Capricious Visions
Author: Edward Ahern
Publisher: Gnome on Pig Productions
Publication: August 23, 2016
Welcome to the entertainingly demented realities of Edward Ahern. These twenty-five stories take us one step too far-out of the world we know and into fantastic and horrifying visions. Meet the spirits, elder gods, truly predatory animals, demons and not-normal humans that populate this book. Sometimes light-hearted, sometimes eerie, sometimes abominable, capricious but always entertaining stories taken from the pages of magazines and anthologies and assembled here.
The Witches' Bane
Author: Edward Ahern
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Gordon Lormor is a defrocked priest and con man. And something more. He treads a path between light and dark magic, a risky journey he avoids unless he's required to take it.
But his ex girlfriend makes a fear-laced telephone call to him, pleading that he come to Vermont and free her from a witches' coven. Gordon leaves his business, Profane Possibilities, in the care of his assistant and drives north.
Death arrives before he does, and Gordon tasks himself with solving the murder and eradicating the coven. As his situation worsens he asks for help from both his decidedly unfeminine assistant AJ and a Catholic cardinal.
Death revisits often as Gordon, joined by AJ, picks open the protective scab the witches have clotted over their activities. He teeters further and further over the edges of physical and spiritual death as he struggles to prevent infant sacrifice and solve the murder of the woman he had loved.
The Witches' Bane
Author: Edward Ahern
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Gordon Lormor is a defrocked priest and con man. And something more. He treads a path between light and dark magic, a risky journey he avoids unless he's required to take it.
But his ex girlfriend makes a fear-laced telephone call to him, pleading that he come to Vermont and free her from a witches' coven. Gordon leaves his business, Profane Possibilities, in the care of his assistant and drives north.
Death arrives before he does, and Gordon tasks himself with solving the murder and eradicating the coven. As his situation worsens he asks for help from both his decidedly unfeminine assistant AJ and a Catholic cardinal.
Death revisits often as Gordon, joined by AJ, picks open the protective scab the witches have clotted over their activities. He teeters further and further over the edges of physical and spiritual death as he struggles to prevent infant sacrifice and solve the murder of the woman he had loved.
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Excerpts, Reviews & Awards
Voted Editors' Choice in the 2018 Second Quarterly Review and a Mariner Award recipient in 2018 at Bewildering Stories magazine.
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Book Spotlight of THE WITCHES' BANE published on Horror Author A.F. Stewart's site.
Underground Certified at Underground Book Reviews.
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5-star review listing at Red Fez.
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The Witch Made Me Do It: Modern Fairy Tales
Author: Edward Ahern
Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing Company
Publication: April 15, 2015
An improbable genie, a color-shifting cloak, a helpful skunk-some of the things in this shimmering collection of wonder tales for children. These fairy tales are set in today's world, in places where the young readers and listeners already live. Literally a labor of love, this collection was first written for the author's grandchildren who star in most of them. The tales are waiting for you to read them aloud to your children and grandchildren.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part One: The Culling
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Publication: August 6, 2012
Grae Barragns is no hero.
He knows there isn’t a man alive who can fulfill the promise of such a word. But when a caravan transporting a noble family is savaged in the haunted forest of Maug Maurai, Grae is ordered to be a hero. And a villain. It's a handful for an officer whose last assignment was capturing runaway orchard pigs. Such is the fate of a commoner among the high-born officer corps of the King's army.
Until now.
Grae is ordered to lead a small squad into the forest to kill the legendary Beast of Maug Maurai. It's a suicide mission, but if he succeeds he will reap glory, a noble title, lands, and, most importantly, respect.
All he has to do is slay the most dangerous creature in the kingdom with the help of a squad of misfits and criminals, and a philosophical female archer who chips away at his deepest convictions.
Before he sets out Grae receives one last ugly detail. A secret secondary assignment that makes it clear to him why he was chosen to lead the squad. It’s the first order Grae has ever considered disobeying, an order that will force him to choose between his loyalty and his morality. And he’s certain that the wrong choice will plunge the kingdom into civil war.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part One: The Culling
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Publication: August 6, 2012
Grae Barragns is no hero.
