buy
2 Underqualified Advice 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Shingles Audio Collections Series

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1 Shingles Audio Collection Volume 1 ( With: John G. Hartness, Rick Gualtieri, Steve Wetherell, Robert Bevan) 2018 Description / Buy
2 Shingles Audio Collection Volume 2 ( With: John G. Hartness, Rick Gualtieri, Steve Wetherell, Robert Bevan) 2019 Description / Buy
3 Shingles Audio Collection Volume 3 ( With: Steve Wetherell, Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
4 Shingles Audio Collection Volume 4 ( By: John G. Hartness, Rick Gualtieri, Steve Wetherell, Robert Bevan, Cassandra Myles, Cal Wembly) 2020 Description / Buy
5 Shingles Audio Collection Volume 5 ( By: John G. Hartness, Rick Gualtieri, E.M. Kaplan, Steve Wetherell, Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
6 Shingles Audio Collection, Volume 6 ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
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Order of Shingles Series

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1 The Ghost of Hooker Alley (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2018 Description / Buy
2 Gary's Children ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2018 Description / Buy
3 The Monkey's Penis ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2018 Description / Buy
4 Aliens Wrecked Our Kegger (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
5 Zombies Ate My Homework ( By: John G. Hartness) 2018 Description / Buy
6 The Legend of Jimmy Headshot ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2018 Description / Buy
7 Terror on Hypo Beach (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2018 Description / Buy
8 Put Your Hand In My Ass ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2018 Description / Buy
9 Demon Load ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2018 Description / Buy
10 Slaughter on Giggletime Mountain ( By: Drew Hayes) 2018 Description / Buy
11 It Came From My Butthole (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2018 Description / Buy
12 Slow Ride ( By: John G. Hartness) 2018 Description / Buy
13 Wax On, Whacks Off (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2018 Description / Buy
14 Sense and Sensibility and Sasquatch ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2019 Description / Buy
15 Space Werewolf from Planet Sex ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2019 Description / Buy
16 Welcome to Camp Crystal Meth (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2019 Description / Buy
17 They Came from Studio 13 ( By: Drew Hayes) 2019 Description / Buy
18 Curse of the Three-Eyed Squid (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2019 Description / Buy
19 Carnival of Psychos ( By: John G. Hartness) 2019 Description / Buy
20 That Time of the Month (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2019 Description / Buy
21 The Sober Slayers ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2019 Description / Buy
22 I Know What You Dicked Last Summer ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2019 Description / Buy
23 Just Say Gnome (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2019 Description / Buy
24 Jingle My Balls ( By: John G. Hartness) 2019 Description / Buy
25 Stranger's Thing (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
26 Jizz World ( By: Rick Gualtieri) 2020 Description / Buy
27 The Shingling ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2020 Description / Buy
28 The Haunting of Whore House (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
29 Snatched: Grandma Annie and the Cooter of Doom ( By: John G. Hartness) 2020 Description / Buy
30 28 Dicks Later ( By: E.M. Kaplan) 2020 Description / Buy
31 Alien vs ASS ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
32 Thicker Than Blood (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
33 Action Kadabra ( By: Drew Hayes) 2020 Description / Buy
34 Jack-O-Pumpkins (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
35 G.I.R.L.: Guy in Real Life ( By: R.E. Carr) 2020 Description / Buy
36 The Little Arsonist Girl (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
37 The Mummy's Curse (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2020 Description / Buy
38 Valley of the Sex Dolls ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2021 Description / Buy
39 The Wing (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
40 Deader Than Hell: Shingles Book 40 ( By: John G. Hartness) 2021 Description / Buy
41 Whiz Kid (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
42 Pearls Before Swine ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
43 Silent But Deadly Hill ( By: Steve Wetherell) 2021 Description / Buy
44 G.I.R.L 2: The Author Needed More Money ( By: R.E. Carr) 2021 Description / Buy
45 Secret of the Old Cock (Short Story) ( By: E.M. Kaplan) 2021 Description / Buy
46 My Mom is a Bunch of Cockroaches (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
47 Cluck You! ( By: R.E. Carr) 2021 Description / Buy
48 Holly's Jolly Christmas (Short Story) 2021 Description / Buy
49 Squid Match (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2021 Description / Buy
50 Some Body to Love (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
51 The Lepercorn (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
52 Something Borrowed, Someone Blew (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
53 Bite My H.O.Ass (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
54 A Hard Bargain (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
55 Jackin' the Beanstalk (Short Story) ( By: Robert Bevan) 2022 Description / Buy
56 G.I.R.L.3: Girl in the Hood ( By: R.E. Carr) 2022 Description / Buy
57 G.I.R.L.4: Combat Devolved ( By: R.E. Carr) 2022 Description / Buy
58 G.I.R.L. 5: Endblame ( By: R.E. Carr) 2022 Description / Buy
59 The Final GIRL (Part One) (Short Story) ( By: R.E. Carr) 2023 Description / Buy
60 The Final GIRL (Part Two) (Short Story) ( By: R.E. Carr, Authors and Dragons) 2023 Description / Buy
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Drew Hayes Anthologies

