Post Halloween Post

Some Announcements while the flies buzz around the carved pumpkins rotting on your porch...

My Novelette 'One Whisker' is a follow up to 'The Tiger and the Ox' and has been included in the upcoming Dragon Soul Press anthology 'Dragons & Heroines'

An additional Horror release for Halloween, 'Forest of Fear Volume 3' is available from Blood Song Books. A collection of drabbles (precisely 100 word stories), it includes five contributions from me titles: 'A Sinking Feeling' / 'A Taste of youth' / 'An Invitation Down' / 'Black of Scale' / 'The Longest Banquet'

While stand alone snippets of things going on in my fantasy world, I will make a point that 'The Longest Banquet' does relate to 'Solyn the Slayer' ( A sequel to 'Solyn the Scavenger') which appears in 'All Dark Places 3' from Dragon Soul Press, also released on Halloween. A little short to be a sequel, but a vague little window of a follow up.

Last but not least, a Science Fiction story has been released. 'Podfall' appears in 'Titanic Terastructures' from Jay Henge Publishing, which just dropped.

Links on the 'Published Works' page

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