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It is said that the greatest of soldiers stands backed by every soldier in the army, and every soldier who came before.

It is said that the greatest of politicians stands backed by their entire district and their entire nation.

General Tsukushi Tada, it is said, held off an entire army with...

read on…

Tales of the Sunrise Lands is available now from Guardbridge Books.
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I finally put together a list of my publications!

And on the same site, there A listing of all the places you can currently find my writing...


...oops, gotta add AO3. Well, it'll be updated quickly!

Woo

Mar. 28th, 2016 06:57 am
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Bloodlines won the Best Anthology Award at the Aurealis Awards!
https://aurealisawards.org/
http://amzn.com/B018CIJOZS
(includes my story Lifeblood of the City!)
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Check out "Waterwoman Can't," a short story of love and trouble, in Unconventional Love, available here - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D5BPDQG/ref=cm_sw_su_dp - from Amazon!

It has been years since Celia Brookes first starred as Waterwoman, the iconic TV superhero. But when her Liquid Lad hops up to her convention booth, things have just begun to be interesting!
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Read the Merry Christmas story. I love how you make activate the mind to figure out whats going on and then bring it all together. You are a great wr…

My mom likes "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." I bet you will too! ;-)

Check out Do You Feel What I Feel, a holiday anthology featuring my urban (rural) fantasy story, "We Wish You a Merry Christmas."
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Dark fantasy in a rust belt noir setting. Cheerful monster hunters dealing with family problems. These two stories could not be more different - except that I wrote them both.

Another body goes missing. A cop seeks an ancient story.

It's one thing telling your family you're a couple. It's another one telling them you hunt monsters.

And the supernatural creeps in to even the most mundane situations...

Read Lifeblood of the City, now in Bloodlines, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, now in Do You Feel What I Feel. I hope you enjoy them!

Read Me!

Mar. 24th, 2015 10:53 am
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Want to read anthologies featuring yours truly?

My story in Shifting Hearts, “Crossing the Line,” follows a feral-hearted woman as she deals with territoriality – and cautious affection.

“Monster Godmother,” in What Follows, is the story of an immortal fae and the humans that hate her, all struggling against an ending world.

“Company,” my story in No Place For Us, is also apocalyptic.  Sometimes the best thing to wash up in your nets is companionship.

The Amazon Links are all here.

You can find What Follows on SmashWords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo here, or on CreateSpace here.

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No Place For Us is out! This anthology of post-apocalyptic romance features my short story "Company:" even after the end of the world, people need a bit of company.

And now in paperback!
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No Place For Us, an anthology of post-apocalyptic romance stories, will be published on Monday 3/23/14. Keep an eye out for my story "Company" - because everything, even romance, is better at the end of the world.
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Crows, crows, and more crows: Mobbing Midnight is an anthology focused on the brilliant corvid!

Crows are peppered through world mythology and folklore- sometimes serving as a sign of ill luck, other times a trickster.

From American crows to hooded and carrion crows, pied crows to jungle crows- they come in as many shapes and in as many environments as we can dream up.


And my story is going to be in there, along with stories by fourteen other awesome authors!

Tentatively titled Crow Cage, it's an urban fantasy tale of magic and mystery, following a murder of crows that are definitely more than they seem - and possibly more than that, too.

Check it out!
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Check it out!

What Follows is an anthology of post-apocalyptic stories, answering the question "how would an immortal handle the end times?" It features "Monster Godmother," a story of the Faerie Apocalypse written by yours truly, as well as stories by [personal profile] jolantru, K Orion Fray, and many more!

Want it in electrons format? Check here for sources.

Cheers!
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Do you want to end a world?

Not this world; that would be messy. Not to mention, if you end the world, you don't have anywhere to sell your stories. Or to buy coffee.

So let's end some other world, shall we?

When I started writing Monster Godmother, I didn't need to end the world; I already had the Faerie Apocalypse rather well set up. I already had lots of apocalypse settings, actually.