He knows there isn’t a man alive who can fulfill the promise of such a word. But when a caravan transporting a noble family is savaged in the haunted forest of Maug Maurai, Grae is ordered to be a hero. And a villain. It's a handful for an officer whose last assignment was capturing runaway orchard pigs. Such is the fate of a commoner among the high-born officer corps of the King's army.
Until now.
Grae is ordered to lead a small squad into the forest to kill the legendary Beast of Maug Maurai. It's a suicide mission, but if he succeeds he will reap glory, a noble title, lands, and, most importantly, respect.
All he has to do is slay the most dangerous creature in the kingdom with the help of a squad of misfits and criminals, and a philosophical female archer who chips away at his deepest convictions.
Before he sets out Grae receives one last ugly detail. A secret secondary assignment that makes it clear to him why he was chosen to lead the squad. It’s the first order Grae has ever considered disobeying, an order that will force him to choose between his loyalty and his morality. And he’s certain that the wrong choice will plunge the kingdom into civil war.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part Two: Feeding the Gods
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Ravenscar Publishing
Publication: October 21, 2013
In the second book of the series, Grae Barragns, an officer in the Laraytian Standards, leads a squad of misfits into the forest of Maug Maurai to slay the marauding Beast within. His soldiers fight with one another and the civilians on the squad refuse to follow military decorum, but Grae's greatest struggle is with himself. The secret secondary assignment he was given shreds his conscience, and the beautiful archer that joined his squad keeps him unfocused.
As the squad of Standards marches ever deeper into the lethal forest, the hero Black Murrogar struggles to lead a group of lords and ladies out. The contentious Sir Wyann continues to challenge his every decision and the nobles all but lose their will to live. But Murrogar's greatest threat is a creature from his worst nightmares; a creature that stalks the group, killing them one by one and reveling in their terror. Home is a only a dozen miles away for Murrogar, but to reach it he must get past the Beast of Maug Maurai.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part Two: Feeding the Gods
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Ravenscar Publishing
Publication: October 21, 2013
In the second book of the series, Grae Barragns, an officer in the Laraytian Standards, leads a squad of misfits into the forest of Maug Maurai to slay the marauding Beast within. His soldiers fight with one another and the civilians on the squad refuse to follow military decorum, but Grae's greatest struggle is with himself. The secret secondary assignment he was given shreds his conscience, and the beautiful archer that joined his squad keeps him unfocused.
As the squad of Standards marches ever deeper into the lethal forest, the hero Black Murrogar struggles to lead a group of lords and ladies out. The contentious Sir Wyann continues to challenge his every decision and the nobles all but lose their will to live. But Murrogar's greatest threat is a creature from his worst nightmares; a creature that stalks the group, killing them one by one and reveling in their terror. Home is a only a dozen miles away for Murrogar, but to reach it he must get past the Beast of Maug Maurai.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part Three: Stars and Graves
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Westmarch Publishing
Publication: March 10, 2015
Stars and Graves is the stunning conclusion to The Beast of Maug Maurai. Grae Barragns presses deeper into the the forest, intent on accomplishing both of his missions, no matter the cost. His squad thins around him, and even his closest friends question the reckless push to find the Cobblethries and challenge the Beast. And while Grae marches on, Black Murrogar clings to the last shreds of hope and fights with every breath to carry on his mission. The last volume of The Beast of Maug Maurai is a steady crescendo of action, humor, romance and mystery.
The Beast of Maug Maurai - Part Three: Stars and Graves
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Westmarch Publishing
Publication: March 10, 2015
Stars and Graves is the stunning conclusion to The Beast of Maug Maurai. Grae Barragns presses deeper into the the forest, intent on accomplishing both of his missions, no matter the cost. His squad thins around him, and even his closest friends question the reckless push to find the Cobblethries and challenge the Beast. And while Grae marches on, Black Murrogar clings to the last shreds of hope and fights with every breath to carry on his mission. The last volume of The Beast of Maug Maurai is a steady crescendo of action, humor, romance and mystery.
The Foreworld Saga: Kingdom of Glass
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Publication: June 26, 2013
An English knight, tired of war, wants to find the girl he loves and return home from France. Unfortunately, war has not tired of him.
Sir Myles Stapleton has had his fill of war. And so the good knight throws his sword into a French forest intending to head back to England. Myles’ brother, Sir Bryan of Crispings joins him on the long, dusty ride home. They stop in on a French village to attend to one last duty. There, Myles falls in love … and into a swirling, dangerous world of trouble. The situation quickly grows worse when the two knights discover that a marauding gang of English deserters are marching hell-bent on the otherwise unprotected French village.
