"Queen Vivienne is in an incredibly bad mood right now. To use the common vernacular: she is royally pissed off, and anyone intruding upon her right now stands an equal chance of being blown to bits or turned to stone, depending on how MUCH they piss her off.
Are you willing to take your chances, or wait until Her Majesty is in a much better mood?"

"Most people consider Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl to be a great read... a marvelous book for children. For the Mine Goblins, it's a damn instruction manual!"

"I heard the Clockwork Empress is buying land for a factory out near Victorville."

"Holy crap! That crazy bitch is actually going to build a chocolate factory?"

"Why not? ( Read more... )

The graduate students from the Applied Metaphysics Department at CalTech stared in a combination of awe, shock, and horror as the Mine Goblin from the alternate Victorian Earth placed the weapon on the table before them.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen," said the Goblin, who was wearing 1940's British Army desert camouflage fatigues, tipping ( Read more... )

From the Universe of Fixing a Hole:
"Only Mine Goblins would invent exploding chocolate. The stuff is fine if you dilute it with milk or mix it with anything to drop the concentration below seventy percent. But above that threshold... BOOM! The stuff is like nitroglycerin!"

"Roald Dahl came up with the idea of exploding candy in Charlie and the ( Read more... )

Naga Hamadryad is best described as the nightmare version of a Goth girl sex fantasy--an Unseelie assassin of the Gentry who takes a perverse pleasure in seducing her victims before she kills them. Slender, supple, and athletic in build, Naga is a few inches above average height, graceful and lithe with a shapely dancer's figure as well as a pale ( Read more... )

From the universe of Fixing a Hole:

"Give a Mine Goblin a complete set of magical tools, and he (or she) is just as happy as can be.

Give a Mine Goblin a complete set of magical tools and an original idea... and you have a disaster just waiting to happen."

Proof that Lenore is one of the most frightening and disturbing of my characters.

"This is the zipper wand. It zips and unzips people. I just zipped your eyes and mouth shut.

What should I do next? Should I zip your nose shut and slowly watch you suffocate?

Or should I unzip you from front to back, starting just below your breastbone, inch by inch ( Read more... )

Later in my dystopian fantasy series, Fixing a Hole, the characters will encounter Liannan: the Unseelie Faerie who is the dark muse from Welsh and Irish mythology.

Liannan is the demon lover of poets and musicians, and can bring them fame and fortune... in exchange for feeding on their life-force, bringing them a short and tragic life.

" ( Read more... )

'Falling From Grace' is a concept I'm working on about a Nephelim trapped inside a bottle and freed by an army officer in Iraq who receives seven wishes from her... the last of which is to grant Shuri, the Nephelim her freedom. John Atkins, the army officer, wishes for riches, power, and influence, and finally to be president, and while running for ( Read more... )

Enormous blazing gold eyes, mammoth interlocked wheels of brass, and dozens of white-feathered eagle wings spun around in insane non-Euclidean circles before her, all of them enveloped in dazzling white-gold flames.

"BEHOLD THE ANGEL OF THE LORD," the Kyriotate thundered.

"Could you please stop that and assume human form," Grace asked. "The human ( Read more... )