Blood, Magic & a Concubine: 3 Dark Urban Fantasy Tales

UPDATE: Now available on Amazon.

I just released a short digital collection of dark urban fantasy called Blood, Magic a & Concubine. The collection  is approximately 20,000 words in length and is a mere .99 cents. It will be available on Amazon for the Kindle, Barnes & Noble for the Nook, and other online retailers soon. Currently, you can find the ebook on Smashwords, which also offers a free preview. I will update the post as soon as it is live in other areas. Here’s a little bit about the 3 stories.

“Blood, Magic & a Concubine”: Johnny Stone is a wizard who fixes things and makes problems go away in the sprawling subterranean city of Underbelly. When someone kidnaps Manny the Goon’s girl, he enlists Johnny to find and rescue her. But Manny is holding back information, which doesn’t make Johnny’s job easy, not even when he enlists the help of a Nordic god.

“The Naughty List”: Seven-year-old Janie’s life isn’t so great. Lyle keeps coming back and being mean to her and her mom, and now Mom spends all of her time sleeping in her room. Thankfully, it’s Christmas, and in her letter to Santa, Janie asked for help with Lyle. When Santa and his elves get the letter, they are eager to help. Things might not go so well for Lyle.

“Under the Skin”: Kagan wakes up in a pool of blood. It isn’t the first time he’s woken up and found shredded human remains, and he fears it won’t be the last. He’s already killed someone he loves, even though he doesn’t remember doing it. There is something inside of him. He can feel it. Heeding the advice of a Navajo shaman, as well as the constant urging of the things living within him, he and his sister set out for the New Mexico desert to see if he can find answers.

Blood, Magic & a Concubine also includes an Excerpt from Breaking Glass, an upcoming novella featuring Thomas Rhymes.

Blood, Magic & a Concubine

Urban Fantasy Short Story Now Available on Amazon

The rights to my urban fantasy short story “Blood, Magic, and a Concubine” reverted to me a few weeks ago – the magazine that held the rights closed and all rights reverted to authors and artists. I was sorry to see the magazine go, but I figured I might as well make the best of the situation. So, I uploaded the story to Amazon as a Kindle title. It’s just 99 cents, and it includes an excerpt from my novella Meat City in Meat City & Other Stories, which is available for purchase through Amazon, Black Bed Sheet Books, and other stores.

I thought I would add an excerpt from “Blood, Magic, and a Concubine” here so you can see if it is something that you might like to read. Other tales from Underbelly are coming as well, including “Nine-Tenths”, which will be a free story on this site, and a novella called Light of the Silvery Moon, which features Johnny Stone and a pack of irate werewolves who are trying to figure out who killed a prominent member of the Blackpool Pack.

Enough of my rambling, click for the excerpt.




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