The Foreworld Saga: Kingdom of Glass
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Publication: June 26, 2013
An English knight, tired of war, wants to find the girl he loves and return home from France. Unfortunately, war has not tired of him.
Sir Myles Stapleton has had his fill of war. And so the good knight throws his sword into a French forest intending to head back to England. Myles’ brother, Sir Bryan of Crispings joins him on the long, dusty ride home. They stop in on a French village to attend to one last duty. There, Myles falls in love … and into a swirling, dangerous world of trouble. The situation quickly grows worse when the two knights discover that a marauding gang of English deserters are marching hell-bent on the otherwise unprotected French village.
The Scourge
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: 47North
Publication: March 21, 2013
God has forsaken this land.
A mysterious plague descends upon 14th century England, ravaging the country and trapping the souls of the afflicted in eternal madness. The feudal hierarchy--and even the church itself-- slowly crumbles as the dead rise to feed and the living seek whatever shelter they can. The bishops of England call for calm and obedience, but one man isn’t listening.
Sir Edward of Bodiam has been separated from the woman he loves and nothing on heaven or earth can stop him from seeking her out.
Edward and two of his knights travel through the swiftly changing landscape of England, a countryside now overrun by the minions of hell. The knights encounter madness, violence, and sorrow, but Edward fights his way ever deeper into the thickening darkness of unholy terror.
Roberto Calas brings you along on a dark, historical tale full of love, death, and black humor. Follow Edward as he journeys to save his wife, his kingdom, and his very soul.
The Scourge
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: 47North
Publication: March 21, 2013
God has forsaken this land.
A mysterious plague descends upon 14th century England, ravaging the country and trapping the souls of the afflicted in eternal madness. The feudal hierarchy--and even the church itself-- slowly crumbles as the dead rise to feed and the living seek whatever shelter they can. The bishops of England call for calm and obedience, but one man isn’t listening.
Sir Edward of Bodiam has been separated from the woman he loves and nothing on heaven or earth can stop him from seeking her out.
Edward and two of his knights travel through the swiftly changing landscape of England, a countryside now overrun by the minions of hell. The knights encounter madness, violence, and sorrow, but Edward fights his way ever deeper into the thickening darkness of unholy terror.
Roberto Calas brings you along on a dark, historical tale full of love, death, and black humor. Follow Edward as he journeys to save his wife, his kingdom, and his very soul.
The Scourge: Nostrum
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: 47North
Publication: June 18, 2013
The journey north ended with The Scourge.
The journey for a cure has just begun...
Sir Edward Dallingridge survived his journey through the anarchy that is now England, leaving in his wake the bodies of mad lords, foul invaders, friends, and the risen dead. There was nothing on earth that could keep him from the woman he loves.
Nothing but the horror that has already consumed her.
His journey is over, but his mission is far from complete. As a knight of the realm, he has defended England from every enemy it has. But how does one drive away a plague sent from hell? His only hope lies in the rumors of a cure - a treatment concocted by a strange man on an island fortress. Edward will do everything in his power to find this alchemist and to bring Elizabeth back from the walking terror she has become.
The Scourge: Nostrum is the follow-up to The Scourge, continuing the harrowing quest of Sir Edward in a world that knows no God, no laws, and no hope.
The Scourge: Nostrum
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: 47North
Publication: June 18, 2013
The journey north ended with The Scourge.
The journey for a cure has just begun...
Sir Edward Dallingridge survived his journey through the anarchy that is now England, leaving in his wake the bodies of mad lords, foul invaders, friends, and the risen dead. There was nothing on earth that could keep him from the woman he loves.
Nothing but the horror that has already consumed her.
His journey is over, but his mission is far from complete. As a knight of the realm, he has defended England from every enemy it has. But how does one drive away a plague sent from hell? His only hope lies in the rumors of a cure - a treatment concocted by a strange man on an island fortress. Edward will do everything in his power to find this alchemist and to bring Elizabeth back from the walking terror she has become.
The Scourge: Nostrum is the follow-up to The Scourge, continuing the harrowing quest of Sir Edward in a world that knows no God, no laws, and no hope.
