Everyone's had a terrible boss—but most aren't in charge of a covert syndicate of underground magic users already hated by the public and targeted by law enforcement.I'm pretty sure mine is trying to kill me. Summoners go missing, and he picks me to go check if demons are running loose and "report back."I've got no backup.No field experience.And orders to stay under the radar...While confronting supernatural evil that oblite...

THESE LADIES AREN'T WAITING.Twenty bestselling and award-winning authors offer enchanting tales of women and girls forging paths through darkness and peril. Cleverness, curiosity, and determinations make worthy heroines in fantastical new worlds.Featuring stories by:Jody Lynn NyeKatie CrossRobyn BennisRaven OakFrog and Esther JonesDawn VogelMatt YoungmarkLee FrenchConnie J. JaspersonJeff...

Being a PI in the high-tech, magical city of Manzala requires more than street-smarts.Martin Aten makes do with a lifetime of experience in software engineering. Accompanied by the voice of his wife Jean and his memories of days gone by, he lives each life day-to-day, just scraping through.But every once in a while, a job comes along that’s bigger than it looks. And when the city’s most successful techno-dwarf hires Martin to recover a stolen, prized personal possession—the...

In 2020, the COVID-19 novel Coronavirus came and our lives changed.We all quarantined. We shut down our economy. And we made sure to keep a distance of at least six feet in an effort to keep the virus from killing as many people as we could save.In the midst of this, the speculative fiction authors within this volume began to think about what life looks like if the quarantine doesn’t leave. What happens if the illness keeps us all on restriction. Who will end up breaking th...

In that other world, I found a mysterious girl. Her life had been stolen to power a demon's magic.And I left her behind, bound to that demon.Now nothing else matters.Not my graduation.Not Grace's excuses or the politics of summoners.Not my friends, and not my foster family.I abandoned her, leaving her enslaved.I will burn everything to fix that.High school graduation is an exciting time for anyone. Bu...

Robert Lorents has done it all. He beat back the demonic Cythymau’s invasion of our world. He’s rescued Andrea, the damsel who’d haunted his thoughts for a year. And, while doing all of that, he'd still managed to graduate high school and get himself into college.But everything has its price, and for Robert that cost has been heavy. The aftermath of the battle left law enforcement on high alert, just as eager to kill as to capture summoners. New laws are being put into place to hun...

Welcome to FhCon.An event unlike any other, hosted by ancient and secret masters of fandom.They're all insanely happy you're here.Nineteen popular, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring you stories of a convention experience that only the Old Gods will make you forget!Edited by Frog Jones. Foreword by S.T. Joshi.

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III.Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors...

Life can kick us when we are down.In Shawn Speakman’s case, he is fighting back.Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Speakman beat the disease as well as the massive medical debt he amassed from its treatment. He did this by publishing Unfettered, an anthology featuring short stories donated by some of the best science fiction and fantasy writers working today.The fight will not stop there. In an effort to pay forward the ...

A magical collection of seventeen original stories by an amazing list of contributors—including a Dune story by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson!Like Unbound and before it, Unbound II boasts a collection of SF&F writers allowed to submit the tales they've been wanting to write for a long time—without the constraints of theme. The result? A new anthology as powerful as the first. The stories gathered here are only bound by how enchanting and ent...

Not bound, as a book. Free.Like Unfettered before it, the contributing writers of Unbound were allowed to submit the tales they wished fans of genre to read—without the constraints of a shackling theme.The result is magical. Twenty-three all-original stories are sure to captivate you—some will move you to tears while others will keep you turning the pages long into the night. The power of Unbound lies in its variety of tales and the voices behind them. If you are a fan of d...

You define life or it defines you.In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both.Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell tohelp alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends.Unfettered is...