My newest book, A Cup of Smoke: stories and poems, is now available for purchase for $ 4.99, at Amazon here
A Cup of Smoke: stories and poems, and in epub format at
Smashwords. It contains six short stories, twenty poems, and a rodent zodiac.
In a steampunk Wild West, women with nothing left to lose walk into the desert, and emerge soul-bonded to giant robots...
A pair of bickering angels try to re-create Heaven in a Tokyo subway station...
A woman warrior matches swords and wits with a many-headed demon in mythic India...
These stories and more appear in "A Cup of Smoke." The anthology includes the Rhysling Award-winning poem "Nine Views of the Oracle" and the Rhysling nominee poem "Minotaur Noir."
Contains lesbian gunslingers, prophesying ravens, a martial artist on an interplanetary mission of revenge, three golems, and a one-eyed, hopping sandal.
Two of the short stories and eleven of the poems are original to this collection. The other stories originally appeared in Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk I, Strange Horizons, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, and Cabinet des Fees. All the short stories have new afterwords by the author.
The lovely cover is by Stephanie Folse. Huge thanks to Cora Anderson and Larry Hammer for doing the surprisingly difficult formatting.
Please feel free to link to, tweet, or otherwise publicize this book.
If you would like to review it, please let me know and I will give you a free copy. I don’t usually read reviews and am so busy right now that I’m almost entirely offline everywhere but my own sites, so please review honestly. I am highly unlikely to ever even see it, and I do not expect everyone to love everything in any collection.
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