But say you need a tailor-made apocalypse for a story idea. Where do you start?
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I've always been a fan of the post-apoc genre. There's something cool about rebuilding a world - being forced to rebuild a world - while having some knowledge and relics of the world before.

(There's something even cooler about the concept of the post-apoc cargo cult, worshiping relics of a world you know longer know or remember. But that's a story for another day.)

Add to that fascination a Cold-War childhood with the nebulous sense that the end is nigh, and a fondness for those comic takedowns that point out that damage done by super-human fights (Kingdom Come comes to mind), and you have the beginnings of the Faerie Apocalypse setting.

What happens when the monsters fighting to take over the world and the heroes fighting to save it are the same sort of being? What happens when their fights destroy as much property as the "bad guys" originally did on their own? What happens, in short, when hundreds of super-powered people suddenly start fighting over territory occupied by millions of humans?

What happens is an apocalypse, a faerie apocalypse. And it is in the middle of that mess that "Monster Godmother," my short story, takes place.



"Monster Godmother" can be found in What Follows, here:
Amazon
Smashwords
Barnes & Noble
(We will be on Kobo shortly)
Goodreads
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There was a difference, Galina considered, between being immensely long-lived and being bulletproof,
or, as the case may be, bomb-proof. She had met people that were both; she, on the other hand, was
probably not.


This is not the beginning of the story I submitted for What Follows.

The armies were coming.

Grace had gotten lucky, up until now. Her villa was far from the cities and she herself was distant, this century, from business or politics or fame.
But now the city was gone, fallen into burning heaps and the heaps burned to ashes. The so-called gods and the self-proclaimed heroes who had fought over the city were dead, dying, run away, or hiding. And the armies marched on.


Neither is this. But, As is often the case, they are the shell from which the final story, "Monster Godmother," emerged.

It went something like this:
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Check out What Follows here:
Amazon
Smashwords
Barnes & Noble
(We will be on Kobo shortly)
Goodreads
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Guys, look!

How would an Immortal deal with the End Times?

The world will inevitably come stumbling into apocalypse, and They will be there to witness it. Dryads, demi-gods, deities of every pantheon- is it possible for the Eternal to handle an ending with grace?

Should it come through disease, disaster, or religious fervor, discover What Follows…

Stories by Lyn Thorne-Alder, M.J. King, Joyce Chng, Kate Larking, Nina Waters, K Orion Fray, E.V. O'Day, Crystal Sarakas, Sarah Lyn Eaton, and Ross Bennett.


Amazon Link (Kindle. Print version to follow soon)

Smashwords Link

GoodReads Link

Barnes & Noble e-book

Amazon.co.uk Link

My story, "Monster Godmother," is set in the Fae Apoc universe, although it is written to be accessible to those who have no familiarity with the world as well as seasoned veterans of the 'verse.
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How would an Immortal deal with the End Times?

The world will inevitably come stumbling into apocalypse, and They will be there to witness it. Dryads, demi-gods, deities of every pantheon- is it possible for the Eternal to handle an ending with grace?

Should it come through disease, disaster, or religious fervor, discover What Follows…





This anthology includes a story by yours truly (what, immortals & end times, do you think I could resist), as well as stories by K Orion Fray (the artist formerly in my attic) and our friend who I've referred to here as Skan.

Anticipated release date is next Friday!

It will be available in eBook and POD (POD specifics to follow); eBook will be available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Smashwords.

Again, that's next Friday! And it's an anthology I get to be in with friends of mine!

(Also, it's an apocalypse anthology, so extra bouncing).

Stay tuned for more details!
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My short story "Higher Walls, Sharper Wire," set in the Fae Apoc 'verse, is live at Kazka Press current issue of 713 Flash.
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Read my short story "Xenonegotiation," set in the pre-history of Vas' World, in the April Issue of EMG-Zine!

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