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Next week is Halloween, but it’s never too early to start looking ahead to the Holiday season.  I’ve edited a new anthology of 18 magical, imaginative, and haunting tales of the holidays, A FANTASTIC HOLIDAY SEASON, just released by WordFire Press. Grandma gives a sweater she knitted, Dad receives a necktie he doesn’t really like, […]

CLOCKWORK ANGELS: The Novel is an innovative project in many ways, a colorful steampunk fantasy adventure, a story of a young man’s journey across a landscape filled with wonders, lost cities of gold, alchemy, pirates, exotic carnivals, steamliners, a Watchmaker, and of course the Clockwork Angels.  The novel itself was nominated for the Colorado Book […]

Another Tuesday, another appetizer of a new book, this time the opening chapter of a recent release from WordFire Press, THE CROWN AND THE DRAGON by John D. Payne, the novel based on the soon-to-be-released fantasy film from Arrowstorm Entertainment. Click here for a link to the movie trailer, for an added teaser before you […]

After Frank Herbert published his brilliant first novel THE DRAGON IN THE SEA in 1956, he spent years writing manuscript after manuscript, but was unable to find a publisher.  Until finally in 1963 he wrote a ground-breaking work about a desert planet, which changed the face of science fiction forever. His earlier works—four novels and […]