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, the kids get toys that make a variety of noises, most of them loud, all of them annoying. What do writers give for the holiday season? They give the gift of stories that take the reader away to fantastical times or places, tales that can be...
Read More

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 Award and won the Scribe Award at last year’s San Diego Comic Con. But CLOCKWORK ANGELS is much more special than that—a novel based on the incredible concept album by legendary rock group Rush. As Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart was developing the songs...
Read More

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 start to read. In a country ruled by an occupying foreign empire, Elenn, an arrogant young noblewoman, accompanies her aunt on a mission to bring an ancient relic to the secret coronation of the rightful king of their people. When her aunt is murdered on...
Read More

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 numerous short stories—were completed and edited to his satisfaction and submitted to various publishing houses.  WordFire Press is pleased to release the third of these never-published Frank Herbert novels, the Cold War thriller, A GAME OF AUTHORS. In pursuit of a scoop, American journalist Hal...
Read More