Future Publishing Projects

I wanted to alert all my readers of my future self-publishing plans for the rest of the year.

I have three projects in the works:

The first is a 28,000-word novella entitled "Vengeance Game"; this is a Dribble & Maggot story. Lady Margaret attends a private dinner party hosted by a former member of her father's army battalion, and she drags Differel along for companionship. Unfortunately, her father had cashiered their host and forced him to resign his commission, and he wants revenge. He would have preferred to take it out on her father, but she will do nicely. As such, he forces Differel to play a game of death traps to save her life.

This will be a free ebook.

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The second is an 88,000-word collection of my remaining completed but unpublished stories, entitled "The Dregs of the Barrel". It will contain the following stories:

Ambition's Appetite -- In ancient Ireland, Medb hErenn helps a timetraveler to capture an interdimensional being. She wants to dispel it, but he hopes to use it to gain absolute power over time and space.

The Assault on the Overland Express -- In an Alternative Reality that uses a magic-based technology, Differel is a troubleshooter for an insurance company, who intercepts a transcontinental train to warn its owners/operators, Eile and Sunny, that a group of bandits plan to rob them.

The Cat Who Saved the Ark -- A story based on Medieval folktales, of how the Devil tried to sink the Ark, and where cats came from.

Euchred -- A paranormal investigator teams up with a police detective to solve a series of mysterious and gruesome murders.

The Ghoulish Wife -- A Colorado businessman meets and marries a mysterious woman with a dark and sinister secret.

I Want to Be With You-Forever -- A homophobic trial judge pays her female paralegal intern to be her lover, but then the later wants to make it permanent.

Love Triangle -- A woman is assaulted by two ghouls in a cemetery, who fight over her, allowing her to escape. Later, however, they try to woo her, and she humors them.

Making Lemonade -- How to take advantage of a zombie apocalypse.

Men of the City -- A story based on one of Clive Barker's amateur paintings, "Men of the City". http://clivebarker.deviantart.com/art...

The Adventure of Lion's Heart -- In the Dreamlands, Eile and Sunny are returning from an adventure and decide to spend a few days with a family of friends. They find the family slaughtered, except for a newborn baby and a kitten. As they take them to safety, they find they are being followed by the creatures that killed the family.

October Surprise -- In 1979, a secret cabal of government employees hope to create an "October Surprise" that will get Jimmy Carer reelected, by attacking a Deep One city with a nuclear device.

The One That Got Away -- A new acquaintance tells Differel's father about an unusual hunting trip into the woods of New England.

The Adventure of the Princess Skunk -- While playing the online roleplaying game Otherworld, Eile and Sunny encounter a princess turned into a skunk. That's when the crap hits the fan.

A Region Yet Unknown -- Medb hErenn, Jeremiah Arkenton, and January Ian Mariposa team up to investigate a haunted house. Inspired by "Rose Red" by Stephen King.

The Road to Hell -- Two elderly survivors of a zombie apocalypse meet and await their deaths at the hands of the force that wiped out the zombies.

Sauna Mates -- Differel builds a Finnish sauna and invites Eile and Sunny to help her break it in.

Supermodel -- The Princess in Orange lands Differel a nude modeling gig.

Birthday Surprise -- The Princess in Orange treats Differel to a special birthday celebration involving make strippers.

Bathtub Fun -- The Princess in Orange joins Differel for a bath.

The Adventure of Team Mail Girl! -- In the Dreamlands, Eile and Sunny agree to deliver a valuable package to a wealthy recluse, but Marseilles Sheraton wants to steal it for herself, and she will kill them if necessary to get it.

They Never Learn -- A space cargo transport escapes from the moon's space station with zombies on board, and the crew's sole survivor tries to warn Earth command.

The Adventure of the Toxic Celebutante -- In the Dreamlands, Eile and Sunny agree to help a primitive tribe discover the source of a mysterious plague killing them, and find Marseilles Sheraton behind it.

Vice Versa -- A time traveler from the future tells her lover how dull and boring her life is, being forbidden to drink, smoke, eat red meat, or have casual sex.

Wendigoes -- In an Alternative Reality, Differel with Eile and Sunny investigates a secret base on a snowbound world that has mysteriously gone silent.

Who Put the Man in Human? -- Two scientists, who are former lovers, investigate primitive humanoids captured in unexplored Africa.

A Wizard of an Agent -- A wizard in a fantasy world supplies young women for the entertainment industry in our world.

Xerox -- In the Dreamlands, Differel, Eile, and Sunny track a pair of shapeshifting predators that have been killing and eating people. But the real danger is that their quarry could impersonate them.

This will be a free ebook; in fact, it will be my last free ebook for sometime to come.

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The third project will be another collection of stories, except these will be brand new, never before published or submitted, written especially for the collection. Tentatively entitled "Tales of Adventure", my goal is to include at least 120,000 words of new stories, with perhaps some bonus materials as well. So far I have accumulated 41,000 words of stories.

This will be the first ebook that I will try to sell rather than give away for free. I have tentatively set the price at $2.99 (USD). In addition to offering it through Smashwords, which distributes to Banes&Noble, Apple, and various other online retailers, I will also offer it through Amazon (non-exclusive Kindle) and Kobo. An excerpt will be available both through Smashwords and on GoodReads.

As of this writing, the contents will include:

Demon Lovers -- All the men in the world have been turned into demons, and are raping all the women in the world. Differel teams up with her mad scientist Dr. Mabuse to reverse the disaster.

Redjack -- Differel and Margaret (aka, Dribble & Maggot) are on the trail of a serial killer dubbed Redjack, when he kidnaps Differel to be his next victim. Margaret must rescue her before it's too late, but a police inspectors suspects her of killing her frenemy.

The Sewers of Khwarezm -- In the Dreamlands, Medb hErenn searches for a runaway princess, and they are both captured by slavers. To escape, they flee into the sewers beneath the city, only to encounter a grave danger even Medb cannot handle.

Misunderstood -- A paparazzo trails a hot new female pop singing star to find out who she really is.