My short story in the Masked Mosaic anthology, “The Man in the Mask,” in now available as a stand alone story. It’s part of the A’lle Chronicles, in which the A’lle crash-landed on Earth in the early 18th Century and have been trying to make a place for themselves among humans ever since. The events in “The Man in the Mask” pre-date the events in Backli’s Ford by a few years, but still involve a mystery.
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The lovely Shirley Wells invited me to be her first guest for her Getting to Know series. It’s up now on Shirley’s web site. We talk about country vs city, pets and bucket lists, and it was fun! If you’ve never encountered Shirley Wells before, let me introduce you. Shirley writes the Dylan Scott mystery series set in Northern England. A wonderful series, highly recommended.
My friends at Not Your Usual Suspects have organized a raffle. Until April 1, you can enter for a chance to win one of six mystery novels by Not Your Usual Suspect authors, including my own The Tuxedoed Man. this is a great opportunity to discover a new-to-you author, for free. Here are the stories on offer:
Drop by NYUS to enter, and good luck!
I may have died and gone to Heaven. The Fiction River anthology: Moonscapes has just been released and my short story, “The Verdant Gene,” is in it. Not only am I chuffed to have made it into a Fiction River anthology, but I am humbled at the company my story will be keeping there: Annie Reed, Steven Mohan, Jr., Scott William Carter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch… and that’s just to name a few.
Here’s the blurb:
We all look up at the moon and wonder. And maybe dream. For centuries, the moon filled our imaginations. Eleven professional writers took those dreams and set original stories on moons scattered all over the galaxy. Yet, as the dreams of centuries, every story holds a human touch. From a mythical man fulfilling a
childhood wish to a fantastic addition to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s bestselling Retrieval Artist series, this volume of Fiction River allows you to travel to eleven different moons without leaving the comfort of home.
Fiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology
series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for “original ground-breaking fiction of all genres.”
For more information on the Fiction River anthologies, visit: FictionRiver.com
Moonscapes is available as an ebook and as a trade paperback from regular retailers including: amazon.com, amazon.ca, barnesandnoble.com, kobo, chapters
I am very pleased to announce the publication of Jilimar. The inspirations for this one involved me getting up in the middle of the night and seeing a man sitting on the deck in the moonlight, with a sword across his lap. I blinked and he was gone, only to reappear as Cerdic in the novel. I’m happy with the story, and hope you will be, too.
When her husband Owen goes missing, Leah goes looking. To her shock, she finds herself on Jilimar, a world with no technology, flying monsters and a husband who is a stranger. But Leah won’t let anything keep her from getting Owen back home: not her growing fondness for this new world, not Owen’s new-found responsibilities, and not the kidnappers who take her hostage. Then she learns that the madness overtaking Jilimar may soon descend on her own world.
Jlimar is available immediately as an e-book at Smashwords, Amazon.com, and Amazon.ca. It will soon be available through Kobo and all other e-distributors. It will be coming out as a trade paperback in March.