Coming soon!

Coming in 2025:

The Shadow Minister: A secondary world homage to Georges Simenon and Max Frei set in an idyllic alternate Paris, mashing up police procedural, cosmic horror, and fantasy romance. Published by Water Dragon.

Pâtissier et Étranger: A historical mashup of baking romance, spy thriller, and science fiction set in Paris in 1967. Published by Brigid’s Gate.

Preorders available!

I’m delighted to announce that my novel The World’s Shattered Shell is now available for preorder! Follow this link to a variety of purchase options including direct from the publisher, Water Dragon. You can also download a sample chapter.

The World’s Shattered Shell is a romantic-philosophical adventure beyond the end of the world. Here’s the blurb:

It’s the end of the Age of Kali and our world is dying, its bounds shrunken to encompass a single city.

In the Earth's final days, lonely young Jay Grant finds his first love in the arms of his neighbor Michèle. Together with six other survivors, they break through the eggshell-thin walls of the world to find a mythical land where the ultimate power of creation resides. Washed ashore from an ocean of milk, they confront personages seemingly out of legend: Ananta Sesha, the lord of the Nagas; Varuna, whose eyes are the stars; Indra, king of the devas; and the tormented being who calls himself the Preserver.

Jay and Michèle want nothing more than a life together, but the gods themselves stand in their way. Separated by divine malice and tortured by falsified memories, Jay and Michèle struggle to reunite, transforming themselves into beings beyond the merely human to confront the demiurge responsible for Earth's destruction.

The World's Shattered Shell

I’m delighted to announce that my novel The World’s Shattered Shell will be published by Water Dragon Publishing later in the year.

This fantasy novel is a romantic philosophical adventure. It’s the story of the end of the world and what comes after. It’s not post-apocalyptic in the sense of a ruined Earth, but rather trans-apocalyptic in that it deals with an entirely new creation yet to come. More about the characters, setting, and story to come soon, but for now let me just say that the world ends in chapter 4. And here’s the cover reveal:

New novellas

Been a while since my last blog post, so I thought I would mention a couple of new novellas I’ve written, under submission now, but not yet published anywhere.

Pâtissier et Étranger is a bit of an oddity, a mash-up of romantic baking drama, humorous spy thriller, and (spoiler!) alien visitation science fiction. It’s set in Paris in 1967, and was distantly inspired by the great French comedy “The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe”. Currently looking for a publisher.

The Demons of Chiyoda is the latest entry in my Nora Simeon series published by Mirror World, the previous entries being The Demons of Wall Street and The Demons of the Square Mile, available from the publisher as well as at all major online bookstores. In this romantic noir urban fantasy, our heroes follow a case from Flushing, Queens to Japan. Just as Wall Street and the Square Mile are the centers of the US and British banking industry, all the major Japanese banks are headquartered in Marunouchi, Chiyoda.

2020 Award Eligibility

I published a bunch of things this year, but the two I’m most proud of are:

  • Novella- The Demons of Wall Street is a romantic noir urban fantasy: Available for purchase from my publisher Mirror World, on Amazon.com, and at Bookshop.org. I’d be delighted to provide a copy for any reviewer or award voter.

  • Novelette- Riding Through the Desert is a romantic post-apocalyptic weird-western cosmic-horror story free to read at Zooscape.

Both these should be eligible for the usual awards, including the Hugos and the Nebulas, among others.

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Essays for SFWA and Fantastic History

The SFWA Blog and Catherine Schaff-Stump’s Fantastic History both recently posted short essays of mine.