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August, 2010.
August is Retslu (Retslu is the mysterious kingdom in my Retslu series) month on Papa Joe's Fantastic World. Check out my Retslu page if you like stories about a medieval fantasy land. In my blog I talk about the geography and characters of the Kingdom of Retslu. The novesl in the series are White Queen, Black Knight, The Search for Prince Knight Black, Once in a Blue Moon, and The Curse of Chaos
Coming soon to Page Turner Editions is my first strictly vampire novel, The Traveling Vampire and the Farmer's Daughter. It answers the question, can a vampire fall in love and what are the consequences. Also coming soon are Raven Versus Morgaine, a new Raven Lenore paranormal mystery and The Key, an adult retelling of the Sleeping Beauty legend.
If madness, black magic, a dark castle and an evil experiment is your cup of tea, read Castle Darkest Night .
If you would rather read a good time travel novel, try my short novel Out of Time.
" Hard-boiled private eye, Tony Vink considers himself the toughest of the tough. But his experiences with the underworld and the seamy side of life have hardly prepared him for what happens when he takes on a seemingly routine missing person's case. What he doesn't count on is falling in love in with his employer, the curvaceous Paula, and - Time Travel. Soon the two are involved in a trans-temporal odyssey that leads through passionate lovemaking and dangerous encounters to a denouement neither could ever have guessed! "
My free short story this month is First Strike. King Knight Black of Retslu decides to attack the Kingdom of Neerg before the evil King Skeemer can invade Retslu, leading the Retslueans into an unwinnable war.
In this month's episode of Gunther the Viking, Gunther travels to Jerusleum.
My Art Gallery features interesting photos in exotic locations.
Check out my Favorites page for links to fantasy, paranormal and science-fiction web sites that you might enjoy.
My novels are now available on Barnes and Noble among other booksellers, such as Page Turner Editions, Amazon, Fictionwise, Sony and eReader . In addition, my e-books can be downloaded into your iPod, iPad, Dataphone and similar devices.
My paranormal suspense series, Raven Lenore, Psychic Investigator, is best read after midnight or in a thunderstorm. In The Case of The Spirit in the Bottle, Raven helps an FBI agent friend solve a murder. One of the clues is a strange ancient vessel. What it contains has a profound affect on Raven's life. In the sequel, The Case of the Missing Corpse, when Raven is hired to solve a case involving a missing corpse, she goes underground and meets The Beast. The third book in the series is The Case of the House Who Ate People. Someone has replaced the president of the United States with an android. But where is the real president? In the fourth novel in this series, The Case of the Ghost Out of Time, Raven meets a ghost from the future. The fifth novel in this series, Raven Versus Morgaine should be published shortly.
Be sure to check out The Morgaine Chronicles series. A beautiful woman falls in love with a famous astrologer and psychic. She is led into a strange world populated by witches, vampires, ghosts and other strange and eerie persons, creatures and events. Nine novels have been published in this series. The newest Morgaine novel is called Morgaine and the Necromancer. In it, Morgaine helps a young would-be necromancer achieves his dreams, but she has a scheme of her own involving demon possession and other black magic. Meanwhile, Michael investigates the Tunguski event of 1908 which some believe may have been a crashed UFO.
The outrageously funny adventures of Charles Winterbottom, Archeologist is entitled Dinner With Dracula. This novel may be coming out as a printed book soon. I will notify you when, as soon as I know myself.
In The Laws of Magic a detective is called to solve a missing persons case which leads him to a horrific otherworld in which eldritch creatures dwell.
Science Fiction
Go to my Science Fiction page for more information about these novels.
Three short science fiction novels have been released recently. Out of Time is about a tough PI whose latest case leads to an odyssey in time and love of woman from the future. In Takeover, space invaders take over earth with promises of peace and prosperity. But is the loss of freedom worth it. In Artifact, two space bums hear about a discovery that may make them rich -- or lead to their demise.
In my science fiction space opera, Pawns of Tomorrow, feline aliens clash with a human empire on a galactic scale. Humanity has met its match in the Stygians, carnivores that evolved from feline ancestors, whose society reflects their cat-like ways.To win the war requires all the skill of a master chess player such as Prince Ron Bo Kan. This space opera is centered around a real chess game. Pawns of Tomorrow is a genuine chess game in the form of a science fiction story. You can follow the moves of the game through a summary at the start of each chapter and appendices at the end of the book. Newly released by Renaissance is the sequel, Knights of Tomorrow.
In my science fiction romance, For the Love of Kumiko, Allen Goodwin's life was turned upside down when he fell in love with Kumiko. The problem was that she came with an instruction manual -- she was an android. This novel is a bittersweet romance of the love affair between a man and android. Love was never so complex.
The Isaac Project is the story of how the first truly humanoid robot might be developed.
Also check out Hearts Among the Stars, science fiction love stories. Information appears on my Anthologies page.
Also, I would like to point you to a science fiction anthology called Forbidden Speculation available on Amazon. My short story Something Sinister is among other great SF.
The Bagod is about a man sent to the far future where women rule and men are only a myth used to scare children.
In Star Tower a veteran of a space war joins a rebel group. When he is betrayed, he and other prisoners are sent on a voyage from which they will never return.
The Sands of Time is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories that first appeared in web zines. Find more information on my Anthologies page.
If you like high fantasy with a humorous touch, you may want to check out. To find out more about my Retslu novels, click on Retslu.
If you're into humorous fantasy, two new novels about the magical land of Retslu are available. White Queen, Black Knight is about an ordinary youth who sets out win the hand of a princess but is enchanted by a wicked sorcerer so that he always goes the wrong way.
In The Search for Prince Knight Black, the heir to the throne of Retslu mysteriously vanishes and the kingdom is plagued by various evils. King Woden sends his most trusted men on quests to solve the problems and to find Prince Knight Black.
In Once in a Blue Moon, the beautiful Pim's werewolf lover breaks his chain and disappears, Mordrakes fifty-inch crystal ball shows him the news of the future, the evil Doctor Nemesis turns the moon blue and invents a weapon to conquer Retslu, spies spy on spies, double agents betray the head of Retslu security and as usual much else strange happens in the magical land of Retslu.
The magical land of Retslu is cursed by the strange goddess, Chaos, in The Curse of Chaos, and everything becomes even wackier than usual.
Mordrake's Apprentice and Other Tales of Retslu contains stories of magick gone wrong, inept knights, incredibly dopey kings, encounters with dragons, sorcerers and witches and many other adventures in the fantasy land of Retslu. Hope you find these stories as much fun as I did writing them.
Kamma's Vision is a tale of Casticos the barbarian who battles the Roman Empire, but is torn between two women, Kamma, a pagan priestess and witch, and Eudocia, a devotee of the strange new religion called Christianity.
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