Getting Justice Storybundle

I’m thrilled to report that my “women’s thriller” novel, Shelter, is featured in the Getting Justice Storybundle for the next three weeks. I’m in excellent company, with seven other novels plus two short story collections, all featuring mysteries that deal with justice. Here’s what Curator Dean Smith has to say, in part, about the bundle:

JUSTICE: A GREAT WORD: by Dean Wesley Smith

I learned that if you ask a writer for a story about justice, you get all kinds of books and genres. But mostly when you say the word “Justice” you get mystery and crime fiction.

And that was fine by me. To be honest, that’s what I thought of when I started putting together a bundle of books with the theme “Getting Justice.”

Turns out the concept of justice isn’t so easy to define. I know, I ended up looking it up. The most common term in the many definitions is “fair.” For example, the best definition in my mind for the idea of justice is “the quality of being just, impartial, or fair…”

But when you add the word “Getting” in front of the word “Justice” it brings up an entirely different form of story.

For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.

  • Unexpected Good Guys by Annie Reed
  • Independent by Means of Magic by Kari Kilgore
  • Shelter by Marcelle Dubé
  • Justice by Fiction River

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular books, plus six more books, for a total of 10!

  • The Meter’s Always Running by C.A. Rowland
  • Help Me Nora by Diana Deverell
  • Beyond the Grave by R.W. Wallace
  • Death by Polka by Robert Jeschonek
  • Ace High by Dean Wesley Smith
  • Street Justice by Kris Nelscott

This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get multiple DRM-free formats (epub, mobi) for all books!

For Dean’s complete essay, visit storybundle.com.

Trolls, anyone?

If you like trolls—and who doesn’t?—you might want to check out another BundleRabbit bundle I’m in, Here be Trolls. Curator A.L. Butcher has assembled six novels and four short stories featuring trolls, including my own short story, “Troll Country.” It’s set in the Yukon because, really, where else would trolls live? I can’t wait to read the other stories in this bundle!

Here’s the write-up:

From nightmare monsters who enjoy dining on children to spiritual mystics in tune with the natural world, from gritty champions to peculiar cooks, from shy hermits to paladin mages—greenskins, trolls, and orcs feature as heroes or as villains in these 10 tales of magic, myth, and mayhem.

And here’s the table of contents:

Leah R. Cutter                   The Changeling Troll

Kristine Kathryn Rusch   Renn and the Little men

J.M. Ney-Grimm               The Tally Master

A.L. Butcher                       The Stolen Tower

Marcelle Dubé                   Troll Country

Charlotte E. English          The Road to Farringale

Blaze Ward                         Meat Shield

Stefon Mears                      The Great Orc Cook-Off

J.M. Ney-Grimm               A Knot of Trolls

Leah R. Cutter                   The Troll-Troll War

Enjoy!

The Realms of Faerie Bundle

I’m thrilled that Midwinter Fae (in which I have a story) is part of StoryBundle’s The Realm of Faerie bundle, curated by Jamie Ferguson. You can choose how much you want to pay for up to 13 novels, anthologies and collections! Hard to beat that deal.

The Realms of Faerie Bundle

Featured: Jamie FergusonDeAnna Knippling, Alethea Kontis, Tom Dietz, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson, Anthea Sharp, Sharon Kae Reamer, Amber Argyle, Leslie Claire Walker, Charlotte English, Kristine Kathryn RuschDayle Dermatis, Diana Benedict, Leah Cutter, Eric Kent Edstrom, Ron Collins, Rei Rosenquist, Karen L. AbrahamsonDeb Logan, Thorn Coyle, Rebecca Senese, Stefon Mears, Brigid Collins, and Alexandra Brandt!

Visit https://storybundle.com/fantasy for more information, and enjoy!

Jhyoti: Planetside

So pleased that my short story, “Jhyoti: Planetside,” is part of the new bundle from BundleRabbit. Eclectica is available now for pre-order everywhere e-books are sold. It features 19 short stories and collections from a variety of wonderful writers in all genres: fantasy to space adventure, pirates, mystery, horror, historical fiction, romance and coming of age. It’s curated by the wonderful Alex Butcher https://bit.ly/2IiIkxw

Here’s the table of contents:

1. “Blown” by Diana Deverell
2. “Socks and Pins and Aliens” by Thea Hutcheson
3. “Tales of Blood and Ink” by Kate MacLeod
4. “Tales of Tomorrow” by Debbie Mumford
5. “Shaken, Not Stirred: A Dawna Shepherd Short Story” by Diana Deverell
6. “City Shadows” by Chuck Heintzelman
7. “Outside the Walls” by A. L. Butcher and Diana L. Wicker
8. “Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam” by Donald J. Bingle
9. “Dear Brother” by Felicia Fredlund
10. “The Cache and Other Stories” by Sherry D. Ramsey
11. “Sword Oath” by Jackie Keswick
12. “The Hooded Man” by Barbara G.Tarn
13. “S, F & H” by Harvey Stanbrough
14. “Resonant Bronze” by J.M. Ney-Grimm
15. “Hitomi’s Path” by M. L. Buchman
16. “Children” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
17. “Jhyoti: Planetside” by Marcelle Dube
18. “Petra and the Blue Goo” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
19. “Tears and Crimson Velvet” by A. L. Butcher

The lovely Sherry D. Ramsey, curator of Short Flights of the Imagination (https://bit.ly/2GglIhd), interviews me today about my short story (Chimere) in the bundle https://bit.ly/2GgXhMt. I ramble on about series, process, and current and upcoming stories. Thanks, Sherry!

Here’s the table of contents:

Watcher Ghost by Linda Maye Adams

In Search of the Perfect Cup by Russ Crossley

Chimere by Marcelle Dube

Finder by Michael Jasper

The Bear in the Cable-Knit Sweater by Robert Jeschonek

Unsafe, Unsound by Kate MacLeod

Ghosting by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Moon Spell by Rita Schulz

By Her Hand, She Draws You Down by Douglas Smith

The Librarian by Blaze Ward

And some package deals (collections!):

One Horn to Rule Them All by Lisa Mangum

The Cache and Other Stories by Sherry D. Ramsey

Decision Points by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (ed.)

Bad Ends by Rebecca Senese

S, F & H by Harvey Stanbrough

A fine collection for anyone who loves short fiction!