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DREAMWALKER NEWS

Dreamwalker is here in paperback. And a beautiful paperback it is, too…get your copy now!

Tropical Christmas

TROPICAL CHRISTMAS

A Haiku Suite

White-winged birds settle

Softly on beach sands, sunlit,

Dreaming of snowfall

Proud pine trees festooned

With coconuts, reminder

Of the desert Christ.

Vampires dream sweetly

Of nights too long to measure

And buy tickets north.

The Longest NIght

Because you can never have too much vampire poetry….

This one is an (obvious) homage to the poetry of Robert W. Service.

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The Longest Night

There is a land where the cold winds blow

And blood runs chill in mortal veins

Where game is scarce and the hunt is cold,

And loneliness drives a man insane.

There is a place where the world is ice

And where even wolves are loathe to roam.

Where the earth is white and the sky is black

And the spirit frozen.

I call it home.

The living have given it fearsome na...

Dreamwalker

DAW Books – 2014

ISBN: 0756408881

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All her life Jessica Drake has dreamed of other worlds, some of them similar to her own, others disturbingly alien. She never shares the details with anyone, save her younger brother Tommy, a compulsive gamer who incorporates some aspects of Jessica’s dreams into his games. But now someone is asking about those dreams…and about her. A strange woman has been watching her house. A visitor to her school attempts to take possession...

Perfect Day makes the big time

My story Perfect Day will be included in Hartwell’s Year’s Best Science Fiction for 2012. So for all of you who missed the magazine debut and want a dead tree copy, it’s on its way….

It Has a Name! (and a pub date)

My next novel will be called Dreamwalker, and is due out in Febrary 2014. Which means I’ll have to keep feeding y’all excerpts till then, so stay tuned!

Dreamseeker IV: Shadowlords

(Advice from the Green Man:)

“The Shadowlords are insane. Never forget that. Their Gift is handed down from person to person, and it carries with it all the memories of those who possessed it in the past. All their prejudices and obsessions, their hatreds and fears and uncertainties, melded to the brain of one who was born and bred for such a process, and who has been told from childhood that he must submit to it…think what that would do to a man!” He looked up toward the mansion high above us...

Coldfire in the UK!

You asked for it, we listened: Orbit will be producing an e-book version of the Coldfire Trilogy for readers in the UK. No date yet, but I’ll post it when I have it.

Perfect Day

‘Perfect Day’ first appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2012 issue.

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When Stanley Betterman awoke Monday morning he didn’t know that everyone else in the world was naked.

His own pajamas were securely in place when his brainware buzzed his neural centers, cutting short a particularly nice dream about falling mortgage rates. The striped cotton might have looked a little more greenish than usual as he staggered to the bathroom, but his Color My World ap...

Dreamseeker: Excerpt III

There was a pteradactyl sitting on my chest.

Not a big one. Parrot-sized. It had its head turned to one side so that its little black eye could stare at me, and there was no mistaking the profile.

A pteradactyl.

“Ah. You’re awake.” A man’s voice filtered into my awareness. I tried to turn my head toward him, but the motion hurt. Everything hurt.

“Here”, he said, to someone other than me. “I saved one for you.”

A small fish came flying in my direction. The pteradactyl reached up and snapped it out...