The Scourge: Emaculum
Author: Roberto Calas
Publisher: Westmarch Publishing
Publication: August 4, 2014
The Scourge: Emaculum is the haunting conclusion to The Scourge trilogy. Sir Edward Dallingridge’s wife, the Lady Elizabeth, waits, once more, in St. Edmund’s Abbey. To reach her, Edward must battle a king and save a queen, break an oath and swear another. He must destroy a legion of demons and take up God’s banner as rival armies threaten to tear England apart.
The Red Plague that has swept England continues to burn through the populace and ravage the countryside. Edward fights his way through this landscape, his soul blackenening a shade with every life he takes. Only his lost love can save him from his sins. But he must reach her first. And his greatest enemies are not the savage plaguers wandering the villages of his kingdom, but the men and women who have avoided the affliction.
Where is King Richard? Where are England’s armies? Can the Red Plague be cured?
Edward will unravel each of these mysteries . . . but the answers may not please him.
Night School - Book 0: New Blood
Author: Alex Dire
Publisher: Eliot Street Press
Publication: July 5, 2017
New Vampire Richie Taylor is thrust into the middle of a war he doesn’t understand and never wanted any part of. Can he learn to be a warrior or will he become a casualty of the savagery that surrounds him?
Night School - Book 1: Vampire Awakening
Author: Alex Dire
Publisher: Eliot Street Press
Publication: October 26, 2017
Norman has one wish: to live a quiet life teaching Shakespeare to his night school students. But his world is shattered when vampires, long thought destroyed, start showing up in his classroom. When his old arch enemy causes a bloodbath in his school, Norman flees to the underside of the city to hide and protect a group of his mortal students. Underground, Norman discovers an invisible world of vampire survivors, most of whom want to kill him. Can Norman piece together a resistance and save his students, or will they all become the final victims of a revived vampire war?
Night School - Book 2: Vampire Legion
Author: Alex Dire
Publisher: Eliot Street Press
Publication: November 9, 2017
Norman Bernard’s only desire is to settle into his new job as Night School principal. However, his arch enemy, Skeete, has other plans. Fresh off her defeat at Norman ‘s hands, she explodes back onto the scene. Only now she leads an army of enhanced vampires bent on murdering and harvesting mankind.
Norman is enlisted by a mysterious group to fight the new threat. And this time his students have a few new tricks of their own.
Desperate to protect the young charges, the only family he’s ever known, can Norman and his ragtag group of friends defeat this new terror or will they be crushed under their march to world destruction?
Night School - Book 3: Vampire Ascendance
Author: Alex Dire
Publisher: Eliot Street Press
Publication: December 8, 2017
Norman Bernard just wants to lead his little inner-city Night School. Sure, he had to take sides in the vampire war, but now that vampires have gone public, he wants nothing to do with the resulting political wrangling. But then a presidential candidate proposes a bill that would round up and register all vampires. Add to that, his old enemy, Skeete, has infiltrated the highest circles of government.
Desperate to protect his young students, who have become his family, Norman needs to fight. But his decisions of the past have caused his special powers to fade. The timing couldn't be worse.
With Congress against him, the military against him, and Skeete pulling the strings can Norman save himself, his students, and all vampires? Or will they be rounded up and executed? Can he outmaneuver Skeete? Or will she finally achieve her goal: to kill Norman Bernard and wipe out vampires as we know them?
The Puck Queen
Author: Rebecca Green
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: January 2013
Jessica Waters considered herself a pretty average teenager. She went to school, hung out with her friends, argued with her parents, and lived to play ice hockey. Then one day, her world is shattered. Her parents are killed in a car accident and she is sent to live with her aunt and uncle.
Transplanted two hundred miles from everything and everyone she has ever known, she discovers that one more thing has been taken from her: Ice Hockey. The school only has one team: and it's an all-boy team but Jessica is not going to let that stop her.
She doesn't care what the snobby cliquish rich girls at her new high school think. And she really doesn't care what the handsome and obnoxious Avery Jessop thinks. Even if he is the captain of the team. Even if he thinks he owns the school. And even if he is determined to do everything in his power to convince Jessica not to play.
Migon
Author: P.C. Keeler
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Available for sale at major retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.
"There's nothing wrong with being one of the bright spots."
