An old-fashioned adventure of the future... It's a not-so-brave new world. Corporations rule humanity. The world is a bleak and unkind place. But then the Mitoc, powerful aliens from the distant reaches of the universe, came and things got worse. Humans found themselves unable to resist the Mitoc's call. Like sheep, they climbed aboard the vast alien spaceships, to be shipped off to the stars to fight the alien race's war for them. To die for them.Because millions of years ago, the...

Sometimes a house IS NOT a home.In this gripping novel of suspense, a struggling midlist romance writer and his frustrated-sculptor wife leave NYC for the North Carolina mountains. Desperate to complete his latest novel, Arlo and Joanna Priestley take his literary agent's advice and pack up for the mountains. Their temporary home is the empty cabin belonging to Colm Finn, a successful and reclusive romance author. While Arlo attempts to write and Joanna attempts to sculpt, the spir...

Quirky and uncompromisingly inventive and unique, Glenn Eric's Engine Of My Dreams is a swim through time, the multiverse, consciousness, and the very meaning of existence.Weaving disparate narratives, regardless of the so-called continuum of time and space, Glenn Eric takes readers on a one-of-a-kind journey that includes Albert Einstein living in the photodimension, a story-telling Alexander Dumas, mermaids, the Afterlife, the power of music, a cosmos in which no one ever dies an...

Sometimes a house IS NOT a home.In this gripping novel of suspense, a struggling midlist romance writer and his frustrated-sculptor wife leave NYC for the North Carolina mountains. Desperate to complete his latest novel, Arlo and Joanna Priestley take his literary agent's advice and pack up for the mountains. Their temporary home is the empty cabin belonging to Colm Finn, a successful and reclusive romance author. While Arlo attempts to write and Joanna attempts to sculpt, the spir...

Sometimes a house IS NOT a home.In this gripping novel of suspense, a struggling midlist romance writer and his frustrated-sculptor wife leave NYC for the North Carolina mountains. Desperate to complete his latest novel, Arlo and Joanna Priestley take his literary agent's advice and pack up for the mountains. Their temporary home is the empty cabin belonging to Colm Finn, a successful and reclusive romance author. While Arlo attempts to write and Joanna attempts to sculpt, the spir...

There is nothing one alien hates worse than another alien ruining his day. And when that one alien is a Pazu and that other alien is a Fleek, well, you just know there's going to be trouble. BIG TROUBLE Big Trouble in the Big Easy to be geographically correct, which is about as correct as ever-politically incorrect Ed Turner, PI ever gets. But he is an alien, so let's cut him some slack. His partner, Karen, has learned to do so and, if she can put up with it, so can we, right? To be fair, ...

It's me, Ed Turner! I'm back! Well, actually, I never left. That is, I'd like to leave. I'm getting tired being stuck on this planet of yours. But such is my lot in life. My other lot in life, so it seems, and recently acquired, exists in the form of one very human Karen Dalton. A lovely young woman I met when she hired me, the greatest alien detective on the planet – if I do say so myself – to find her missing brother. Despite that case not ending so great – not my fault at all − Karen's ...

Meet Ed:I'm Ed Turner. I call myself a private detective. You might call me an extraterrestrial. And I am. Hiding in plain sight here on Earth. Me and the others of my ilk call ourselves Pazu. I'm from a planet whose name sounds something like Zyxltl in your tongue. Zyxltl is in a star system whose name shall remain anonymous because, if I am honest and Karen says I am painfully so, we don't want you Earthlings to know because, well, we don't want you showing up there! Can you blame...

As his on-again/off-again girlfriend likes to say, Tom Edge has moved from one graveyard to another- from the Graveyard of the Pacific as a US Coast Guard Intelligence Service officer, to the Graveyard of the Atlantic as sheriff. He's traded a long and storied career with the USCG IS for the life of a sheriff in a coastal North Carolina county that's half underwater, with a population that grows exponentially during the Outer Banks tourist season, and boasts a beach for a highway. The prot...

Contributions by Sandra Bartlett Atwood, Nathan E. Bender, London Brickley, Eric A. Eliason, Noah D. Eliason, Tim Frandy, Robert Glenn Howard, Jay Mechling, Annamarie O'Brien Morel, Raymond Summerville, Tok Thompson, and Megan L. ZahayGuns are a ubiquitous part of life in the United States. Arguably more pervasive than physical guns is “gunlore,” which refers to the many folklore genres related to firearms. Gunlore: Firearms, Folkways, and Communities is the first book to ...

A wagon train of pioneers is struggling Westward toward Oregon through the howling winter and a band of Arikara warriors are hot on their trail. Little do the Arikaras suspect that they're about to come face-to-face and gun-to-gun with a ferocious fight they never expected, courtesy of the wily mountain man called Preacher.As Preacher struggles to bring the settlers to safety, he learns the real reason they were attacked and begins to suspect that the secrets they've been keeping e...

They call him Preacher. And they call him when they need help. Now, a Mexican brother and sister have asked the legendary frontiersman to accompany them into the Sangre de Cristo mountains—to find a missing family fortune of gold and silver.In a land stained by cruelty and war, the Spanish treasure has drawn the interest of a treasure hunter with ruthless paid killers as his partners. And by the time Preacher finds the bounty, bullets have begun to fly.No gunfight will ever...