R.A. MacAvoy’s urban fantasy Tea With the Black Dragon is now available in a Kindle edition and if you haven’t read it, now’s the time.  (It’s also available in both new and used paperback from amazon.com.)  Set in San Francisco, the story features a mature love story, a plot involving a missing daughter, and Asian [...]

There’s a new episode of NoHo Noir up at patch.com, my ongoing series of tales set in North Hollywood and Toluca Lake–adjoining cities that could not be more different.  (China Mieville’s The City & the City is one of my inspirations here.)
This episode introduces two recently bereaved characters, both of them children of immigrants, both [...]

Laura Lehman SF/Fantasy book editor of bellaonline.com has several reviews of new steampunk fiction out today including The Greyfriar by Clay and Susan Griffith and Horns of Ruin by Tim Akers.  The Greyfriar is book one of a new series called “Vampire Empire” from comic book writers Griffin (whose work on the cult classic “Tick” [...]

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The editors of this anthology want you to know that contrary to popular belief–Canadians aren’t nice people.  In fact, they’d just as soon kill you as look at you.  Here’s what they have to say for themselves:
If you’re looking for foggy, dimly lit alleys echoing with the click-clack of a dame’ s high-heeled shoes, where [...]

Jason Evans (The Clarity of Night) periodically runs flash fiction contests  on his blog (there’s one up now) based on photo prompts.  (He’s a photographer as well as a poet/writer.)  Right now he’s offering a free download of stories that won the 12 previous contests.  Compiled by James R. Tomlinson (no relation), the free ebook [...]

Dark Valentine’s good friend Kelli Stanley (author of Nox Dormienda and City of Dragons) recommends A Twisted Ladder, the debut novel from writer Rhodi Hawk.