Gyndri was born a human boy. But now he's one of the brightest spots of all. He's a Migon - a miniature dragon created to help humanity survive. His life changed completely when a dragon's attack ripped him from his loving family and set him on a new and frightening path.
Along with his human companion, Piet, Gyndri is now tasked with finding out two things. First, where he came from and who he wants to be. Second, the cause of the growing crime wave threatening Landing, the largest city on the planet of Respite.
Migons are a creation of the Ancients, bound to guard and assist humanity, and to obey human commands. Gyndri needs freedom. To accomplish his mission, Gyndri must become something brand new.
Migon
Author: P.C. Keeler
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Available for sale at major retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.
"There's nothing wrong with being one of the bright spots."
Gyndri was born a human boy. But now he's one of the brightest spots of all. He's a Migon - a miniature dragon created to help humanity survive. His life changed completely when a dragon's attack ripped him from his loving family and set him on a new and frightening path.
Along with his human companion, Piet, Gyndri is now tasked with finding out two things. First, where he came from and who he wants to be. Second, the cause of the growing crime wave threatening Landing, the largest city on the planet of Respite.
Migons are a creation of the Ancients, bound to guard and assist humanity, and to obey human commands. Gyndri needs freedom. To accomplish his mission, Gyndri must become something brand new.
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Excerpts & Reviews
Excerpt of MIGON published in Issue # 769 of Bewildering Stories.
MIGON listed on BookLife by Publishers Weekly.
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Review of MIGON published at Celtic Frog Reviews.
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Underground Certified at Underground Book Reviews.
4-star review of MIGON at A Polychromatic World.
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The Rose Queen: Book 1 of the Rose Trilogy
Author: Alison McBain
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Available for sale at major retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Barnes & Noble.
The Beast doesn't always wait for Beauty. Sometimes, Beauty is the Beast.
Princess Mirabella is betrothed to a repulsive old man a year after her mother's death. She refuses the marriage, only to find out her betrothed is a sorcerer as well. He takes his revenge by transforming her into a savage and frightening beast, giving her an ultimatum: she has three years to solve the mystery of her curse—or die.
Exiled to her mother's estate to hide the scandal, Mirabella learns that the sorcerer was not alone in keeping secrets. Her grandfather was murdered before Mirabella was born, and her mother's death is looking less and less as if it came from natural causes. The only point in common to all their ruined lives: her father, the king.
Faced with a conflict between saving her family and saving her own life, the choices Mirabella makes will change the future of the kingdom—and magic—forever.
The Rose Queen: Book 1 of the Rose Trilogy
Author: Alison McBain
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: July 21, 2018
Available for sale at major retailers such as Amazon, Walmart and Barnes & Noble.
The Beast doesn't always wait for Beauty. Sometimes, Beauty is the Beast.
Princess Mirabella is betrothed to a repulsive old man a year after her mother's death. She refuses the marriage, only to find out her betrothed is a sorcerer as well. He takes his revenge by transforming her into a savage and frightening beast, giving her an ultimatum: she has three years to solve the mystery of her curse—or die.
Exiled to her mother's estate to hide the scandal, Mirabella learns that the sorcerer was not alone in keeping secrets. Her grandfather was murdered before Mirabella was born, and her mother's death is looking less and less as if it came from natural causes. The only point in common to all their ruined lives: her father, the king.
Faced with a conflict between saving her family and saving her own life, the choices Mirabella makes will change the future of the kingdom—and magic—forever.
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Excerpts, Reviews & Awards
Book Spotlight of THE ROSE QUEEN published on Horror Author A.F. Stewart's site.
4th round finalist at AllAuthor.com's September 2018 Book Cover of the Month Contest, with published excerpt.
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2019 Literary Classics Book Award Finalist
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2019 Book of the Year Fantasy Finalist
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A "highly recommended" rating of The Rose Queen.
5-star book review and interview on author Barbara Russell's site.
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Excerpt of THE ROSE QUEEN published on BookLife by Publishers Weekly.
Excerpt of THE ROSE QUEEN published in Issue # 770 of Bewildering Stories.
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"Bookshine's Best Reads of 2018!" Out of all the books reviewed in 2018, The Rose Queen was one of the top 12.
4.5 out of 5 star book review at Life of a Writer: Turn Another Page.
