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
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!
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!
The Sci-Fi Stories — Space Opera Mashup anthology is now available for sale everywhere ebooks are sold. And next week, the print version will be available, too! Mashup includes 10 space opera short stories:
“Murder on Marawa Prime” by Vonnie Winslow Crist
“Astromancer” by Debbie Mumford
“One Universe is Never Enough” by Mary Jo Rabe
“A Little Old Fashioned” by Rita Schulz
“Funeral Sails” by Scott T. Barnes
“Station OSCX-9” by Marcelle Dubé
“GENIE and the LAMP” by Steph Bennion
“Runaway” by Barbara G.Tarn
“Seeking Sky” by Jennifer R. Baumer
“Final Chapter” by Randy Tatano
I’m quite pleased that my story, “Station OSCX-9,” (one of my few SF stories — let alone space opera!) is in such good company!
You can get your copy for only $4.99 at http://books2read.com/u/4AY5XN
Hallelujah.
It’s done. Finished. Wrapped up.
Well, okay, only the first draft, but still, it has THE END actually written down.
Plague Year is the second in my A’lle Chronicles Mystery series and it’s been five years in the writing. Not that it actually took five years to write, you understand. I started it five years ago. In between then and now, I wrote four novels (The Untethered Woman, The Forsaken Man, Shelter, Ghosts of Morocco) and ten short stories. So I’ve been busy. But still… five years is a long time to have characters waiting impatiently for you to get back to them.
To the left is the draft cover for Plague Year, though it may change before publication. I’ll announce here when Plague Year is available for pre-order. And, in case you’re curious, here’s the cover for the first in the series, Backli’s Ford. Here’s the write up for Backli’s Ford:
In the early 18th century, an A’lle generation ship crashed in the woods of Lower Canada. Survivors stumbled out of the wreckage to find French settlers working the land. While many of the colonists sheltered the injured A’lle, some reacted with fear and loathing. Two centuries later, nothing much has changed.
This is the world Constance A’lle, first A’lle investigator for Lower Canada, must deal with when she investigates the beating death of an A’lle boy in the small village of Backli’s Ford.
Set in 1911, Backli’s Ford follows Constance as she survives an ambush that would have killed a human, fights prejudice in the constabulary, and discovers a terrible secret that risks destroying the delicate balance that has endured for two centuries between A’lle and humans.
Now to get going on revisions…
Backli’s Ford links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ISf6ah
Kobo: https://bit.ly/2xlYmTi