Smith’s Monthly #36

by | Nov 1, 2016

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Smith’s Monthly #36

Dean Wesley Smith

Over eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.

In this thirty-sixth monthly volume the full novel Laying the Music to Rest, plus four short stories.

Short Stories
Meeting the Sunset Kid: A Ghost of a Chance Story
The Remodeling of a Life: A Mary Jo Assassin Story
Something Wasted On
The Case of the Simple Passage: A Pilgrim Hugh Incident

Full Novel
Laying the Music to Rest

Nonfiction
Introduction: My First Novel

Closing the Deal…on Your Terms

by | Oct 25, 2016

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Closing the Deal…on Your Terms

Agents, Contracts and Other Considerations

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Making the wrong decisions on the business side of publishing can destroy a writer’s career. Longtime writer, editor, and publisher Kristine Kathryn Rusch knows this better than anyone. So she decided to write a book on the dealbreakers in contracts, agency agreements, and other business things that will ruin a writer’s future.

Little did she know that it would take her seven months, lots of hand-wringing, and a lot of help from the readers of her blog. The result, Closing the Deal…on Your Terms, shows how the tiniest of decisions—talking to a Hollywood producer on the phone, falling for a typical agent’s ruse of masking a contract for a letter—can have lifelong consequences.

Written for every writer, whether self-published, traditionally published, or hybrid, Closing the Deal…on Your Terms takes writers on a journey that will help them understand what they’re selling and what they could accidentally give away.

Closing the Deal…on Your Terms is probably not a book that any writer wants. However, it’s exactly the book that every writer needs.
–Writing Slices

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Freezeout

by | Oct 17, 2016

Cold Poker Gang
Mystery

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Freezeout:
A Cold Poker Gang Mystery

Dean Wesley Smith

Sandy Hunter kissed her husband goodbye one normal morning on her way to work. She never made it. Last seen walking alone into a Las Vegas hotel room, she never came out and no sign of her remained in that room.

Her missing person’s case went cold for fourteen years until retired Las Vegas detectives Debra Pickett and Sarge Carson, members of the Cold Poker Gang, decided to investigate how a woman could vanish from a locked hotel room without a trace.

Another twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery from the prolific mind of USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. If you love puzzle mystery novels, grab a Cold Poker Gang mystery novel.

“…Dean Wesley Smith draws a royal straight flush by making the hand he deals readers seem possible with this exhilarating political poker thriller…”
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Inhuman Garbage

by | Oct 1, 2016

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Retrieval Artist
Science Fiction, Thriller

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Inhuman Garbage

A Retrieval Artist Universe Novella

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Years before the Anniversary Day crisis, Armstrong Police Detective Noelle DeRicci investigates a body dumped in a compost bin.

But what seems like a regular murder case suddenly puts everyone she knows at risk.

And it poses a very political question: How far should she push for the rights of clones?

Winner of the 2015 Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award for Best Novella.

“Inhuman Garbage,” first published in Asimov’s, appears in a different form in Book Seven of the Anniversary Day Saga, Starbase Human.

We get some surprising revelations in a story rich with intrigue mixed with science fiction and police procedural. Rusch is so good at this sort of thing. This will be on my Hugo Short List for Novella next year.

Sam Tomaino, SF Revu

Fiction River: Haunted

by | Sep 30, 2016

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Anthology

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Fiction River: Haunted

Edited by Kerrie L. Hughes

Nothing compares to a good ghost story. And in Haunted, some of the best short fiction writers in the business explore the many different ways to haunt someone: literally, figuratively, happily, angrily… From a man haunted by his wife’s favorite appliance to a possessed building protective of its new family to a chilling twist on the modern practice of ghosting, the thirteen authors of Fiction River’s latest volume provide unforgettable stories that will haunt the reader for years to come.

Table of Contents
“She’s No Shimmer” by David H. Hendrickson
“Land of the Living” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“Clean” by Michael Kowal
“The Ghost of Station Four” by Angela Penrose
“The Clockwork Harp” by Anthea Sharp
“Christmas Ghosts in Silver Chains” by Dave Raines
“Hoarding” by Thea Hutcheson
“Machowski’s Watch” by Eric Kent Edstrom
“The Crow War of Willows Beach” by Brenda Carre
“Mother Daughter” by Brigid Collins
“The Ribbon Tree” by Leah Cutter
“Holly Hock” by Kerrie L. Hughes
“Ghosting” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch