New Weird Fiction

** June's New Release: "The Granary Angel"
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New for June is a creepy little weird fiction short story. "The Granary Angel" was inspired by a tour I took in Boston a few years ago. It was a great tour, but I scared the other tourists with my macabre knowledge (and gallows humor). The main tour guide was pretty entertained, though.


Steffi works on a nighttime graveyard tour in Boston. Recently she’s become obsessed with the statue of an angel at the Granary Burying Ground. The problem: there are no angel statues in that graveyard…and the angel no one else can see appears to be equally obsessed with Steffi.

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.


** Play and Obey
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The ten-story anthology Play and Obey also released late in May. It contains all the stories in What I Want and Kink On Command, but for less money!

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.

** Lookin' Ahead
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Next month I'll have a new erotic gay male Aether Vitalis story featuring some all-new paranormal creatures. I'm also planning a five-story erotic gay male Aether Vitalis anthology which will release at the same time. July ought to be hot!

May's New Releases

Hey all! This month I have two new anthologies for you.

The first is Kink On Command: Five Erotic D&s Tales:

These five Just For Kinks short stories of dominance and submission will leave you begging for more. Contains explicit sex.

THE SUB FAIRY: Married bliss gets a kinky twist when one woman finds the courage to ask her husband to be her dom. Can dominance and submission find a place in their life?

WHEN IN ROME: Lovers Suzi and Myriah have had enough of their roommate Kimbra’s irksome behavior and decide to teach her a lesson—which is exactly what Kimbra has secretly been hoping for.

ENCORE: All Derrick wants is a nice subby roadie girl, but when bandmate Nate is willing to give BDSM a try, the guys discover a new favorite rainy-day activity.

HUSBAND’S LITTLE HELPER: Samantha and Ron’s 1950s-ish life style strikes some as misogynistic, but for them it’s about more than just sexual thrills.

CARE PACKAGES: When Shayla has to go out of town, Tamika doesn’t let a little distance stop her from keeping her submissive in line, courtesy of a very special care package.

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.


The second is called What I Want: Five Kinky Tales:

The characters in these five Just For Kinks short stories don’t shy away from what they want. Contains explicit sex.

FLOGGERS LAST LONGER THAN FLOWERS: Galina's looking for a date with more backbone, but is she ready to submit completely when she meets up with sexy top Stefan?

PIT STOP: A man with a vivid imagination has an unexpected encounter in a gas station bathroom.

WHEN THE BOUGH RAKES: Dillon’s a solitary masochist with who’s found a unique solution to his needs—a pine grove in a windy valley on his parents’ property. But when Dillon comes home for his first visit since starting college, his secret is discovered by a handsome new neighbor.

GOOD NEIGHBORS: All this woman wants is some sleep…until she hears her neighbors through the motel room wall.

BOUND BEHIND GLASS: Talia’s done kinky role-playing before, but she’s never had sex in public—and certainly not in front of a crowd of strangers. But when she’s hired to demonstrate her friend’s sex machine at a private kink party, she discovers a brand new kink of her own…and utter subjugation under the hands at the machine’s controls. 

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.

The Best Laid Plans...

I'll have another anthology with all the stories in What I Want and Kink On Command out in a couple weeks. A friend of mine died and I just didn't get the cover done in time. Stay tuned.


Lookin' Ahead...

Coming in June is a short weird fiction tale set in Boston called "The Granary Angel." It takes place at the Granary Burying Ground and was inspired by a tour I took there a few years ago.

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New Aether Vitalis Short Story

Hey all! This month's new story, Nine Nights in Haiti, is now available.

"In Haiti, the newly dead have nine days to make their goodbyes before the psychopomp Baron Samedi escorts them to their final reward. So when the ghost of a foreigner witnesses the raising of a zombie, he knows there isn’t a moment to lose. Can he figure out how to hijack a soulless body before the loa comes for him?"

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.

Holy cow, I'm going to a con.

If you're going to be in the Madison area on April 12 and 13, you can come see me at Odyssey Con. I'll be on three panels: "Madison Horror" on Fri, and on Sat I'll be on "What Happened to Ghosts?" and "History of Werewolves." Should be fun!

