Kestrel is a rarity: a woman aboard a pirate ship. Moreover, she’s the quartermaster, answering only to her captain, a dashing fellow by the name of Artemus Binns, who’s the closest thing she has ever had to a father figure. … Continue reading
Slowly recovering from a mysterious illness which nearly destroyed both mind and body five years ago, Brother Josan has resigned himself, however reluctantly, to a life of quiet solitude as a lighthouse keeper in a remote part of the kingdom … Continue reading
Billed as “Tales of Beauty and Strangeness,” Clockwork Phoenix is editor Mike Allen’s latest effort to inject a little more weirdness and artistic fantasy into the market, working from his own particular tastes of what he personally enjoys reading. His … Continue reading
In this new collection of short stories from acclaimed anthologists Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, fifteen of the field’s best fantasy authors tackle the subject of fairy tales, retold from the viewpoint of the villain, and aimed at a younger … Continue reading
We’re currently in the process of uploading and editing the hundreds of reviews I’ve written over the past decade. Mind you, these reviews span half a dozen different venues and just as many formats, ranging fron the extremely short to … Continue reading
Meant in part as a science fiction companion to the long-running (and recently-resurrected) fantasy anthology series Sword and Sorceress, Warrior Wisewoman is . . . well, a complex creature, if one reads the note of explanation in the back. There, … Continue reading
In addition to my unexpected career tangent into writing erotic, I’ve also taken on the job of editing an anthology. Scheherazade’s Facade: Fantastical Tales of Gender Bending, Cross-Dressing and Transformation will feature all new fantasy stories, and will be published … Continue reading
After her grand adventures aboard HMS Dolphin came to an ignominious end following the discovery that ship’s boy (later midshipman) Jacky Faber was, in fact, a fifteen-year-old girl, the spirited heroine of the Bloody Jack series embarks upon a new … Continue reading
Lilith may be gone for good, but the Nightside, that sordid dark heart of London remains, a magical place where anything’s possible, everything’s for sale, and everyone has a hidden agenda. And as long as the Nightside endures, there’s work … Continue reading
It’s 1802. You’re a thirteen-year-old female orphan living with a gang in London, and you make your living as a beggar and thief. There’s no way out, no hope of improving the situation, and every chance that you’ll be dead … Continue reading
