Dune meets The Expanse! Bryn is heir to the Ollson seat. She is fiercely loyal to her family. So when her father is accused of treason and attacked by former allies, she glories in the coming violence. But the Empress has secrets yet to keep…
Can an adventurer and a prince be friends? That question consumes Daniel and his team, as their newest member tries to fit in. More than that, as they train, political forces long held in abeyance move in the shadows…
Celestine, the fifth of seven sisters, is the family beauty and a talented musician, but she hides her love for another woman beneath her public persona. She struggles to inspire her fellow citizens once she learns an invasion of her country looms.
Since the previous century, Michael H. Payne has been writing his own particular sort of talking animal adventure story. Here are 22 of them that appeared in various venues from 1991 through 2021.
Zenonland Park is the lynchpin of the Zenon Entertainment Empire. It’s guarded by The Night Sheriff, who keeps it, and the people who visit, safe from supernatural threats. But now, someone wants the Sheriff dead and he doesn’t even know why.
A commercial artist and a professional thief have to work together on a wild and hilarious road trip involving body switches, aliens, evil plumbing executives and their minions, government agents, doges, talking corgis, and more.
There is an old saying that wisdom sits in places. Open an atlas across the Americas, and you will soon discover the knowledge hidden in fragments of shared memory marked on maps, each tale a new entry in the field guide to dark landscapes.
Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former SFWA President, Cat Rambo.
Plague Birds is a genre-bending mix of science fiction and dark fantasy and the epic tale of a young woman betrayed into becoming one of the future’s hated judges and executioners, with a killer AI bonded to her very blood.
In Book 6 of the A Thousand Li series, two years have passed and the war between the Shen and Wei kingdoms rages on. When Wu Ying’s sister is kidnapped by the dark sect, he starts a quest to retrieve her and finds himself walking into a trap.
In Book 6 of the A Thousand Li series, two years have passed and the war between the Shen and Wei kingdoms rages on. When Wu Ying’s sister is kidnapped by the dark sect, he starts a quest to retrieve her and finds himself walking into a trap.
Walter Goodwater is a writer, fencer, software developer, book-lover, and dad. He is the author of the Cold War Magic series and The Liar of Red Valley. He is a California native and lives on the coast with his family.
