On a Dark Road to Nowhere

Love pulp fiction?

Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it! 

I’m pleased to announce that my short story, On a Dark Road to Nowhere, is part of a great new pulp anthology, Dawn of the Monsters, the first in the Amazing Monster Tales series. Better yet, I am in great company!

11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more.  Some monsters you’ve seen before…

And some of them you haven’t!

Some monsters are the good guys…

And some of them are very, very bad indeed!

Featuring stories by:

Dean Wesley Smith • Ron Collins • P. D. Cacek • Mark Leslie • Steve Vernon • Annie Reed • Sèphera Girón • Rebecca M. Senese • Marcelle Dubé • Jamie Ferguson • DeAnna Knippling

DAWN OF THE MONSTERS

This volume, DAWN OF THE MONSTERS, features trolls, goblins, creeps, mad scientists, vampires, aliens, Frankenstein, a very nasty ex-girlfriend, a mysterious egg, a bargain you can’t refuse, something dark and mysterious that lives underground, and a disgusting, evil beast straight out of the swamp!

We can’t promise that these tales won’t make you think…but they’ll grab you by your sense of adventure and take you for a ride!

NEXT ISSUE

Look for MONSTER ROAD TRIP…and wear your shades!

BUY HERE!

In the Christmas mood…

Every year, I try to write a Christmas short story because I love Christmas and, frankly, these Christmas short stories are the closest I ever get to being romantic. This year’s offering is set in the Mendenhall Mystery series. Here’s the blurb for “Trepalli’s Christmas”:

It’s Christmas eve day and Constable Marco Trepalli of the Mendenhall Police Department can’t wait to be off shift. He’s planning a big surprise for his girlfriend, Amanda. Something special. Something romantic.

Then a kid doesn’t return home after sledding and Trepalli forgets all about his plans in the mad scramble to mobilize search parties and interview the kid’s friends. And as hour after hour slips by with no sign of the boy, Trepalli braces himself for what could turn into the worst Christmas ever… for him and the kid’s family.

Amazon.ca: https://amzn.to/2Q3SE0u;  Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/2BcidUM

Barnes & Noble, Apple: https://www.books2read.com/u/m2vDp7

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2DK5trg

The Shoeless Kid available for free

In honour of the upcoming publication of the trade paperback of The Shoeless Kid, the first in my Mendenhall Mystery series, I’m making the ebook free for a limited time. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s your chance to see where Kate’s story began.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EBK9Fv

Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iBooks: https://www.books2read.com/u/b62qYM

 

The Saffron Curse

My latest short story, “The Saffron Curse,” is among a bunch of excellent stories (even if I do say so myself) in the latest issue of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic. I just received my copies and am very proud to be included with these writers, especially Robin Carson!

I have no idea where the idea for Saffron came from, but it was a lot of fun to write!

 

No, I’m not excited…

On August 18, I’ll be part of a panel discussion at Bolen Books, in Victoria, with Liz Freeland, Janice MacDonald and LAURIE R. KING!!! No, I’m not excited. 🙂

The panel will be moderated by the wonderful S.G. Wong and the topic is Author Alchemy: Spinning Facts into Fiction Gold.

The panel comes at the end of the Sisters in Crime Canada West Writers Retreat, which takes place that same day. The panel is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the doors open at 6:30 p.m.

BOLEN BOOKS is at #111 – 1644 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC

Come join us!