I’ve released two new products in the Amazon Kindle store over the last few days and wanted to let you know about them. (Click the covers to access their pages in Kindle Store.)
More Than Life Itself
The first is a digital version of my 2005 novella, More Than Life Itself, originally published by Telos in England.
“On a bright June morning, Sam Dalton’s world suddenly crumbles as he learns that his four-year-old daughter, Jessica, has contracted a mysterious disease. Thanks to some kind of new viral infection, her internal organs are slowly shutting down, one by one, and her doctors are unable to even pinpoint the cause, never mind find a cure. With weary shakes of their heads, they give her less than a month to live.
Life has not been kind to Sam; two years previous, a drunk driver took his beautiful wife from him in a shower of crumpled steel and broken glass. Now the capricious hand of fate had reached out again, threatening to take his baby girl away from him, and with her, his only reason for living. He vows he will not let that happen.
A chance meeting with a terrifying empty-eyed vagrant offers him a possible solution and a chance to fulfill that vow…”
Praise for More Than Life Itself
“A filler free and nicely old fashioned tale” – SFX Magazine
“This novelette is at its most powerful when it is describing a man tormented by the decline and imminent death of his only daughter. When a mysterious apparition suggests that he make use of an ancient ritual which can save her, but only if he is willing to commit seven murders, he is initially horrified as well as skeptical. But then the opportunity to commit the first arises almost by chance, and it works, so he finds himself firmly set on the path of homicide to save her. But there is a catch. There’s always a catch. You’d think even fictional characters would know that by now.” – Science Fiction Chronicle
“…a nasty little chiller that slices through the squeamish with surgical precision.” – SFCrowsnest
SHADES OF REALITY
The second is a collection of all of the short fiction that I’ve had published since I began writing in 2002. I don’t write many short stories, as I find it easier to write an entire novel than one 5000 word piece of short fiction, but those I have written have all been sold to various places and I’ve collected them all under one cover here.
This includes several stories from the collection I did with Drew Williams, Spectres and Darkness, as well as stories published in The Book of Final Flesh, Lost on the Darkside, Legends of the Mountain State, Masques V, Inhuman Magazine, and more. (Note that this collection also includes the novella listed above.)
Of particular note might be the story That Cleansing Fire, which introduced the characters who would later star in my Templar Chronicles trilogy.
Over the next few days I will also be putting up both of these books in additional formats that you can purchase directly from this website – Sony Reader, Mobipocket, PDF – for those of you who prefer something other than the Kindle edition.
