I’m very happy to report that I’ve just signed a contract with Michael Wills at Digital Fiction Publishing for Realmgolds, the first of the Gryphon Clerks series. We have agreement in principle that DFP will be taking over publication of the other books in the series too, including the as-yet-unpublished Mister Bucket for Assembly and any future…[Read more]

In an alternate late-Victorian era, a young woman accompanies her professor father to the Change Storm, the bizarre phenomenon on which he is a world expert. Her father’s assistant expects her to fall into the role of so many other professors’ daughters: someone to explain things to, perhaps rescue, eventually marry, and otherwise ignore. But…[Read more]

Just published the first in my new urban fantasy series, Auckland Allies: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01694XVP6/. More in the Jim Butcher/Patricia Briggs/Carrie Vaughn style of action-oriented urban fantasy than the more mystical Charles de Lint kind.
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My short story “Lock and Key” appears in the latest issue of online magazine The Sockdolager.

An alchemist must discover who’s trying to assassinate the Sultan before they succeed. Fortunately, she’s very bright.

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New release: The Well-Presented Manuscript: Just What You Need to Know to Make Your Fiction Look Professional, a concise guide to the most common errors fiction writers make. Based on reading and reviewing nearly 250 books (indie and trad-pub), and my experience as a trad-pub copy editor. #news
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New online semiprozine The Sockdolager has published my story “Wearing the Hat” in their first issue. They were excellent to deal with, and if you write, as they put it, “genre fiction where Things Happen”, I recommend submitting to them. #news
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My story “Axe Stone, Svart Detective” will appear in the funny-fantasy anthology Alternate Hilarities: Hysterical Realms later this year. Here’s the Kickstarter.

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If anyone wonders what my Gryphon Clerks series is like, I have Book Zero free on Amazon at the moment.

Here’s the blurb:

When the old shaman took Berry away from her home and family, she expected to become a shaman in turn. But after her oath shatters, she finds a new place as a Gryphon Clerk, helping negotiate a treaty with the beasthead…[Read more]