Dark fantasy fiction
Hey, a post about something other than Caldera!
My wife (stephdray) just published a short (4-page) story in Dark Valentine Magazine. Her 4-page story is buried deep in the magazine, but you can read it here: The Threshing Floor.
Steph writes under two pen names.
As Stephanie Draven, she writes paranormal romance. Her stories so far (all part of her Mythica series) explore the lives of war-torn people who find themselves being transformed into (totally human versions of) monsters from Greek mythology. In her first eBook novella, a young woman realizes that when she carves statues of the war criminals who killed her family, they die. She's become a modern medusa. Steph has two electronic novellas out right now, and her first paperback due out this Fall. Another paperback in her Mythica series hits the shelves some time next year, and she has just secured a contract to write two more novella eBooks. All of these are under the Harlequin Nocturne label. I enjoyed reading them, so it's not just girl stuff. ;)
Under her real name, she writes historical fiction. Steph sold two books to Berkley Publishing: Lily of the Nile and Sorceress of the Nile. The first explores the early life of Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra and Marc Antony. Selene was captured by her parents' murder, Octavian (Augustus Caesar), who forced her and her brothers to live with his own family. What a weird dysfunctional family! The second book gets into her life as a young adult after she's manipulated Octavian into making her Queen of Mauretania. Lily of the Nile (tentative cover shown at right) will be in bookstores in January 2011. Sorceress of the Nile is still in draft.