Distant Gardens audiobook ‘in the can’ The Distant Gardens audiobook is now available! Narrated by the excellent Lynn Norris, Distant Gardens can be purchased from Audible. Lynn really has captured the essence of my own two stories, Dew Diligence and The Bibliothek Betrayal, quite beautifully. No mean feat considering she had to contend…
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family…
Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves?
When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife. Can Quirk and Moth find the scientist before they are banged up for murder, or has she already been eaten? Is it coincidence Quirk’s father-in-law bought the company? Can they expose the shadow from Quirk’s past and clear their names?
Quirk and Moth need time, but it’s fast running out, and the bodies are piling up.
They say, “Never work with androids or children.”
Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd rather see him asphyxiate in space.
Fleeing assassins, Quirk, Moth and her syRen® android S-0778 ride the space elevator to the Moon, where Quirk hires on to hunt an ex-terra-former who somehow used an android to murder his doctor. But which android of the two hundred under Lunaville’s dome? The trail of bodies grows, time is running out; the only way they can save the dome and the two thousand souls beneath it is to solve The Mandroid Murders.
Cassie’s lover has been ripped from her life. Can she survive long enough to expose a corrupt terraforming corporation, and exonerate Karla? Perhaps, with the aid of Quinton Kirby. But is Karla all that she seemed, will C Corp cut them down in their tracks or will the Isle of Skye swallow Cassie and Quirk whole?
Farther Reefs is a ten-story anthology of ocean adventure, new relationships, and nautical mystery, edited by J.S. Fields and Heather Tracy.
With stories by: Sarah Day & Tim Pratt, Kim Pritekel, Kyoko M., Sara Codair, William C. Tracy, N.L. Bates, Robin C.M. Duncan, Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Margaret Adelle, and J.S. Fields. Illustrations by Katie Cordy.
The seas spell freedom. Pirates and kraken, boats and submarines, deadly sirens, mermaids, and the women who face them all. These are our heroes. High seas adventure, fantasy, and magic weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on the joy of the unbounded oceans. If you like diverse stories with lesbian heroines practicing science, magic, and seduction, buy Farther Reefs, the sequel to Distant Gardens, today!’
Distant Gardens is a ten-story anthology of exploration, biodiversity, and found family, edited by J.S. Fields and Heather Tracy
Featuring two stories each by J.S. Fields, Sara Codair, William C. Tracy, N.L. Bates, Robin C.M. Duncan. Illustrations by Katie Cordy
Rules were made to be broken. Journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed terra-forming have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology that focuses on a very different kind of first time – a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own
With content by: Nick Bright and Brent Lambert, C.J. Hosack, Nate Battalion, Daniel Eavenson, Malcolm F. Cross, Katie Cordy, William C. Tracy, N.L. Bates, Reese Hogan, Cedan Bourne, Robin C.M. Duncan, and X.M. Moon
Journey through time and space to the intricate biosphere of Juno, where three species have been birthed by the gods.
First the Kuhifadi, inheritors of sun magic, able to do great deeds with magic stored in their bodies.
Second the fearsome Uchafumlaji, technological savants who live in the depths of the ground.
Third the weird Ngisikaa, a species uplifted from animals through communal memories.
Small decisions and single individuals will affect the tide of history. Learn of the first Ngisikaa to meet death, whether a Kuhifadi will make the sacrifice to become a mage, and if an Uchafumlaji can build a bridge to the past. These stories and more will create The World of Juno!
The most powerful man in the solar system is going to steal the future.
Besides dealing with his teenage assistant, Moth (being enticed by her mafia family to join the business), Quirk’s nemesis Beatrix Potter has reappeared. The nonbinary assassin reveals an unprecedented power grab by Joshua Simister. The Old Man, aka TOM, aka Quirk’s ex-father-in-law plots to snatch control of all interstellar travel from the UN. The struggle for power puts the lives of Quirk’s ex-wife (committed to an asylum), his son (an electronic being), and Moth’s family under threat. Can the dysfunctional duo prevent this calamity?
From Mars, to London, to New York, to Venus: a worlds-spanning clandestine struggle rages to prevent The Old Man redoubling his already vast power. Old debts are coming due, deadly legacies inherited, and Quirk may not even survive being reunited with his family, much less his enemies.
Genres: Science Fiction / Thriller / Mystery / Adventure / LGBT and Non-Binary.
Look to the skies!
Brave adventurers face new relationships and adversity in all sizes, from steampunk dirigibles to harpies, giant bees to garden gnomes, and winged dinosaurs to sky pirates.
Isolated mountain peaks, clifftop cities, and battles in the sky abound in this sapphic anthology focused on overcoming challenges awaiting in the clouds.
If you like diverse stories with lesbian and sapphic-centric heroines enjoying the thrill of adventure high in the air, buy Lofty Mountains today!
With stories by: Seanan McGuire, Rosiee Thor, Rebecca Kim Wells, Maya Gittelman, Carmen Loup, Sara Codair, William C. Tracy, N.L. Bates, L.R. Gould, Robin C.M. Duncan, and J.S. Fields.
With Quirk gallivanting around Europe with a German professor, Moth bumps her studies (and Bea) for a training exercise with the Hygeia Marine Scouts. Just a handful of kids doing their space safety training. What could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, actually…