Lookin' Ahead...

May should see the release of three new anthologies: two five-story Just for Kinks anthologies, and one ten-story Just for Kinks anthology. The ten-story will have the same stories as the two five-story ones, but with a slight discount. I'll also have a new short story.

Last month I also sneakily published my first short anthology, A Taste of Mercy.

A Taste of Mercy includes the following short stories:
EMPUSA: A Greek daimon whose lovers usually don't live to tell the tale sinks her teeth into a trio of love spells…and the Greek household who cast them.
THE POWER THAT DREAMS HAVE: A woman finds safety in the arms of the daimon who is slowly killing her when Xerxes descends on ancient Athens.
THE PRINCESS AND PEONY: A princess and her maid conspire to create the bruised and sleepless effects of a pea in the bedding with the help of the maid’s flogger.
A KISS BEFORE COFFEE: A terminally ill woman travels to the Asclepion of Kos to petition the god in person.
GEARGIRL: A cyberpunk mercenary with a passion for automotive tinkering discovers a very personal connection with her vehicle.

Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Diesel, and Smashwords.

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New Release: The Twelve Huntsmen

March's new release is a retelling of a classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The original "the Twelve Huntsmen" had some issues with it, to my mind. For one, there was no real point in there being twelve huntsmen. Second, the ending was a let-down. Not only was it anti-climactic, but it weakened what had been one of the few strong princesses in the book. (To be fair, I've only read about a third of the stories so far. I'm talking the Household Tales, not the shorter versions of the book.)

So I "fixed" it to bring it in line with what a modern reader expects out of a story. The result is a tale with all the classic rhythm and atmosphere you remember from the Brothers Grimm, but with consistent characters and a plot that nicely wraps up all the fun fairy tale tropes introduced in the story.

"The Twelve Huntsmen: a Short Fairy Tale" is the first in a new series I'm calling "Grimm as it Should've Been." It's available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords.

Just checkin' in

Hey all. It's been a little while since I posted. (Duh.) So here I am for a random hello.

Two new stories have been released so far this year. The first was Disobedience, an erotic Aether Vitalis vampire short story. I really love this one, because it's all about one of my favorite things: really unbalanced, unhealthy relationships! And vampires. And kink, and m/f, and m/m. So much fun.

This month I released a new Just for Kinks story called Bound Behind Glass. The story involves a girl roleplaying as an android bound inside a glass sex machine, and a club full of people with access to the controls. Need I say more?

March's new release will be for a brand-new series of short stories. Stay tuned!

So, back to me. I'm currently slightly sick, sore throat mostly. I'm downing hot sour soup and irish hot toddies like mad. Slept until noon, which is very unlike me. It's one of the ways I know I'm actually sick, and not just having some sort of psychosomatic depression-induced illness.

I just finished a 6-week cover design workshop from Dean Wesley Smith and WMG Publishing. I really liked it. The first couple weeks were mostly review (at least, for me anyway), but after that it got real in a hurry! So now I'm looking at rebranding all the Aether Vitalis and Just for Kinks covers. The JFKs will look more or less like the cover for Bound Behind Glass. Here's a preview of Scent and Shadow's redesigned ebook cover:

I'm also going to be taking a short workshop on Audacity soon, which will remove one of my major mental obstacles regarding the Scent and Shadow audiobook. Yes, I could probably find all this info on the internets, but frankly I'm shorter on time and energy than money on this one. I bought my microphone last year, so once I have a feel for the software I think I'll be much more confident about getting started. I'm hoping to have the podiobook up later this year. (Of course, I said that last year too...)

And I'm finally, finally making progress on Empire's Shadow! I'm picking away at it in tiny chunks, but it's still progress, and today will be day 16 in my streak of writing every day. Woohoo! I couldn't have done it without the Magic Spreadsheet. I even wrote 255 words when I was down in Chicago with friends this weekend with the help of Doc² on my iPod. I'm in love with the system I've got going at the moment. Now to slowly increase my daily word count goal, and hopefully add in a second short daily session so I can have one for Empire's Shadow and one for the monthly short story...