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Emerald Bound
Author: Teresa Richards
Publisher: Evernight Teen
Publication: September 29, 2015
Available for sale at major retailers such as Amazon and Walmart.
A princess, a pea, and a tower of mattresses. This is the sliver that survives of a story more nightmare than fairytale...
Maggie Rhodes, high school junior and semi-reformed stalker, learns the tale’s true roots after a spying attempt goes awry and her best friend Kate ends up as the victim of an ancient curse. At the center of the curse lies an enchanted emerald that has been residing quietly in a museum for the past fifty years. Admirers of the gem have no idea that it feeds on life. Or that it’s found its next victim in Kate.
Enter Lindy, a school acquaintance who knows more than she’s letting on, and Garon, a handsome stranger claiming he knows how to help, and Maggie is left wondering who to trust and how to save her best friend before it’s too late.
If only Maggie knew her connection to the fairy tale was rooted far deeper than an endangered best friend.
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Excerpts, Reviews & Awards
Voted Editor's Pick by Evernight Teen.
5-pearl book review at Writing Pearls.
Review of EMERALD BOUND published by Robin King.
Review of EMERALD BOUND published at Literary Time Out.
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Review of EMERALD BOUND published at The Mad Reader.
Review of EMERALD BOUND published at Singing Librarian Books.
Review of EMERALD BOUND published at Red Headed Book Lover.
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4-star book review at Long and Short Reviews YA. Voted Book of the Month by LASR voters for November 2015.
Excerpt of EMERALD BOUND published at 3 Partners in Shopping.
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Topaz Reign
Author: Teresa Richards
Publisher: Evernight Teen
Publication: September 29, 2017
Fairy tales are simply tales, told and re-told, but changed over time.
It has been four months since Maggie learned the dark truth behind the tale of the Princess and the Pea and freed Princess Lindy from the cursed Emerald. Lindy is now back in the past where she belongs, queen of her tiny Scandinavian country, and Maggie is a fully reformed ex-stalker.
Except … she can’t stop doing internet searches on Lindy and her country.
One morning, Maggie wakes to find history turned on its head. Apparently, you can’t destroy a centuries-old curse without consequence. In order to prevent the changes in history from wiping out the present, Maggie resurrects her stalking gene and learns that fairy tales don’t stay dead for long. Or at all.
Back in 1623, Lindy is juggling a threat to her family, a handsome new guard she’s not supposed to have feelings for, and a cursed Topaz with ties to the tale of Thumbelina. When past and present collide, Lindy and Maggie are brought together again, and another of Andersen’s tales turns from twisted fiction to chilling fact.
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Excerpts, Reviews & Awards
Rated Best Book in a review at Long and Short Reviews YA.
4-pearl book review at Writing Pearls.
7-star review of TOPAZ REIGN published at Head Over Tales.
5-star review published at Good Tales Reviews.
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Voted Book of the Month by Long and Short Reviews voters for December 2017.
Excerpt of TOPAZ REIGN published at Evernight Teen.
Review of TOPAZ REIGN published by Brookie Cowles.
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Review of TOPAZ REIGN published at Singing Librarian Books.
Review of TOPAZ REIGN published by Robin King.
Review of TOPAZ REIGN published at Literary Time Out.
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The Windfall App
Author: Teresa Richards
Publisher: Evernight Teen
Publication: July 27, 2018
Marina Berghman is a classical piano prodigy with parents who've had her life mapped out since she was in diapers. But their plan leaves no room for her secret love o alternative rock, or Sean, the edgy guitarist who recently moved to town.
When Marina buys a lottery ticket on her eighteenth birthday via the new Windfall app, she expects it to be nothing more than a rite of passage. But she wins—the grand prize of five thousand dollars a day, for life. Suddenly given the means to break free from a life she never felt in control of, she's quick to cut her family ties and turn her back on everything she knows.
But her lottery win was no lucky break. Her prize comes with strings attached, and Marina soon finds herself at the center of someone else's life or death game. When she discovers evidence linking her dad to the intrigue, she turns to Sean for help. But he's harboring secrets of his own.
Now Marina must sort out who to trust and who's pulling the strings, before her prize turns into a noose.