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1 The Good Fight 2014 Description / Buy
2 Villains 2015 Description / Buy
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Hayes, who was overweight, died of a heart attack at the age of 37. Drew Hayes, the fantasy author, noticed that some search engines would occasionally pair pictures of his face with articles detailing the death of Drew Hayes, the graphic artist.

Because people kept contacting the author to determine whether or not he was alive, Hayes decided to include a page on his website that specifically reminds people that he’s alive and well.
Hayes attended Texas Tech University, graduating with a BA in English. When he first decided to write fiction, Hayes wanted to produce serious, somewhat gritty urban fantasy in the vein of The Dresden Files.

However, early readers did not appreciate his work. From what they saw, the author’s style did not match the tone he wanted to create. Initially, Hayes resisted these opinions. But later on, he realized that his early readers were correct.

The most substantial aspect of his writing style was the humor, and he couldn’t deny the fact that he was better off leaning into the comedic elements of his stories instead of replicating the style of The Dresden Files. Today, people know Hayes primarily because of Fred the Vampire Accountant.

Hayes created the character because he was tired of Urban fantasy. The genre was filled with desperate, shy, socially awkward characters that became awesome, ass-kicking heroes after discovering their supernatural gifts. Most of the urban fantasy novels Hayes read followed this blueprint.

The author wanted to create a fictional world where a character became a vampire, but the transformation did nothing to change their personality. His goal was to show that human beings were averse to change and that the introduction of the supernatural could not produce the drastic transformations in character seen in most urban fantasy novels.

The books succeeded because of the humor. Hayes believes that he is naturally funny. However, that doesn’t make the writing process any easier. He has to write, edit, and rewrite his books to make them appear effortlessly funny. This is why he doesn’t buy the idea that an author has to be funny to write comedic stories.

From what he has seen, writers can do anything if they work hard enough. Hayes is well acquainted with the hard work that publishing entails. He doesn’t plot his stories out beforehand.

The author creates key checkpoints. But everything that happens between those checkpoints is fluid. As a result, he has to edit his manuscripts carefully to ensure that the final story flows cohesively.

Best Drew Hayes Books

One of the most challenging aspects of the publishing industry for the author is isolation. Because he spends so much time at home, Hayes cannot help but talk to himself. Hayes’ best books include:

NPCs: When the quest ends and the adventurers defeat their enemies, life doesn’t end. The adventurers will move on, but the NPCs have to stay behind. They have to keep the world running.

Four NPCs found themselves in an unexpected pickle. A night of drinking at a tavern took a wrong turn. When all was said and done, the NPCs had to make a decision.

They could sit back and watch as their town was destroyed, or they could pretend to be adventurers, arming themselves with salvaged equipment and marching to their death.

Super Powereds Year 1: Lander University is special. They offer the Hero Certification Program, a course that turns students with special powers into superheroes.

This year, Lander has accepted five newcomers with a unique set of challenges. They have powers. However, they also have a secret.

In this world, some students have superhuman abilities they can control. People call these students ‘Supers’. They are the cream of the crop. Others are called ‘Powereds’ because they have superhuman abilities, but they can’t control them.

No one wants to be a Powered because they are lesser beings, a burden rather than a blessing. If someone can identify a method of turning a Powered into an average human, or even a super, they will change everything.

When Does The Next Drew Hayes book come out?

The next book by Drew Hayes is A Decade of Death and Decisions and will be released on October, 19th 2024.

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