Publications

 

Princess Smith and the Clockwork Knight published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

Britt Smith always thought of herself as a normal girl. Well, as normal as the motherless daughter of the town blacksmith could be. She didn't wear dresses, grow her hair long, or giggle about boys like the other girls of Alice Vineyard. The other girls didn't get into fist fights, help out in the smithy, or play with mechanical toy dogs and toy dragons. But still, Britt thought she was pretty normal, all things considered. Until she discovered that her Da was no normal blacksmith, either. Until she discovered the giant suit of steam-driven armor he kept hidden in the back room. And there was that mysterious marking on her back, the marking that got the attention of a stranger who came to town one day. The stranger who returned with soldiers, and turned Britt's life into anything but normal.

Now Britt is on the run. Alone in the giant suit of armor, she must escape her pursuers, fight off her enemies, and make her way through the wider world beyond the peaceful valley that's been all she has ever known.

 

Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft has a story I wrote about my path to an alternative spirituality (despite not self-identifying as a "witch"). Available on Amazon.

 

Truthseekers 2: Birthright the ongoing adventures of my serialized YA teen angst/occult investigation stories, published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

TRUTHSEEKERS 2: BIRTHRIGHT continues the adventures of Ashley Bennett and her friends in the odd little town of Blackriver, Ontario. Picking up where TRUTHSEEKERS: WELCOME TO BLACKRIVER left off, Ashley encounters the harsh and possibly mystical forces of winter in a rural town, discovers love and magic and mysteries aplenty, and continues to investigate her parents' brutal murders. Vampires, werewolves, fairies, magic, maybe even UFOs - and a Battle of the Bands! Ashley and her friends have their hands full this time... but they're more than equipped enough for the task!

 

Ages of Wonder, co-edited with Julie E. Czerneda for DAW Books. March 2009! Available now on Amazon!


Nineteen original stories of myth, magic, and the creatures of fantasy, as seen through different historical eras— from the Age of Antiquity to the Age of Sails, the Colonial Age, the Age of Pioneers, the Pre-Modern Age, and the Age to come...

 

Squirrelman: Sins of the Past vol. 2- Endgame, the second part of the sequel to The Amazing Adventures of the Sensational Squirrelman, published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

This is Action City’s darkest hour. All hell has, not quite literally, broken loose. It’s up to the grey-clad guardian of Lower Uptown, the sensational Squirrelman, to save the day! He and the rest of the newly-formed Crimefighter’s League must use every trick in the book to battle evil and save the innocent.

To prevent the perils of the future from destroying the hope of the present, they first must confront the SINS OF THE PAST!

Which makes it a little hard to also plan a wedding...

 

 

Squirrelman: Sins of the Past vol. 1 - Calling All Crimefighters, the first part of the sequel to The Amazing Adventures of the Sensational Squirrelman, published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

Squirrelman. Ragdoll. Ace of Spades. They're back. They've brought friends. And this time, facing cyber-zombies, alien invaders, and a sinister scheme the likes of which Action City has never known, they'll need every friend they can get.

 

The Amazing Adventures of the Sensational Squirrelman, the original story that started it all, plus six bonus stories, including my collected All Roads, originally published in Wyntergreene Magazine. Published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

For mild-mannered Matthew Mattheson, superheroes were the stuff of comic books and children's cartoons. Not the sort of thing he, a mature and responsible Indianapolis accountant, was interested in at all. Why, then, the dreams? Dreams in which he donned an outrageous costume and fought crime in a futuristic city beyond his wildest imaginings? Dreams . or so he thought until the day that he woke up in that world. A world in which it wasn't Indianapolis any more, but Action City, home of caped crimefighters and costumed crusaders. A world where metahumans and magic existed side by side. A world where villainous criminal masterminds were hell-bent on conquest and domination, and alien invasion was just another part of the average day. A world where mild-mannered accountant Matthew Mattheson lived a double life, protecting the innocent as the grey-clad guardian of Lower Uptown.

THE SENSATIONAL SQUIRRELMAN! Justice wears a bushy tail.

 

TRUTHSEEKERS: Welcome to Blackriver, a collection of my serialized YA teen angst/occult investigation stories, published by Sabledrake Enterprises . Also available on Amazon.

Moving to a small town from the big city is a challenge that can be hard enough for anyone. It's even harder for a teenage girl, leaving behind her friends, her school, her mall, her social life. After her parents are brutally murdered and fifteen-year-old Ashley Bennett is sent to the small town of Blackriver, Ontario to live with her only relative, her cousin Mark - a teacher at her new school! - she thinks her life can't possibly get any worse. But Ashley has no idea that the real challenges have only just begun. Not only is she faced with the normal teen experiences of making new friends, going to a new school, and adjusting to her new life, she's about to discover a whole hidden world that is both dark and strange. She's about to discover that her parents' deaths were anything but random, and that she herself might be in danger. Ancient conspiracies ... secret societies ... ghosts ... vampires ... cattle mutilations and cults ... witches ... mysterious disappearances... this eerily normal-seeming little town has it all, and Ashley ends up smack in the middle of it whether she wants to be or not. Now, to protect herself and her friends, Ashley must seek the truth... the truth behind the TRUTHSEEKERS.

 

"The Mysterious Case of Spell Zero" in the DAW anthology, Misspelled  editted by Julie E. Czerneda.

A fog-shrouded street... echoing footsteps... mystery building upon mystery. The game's afoot for Inspectors Nightingale and Frankford, but it will take more than adroit detective work to unravel this misspell.

 

"Bastard" - one-shot comic book about William the Conqueror, The Go To Guys Publications