The Windfall App
Author: Teresa Richards
Publisher: Evernight Teen
Publication: July 27, 2018
Marina Berghman is a classical piano prodigy with parents who've had her life mapped out since she was in diapers. But their plan leaves no room for her secret love o alternative rock, or Sean, the edgy guitarist who recently moved to town.
When Marina buys a lottery ticket on her eighteenth birthday via the new Windfall app, she expects it to be nothing more than a rite of passage. But she wins—the grand prize of five thousand dollars a day, for life. Suddenly given the means to break free from a life she never felt in control of, she's quick to cut her family ties and turn her back on everything she knows.
But her lottery win was no lucky break. Her prize comes with strings attached, and Marina soon finds herself at the center of someone else's life or death game. When she discovers evidence linking her dad to the intrigue, she turns to Sean for help. But he's harboring secrets of his own.
Now Marina must sort out who to trust and who's pulling the strings, before her prize turns into a noose.
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Excerpts, Reviews & Awards
Review of THE WINDFALL APP published at Singing Librarian Books.
4-star book review at The Cutest Blog on the Block.
Review of THE WINDFALL APP published at My Book a Day.
Review of THE WINDFALL APP published published in Issue # 772 of Bewildering Stories.
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4-star book review at Why Not? Because I Said So!
Excerpt of THE WINDFALL APP published at Evernight Teen.
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When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology
Authors: Edward Ahern, M.K. Beutymhill, Eddie Cantrell, Gabi Coatsworth, Elizabeth Chatsworth, P.C. Keeler, Leslie Burton-López, B.T. Lowry, Jacqueline Masumian, Alison McBain, P.M. Ray, Teresa Richards, Barbara Russell, Cynthia C. Scott, Abhishek Sengupta, Robert Tomaino, Nikki Trionfo
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: October 1, 2018
From the first popularization of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, time travel has long fascinated readers of science fiction and fantasy. When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology carries on this tradition with short stories in a wide array of genres to interest every reader.
"Ruby's Paradox" by Cynthia C. Scott: A young girl's life changes when a stranger appears and offers her knowledge of the future.
"The Service Call" by Edward Ahern: Bryce kills his wife, but he is subscribed to a "Do Over" service that lets him take it back—if only technical support can help him figure out how to make it work!
"Ten Minutes Past Teatime" by Elizabeth Chatsworth: A Victorian spinster-scientist and a Viking shield-maiden find passion and danger in dark-age Ireland.
"Misconception" by Gabi Coatsworth: Marcia wonders about the son she gave up for adoption many years ago . . . until a stranger shows up on her doorstep and causes her to revisit her past choices.
"Dinosaurs and Oats" by B.T. Lowry: Cynthia dreams about the past and doesn't realize that others can, too.
"Disjointed" by Alison McBain: Carson finds a strange machine in a junk shop and soon discovers there might be good reason why time travel is illegal.
"Turns of Fate" by Teresa Richards: Cressida is a teenager down on her luck. But that doesn't mean she wants to break the rules about time traveling. Sometimes, things just happen.
"Miss Princott's Time Travel Agency" by Barbara Russell: Priscilla's time travel business lets scholars study the past, but one client's good intentions might cause a terrible snafu with the timeline.
"The Swing" by Abhishek Sengupta: A poetic and surrealist story where a girl uses death to live.
"Reality Zero" by Nikki Trionfo: Chloe is part of a government organization that protects the timeline from terrorist attack. But what happens if the timeline itself becomes a threat?
And there are many, many more amazing stories! If you enjoy well-written genre fiction ranging from literary to speculative, adventure to horror, then it’s about time for you to pick up a copy of WHEN TO NOW.
Z: Tales from the Zombieverse
Authors: Edward Ahern, Radison Black, Roberto Calas, Rebecca Green, T.E. Hahn, P.C. Keeler, Danielle Kral, Carolyn Matos, P.M. Ray, Teresa Richards, E.J. Shoko, Robert Tomaino, Eliza White
Publisher: Fairfield Scribes
Publication: October 23, 2014
Welcome to a smorgasbord of zombie treats. Well-decayed stories from thirteen seriously demented writers makes up this collection of undead, uncensored, and unconventional short stories. From mombies to zombie presidents and reanimated scientists, the dead have found all sorts of ways to rise. In Z: Tales, the Fairfield Scribes pen wildly divergent views of the zombie apocalypse, from haunting to humor to horror.