Joan Chikage is a young and untested lieutenant on the deep space cargo ship Goodall. She lives in her head most of the time, and what she wants most in the world is to stop being scared. To prove her mettle. To show her capricious captain that she's worth his respect.But that's not possible stuck in the laboratory running tests on beetles. So she tries excelling at her task, until suddenly her beetles don't matter anymore. The captain she both admires and fears unceremoniously jet...

All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off.As if someone at the controls suddenly wants the crew isolated.No loudly arguing male voices, no deliberately mishandled supplies tumbling down the corridor, no nothing.Has the impossible happened? Is this the Goodall mutiny everyone expected?Or is it something even worse?Marooned, with failing systems and inexperienced offi...

Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles.Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities.Lots of naked people.Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same.Little does he know, but Miss Gafford's safari trip spells his doom. And that of his men.Set in the end of the nineteenth century, when men were men and women tended to like it that way.A steamy adventure romance ...

READ NOW, NAP LATER short stories for insomniacs.Welcome to my world (insomnia). I'm the author of the short story collections Ill Met By Moonlight, Baby Sings the Boos, and Twisted Rixter.Most of these READ NOW, NAP LATER stories are cozy-level mysteries, but then you have my vampire tale Things Go Better and what's maybe a science fiction story Burning Down the Barn. Most of these stories are quirky, some out-and-out funny, a few serious.For insomniacs? Well, I ho...

For your consideration: A horror novel set in the Piney Woods of East Texas near the town of Palestine where a train has mysteriously stalled. It's 1885. The snow has finally stopped and the train's twelve passengers have just begun to realize they're in deep trouble. There's something out there and it's calling up at them to be let in. The Buffalo Soldier on board might not be enough to save them, and the legendarily brutal mass murderer he guards is no one's hero. But it's not a single h...

Lumen could not move, but she could let her imagination run riot. So far there had been a David who wasn't really David, and a Sir Bertram who was a tiger, but the tigers weren't really tigers, not to mention Taylor Finch, with and without his hand. And a ghost of Rebecca. It always came back to Rebecca.Tigers, tigers everywhere."Nice kitty. Good kitty." Lumen couldn't control the inanities coming out of her mouth, she was so scared. But boy, oh boy, how soft their fur!...

An angel of God who can't remember his purpose. Two legendary lovers. Three strangers, battling one another and the ancient menace one carries unknowingly on her back into the West Texas arroyo. Their bond takes them from the flying saucers of Marfa to the vampire temptress of San Antonio, and then clear across mythical 1893 Texas to their fiery end. Arroyo--not your grandfather's sort of western.

An aging and cantankerous small-town newspaper editor who keeps her pet chicken in the office runs The Watermelon Pump. Luling, Texas' weekly paper, known primarily for its wedding announcements and garage sale ads.High school students do the reporting and photography, and there's never been trouble before. But they've never had an intern like Myron Wesley. A true born sociopath instantly recognizable to anyone who knows anything about life.A good Texas yarn alternatively h...

Having her will cost Junyur Wilde everything else he's ever wanted.Letting him go will force May Ling back into the whorehouse she's hoping to escape.The Cimarron Bride is their story, a western romance set against the backdrop of the very last Oklahoma Land Race. It's 1895, and the rich young cowboy who's fallen in love with his older brother's Chinese mail-order bride has finally caught up to her. In a whorehouse. That she refuses to leave. Even forcing a younger, more inno...

All that stands between Captain Carmady and an exceptionally ugly death is his First Lieutenant Joan Chikage.And she will not budge.The Goodall Marauders, book three in the Goodall series of science fiction mysteries.

The adventure continues for Lieutenant Joan Chikage of the USS Goodall.Surely, after all she'd gone through, he couldn't mean to put her back in the same boring assignment.Even if it was important in some way, she was done with that job. And ready for something else.She'd commanded a small troop of men since then. Led the survivors to safety. Quelled the mutiny. Discovered the murderer. She'd even brought in Van der Ryn so he could pay for his crimes. Accidently or ...

When an irascible San Antonio P.I. attracts the wrong kind of attention from a family of cops, his whole life changes in an instant. They love him. Think he's cute.He's not.At least, he wasn't.BROWNER, another mystery novel by G.L. Rix, picks up where BROWN started, at a parking lot meeting a new client who has a familiar beef he wants Brown to check out--El Condor, San Antonio's most interesting crime boss, who was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid....