Facade
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 86870 words.
Published by WMG Publishing on January 31, 2012. Fiction.
Thomas’s estranged daughter Heather died on the Oregon Coast. Thomas has returned there, not to solve his daughter’s murder, but to see if he can live with himself and his past.
Only someone leaves mysterious notes and birds die on his porch. As more people die, Thomas realizes he holds the key to it all. He can solve the crisis, if he only dares…
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Biography
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer. She has written many novels under various names, including Kristine Grayson for romance, and Kris Nelscott for mystery. Her novels have made the bestseller lists worldwide and have been published in 14 countries and 13 different languages.
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in thirteen Year’s Best collections.
Pyr published her novel, Diving into the Wreck, in November of 2009. Her next short story collection, Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories, will appear from Golden Gryphon in spring of 2010.
In spring of 2011, she will publish City of Ruins, the next book in the Diving universe, and she will have a new Kristine Grayson novel, The Charming Way.
In 2009, her short story, “G-Men,” appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, the first time the same story appeared in both a mystery and science fiction best of the year collection. In 2008, she won both the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award and the Asimov’s Readers Choice Award.
In 2007, she became one of a handful of writers to twice win the Best Mystery Novel award given for the best mystery published in the Northwest (for her Kris Nelscott books). Her novella, “Diving into the Wreck,” has won the prestigious international UPC award, given in Spain to the best science fiction novella in English, French, Spanish or Catalan. That novella also won the Asimov’s Readers Choice award. Her critically acclaimed Retrieval Artist series has won the Endeavor Award and is currently nominated for the Romantic Times Book Review’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Science Fiction novel.
In 2001, her story, “Millennium Babies,” won the coveted Hugo Award. That year, she also received the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (for her Kris Nelscott Series) and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance (for her novel Utterly Charming, written as Kristine Grayson). In 1999, her story, “Echea,” (available at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader’s choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.
She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.
Her awards range from the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award to the John W. Campbell Award. In the past year, she has been nominated for the Hugo, the Shamus, and the Anthony Award. She is the only person in the history of the science fiction field to have won a Hugo award for editing and a Hugo award for fiction. Her short work has been reprinted in thirteen Year’s Best collections.
Pyr published her novel, Diving into the Wreck, in November of 2009. Her next short story collection, Recovering Apollo 8 and Other Stories, will appear from Golden Gryphon in spring of 2010.
In spring of 2011, she will publish City of Ruins, the next book in the Diving universe, and she will have a new Kristine Grayson novel, The Charming Way.
In 2009, her short story, “G-Men,” appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories and The Year’s Best Science Fiction, the first time the same story appeared in both a mystery and science fiction best of the year collection. In 2008, she won both the Ellery Queen Readers Choice Award and the Asimov’s Readers Choice Award.
In 2007, she became one of a handful of writers to twice win the Best Mystery Novel award given for the best mystery published in the Northwest (for her Kris Nelscott books). Her novella, “Diving into the Wreck,” has won the prestigious international UPC award, given in Spain to the best science fiction novella in English, French, Spanish or Catalan. That novella also won the Asimov’s Readers Choice award. Her critically acclaimed Retrieval Artist series has won the Endeavor Award and is currently nominated for the Romantic Times Book Review’s Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Science Fiction novel.
In 2001, her story, “Millennium Babies,” won the coveted Hugo Award. That year, she also received the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel (for her Kris Nelscott Series) and the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance (for her novel Utterly Charming, written as Kristine Grayson). In 1999, her story, “Echea,” (available at Fictionwise) was nominated for the Locus, Nebula, Hugo, and Sturgeon awards. It won the Homer Award and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award. In 1999, she also won the Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice Award and the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award, making her the first writer to win three different reader’s choice awards for three different stories in two different genres in the same year.
She is the former editor of prestigious The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Before that, she and Dean Wesley Smith, started and ran Pulphouse Publishing, a science fiction and mystery press in Eugene. She lives and works on the Oregon Coast.
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Books
Victory: The Fifth Book of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 181070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 31, 2012. Fiction.
An Ancient weapon. A new source of power. One splintered family. Will it destroy the world? Or Save it? In the Cliffs of Blood, Blue Isle’s royal family has discovered a secret so powerful that it might destroy the Black King of the Fey. But the Black King’s power comes from the same source as the powers of his great-grandchildren. And they’re trying to defeat him.
Price: $5.99 USD. 181070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 31, 2012. Fiction.
An Ancient weapon. A new source of power. One splintered family. Will it destroy the world? Or Save it? In the Cliffs of Blood, Blue Isle’s royal family has discovered a secret so powerful that it might destroy the Black King of the Fey. But the Black King’s power comes from the same source as the powers of his great-grandchildren. And they’re trying to defeat him.
Surviving the Transition: How Writers Can Thrive in the New World of Publishing
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 16060 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 30, 2012. Nonfiction.
Most writers run their careers the same way they did in the 1990s. But publishing has changed so much since then that any writer who works on the old model will no longer make a living. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to think about the new world of publishing. She gives you a blueprint for survival
Price: $4.99 USD. 16060 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 30, 2012. Nonfiction.
Most writers run their careers the same way they did in the 1990s. But publishing has changed so much since then that any writer who works on the old model will no longer make a living. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to think about the new world of publishing. She gives you a blueprint for survival
Red Letter Day
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $1.99 USD. 6410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 28, 2012. Fiction.
Graduation Day at Barack Obama High School. The day the Red Letters arrive, the day that students get a glimpse into their own future. But a handful never get a letter and no one knows why. One teacher has an idea though, a teacher who never got a Red Letter herself, a teacher who will finally have answers before the day is out.
Price: $1.99 USD. 6410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 28, 2012. Fiction.
Graduation Day at Barack Obama High School. The day the Red Letters arrive, the day that students get a glimpse into their own future. But a handful never get a letter and no one knows why. One teacher has an idea though, a teacher who never got a Red Letter herself, a teacher who will finally have answers before the day is out.
E-Male
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $1.99 USD. 6370 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 27, 2012. Fiction.
Gavin spends his morning reading the email of his ex-girlfriend, Stella. He has a restraining order, so he can’t approach her. The email has to do. Until it stops. Until Stella disappears from the world. Gavin thinks he knows what happened to her, but how can he help her? He’s not a hero—or is he?
Price: $1.99 USD. 6370 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 27, 2012. Fiction.
Gavin spends his morning reading the email of his ex-girlfriend, Stella. He has a restraining order, so he can’t approach her. The email has to do. Until it stops. Until Stella disappears from the world. Gavin thinks he knows what happened to her, but how can he help her? He’s not a hero—or is he?
The Karnikov Card: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 8870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2012. Fiction.
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade faces an impossible mission: He must save Celebcon Five from itself. The convention that’s trying to out Comic-con Comic-con has decided to make Dmitri Karnikov its guest of honor. Then Spade’s mysterious friend Paladin reveals the secret to Karnikov’s attendance, and Spade must act to stop a horrid crime.
Price: $2.99 USD. 8870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2012. Fiction.
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade faces an impossible mission: He must save Celebcon Five from itself. The convention that’s trying to out Comic-con Comic-con has decided to make Dmitri Karnikov its guest of honor. Then Spade’s mysterious friend Paladin reveals the secret to Karnikov’s attendance, and Spade must act to stop a horrid crime.
Spirit Guides
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5360 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2012. Fiction.
Kincaid always shows up at a crime scene before the crime happens. Except at the Burger Joint. He got stuck in Los Angeles traffic and arrived just after the shooting ended. Now he must deal with carnage, carnage he couldn’t prevent—carnage he’s never been able to prevent. The carnage takes him to the end of his singular talent, and face-to-face with his future.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5360 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2012. Fiction.
Kincaid always shows up at a crime scene before the crime happens. Except at the Burger Joint. He got stuck in Los Angeles traffic and arrived just after the shooting ended. Now he must deal with carnage, carnage he couldn’t prevent—carnage he’s never been able to prevent. The carnage takes him to the end of his singular talent, and face-to-face with his future.
Becalmed: A Diving Universe Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $3.99 USD. 17510 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 24, 2012. Fiction.
Mae, chief linguist on the Ivoire, heads a diplomatic mission to Ukhanda. Her handling of relations with the Quurzod lead to a battle that causes the Ivoire’s anacapa drive to malfunction, stranding the ship in foldspace. Mae can’t remember what she did wrong. If she doesn’t recall it, she won’t be able to prevent another disaster.
Price: $3.99 USD. 17510 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 24, 2012. Fiction.
Mae, chief linguist on the Ivoire, heads a diplomatic mission to Ukhanda. Her handling of relations with the Quurzod lead to a battle that causes the Ivoire’s anacapa drive to malfunction, stranding the ship in foldspace. Mae can’t remember what she did wrong. If she doesn’t recall it, she won’t be able to prevent another disaster.
Bring Me the Head of Anne Boleyn
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 3150 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 24, 2012. Fiction.
Before her twenty-fifth year, she was both a princess and a prisoner, a royal daughter and the daughter of a traitor. Now Elizabeth Tudor has become queen of England and, in her private moments, cannot quite believe she survived. She has to figure out how to rule, but first she must reclaim her past, and to do that, she must find the last thing her mother ever gave her.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3150 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 24, 2012. Fiction.
Before her twenty-fifth year, she was both a princess and a prisoner, a royal daughter and the daughter of a traitor. Now Elizabeth Tudor has become queen of England and, in her private moments, cannot quite believe she survived. She has to figure out how to rule, but first she must reclaim her past, and to do that, she must find the last thing her mother ever gave her.
The Resistance: The Fourth Book of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 164200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 2, 2012. Fiction.
A Ruthless Warrior. A Brilliant Tactician. One Family. Opposite Sides. The Black King of the Fey, Rugad, has conquered Blue Isle’s capitol city. He thinks he’s conquered the Isle itself, even though he can’t find its royal family. That family has retreated and will regroup and attack again, this time with a new weapon, one that can change everything.
Price: $5.99 USD. 164200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 2, 2012. Fiction.
A Ruthless Warrior. A Brilliant Tactician. One Family. Opposite Sides. The Black King of the Fey, Rugad, has conquered Blue Isle’s capitol city. He thinks he’s conquered the Isle itself, even though he can’t find its royal family. That family has retreated and will regroup and attack again, this time with a new weapon, one that can change everything.
The Rival: The Third Book of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 169330 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 25, 2011. Fiction.
A Land Scarred by War Faces a Conqueror Without Mercy. The Fey have conquered half the world with their great skills—not just at combat and with powerful magicks. The Fey have another weapon, a greater weapon: Patience. Twenty years after their first invasion, the Fey try again to conquer Blue Isle.
Price: $5.99 USD. 169330 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 25, 2011. Fiction.
A Land Scarred by War Faces a Conqueror Without Mercy. The Fey have conquered half the world with their great skills—not just at combat and with powerful magicks. The Fey have another weapon, a greater weapon: Patience. Twenty years after their first invasion, the Fey try again to conquer Blue Isle.
Christopher's Crummy Christmas
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 1310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2011. Fiction.
Eleven-year-old Christopher always spends Christmas alone. This year, he’s going to change that. This year, he’s going to make his parents stay home. Everyone tells him he’ll ruin Christmas, but he doesn’t care. He wants a good Christmas, and he’ll do anything to get it. A classic Christmas story that first appeared in Boy’s Life Magazine.
Price: $0.99 USD. 1310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2011. Fiction.
Eleven-year-old Christopher always spends Christmas alone. This year, he’s going to change that. This year, he’s going to make his parents stay home. Everyone tells him he’ll ruin Christmas, but he doesn’t care. He wants a good Christmas, and he’ll do anything to get it. A classic Christmas story that first appeared in Boy’s Life Magazine.
The Last Christmas Letter
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 10090 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2011. Fiction.
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s eerie and slow-starting ‘The Last Christmas Letter’ decisively delivers the Twilight Zone’s trademark out-of-this-world wonder…exceptional, with vivid characters and some mind-bending narrative moments.” Publishers Weekly
Price: $2.99 USD. 10090 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2011. Fiction.
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s eerie and slow-starting ‘The Last Christmas Letter’ decisively delivers the Twilight Zone’s trademark out-of-this-world wonder…exceptional, with vivid characters and some mind-bending narrative moments.” Publishers Weekly
Duplicate Effort: A Retrieval Artist novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 96200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
“If there’s any such thing as a sci-fi CSI, the Retrieval Artist novels set the tone.” The Edge Boston. Flint can no longer take on the entire universe. He violated the rules of his Retrieval Artist mentor and now has a lot to lose. But he can’t reverse the events he set in motion—and the crisis he caused might destroy everything—and everyone—he loves.
Price: $4.99 USD. 96200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
“If there’s any such thing as a sci-fi CSI, the Retrieval Artist novels set the tone.” The Edge Boston. Flint can no longer take on the entire universe. He violated the rules of his Retrieval Artist mentor and now has a lot to lose. But he can’t reverse the events he set in motion—and the crisis he caused might destroy everything—and everyone—he loves.
Recovery Man: A Retrieval Artist novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 88420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2011. Fiction.
“This high-tech detective story, part of the Retrieval Artist series, has hard science fiction, a complex whodunit and a fascinating look at alien bureaucracy. All the elements for an entertaining story are here: well-drawn, believable characters with frailties and flaws, credible scientific theory, and authentic-feeling settings.” RT Book Reviews
Price: $4.99 USD. 88420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2011. Fiction.
“This high-tech detective story, part of the Retrieval Artist series, has hard science fiction, a complex whodunit and a fascinating look at alien bureaucracy. All the elements for an entertaining story are here: well-drawn, believable characters with frailties and flaws, credible scientific theory, and authentic-feeling settings.” RT Book Reviews
Anniversary Day: A Retrieval Artist novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $7.99 USD. 89320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 27, 2011. Fiction.
The long-awaited return of the Retrieval Artist series! Four years ago, a bomb destroyed part of the dome protecting Armstrong, the largest city on the Moon. Now, as the city celebrates its survival with an event it calls Anniversary Day, a larger threat looms—one that begins with the murder of the mayor, and spreads across the Moon itself.
Price: $7.99 USD. 89320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 27, 2011. Fiction.
The long-awaited return of the Retrieval Artist series! Four years ago, a bomb destroyed part of the dome protecting Armstrong, the largest city on the Moon. Now, as the city celebrates its survival with an event it calls Anniversary Day, a larger threat looms—one that begins with the murder of the mayor, and spreads across the Moon itself.
Paloma: A Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 101430 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 23, 2011. Fiction.
“Rusch does a superb job of making the Retrieval Artist books work as fully satisfying standalone mysteries and as installments in a gripping saga full of love, loss, grief, hope, adventure, and discovery. It is also some of the best science fiction ever written.” New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card
Price: $4.99 USD. 101430 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 23, 2011. Fiction.
“Rusch does a superb job of making the Retrieval Artist books work as fully satisfying standalone mysteries and as installments in a gripping saga full of love, loss, grief, hope, adventure, and discovery. It is also some of the best science fiction ever written.” New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card
Models: A Short Mystery Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 11320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 31, 2011. Fiction.
Kendall Dee disappears on her first day as a professional hairdresser at a New York Fashion Week runway show. When she turns up murdered, her friend Corry Lindstrom decides to find out what happened. Chosen by the readers of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as one of the top five stories of the year, “Models” takes place in a world not often seen by outsiders.
Price: $2.99 USD. 11320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 31, 2011. Fiction.
Kendall Dee disappears on her first day as a professional hairdresser at a New York Fashion Week runway show. When she turns up murdered, her friend Corry Lindstrom decides to find out what happened. Chosen by the readers of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as one of the top five stories of the year, “Models” takes place in a world not often seen by outsiders.
Kuchen
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 4890 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
Lawyer F. Reed Hamlin has everything—money, success, a small amount of fame. But he doesn’t have close relationships. He doesn’t have family. Until he hears on the news that police have caught a Vietnam protester who bombed a munitions site. An anti-war radical who has hidden for twenty years. An anti-war radical who just happens to be Reed’s mother.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4890 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
Lawyer F. Reed Hamlin has everything—money, success, a small amount of fame. But he doesn’t have close relationships. He doesn’t have family. Until he hears on the news that police have caught a Vietnam protester who bombed a munitions site. An anti-war radical who has hidden for twenty years. An anti-war radical who just happens to be Reed’s mother.
Fifteen Minutes At Mercy General
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
An emergency: a bleeding teenage girl in ripped clothes on a gurney in a hospital corridor, her mother hastily brought in by the investigating police officer. An emergency, a girl, a family, and a crime so horrible that no one understands until it’s too late…
Price: $0.99 USD. 2310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
An emergency: a bleeding teenage girl in ripped clothes on a gurney in a hospital corridor, her mother hastily brought in by the investigating police officer. An emergency, a girl, a family, and a crime so horrible that no one understands until it’s too late…
Monuments to the Dead
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6780 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
Mount Rushmore has disappeared. No presidents grace its face. The area looks like it did before those craggy faces got carved into the hillside. The American Observer has sent Emelia Sunlake to give the California perspective on a strange experience but, she says, she’s writing “a white, middle-class, female California perspective” on the experience.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6780 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
Mount Rushmore has disappeared. No presidents grace its face. The area looks like it did before those craggy faces got carved into the hillside. The American Observer has sent Emelia Sunlake to give the California perspective on a strange experience but, she says, she’s writing “a white, middle-class, female California perspective” on the experience.
Kindred Souls
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7470 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
She calls herself Linda, although it’s not her name. She travels from nursing home to nursing home, fixing problems, helping others. Until she meets Eloise Mortimer. Rich, famous Eloise Mortimer. Dying Eloise Mortimer, who fancies herself a latter-day Miss Marple, but who might simply be something much more dangerous. Much more destructive.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7470 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 30, 2011. Fiction.
She calls herself Linda, although it’s not her name. She travels from nursing home to nursing home, fixing problems, helping others. Until she meets Eloise Mortimer. Rich, famous Eloise Mortimer. Dying Eloise Mortimer, who fancies herself a latter-day Miss Marple, but who might simply be something much more dangerous. Much more destructive.
Jackie-O
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—former first lady, editor, mother, grandmother—lives a life of mystery. But she wants to solve a mystery of her own: who changed the world on November 22, 1963? Oswald? A group of conspirators? Originally written for a mystery anthology titled The First Lady Murders.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—former first lady, editor, mother, grandmother—lives a life of mystery. But she wants to solve a mystery of her own: who changed the world on November 22, 1963? Oswald? A group of conspirators? Originally written for a mystery anthology titled The First Lady Murders.
Strays
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
In the first days of the Clinton administration, Ransom, a DC private eye specializing in Republican dirty tricks, falls on hard times. He finds himself investigating the murder of a local celebrity—Bob the Weather Cat. Chosen as one of the best short stories of 1993.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
In the first days of the Clinton administration, Ransom, a DC private eye specializing in Republican dirty tricks, falls on hard times. He finds himself investigating the murder of a local celebrity—Bob the Weather Cat. Chosen as one of the best short stories of 1993.
Scars: A Short Mystery Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 10860 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2011. Fiction.
Rena lost everything when her husband and son died in a fiery car accident. Now she has only her daily swim at the rec center, where she hopes no one pays attention to her horrible burn scars. But someone noticed, the same someone who murders a lifeguard while Rena does her laps. Only Rena can identify the killer, but the identification is not as easy as it seems...
Price: $2.99 USD. 10860 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2011. Fiction.
Rena lost everything when her husband and son died in a fiery car accident. Now she has only her daily swim at the rec center, where she hopes no one pays attention to her horrible burn scars. But someone noticed, the same someone who murders a lifeguard while Rena does her laps. Only Rena can identify the killer, but the identification is not as easy as it seems...
Changeling: The Second Book of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 194590 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 12, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Betrayal. Assassination. A Stolen Baby. And that's just the beginning... The most surprising book of The Fey saga, with a twist so powerful the rest of the series hinges on that one moment. The Changeling alters everything from the balance of power to the very nature of power itself.
Price: $5.99 USD. 194590 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 12, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Betrayal. Assassination. A Stolen Baby. And that's just the beginning... The most surprising book of The Fey saga, with a twist so powerful the rest of the series hinges on that one moment. The Changeling alters everything from the balance of power to the very nature of power itself.
Buried Deep: A Retrieval Artist novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 105770 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
A cold case starts it all—human bones discovered beneath the Martian soil in the alien Disty’s main city. "A high-velocity rush through cultures in full clash, as fear and panic overwhelm the day, and Rusch’s writing makes the far-out scenario feel as present and credible as today’s breaking news….Rusch has outdone herself yet again." The Edge Boston
Price: $4.99 USD. 105770 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 7, 2011. Fiction.
A cold case starts it all—human bones discovered beneath the Martian soil in the alien Disty’s main city. "A high-velocity rush through cultures in full clash, as fear and panic overwhelm the day, and Rusch’s writing makes the far-out scenario feel as present and credible as today’s breaking news….Rusch has outdone herself yet again." The Edge Boston
June Sixteenth at Anna's
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5290 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Leta has died, leaving her husband Mac with his memories and one famous holorecording. On June 16, 2001, Leta ate at a restaurant called Anna’s, and a time travel recording made of that day later became a sensation. Leta collected all of the versions of that recording, but Mac has never seen it. Until now.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5290 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 6, 2011. Fiction.
Leta has died, leaving her husband Mac with his memories and one famous holorecording. On June 16, 2001, Leta ate at a restaurant called Anna’s, and a time travel recording made of that day later became a sensation. Leta collected all of the versions of that recording, but Mac has never seen it. Until now.
Unknown Baby Girl: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 15960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 8, 2011. Fiction.
A former LAPD homicide detective, Carolyn moved to Oregon to escape crime. Yet when she takes a job making houses energy efficient, she discovers a baby’s skeleton in a crawl space. She can’t ignore the forgotten bones and uses her old skills to find the truth. Gritty and powerful, Unknown Baby Girl is one of Edgar nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most memorable stories.
Price: $2.99 USD. 15960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 8, 2011. Fiction.
A former LAPD homicide detective, Carolyn moved to Oregon to escape crime. Yet when she takes a job making houses energy efficient, she discovers a baby’s skeleton in a crawl space. She can’t ignore the forgotten bones and uses her old skills to find the truth. Gritty and powerful, Unknown Baby Girl is one of Edgar nominee Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most memorable stories.
Traitors: a novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 128400 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 6, 2011. Fiction.
Emilio Diate has vowed vengeance on the government for its merciless execution of his entire family. Now forced to start over on Golga, the handsome refugee joins the secret police with only one dark intention—to find his family’s killers and serve his own brand of justice. But when he falls in love, he might become a victim of his own revenge.
Price: $5.99 USD. 128400 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 6, 2011. Fiction.
Emilio Diate has vowed vengeance on the government for its merciless execution of his entire family. Now forced to start over on Golga, the handsome refugee joins the secret police with only one dark intention—to find his family’s killers and serve his own brand of justice. But when he falls in love, he might become a victim of his own revenge.
Sacrifice: The First Book of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 217870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 5, 2011. Fiction.
A fast-paced, vibrant novel, filled with memorable characters, Sacrifice: The First Book of the Fey begins a saga that will take readers to a richly imagined fantasy world, filled with magic, treachery, and unexpected love.
Price: $5.99 USD. 217870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 5, 2011. Fiction.
A fast-paced, vibrant novel, filled with memorable characters, Sacrifice: The First Book of the Fey begins a saga that will take readers to a richly imagined fantasy world, filled with magic, treachery, and unexpected love.
Consequences: A Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 102230 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 30, 2011. Fiction.
Mixing interstellar politics and police procedural, Rusch turns out a satisfying SF mystery. Flint’s internal conflicts are deftly portrayed, and the gritty realism of the murder investigation meshes well with the alien setting. This [third] entry in the Retrieval Artist series should please SF and mystery fans alike, and can be read independently. RT Book Reviews
Price: $4.99 USD. 102230 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 30, 2011. Fiction.
Mixing interstellar politics and police procedural, Rusch turns out a satisfying SF mystery. Flint’s internal conflicts are deftly portrayed, and the gritty realism of the murder investigation meshes well with the alien setting. This [third] entry in the Retrieval Artist series should please SF and mystery fans alike, and can be read independently. RT Book Reviews
Without End: A Short Story of Belief
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Dylan’s wife Geneva has died. Only Dylan doesn’t believe it. Not because he believes in ghosts, but because he believes in science. Geneva, a physicist, believed that linear time was just a perception, one humans could overcome. If she was right, then Dylan can change his perceptions and if he does that, then Geneva will live again. He has nothing to lose, and Geneva to gain.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Dylan’s wife Geneva has died. Only Dylan doesn’t believe it. Not because he believes in ghosts, but because he believes in science. Geneva, a physicist, believed that linear time was just a perception, one humans could overcome. If she was right, then Dylan can change his perceptions and if he does that, then Geneva will live again. He has nothing to lose, and Geneva to gain.
Reflections on Life and Death
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5030 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Sarah’s mother says she’ll die in the extended care facility. Sarah’s mother believes that the care facilities have the right to kill patients. Sarah’s heard that since she was a child in the 20th century. Sarah, a single mother with her own children to care for, can’t afford to care for her mother too. But what if her mother is right? And if she is, how will Sarah ever know?
Price: $0.99 USD. 5030 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Sarah’s mother says she’ll die in the extended care facility. Sarah’s mother believes that the care facilities have the right to kill patients. Sarah’s heard that since she was a child in the 20th century. Sarah, a single mother with her own children to care for, can’t afford to care for her mother too. But what if her mother is right? And if she is, how will Sarah ever know?
The Questing Mind: A Short Science Fiction Mystey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
J. Reed Brasher knows someone is stealing his memories. He just can’t prove it. He’s 90 years old, and everyone blames the loss on age. But Brasher isn’t the kind of man who loses his mind to age. He’s losing it to something else. He must find out what that something else is before his mind is gone. Chosen by Tangent Magazine as one of the top ten science fiction stories of 1998.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8320 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
J. Reed Brasher knows someone is stealing his memories. He just can’t prove it. He’s 90 years old, and everyone blames the loss on age. But Brasher isn’t the kind of man who loses his mind to age. He’s losing it to something else. He must find out what that something else is before his mind is gone. Chosen by Tangent Magazine as one of the top ten science fiction stories of 1998.
Flowers and the Last Hurrah: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 12070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Colin hates his job at the online entertainment site, Gossip Hourly, but he does what he can to make money. And what he does involves clones of celebrities, although he doesn’t tell anyone that. Detective Frank Forino suspects, but can’t prove anything. So when Forino arrives at Hourly’s offices, asking for Colin’s help solving the murder of a clone, things can only get worse.
Price: $2.99 USD. 12070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on April 3, 2011. Fiction.
Colin hates his job at the online entertainment site, Gossip Hourly, but he does what he can to make money. And what he does involves clones of celebrities, although he doesn’t tell anyone that. Detective Frank Forino suspects, but can’t prove anything. So when Forino arrives at Hourly’s offices, asking for Colin’s help solving the murder of a clone, things can only get worse.
Secrets & Lies: Ten Acclaimed Mystery Stories
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 109410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 22, 2011. Fiction.
The ten stories in this collection revolve around secrets, lies—and crime. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her best mystery stories into one volume. “Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style.” Mystery Scene Magazine
Price: $4.99 USD. 109410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 22, 2011. Fiction.
The ten stories in this collection revolve around secrets, lies—and crime. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her best mystery stories into one volume. “Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s crime stories are exceptional, both in plot and in style.” Mystery Scene Magazine
Extremes: A Retrieval Artist novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 101690 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 21, 2011. Fiction.
"Extremes is simultaneously thriller, deftly plotted detective story, and SF complete with a form of Mad Scientist (all the scarier when her ideas make sense). Like the best of those genres, it also features well-drawn characters whose various viewpoints, areas of expertise, moral choices, and personal dilemmas all add to the rich mix." Locus Magazine
Price: $4.99 USD. 101690 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 21, 2011. Fiction.
"Extremes is simultaneously thriller, deftly plotted detective story, and SF complete with a form of Mad Scientist (all the scarier when her ideas make sense). Like the best of those genres, it also features well-drawn characters whose various viewpoints, areas of expertise, moral choices, and personal dilemmas all add to the rich mix." Locus Magazine
The War and After: Five Stories of Magic and Revenge
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 38660 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 13, 2011. Fiction.
The entire world convulsed in the middle of the 20th century. Everything changed—even the magical universe. From faerie to mages to wizards, the Second World War touched every life. The War And After explores the effect of the war on the magical world. Included are “Corpse Vision,” “Dark Corners,” “Subtle Interpretations,” “Judgment,” and “The Thrill of the Hunt.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 38660 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 13, 2011. Fiction.
The entire world convulsed in the middle of the 20th century. Everything changed—even the magical universe. From faerie to mages to wizards, the Second World War touched every life. The War And After explores the effect of the war on the magical world. Included are “Corpse Vision,” “Dark Corners,” “Subtle Interpretations,” “Judgment,” and “The Thrill of the Hunt.”
Five Diverse Detectives
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 53740 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 12, 2011. Fiction.
Detectives come in all shapes and sizes. In Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s five-story collection they work the mean streets from a science fiction convention to the Moon to a world composed only of dragons. Stories included are “Blind”, “Discovery” (a Shamus-Award nominee), “Stomping Mad” (a Spade story), “Dragon Slayer”, and “The Retrieval Artist,” (A Hugo-Award nominee).
Price: $2.99 USD. 53740 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 12, 2011. Fiction.
Detectives come in all shapes and sizes. In Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s five-story collection they work the mean streets from a science fiction convention to the Moon to a world composed only of dragons. Stories included are “Blind”, “Discovery” (a Shamus-Award nominee), “Stomping Mad” (a Spade story), “Dragon Slayer”, and “The Retrieval Artist,” (A Hugo-Award nominee).
Five Goofy Science Fiction Stories
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 29620 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 10, 2011. Fiction.
Readers know Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch for her serious, deeply thought-out science fiction. But the former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction also has a silly side, one in evidence in the five stories in this collection. “Paparazzi of Dreams,” “Going Native,” “Advisors at Naptime,” “The One That Got Away,” and “What Fluffy Knew.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 29620 words. Published by WMG Publishing on March 10, 2011. Fiction.
Readers know Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch for her serious, deeply thought-out science fiction. But the former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction also has a silly side, one in evidence in the five stories in this collection. “Paparazzi of Dreams,” “Going Native,” “Advisors at Naptime,” “The One That Got Away,” and “What Fluffy Knew.”
The Disappeared: A Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 96850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on February 6, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card calls the Retrieval Artist series “some of the best science fiction ever written.” Io9 says Miles Flint is one of “the top ten greatest science fiction detectives of all time.” The Disappeared is Flint’s very first adventure, the story that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist.
Price: $4.99 USD. 96850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on February 6, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card calls the Retrieval Artist series “some of the best science fiction ever written.” Io9 says Miles Flint is one of “the top ten greatest science fiction detectives of all time.” The Disappeared is Flint’s very first adventure, the story that turns him from a police detective in the Armstrong Dome on the Moon into a Retrieval Artist.
Five Mystery Stories
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 41150 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 31, 2011. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, famous for her range as a writer, shows her amazing diversity in this collection of short mystery stories. From the examination of a crime scene in “The Moorhead House” to “Pudgygate,” a cat cozy. Rusch introduces her beloved Spade in “Stomping Mad,” shows off her political and historical background in “G-Men,” and touches the heart with “Scrawny Pete.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 41150 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 31, 2011. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, famous for her range as a writer, shows her amazing diversity in this collection of short mystery stories. From the examination of a crime scene in “The Moorhead House” to “Pudgygate,” a cat cozy. Rusch introduces her beloved Spade in “Stomping Mad,” shows off her political and historical background in “G-Men,” and touches the heart with “Scrawny Pete.”
Five Female Sleuths: A Collection
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 45750 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 30, 2011. Fiction.
Five different women—a CPA, a lawyer, an internet service provider, a bookstore owner, and a crime scene investigator—find themselves in the middle of crimes, crimes so personal that they threaten the women’s lives. Stories included are Edgar nominees “Cowboy Grace” and “Spinning,” Shamus nominee “Discovery,” and two stories others, “Patriotic Gestures,” and “Jury Duty.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 45750 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 30, 2011. Fiction.
Five different women—a CPA, a lawyer, an internet service provider, a bookstore owner, and a crime scene investigator—find themselves in the middle of crimes, crimes so personal that they threaten the women’s lives. Stories included are Edgar nominees “Cowboy Grace” and “Spinning,” Shamus nominee “Discovery,” and two stories others, “Patriotic Gestures,” and “Jury Duty.”
The Death of Davy Moss: A Love Story
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 87690 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 27, 2011. Fiction.
Teen idol Davy Moss died alone on a mountain road. No one ever found his body. Davy Moss’s fans keep his memory alive, but one man wants him dead. Josh Candless, the man Davy Moss became after that accident. Josh stays hidden until one fateful day he meets music promoter Emily Lukovich and falls in love. Davy Moss betrayed everyone he ever knew. Will he do it again?
Price: $4.99 USD. 87690 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 27, 2011. Fiction.
Teen idol Davy Moss died alone on a mountain road. No one ever found his body. Davy Moss’s fans keep his memory alive, but one man wants him dead. Josh Candless, the man Davy Moss became after that accident. Josh stays hidden until one fateful day he meets music promoter Emily Lukovich and falls in love. Davy Moss betrayed everyone he ever knew. Will he do it again?
Thrill of the Hunt
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9220 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
Her family called her Hilda, before the war, before the Great Wulf murdered them all. Now the war is over, Europe is in ruin, and the remaining Nazis have scattered. Hilda hunts them, but really, she hunts him. Finally she tracks him to Argentina. She’s supposed to kill him, but she’s not sure if she can. She won’t know until they’re face to face, until it's time for one of them to die.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9220 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 25, 2011. Fiction.
Her family called her Hilda, before the war, before the Great Wulf murdered them all. Now the war is over, Europe is in ruin, and the remaining Nazis have scattered. Hilda hunts them, but really, she hunts him. Finally she tracks him to Argentina. She’s supposed to kill him, but she’s not sure if she can. She won’t know until they’re face to face, until it's time for one of them to die.
Sins of the Blood: A Vampire Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 108500 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 23, 2011. Fiction.
When she was a little girl, Cammie drove a wooden stake through her father’s heart to save her brother Ben’s life. Now Cammie works as a vampire slayer for a privately funded organization. As she searches for her brother, she learns about her family, and its legacy. She learns what it really means to have sins of the blood. A memorable cult classic of vampirism.
Price: $4.99 USD. 108500 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 23, 2011. Fiction.
When she was a little girl, Cammie drove a wooden stake through her father’s heart to save her brother Ben’s life. Now Cammie works as a vampire slayer for a privately funded organization. As she searches for her brother, she learns about her family, and its legacy. She learns what it really means to have sins of the blood. A memorable cult classic of vampirism.
Subtle Interpretations: An Historical Romance
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7700 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 22, 2011. Fiction.
Robert Cooper is in Paris to find translators for the International Tribunal in Nuremberg. He finds a beautiful, talented woman working at the Paris Telephone Exchange. Her gift with languages seems magical—and maybe it is. Or maybe the magic comes when she touches him. Then he discovers her secret, one that makes him wonder if he should take her to Germany after all.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7700 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 22, 2011. Fiction.
Robert Cooper is in Paris to find translators for the International Tribunal in Nuremberg. He finds a beautiful, talented woman working at the Paris Telephone Exchange. Her gift with languages seems magical—and maybe it is. Or maybe the magic comes when she touches him. Then he discovers her secret, one that makes him wonder if he should take her to Germany after all.
Judgment
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5470 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 22, 2011. Fiction.
Tyrone has come home, if home still exists. Once upon a time, he was part of the People, the faerie people that hide in plain sight throughout Europe. He grew up in Nuremberg, only to leave centuries ago to live with the humans. Now he returns to photograph a human trial, one guaranteed to bring justice to a world without justice. And he hopes to find his People, one last time.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5470 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 22, 2011. Fiction.
Tyrone has come home, if home still exists. Once upon a time, he was part of the People, the faerie people that hide in plain sight throughout Europe. He grew up in Nuremberg, only to leave centuries ago to live with the humans. Now he returns to photograph a human trial, one guaranteed to bring justice to a world without justice. And he hopes to find his People, one last time.
Dark Corners
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5700 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 21, 2011. Fiction.
Solae has kept his family alive during the horrible years of Paris’s occupation by hiding in the catacombs. Solae’s father was murdered by the Germans in the first days of the occupation. Solae's magic can make light out of nothing. Now, Solae wants to help defeat the Germans. He wants to use his magic, but how can light save his city, his people, his family?
Price: $0.99 USD. 5700 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 21, 2011. Fiction.
Solae has kept his family alive during the horrible years of Paris’s occupation by hiding in the catacombs. Solae’s father was murdered by the Germans in the first days of the occupation. Solae's magic can make light out of nothing. Now, Solae wants to help defeat the Germans. He wants to use his magic, but how can light save his city, his people, his family?
Corpse Vision
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 21, 2011. Fiction.
Joe Decker drinks because he can. In 1920s Paris, alcohol flows freely unlike Prohibition America. He thinks he has come to Paris to write his novel, but he has come to Paris to block his visions with alcohol—until he sees a beautiful woman on a bridge over the Seine, a beautiful woman who died horribly, a beautiful woman he could have loved.
Price: $0.99 USD. 10910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 21, 2011. Fiction.
Joe Decker drinks because he can. In 1920s Paris, alcohol flows freely unlike Prohibition America. He thinks he has come to Paris to write his novel, but he has come to Paris to block his visions with alcohol—until he sees a beautiful woman on a bridge over the Seine, a beautiful woman who died horribly, a beautiful woman he could have loved.
Dragon Slayer
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 19, 2011. Fiction.
Fifteen dragons have died in less than a century. Rumaad, a different kind of dragon, collects information about the killings the way some dragons collect jewels. So he’s perfectly suited to see the differences in the latest crime scene, the murder of a dragon he knows all too well. What he sees convinces him something has changed in his world—and not for the best.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 19, 2011. Fiction.
Fifteen dragons have died in less than a century. Rumaad, a different kind of dragon, collects information about the killings the way some dragons collect jewels. So he’s perfectly suited to see the differences in the latest crime scene, the murder of a dragon he knows all too well. What he sees convinces him something has changed in his world—and not for the best.
The Light in Whale Cove
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 11130 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 14, 2011. Fiction.
Sheriff Dan Retsler finally believes in magic. He has to, after all he’s experience in Whale Rock. But he can’t take it any longer, so he’s moving away. His successor has arrived just as the ghosts return to the lighthouse. Now he must train a newcomer in the dark side of Whale Rock, while making sure the terror entombed in the lighthouse won’t move into the town itself.
Price: $0.99 USD. 11130 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 14, 2011. Fiction.
Sheriff Dan Retsler finally believes in magic. He has to, after all he’s experience in Whale Rock. But he can’t take it any longer, so he’s moving away. His successor has arrived just as the ghosts return to the lighthouse. Now he must train a newcomer in the dark side of Whale Rock, while making sure the terror entombed in the lighthouse won’t move into the town itself.
Blind: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 14620 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
When they were boys, Scott and Richard went into Felton Woods in the middle of the night and took pictures of a mysterious phenomenon. It changed their lives. Scott went to MIT. Richard married too young and had three children, never leaving Seavy Village. Now Richard has died in Felton Woods. Scott investigates, but what he finds will change everyone’s lives—again.
Price: $2.99 USD. 14620 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
When they were boys, Scott and Richard went into Felton Woods in the middle of the night and took pictures of a mysterious phenomenon. It changed their lives. Scott went to MIT. Richard married too young and had three children, never leaving Seavy Village. Now Richard has died in Felton Woods. Scott investigates, but what he finds will change everyone’s lives—again.
Heart Readers: A Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 79740 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
Pardu killed his own twin to secure the throne. Now Pardu wants to use magic to decide which of his twins will rule without murder. The magic calls for heart readers to determine which twin has the pure heart. The team chosen by the palace has a history that makes them unsuitable to choose the next heir. Or maybe that history makes the heart readers the only ones who know the truth.
Price: $4.99 USD. 79740 words. Published by WMG Publishing on January 9, 2011. Fiction.
Pardu killed his own twin to secure the throne. Now Pardu wants to use magic to decide which of his twins will rule without murder. The magic calls for heart readers to determine which twin has the pure heart. The team chosen by the palace has a history that makes them unsuitable to choose the next heir. Or maybe that history makes the heart readers the only ones who know the truth.
Hero Dust
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 29, 2010. Fiction.
Bram understands the importance of stories. After all, he’s the one who convinced Stoker to write Dracula to frighten the world. Bram has seen vampires in action. He’s one of the original vampire hunters. And now he’s getting tired. He needs a replacement. Only the world of the 21st century doesn’t lend itself to heroes—not of the kind he needs anyway.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 29, 2010. Fiction.
Bram understands the importance of stories. After all, he’s the one who convinced Stoker to write Dracula to frighten the world. Bram has seen vampires in action. He’s one of the original vampire hunters. And now he’s getting tired. He needs a replacement. Only the world of the 21st century doesn’t lend itself to heroes—not of the kind he needs anyway.
The Strangeness of the Day
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 24, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Nora Barr’s struggling law practice gets a boost when she meets a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who has a snake wrapped around his arm and a short sidekick with a mean mouth. The stranger claims he’s got custody of Sleeping Beauty, and he needs Nora’s help to protect her. Against her better judgment, Nora helps—and her life changes forever.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 24, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Nora Barr’s struggling law practice gets a boost when she meets a tall, dark, and handsome stranger who has a snake wrapped around his arm and a short sidekick with a mean mouth. The stranger claims he’s got custody of Sleeping Beauty, and he needs Nora’s help to protect her. Against her better judgment, Nora helps—and her life changes forever.
Alien Influences
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $5.99 USD. 107590 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 18, 2010. Fiction.
On the sun-scorched planet Bountiful, human colonists live peacefully alongside natives known as Dancers until an unspeakable disaster devastates the colony. Six children found dead, their bodies marked in a bizarre parody of a Dancer ritual. The crime’s solution makes the situation worse, sending ripples throughout the sector of space, shattering lives.
Price: $5.99 USD. 107590 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 18, 2010. Fiction.
On the sun-scorched planet Bountiful, human colonists live peacefully alongside natives known as Dancers until an unspeakable disaster devastates the colony. Six children found dead, their bodies marked in a bizarre parody of a Dancer ritual. The crime’s solution makes the situation worse, sending ripples throughout the sector of space, shattering lives.
Strange Creatures
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 11180 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
When the storm of the century hits Whale Rock, Sheriff Dan Retsler does everything he can to prevent hundreds of deaths. Everything except the thing that could have prevented the storm in the first place. He should have listened to the beautiful woman who came to his office before the storm hit. He should have believed in her magic. But he didn’t.
Price: $0.99 USD. 11180 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
When the storm of the century hits Whale Rock, Sheriff Dan Retsler does everything he can to prevent hundreds of deaths. Everything except the thing that could have prevented the storm in the first place. He should have listened to the beautiful woman who came to his office before the storm hit. He should have believed in her magic. But he didn’t.
The Case of the Vanishing Boy: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $3.99 USD. 10640 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade gets a strange request: a tiny woman with pointed ears asks him to help her with a case at FleshCon, a Nevada science fiction convention. The tiny woman turns out to be the infamous Paladin, whom Spade thought was only a rumor. Paladin needs help finding a teenage boy whom she says vanishes whenever she approaches him.
Price: $3.99 USD. 10640 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade gets a strange request: a tiny woman with pointed ears asks him to help her with a case at FleshCon, a Nevada science fiction convention. The tiny woman turns out to be the infamous Paladin, whom Spade thought was only a rumor. Paladin needs help finding a teenage boy whom she says vanishes whenever she approaches him.
Silent Night: A Christmas Collection
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 51490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her favorite Christmas stories. The stories run from fantasy (Nutball Season, Doubting Thomas, Substitutions) to mainstream (Stille Nacht) to science fiction (Boz, Loop, A Taste of Miracles) to mystery (Rehabilitation, Snow Angels, The Moorhead House).
Price: $4.99 USD. 51490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 15, 2010. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her favorite Christmas stories. The stories run from fantasy (Nutball Season, Doubting Thomas, Substitutions) to mainstream (Stille Nacht) to science fiction (Boz, Loop, A Taste of Miracles) to mystery (Rehabilitation, Snow Angels, The Moorhead House).
Searching for the Familiar
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7980 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Ruby has vanished. Gone. Disappeared. And Winston doesn’t know why. But he quickly learns that familiars all over the Northwest have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. He can’t lose Ruby. She’s not just his familiar. She’s his cat—and his only family. He has to find her, before she’s lost forever. A Seavy Village short story.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7980 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Ruby has vanished. Gone. Disappeared. And Winston doesn’t know why. But he quickly learns that familiars all over the Northwest have gone missing under mysterious circumstances. He can’t lose Ruby. She’s not just his familiar. She’s his cat—and his only family. He has to find her, before she’s lost forever. A Seavy Village short story.
Five for the Winter Holidays
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 35730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Christmas stories abound, but hardly anyone writes stories based on Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day. This collection of five stories has two Christmas stories, “Boz” and “Loop,” but it also has a Thanksgiving story, “Pudgygate,” a post-Christmas story, “Disaster Relief,” and a New Year’s story, “Millennium Babies.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 35730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
Christmas stories abound, but hardly anyone writes stories based on Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day. This collection of five stories has two Christmas stories, “Boz” and “Loop,” but it also has a Thanksgiving story, “Pudgygate,” a post-Christmas story, “Disaster Relief,” and a New Year’s story, “Millennium Babies.”
Millennium Babies: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 14420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
From the moment of her birth, Brooke Cross was a loser. Conceived to win a First Baby of the Millennium contest, Brooke came five minutes late. Her mother never let her forget it. So Brooke became a history professor and tries to live in obscurity. Until Professor Eldon Franke recruits her for a study of Millennium Babies. Winner of science fiction’s prestigious Hugo Award.
Price: $2.99 USD. 14420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 13, 2010. Fiction.
From the moment of her birth, Brooke Cross was a loser. Conceived to win a First Baby of the Millennium contest, Brooke came five minutes late. Her mother never let her forget it. So Brooke became a history professor and tries to live in obscurity. Until Professor Eldon Franke recruits her for a study of Millennium Babies. Winner of science fiction’s prestigious Hugo Award.
Santa And Other Christmas Criminals: A Five Story Collection
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 28440 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 7, 2010. Fiction.
Think about it: Santa sneaks in during the dead of night. He steals cookies, drinks some milk, maybe tracks ashes all over the living room. Yeah, he leaves presents, but maybe that’s just a cover for more nefarious behavior. Who knows…besides Santa himself? This five story collection includes the stories Doubting Thomas, Snow Angels, Substitutions, Rehabilitation and Nutball Season.
Price: $2.99 USD. 28440 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 7, 2010. Fiction.
Think about it: Santa sneaks in during the dead of night. He steals cookies, drinks some milk, maybe tracks ashes all over the living room. Yeah, he leaves presents, but maybe that’s just a cover for more nefarious behavior. Who knows…besides Santa himself? This five story collection includes the stories Doubting Thomas, Snow Angels, Substitutions, Rehabilitation and Nutball Season.
Substitutions
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Silas has worked for Death in Nevada for 150 years. He gets Christmas and Christmas Eve off. Only this year, his substitute finds him in a Las Vegas casino. His substitute is a boy whose task terrifies him. If the boy doesn't finish the task, a dozen kids will live in agony. Silas wants to tell the boy that’s the job. But he can’t. Because it’s Christmas, and the boy is all alone...
Price: $0.99 USD. 6930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Silas has worked for Death in Nevada for 150 years. He gets Christmas and Christmas Eve off. Only this year, his substitute finds him in a Las Vegas casino. His substitute is a boy whose task terrifies him. If the boy doesn't finish the task, a dozen kids will live in agony. Silas wants to tell the boy that’s the job. But he can’t. Because it’s Christmas, and the boy is all alone...
Snow Angels
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2650 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Bobbert got his name from his little sister Sarah. He likes her okay. But she can be annoying, like when she wants to make snow angels at the Christmas tree farm. Bobbert wants to cut the tree himself. He has a knife, but Dad won’t let Bobbert near the trees. Bobbert has to watch Sarah. That’s when Bobbert learns how important knives can be…
Price: $0.99 USD. 2650 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Bobbert got his name from his little sister Sarah. He likes her okay. But she can be annoying, like when she wants to make snow angels at the Christmas tree farm. Bobbert wants to cut the tree himself. He has a knife, but Dad won’t let Bobbert near the trees. Bobbert has to watch Sarah. That’s when Bobbert learns how important knives can be…
Disaster Relief
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8040 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Ruby had the idea—help the magic users in New Orleans survive Hurricane Katrina. Pretty charitable for a tiny cat. The Southeast Asia tsunami had scared her, made her realize her home on the Oregon Coast was vulnerable to natural disaster too. But when her offer of help turns into a rescue, Ruby watches helplessly as other familiars move into her little house. And some were dogs.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8040 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 4, 2010. Fiction.
Ruby had the idea—help the magic users in New Orleans survive Hurricane Katrina. Pretty charitable for a tiny cat. The Southeast Asia tsunami had scared her, made her realize her home on the Oregon Coast was vulnerable to natural disaster too. But when her offer of help turns into a rescue, Ruby watches helplessly as other familiars move into her little house. And some were dogs.
Doubting Thomas
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2010. Fiction.
Six-year-old Tommy Ulrick saw Santas enter the Sutter house on Christmas Eve, the night the house got robbed. Tommy said Santa stole. No one believed him. When Tommy turns thirty, he decides to prove the Jolly Old Elf is one evil s.o.b. Tommy just doesn’t expect the J.O. Elf to threaten him. Turns out Santa takes that naughty or nice list very seriously. Very, very seriously.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2010. Fiction.
Six-year-old Tommy Ulrick saw Santas enter the Sutter house on Christmas Eve, the night the house got robbed. Tommy said Santa stole. No one believed him. When Tommy turns thirty, he decides to prove the Jolly Old Elf is one evil s.o.b. Tommy just doesn’t expect the J.O. Elf to threaten him. Turns out Santa takes that naughty or nice list very seriously. Very, very seriously.
Boz: A Science Fiction Christmas Story
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2670 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2010. Fiction.
Boz got his job on the colony ship The Beautiful Dreamer because he’s a competent introvert. He enjoys the fact that he’s spending years completely alone, monitoring the passengers passing the time in cold sleep. So when he wakes up one morning to Christmas carols, he gets scared. Very scared. Who has joined him on the ship? And why torture him with Christmas cookies and mugs of hot cocoa?
Price: $0.99 USD. 2670 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 3, 2010. Fiction.
Boz got his job on the colony ship The Beautiful Dreamer because he’s a competent introvert. He enjoys the fact that he’s spending years completely alone, monitoring the passengers passing the time in cold sleep. So when he wakes up one morning to Christmas carols, he gets scared. Very scared. Who has joined him on the ship? And why torture him with Christmas cookies and mugs of hot cocoa?
The Taste of Miracles
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: Free! 1160 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Hayes loves the Earth to the Moon route on Christmas Eve. It pays triple. But Trish, his companion on this Christmas Eve flight, has another perspective on the holidays. One that mixes history and the future and the meaning of Christmas all into one. A free Christmas short-short story from the Hugo Award winning author.
Price: Free! 1160 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Hayes loves the Earth to the Moon route on Christmas Eve. It pays triple. But Trish, his companion on this Christmas Eve flight, has another perspective on the holidays. One that mixes history and the future and the meaning of Christmas all into one. A free Christmas short-short story from the Hugo Award winning author.
Advisors at Naptime
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 3910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Carol wants a nap. Carol needs a nap. And no one will let her have one because she’s important. She’s important because the grown-ups believe she’s an average five-year-old. Average five-year-olds have uses for bad guys who want to conquer the world. Only no one realizes that Carol isn’t average. Carol’s smart. And tired. And will do anything to get her nap.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3910 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Carol wants a nap. Carol needs a nap. And no one will let her have one because she’s important. She’s important because the grown-ups believe she’s an average five-year-old. Average five-year-olds have uses for bad guys who want to conquer the world. Only no one realizes that Carol isn’t average. Carol’s smart. And tired. And will do anything to get her nap.
Saving Face
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9280 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
A beautiful but scared woman tries to hire Winston Karpathian, but for what, he has no idea. Winston has a small magic, nothing spectacular, and certainly nothing that can help a woman like that. He asks what she wants. Instead of answering, she flees his little magic shop—and ends up dead. Now to find the killer Winston must work with a detective who doesn’t believe in magic.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9280 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 2, 2010. Fiction.
A beautiful but scared woman tries to hire Winston Karpathian, but for what, he has no idea. Winston has a small magic, nothing spectacular, and certainly nothing that can help a woman like that. He asks what she wants. Instead of answering, she flees his little magic shop—and ends up dead. Now to find the killer Winston must work with a detective who doesn’t believe in magic.
Ghosts
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 1, 2010. Fiction.
He calls himself Ben…sometimes. Mostly he doesn’t think of his name so other people won’t either. He kills people for a living, but he has standards. He uses astrology to help him follow the right path. Only now, someone is following his path—someone he doesn’t trust. Someone who’ll kill the astrologers helping him. The astrologers, who have no idea who he is.
Price: $0.99 USD. 10490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 1, 2010. Fiction.
He calls himself Ben…sometimes. Mostly he doesn’t think of his name so other people won’t either. He kills people for a living, but he has standards. He uses astrology to help him follow the right path. Only now, someone is following his path—someone he doesn’t trust. Someone who’ll kill the astrologers helping him. The astrologers, who have no idea who he is.
The Possession of Paavo Deshin: A Short Retrieval Artist Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 21140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 1, 2010. Fiction.
All of his short life, Paavo Deshin has seen ghosts. The same two ghosts who have now approached him on the school playground, ghosts who look older and actually smell bad. Paavo’s cry for help brings the authorities, a few lawyers, and Retrieval Artist Miles Flint, who learns some secrets about the ghosts—and about Paavo’s parents. A stand-alone short Retrieval Artist novel.
Price: $2.99 USD. 21140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on December 1, 2010. Fiction.
All of his short life, Paavo Deshin has seen ghosts. The same two ghosts who have now approached him on the school playground, ghosts who look older and actually smell bad. Paavo’s cry for help brings the authorities, a few lawyers, and Retrieval Artist Miles Flint, who learns some secrets about the ghosts—and about Paavo’s parents. A stand-alone short Retrieval Artist novel.
The Perfect Man
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 12100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Paige Racette has spent her entire career imagining the perfect man. She’s described a different version of him over and over in her novels. But when Josiah Wells starts using her novels as a blueprint for the way to romance her, she finds the attention creepy, not attractive. Chosen as one of the best short stories of 2003, “The Perfect Man” shows that perfection might be overrated.
Price: $0.99 USD. 12100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Paige Racette has spent her entire career imagining the perfect man. She’s described a different version of him over and over in her novels. But when Josiah Wells starts using her novels as a blueprint for the way to romance her, she finds the attention creepy, not attractive. Chosen as one of the best short stories of 2003, “The Perfect Man” shows that perfection might be overrated.
Stille Nacht
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2120 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Christmas—a time of family, tradition, togetherness. But what happens to a single mom when her parents are dead, and her daughters worry that Santa, like Daddy, won’t show up? Is the magic of Christmas an illusion? Or will that magic appear on Christmas morning, under the tree, like all the other gifts of the season?
Price: $0.99 USD. 2120 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
Christmas—a time of family, tradition, togetherness. But what happens to a single mom when her parents are dead, and her daughters worry that Santa, like Daddy, won’t show up? Is the magic of Christmas an illusion? Or will that magic appear on Christmas morning, under the tree, like all the other gifts of the season?
Nutball Season
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7760 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
According to Officer Nick Mantino, Nutball Season runs from Halloween to Christmas. This year, he has more than his usual number of nutballs. There’s the geezer who thinks he’s been cast in Miracle on 34th Street. There’s Mrs. Billings, who has told everyone she’ll shoot Santa if he lands on her roof. Now Nick wonders if he's becoming a nutball too.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7760 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 29, 2010. Fiction.
According to Officer Nick Mantino, Nutball Season runs from Halloween to Christmas. This year, he has more than his usual number of nutballs. There’s the geezer who thinks he’s been cast in Miracle on 34th Street. There’s Mrs. Billings, who has told everyone she’ll shoot Santa if he lands on her roof. Now Nick wonders if he's becoming a nutball too.
Loop
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 4340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2010. Fiction.
On the first Christmas since her husband Tyler died, Amelia goes to the lab to revisit their research. After all, what could it hurt? One little leap into the past, just to touch an old memory. To see him one last time. Only time travel isn’t easy. Nor is it straightforward. And it holds more surprises than Amelia ever imagined.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2010. Fiction.
On the first Christmas since her husband Tyler died, Amelia goes to the lab to revisit their research. After all, what could it hurt? One little leap into the past, just to touch an old memory. To see him one last time. Only time travel isn’t easy. Nor is it straightforward. And it holds more surprises than Amelia ever imagined.
Rehabilitation
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5890 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2010. Fiction.
The man who calls himself Matt Sturtz only connects with other human beings at Christmas. He takes a job as a mall Santa, and marvels that no one checks his resume, or his identification for that matter. But this year, something goes wrong. Something he won’t stand for. Something he must stop. No matter how much it costs him. No matter what goes wrong.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5890 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 28, 2010. Fiction.
The man who calls himself Matt Sturtz only connects with other human beings at Christmas. He takes a job as a mall Santa, and marvels that no one checks his resume, or his identification for that matter. But this year, something goes wrong. Something he won’t stand for. Something he must stop. No matter how much it costs him. No matter what goes wrong.
Her Mother's Secrets
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9120 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 9, 2010. Fiction.
Violet had been pretty once, in high school, before Skeeter Johnson shot her in the face and ruined her life. Now she’s come back to her hometown to bury her mother, and as she digs through her mother’s papers, she discovers secrets—secrets about her mother…and Skeeter Johnson.
Price: $0.99 USD. 9120 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 9, 2010. Fiction.
Violet had been pretty once, in high school, before Skeeter Johnson shot her in the face and ruined her life. Now she’s come back to her hometown to bury her mother, and as she digs through her mother’s papers, she discovers secrets—secrets about her mother…and Skeeter Johnson.
The Women of Whale Rock
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10800 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Whale Rock’s sheriff, Dan Retsler, considers himself a practical man. But he has no explanation for the horrible deaths that take place on his beach. Nor does he know why so many locals fear the sea. The answer lies in legends of mermaids—not the pretty kind, but the kind that lure sailors to their deaths. Retsler doesn’t believe in them, but nothing quite explains the women he sees.
Price: $0.99 USD. 10800 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Whale Rock’s sheriff, Dan Retsler, considers himself a practical man. But he has no explanation for the horrible deaths that take place on his beach. Nor does he know why so many locals fear the sea. The answer lies in legends of mermaids—not the pretty kind, but the kind that lure sailors to their deaths. Retsler doesn’t believe in them, but nothing quite explains the women he sees.
Familiar Territory
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 3930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Buster’s final wish—a Viking funeral. Although Winston, a small magician with a small talent, wants to give his familiar his ideal funeral, he can’t imagine how he’ll manage a burning boat at sea. Still it is a small price to pay for years of companionship. Or is it a small price? Winston will break all kinds of laws—magical and otherwise—to give his beloved cat the proper good-by.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Buster’s final wish—a Viking funeral. Although Winston, a small magician with a small talent, wants to give his familiar his ideal funeral, he can’t imagine how he’ll manage a burning boat at sea. Still it is a small price to pay for years of companionship. Or is it a small price? Winston will break all kinds of laws—magical and otherwise—to give his beloved cat the proper good-by.
Elites
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Rowena runs the House, a place for homeless Sky veterans. The House, open only to the women who compose the Elite Squad, has only a few rules: No names, no details, no weapons. The problem? Anything can become a weapon—even a toilet bowl scrubber. Even a word. Especially a word. A word that could destroy both Rowena and her House.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on November 8, 2010. Fiction.
Rowena runs the House, a place for homeless Sky veterans. The House, open only to the women who compose the Elite Squad, has only a few rules: No names, no details, no weapons. The problem? Anything can become a weapon—even a toilet bowl scrubber. Even a word. Especially a word. A word that could destroy both Rowena and her House.
The Freelancer's Survival Guide
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $7.99 USD. 199050 words. Published by WMG Publishing on October 30, 2010. Nonfiction.
(5.00 from 4 reviews)
Most people become freelancers without any idea of how to run a business. They learn in the school of hard knocks. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has taken the school of hard knocks and made it into one of the most useful business books written in years. Experts consider Rusch’s book the bible for the self-employed.
Price: $7.99 USD. 199050 words. Published by WMG Publishing on October 30, 2010. Nonfiction.
(5.00 from 4 reviews) Most people become freelancers without any idea of how to run a business. They learn in the school of hard knocks. Kristine Kathryn Rusch has taken the school of hard knocks and made it into one of the most useful business books written in years. Experts consider Rusch’s book the bible for the self-employed.
Spinning
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 12500 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 29, 2010. Fiction.
Patricia Taylor’s spinning class instructor hates her. Maybe it’s the extra eighty pounds she carries on her frame. Maybe it’s the way she struggles while everyone else in class does just fine. But when her instructor ends up dead, Patricia has to deal with her feelings for him and for everyone else in her small coastal town—including the killer. An Edgar Award finalist.
Price: $0.99 USD. 12500 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 29, 2010. Fiction.
Patricia Taylor’s spinning class instructor hates her. Maybe it’s the extra eighty pounds she carries on her frame. Maybe it’s the way she struggles while everyone else in class does just fine. But when her instructor ends up dead, Patricia has to deal with her feelings for him and for everyone else in her small coastal town—including the killer. An Edgar Award finalist.
Jury Duty
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 7520 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 25, 2010. Fiction.
Pamela Jackson has secrets, secrets that forced her to change her identity and move to the Oregon Coast. Now, upstanding citizen that she’s pretending to be, she’s been called for jury duty. Worse, she’s on a jury. For a murder case. And murder is something she knows a little too much about. A short mystery story by bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Price: $0.99 USD. 7520 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 25, 2010. Fiction.
Pamela Jackson has secrets, secrets that forced her to change her identity and move to the Oregon Coast. Now, upstanding citizen that she’s pretending to be, she’s been called for jury duty. Worse, she’s on a jury. For a murder case. And murder is something she knows a little too much about. A short mystery story by bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
The Assassin's Dagger
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 19, 2010. Fiction.
Tara, a trouble-shooter for Abracadabra Incorporated, shuts down black magic all over the world. A dagger with dangerous magic leads her to a small French shop, in business for 900 years. Something has corrupted the shop, something dark and evil, something stronger than Tara. Something she must face alone… A short story by international bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 10140 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 19, 2010. Fiction.
Tara, a trouble-shooter for Abracadabra Incorporated, shuts down black magic all over the world. A dagger with dangerous magic leads her to a small French shop, in business for 900 years. Something has corrupted the shop, something dark and evil, something stronger than Tara. Something she must face alone… A short story by international bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Time Management: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 19960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Being your own boss means setting your own schedule. Sounds easy, right? Instead, it’s one of the toughest parts of freelancing. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to create a schedule, meet deadlines, take time for vacation, and cope with illness. The perfect guide for freelancers who can’t find enough time in the day.
Price: $2.99 USD. 19960 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Being your own boss means setting your own schedule. Sounds easy, right? Instead, it’s one of the toughest parts of freelancing. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to create a schedule, meet deadlines, take time for vacation, and cope with illness. The perfect guide for freelancers who can’t find enough time in the day.
Networking in Person and Online: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 24730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Networking sounds hard—and it is, if you’re trying to do it “right.” Instead, do it your way. International bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers her tips on networking in person. She solicited the help of great online networkers like bestsellers Neil Gaiman and Michael A. Stackpole to give online networking tips.
Price: $2.99 USD. 24730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Networking sounds hard—and it is, if you’re trying to do it “right.” Instead, do it your way. International bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers her tips on networking in person. She solicited the help of great online networkers like bestsellers Neil Gaiman and Michael A. Stackpole to give online networking tips.
How to Make Money: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 21800 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Celebrities like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson prove that you can always spend more money than you earn. Want to know how to make money while self employed? Learn how to manage the money you do earn. In this short book, international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, shows you how.
Price: $2.99 USD. 21800 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 18, 2010. Nonfiction.
Celebrities like Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson prove that you can always spend more money than you earn. Want to know how to make money while self employed? Learn how to manage the money you do earn. In this short book, international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, shows you how.
How to Negotiate Anything: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 17930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
Most people hate negotiating. Instead of learning it themselves, they hire someone—an agent, a lawyer, a manager—to negotiate for them. But negotiators often do not have their clients’ best interests at heart. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to negotiate anything.
Price: $2.99 USD. 17930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 17, 2010. Nonfiction.
Most people hate negotiating. Instead of learning it themselves, they hire someone—an agent, a lawyer, a manager—to negotiate for them. But negotiators often do not have their clients’ best interests at heart. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to negotiate anything.
Goals and Dreams: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 22730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 2, 2010. Nonfiction.
Everyone has dreams, but most people don’t know how to achieve them. Goals help people achieve their dreams, but how do you know if you’ve set the right goals? In this short book, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch will help you set the right goals to achieve your dreams. She also has tips for staying positive and remaining patient.
Price: $2.99 USD. 22730 words. Published by WMG Publishing on September 2, 2010. Nonfiction.
Everyone has dreams, but most people don’t know how to achieve them. Goals help people achieve their dreams, but how do you know if you’ve set the right goals? In this short book, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch will help you set the right goals to achieve your dreams. She also has tips for staying positive and remaining patient.
Turning Setbacks into Opportunity: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 14850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on August 9, 2010. Nonfiction.
Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? The answers lie in this short book by international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
Price: $2.99 USD. 14850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on August 9, 2010. Nonfiction.
Setbacks happen to everyone. Surviving them is hard. Surviving failure is even harder. But every successful person has had at least three failures before finding that success. So how do you turn failure to success? The answers lie in this short book by international bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
The White Mists of Power: A Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 91380 words. Published by WMG Publishing on August 2, 2010. Fiction.
A novel of cities and palaces, of power-hungry lords and ladies scheming inside a magically threatened land. Intricate, compelling, The White Mists of Power is the debut novel of a woman who has gone on to have a seismic impact on the science fiction and fantasy field. A fantasy from the bestselling author of The Fey books.
Price: $4.99 USD. 91380 words. Published by WMG Publishing on August 2, 2010. Fiction.
A novel of cities and palaces, of power-hungry lords and ladies scheming inside a magically threatened land. Intricate, compelling, The White Mists of Power is the debut novel of a woman who has gone on to have a seismic impact on the science fiction and fantasy field. A fantasy from the bestselling author of The Fey books.
The Retrieval Artist: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 18630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
The short novel that started the entire Retrieval Artist series, The Retrieval Artist introduced Miles Flint to the world. Hugo-nominated, chosen as one of the best stories of the year, The Retrieval Artist created an entire universe, and Flint himself became what IO9 calls “one of the top ten science fiction detectives ever.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 18630 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
The short novel that started the entire Retrieval Artist series, The Retrieval Artist introduced Miles Flint to the world. Hugo-nominated, chosen as one of the best stories of the year, The Retrieval Artist created an entire universe, and Flint himself became what IO9 calls “one of the top ten science fiction detectives ever.”
Echea
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 14430 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
Sarah has the perfect family. She and her husband decide to share that perfection with Echea, an orphan from the Moon Wars. Only after Sarah adopts Echea, she realizes that Echea has problems. Serious problems, problems that could change her entire family. Forever. Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus award finalist. Winner of both the Asimov’s and Homer Readers’ Choice Awards.
Price: $0.99 USD. 14430 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
Sarah has the perfect family. She and her husband decide to share that perfection with Echea, an orphan from the Moon Wars. Only after Sarah adopts Echea, she realizes that Echea has problems. Serious problems, problems that could change her entire family. Forever. Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus award finalist. Winner of both the Asimov’s and Homer Readers’ Choice Awards.
Pudgygate
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
Imagine a dinner party in a English country manor with an American cook named Bubba making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, waiters from Cal Tech, British royalty, a cat named Pudgy, and a thief. Honestly, what could go wrong?
Price: $0.99 USD. 6490 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 28, 2010. Fiction.
Imagine a dinner party in a English country manor with an American cook named Bubba making a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, waiters from Cal Tech, British royalty, a cat named Pudgy, and a thief. Honestly, what could go wrong?
Stomping Mad: A Spade Conundrum
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $1.99 USD. 6420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 16, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lucinda Danielle Stanhope who calls herself the Martha Stewart of Science Fiction. Now he just has to prove it. “Stomping Mad” marks the first appearance of Spade, who along with his sidekick Paladin, is one of Rusch’s most popular characters.
Price: $1.99 USD. 6420 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 16, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) When a dead body turns up at the first ever Dinocon, Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade knows just who might be behind it all: Lucinda Danielle Stanhope who calls herself the Martha Stewart of Science Fiction. Now he just has to prove it. “Stomping Mad” marks the first appearance of Spade, who along with his sidekick Paladin, is one of Rusch’s most popular characters.
Five Short Novels
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $4.99 USD. 120210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 15, 2010. Fiction.
The five short novels in this collection include “The Spires of Denon” set in the same universe as her award-winning Diving into the Wreck. “The Recover Man’s Bargain” takes place at the same time as her Retrieval Artist The Recovery Man. “Dragon’s Tooth,” is the only fantasy. Award-winners “Broken Windchimes” and “Coolhunting” round out the volume.
Price: $4.99 USD. 120210 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 15, 2010. Fiction.
The five short novels in this collection include “The Spires of Denon” set in the same universe as her award-winning Diving into the Wreck. “The Recover Man’s Bargain” takes place at the same time as her Retrieval Artist The Recovery Man. “Dragon’s Tooth,” is the only fantasy. Award-winners “Broken Windchimes” and “Coolhunting” round out the volume.
Getting Started: A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 7100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 14, 2010. Nonfiction.
Everyone says they want to be their own boss, but very few people know how. This book will help you learn how to think properly about owning a business. It gives you guidelines in setting up your office (in or out of the house), setting your schedule, and establishing your priorities. Getting started properly will put your business on the road to success.
Price: $2.99 USD. 7100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 14, 2010. Nonfiction.
Everyone says they want to be their own boss, but very few people know how. This book will help you learn how to think properly about owning a business. It gives you guidelines in setting up your office (in or out of the house), setting your schedule, and establishing your priorities. Getting started properly will put your business on the road to success.
Five Oregon Stories
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 36310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Fiction.
Oregon provides the setting for all five stories in this collection. The stories range from the whimsical “The One That Got Away” to the moving “Patriotic Gestures.” The collection also includes “The Amazing Quizmo,” “Going Native,” and “The Moorhead House.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 36310 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Fiction.
Oregon provides the setting for all five stories in this collection. The stories range from the whimsical “The One That Got Away” to the moving “Patriotic Gestures.” The collection also includes “The Amazing Quizmo,” “Going Native,” and “The Moorhead House.”
Details
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8780 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Fiction.
George has lived a full life as a decorated WWII veteran, high-end attorney, family man. But the incident that haunts him only took five minutes, five minutes when he shared a Coke with a woman on her way to California, a woman who would die hours later. Murdered. Maybe even by George.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8780 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Fiction.
George has lived a full life as a decorated WWII veteran, high-end attorney, family man. But the incident that haunts him only took five minutes, five minutes when he shared a Coke with a woman on her way to California, a woman who would die hours later. Murdered. Maybe even by George.
When to Quit Your Day Job
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 9300 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Nonfiction.
A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book. The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day job too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. A step-by-step survival guide to the decisions you need to make to become and stay a freelancer in any business.
Price: $2.99 USD. 9300 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 13, 2010. Nonfiction.
A Freelancer's Survival Guide Short Book. The biggest dream all freelancers have is to work for themselves. They want to ditch the day job. Many freelancers quit their day job too early. Some wait too long. Some never do quit. A step-by-step survival guide to the decisions you need to make to become and stay a freelancer in any business.
Coolhunting
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 23170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 11, 2010. Fiction.
Steffie makes her living as a coolhunter—someone who discovers an interesting look and makes it fashion, often overnight. She’s escaped her stifling upbringing, but her sister KD has not. KD, genetically altered to remain a child, asks Steffie to help her run away from home, and Steffie just might try. A Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award.
Price: $2.99 USD. 23170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 11, 2010. Fiction.
Steffie makes her living as a coolhunter—someone who discovers an interesting look and makes it fashion, often overnight. She’s escaped her stifling upbringing, but her sister KD has not. KD, genetically altered to remain a child, asks Steffie to help her run away from home, and Steffie just might try. A Locus Award finalist, and winner of the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice Award.
Dragon's Tooth
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 19280 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 10, 2010. Fiction.
A short novel by bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Tara, a former agent of Abracadabra Incorporated, helped shut down black magic all over the world. Now she has retired and runs a little magic shop. On a trip to Paris, she discovers a deadly dragon’s tooth and must shut down the source of its dark magic or risk losing everything.
Price: $2.99 USD. 19280 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 10, 2010. Fiction.
A short novel by bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Tara, a former agent of Abracadabra Incorporated, helped shut down black magic all over the world. Now she has retired and runs a little magic shop. On a trip to Paris, she discovers a deadly dragon’s tooth and must shut down the source of its dark magic or risk losing everything.
Patriotic Gestures
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5370 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 10, 2010. Fiction.
Crime scene investigator Pamela Kinney heard the bad guys outside her house and smelled smoke, but it wasn’t until morning that she realized they’d burned the flag that covered her daughter’s casket. Her police colleagues called it a small crime, but to her, it wasn’t. She had to solve it, and she had to solve it now.
Price: $0.99 USD. 5370 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 10, 2010. Fiction.
Crime scene investigator Pamela Kinney heard the bad guys outside her house and smelled smoke, but it wasn’t until morning that she realized they’d burned the flag that covered her daughter’s casket. Her police colleagues called it a small crime, but to her, it wasn’t. She had to solve it, and she had to solve it now.
Five Fantastic Tales
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 32840 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
The five magical stories in this short collection include stories of fairies and shapeshifters and magic shops. In this collection, you’ll find the heartwarming “Flower Fairies,” the whimsical “The Poop Thief,” the outrageous “Say Hello To My Little Friend,” the political vampire tale, “Victims,” and a tale of high school gone wrong, “Domestic Magic.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 32840 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
The five magical stories in this short collection include stories of fairies and shapeshifters and magic shops. In this collection, you’ll find the heartwarming “Flower Fairies,” the whimsical “The Poop Thief,” the outrageous “Say Hello To My Little Friend,” the political vampire tale, “Victims,” and a tale of high school gone wrong, “Domestic Magic.”
The One That Got Away
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 4200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
The regulars at Spirit Winds Thursday night blackjack tournament never call attention to themselves. Some are retired, some are a little shady, some have seen too much. But none of them believed in UFOs. Until that night when the lights went out in the middle of the tournament…and something very, very strange happened. Something eerie. Something…alien.
Price: $0.99 USD. 4200 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
The regulars at Spirit Winds Thursday night blackjack tournament never call attention to themselves. Some are retired, some are a little shady, some have seen too much. But none of them believed in UFOs. Until that night when the lights went out in the middle of the tournament…and something very, very strange happened. Something eerie. Something…alien.
Flower Fairies
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5680 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
Funeral directors deal with everything at a funeral, but only a few have had to handle an influx of flower fairies. Worse, the arrival of a flower fairy child, alone and unsupervised. Flower fairies are unpredictable…except when they’re angry. And then they’re terrifying. What will they do if they think one of their children is in danger?
Price: $0.99 USD. 5680 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 8, 2010. Fiction.
Funeral directors deal with everything at a funeral, but only a few have had to handle an influx of flower fairies. Worse, the arrival of a flower fairy child, alone and unsupervised. Flower fairies are unpredictable…except when they’re angry. And then they’re terrifying. What will they do if they think one of their children is in danger?
The Amazing Quizmo
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 6, 2010. Fiction.
Darren has a secret identity. At night, he becomes the Amazing Quizmo, the Great God of Answers. He presides over bar trivia contests and no one can beat him. Until a girl appears. A pretty girl. A very pretty girl who just might be smarter than Darren is. And for Darren, that just won’t do.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8100 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 6, 2010. Fiction.
Darren has a secret identity. At night, he becomes the Amazing Quizmo, the Great God of Answers. He presides over bar trivia contests and no one can beat him. Until a girl appears. A pretty girl. A very pretty girl who just might be smarter than Darren is. And for Darren, that just won’t do.
Going Native
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 5, 2010. Fiction.
Everyone wants the ability to teleport from one place to another in an instant. But what happens if something goes wrong? And what happens if the government refuses to listen? A journalist on assignment visits a convention held by a fringe group who believes that teleportation has changed them—and he’s becoming convinced they’re right.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6850 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 5, 2010. Fiction.
Everyone wants the ability to teleport from one place to another in an instant. But what happens if something goes wrong? And what happens if the government refuses to listen? A journalist on assignment visits a convention held by a fringe group who believes that teleportation has changed them—and he’s becoming convinced they’re right.
Five Feline Fancies
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 32870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 2, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Five of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most popular cat stories. They run the gamut from the award-winning “The Secret Lives of Cats” to the whimsical “The Poop Thief.” Other stories in the collection include reader favorite “What Fluffy Knew,” the short mystery “Scrawny Pete,” and the Fey prequel “Destiny.”
Price: $2.99 USD. 32870 words. Published by WMG Publishing on July 2, 2010. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Five of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most popular cat stories. They run the gamut from the award-winning “The Secret Lives of Cats” to the whimsical “The Poop Thief.” Other stories in the collection include reader favorite “What Fluffy Knew,” the short mystery “Scrawny Pete,” and the Fey prequel “Destiny.”
Destiny: A Story of the Fey
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9450 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 30, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Written as a prequel to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s popular Fey saga, “Destiny” follows the Shapeshifter Solanda on Nye. The Black King wants her to use her special abilities on a job that will change the Fey forever. But Solanda wants to change the life of one child. Can she do both? Or should she do nothing at all?
Price: $0.99 USD. 9450 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 30, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) Written as a prequel to Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s popular Fey saga, “Destiny” follows the Shapeshifter Solanda on Nye. The Black King wants her to use her special abilities on a job that will change the Fey forever. But Solanda wants to change the life of one child. Can she do both? Or should she do nothing at all?
Scrawny Pete
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 2610 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 29, 2010. Fiction.
Crime reporter Atkins discovered Scrawny Pete at the scene of a murder-suicide. The hard-bitten reporter took to the cat, and the cat took to him. Together they traveled through the city on the police beat, until the day they came across another crime, one that Scrawny Pete understood.
Price: $0.99 USD. 2610 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 29, 2010. Fiction.
Crime reporter Atkins discovered Scrawny Pete at the scene of a murder-suicide. The hard-bitten reporter took to the cat, and the cat took to him. Together they traveled through the city on the police beat, until the day they came across another crime, one that Scrawny Pete understood.
The Moorhead House
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 11930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 28, 2010. Fiction.
Dusty’s Cleaning specializes in cleaning houses where horrible things happen. Suicides, murders, Dusty’s seen them all. But she can’t forget the scene at the Moorhead House. Chosen as one of the top ten stories of the year by the readers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Price: $0.99 USD. 11930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 28, 2010. Fiction.
Dusty’s Cleaning specializes in cleaning houses where horrible things happen. Suicides, murders, Dusty’s seen them all. But she can’t forget the scene at the Moorhead House. Chosen as one of the top ten stories of the year by the readers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
G-Men
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 14170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 27, 2010. Fiction.
Two different best of the year collections, including the prestigious Best American Mystery Stories, chose “G-Men” as one of the best stories of 2008. Nominated for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History.
Price: $0.99 USD. 14170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 27, 2010. Fiction.
Two different best of the year collections, including the prestigious Best American Mystery Stories, chose “G-Men” as one of the best stories of 2008. Nominated for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History.
Domestic Magic
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8360 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
The most picked-on kid at a high school for the magical has nightmares about J. Rutherford Wisenhaur II killing people with a fire spell. She can’t stop him. She only has domestic magic and can’t do most difficult spells. To make matters worse, no one will believe that her dream is important. What’s a young nearly powerless witch to do?
Price: $0.99 USD. 8360 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
The most picked-on kid at a high school for the magical has nightmares about J. Rutherford Wisenhaur II killing people with a fire spell. She can’t stop him. She only has domestic magic and can’t do most difficult spells. To make matters worse, no one will believe that her dream is important. What’s a young nearly powerless witch to do?
Discovery
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 6880 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Pita Cardenas has taken the case of her life. The only attorney in small Rio Gordo, she has decided to fight the biggest railroad company in the state to get compensation for the widow of a man who may have raced a train. He’s guilty—or is he? A Shamus Award nominee by this bestselling writer.
Price: $0.99 USD. 6880 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 26, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review) Pita Cardenas has taken the case of her life. The only attorney in small Rio Gordo, she has decided to fight the biggest railroad company in the state to get compensation for the widow of a man who may have raced a train. He’s guilty—or is he? A Shamus Award nominee by this bestselling writer.
Victims
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5670 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 25, 2010. Fiction.
Reese Catton manages campaigns. The dirty side of campaigns. And he has dirt suggesting that his candidate’s opponent is a vampire’s slave. But in politics—as in life—nothing is as it seems. Not even the relationship between vampires and politicians…
Price: $0.99 USD. 5670 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 25, 2010. Fiction.
Reese Catton manages campaigns. The dirty side of campaigns. And he has dirt suggesting that his candidate’s opponent is a vampire’s slave. But in politics—as in life—nothing is as it seems. Not even the relationship between vampires and politicians…
What Fluffy Knew
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 3410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 14, 2010. Fiction.
Fluffy has the perfect life. Her cat bed, her kibble, a human to wait on her. Until they came. And they would change everything—unless she could stop them. One of of award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most popular stories.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 14, 2010. Fiction.
Fluffy has the perfect life. Her cat bed, her kibble, a human to wait on her. Until they came. And they would change everything—unless she could stop them. One of of award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most popular stories.
Cowboy Grace
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 13790 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 9, 2010. Fiction.
Grace decides to sell her business and move west, not realizing that the man who bought her business embezzled from it. Her departure looks like guilt, and suddenly Grace, who only wants peace and quiet, has a price on her head. Included in the World’s Finest Mystery And Crime Stories of 2004, “Cowboy Grace,” also received an Edgar Award nomination.
Price: $0.99 USD. 13790 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 9, 2010. Fiction.
Grace decides to sell her business and move west, not realizing that the man who bought her business embezzled from it. Her departure looks like guilt, and suddenly Grace, who only wants peace and quiet, has a price on her head. Included in the World’s Finest Mystery And Crime Stories of 2004, “Cowboy Grace,” also received an Edgar Award nomination.
Say Hello to My Little Friend
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 3770 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A handsome man walks into a bar…and can’t pick up women. Sounds like a joke. Or a bar bet. Or maybe, just maybe, a bit of magic follows him everywhere. A short, somewhat malicious bit of magic, with a fondness for Piña Coladas.
Price: $0.99 USD. 3770 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 9, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review) A handsome man walks into a bar…and can’t pick up women. Sounds like a joke. Or a bar bet. Or maybe, just maybe, a bit of magic follows him everywhere. A short, somewhat malicious bit of magic, with a fondness for Piña Coladas.
Paparazzi of Dreams
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 11950 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 6, 2010. Fiction.
In a world that sells and records dreams, a celebrity will do anything to guard his privacy. But the paparazzi try to steal a celebrity’s dreams anyway. And who do the dreams belong to? The person who dreamed it or the person who recorded it? And what happens if a dream reveals a past crime? Is it a memory? Or is it fiction?
Price: $0.99 USD. 11950 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 6, 2010. Fiction.
In a world that sells and records dreams, a celebrity will do anything to guard his privacy. But the paparazzi try to steal a celebrity’s dreams anyway. And who do the dreams belong to? The person who dreamed it or the person who recorded it? And what happens if a dream reveals a past crime? Is it a memory? Or is it fiction?
What the Monster Saw
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 3, 2010. Fiction.
A mystery short story from this Edgar nominated author. Everyone thinks Kyle Worthington is the good-for-nothing only son of Jackson Worthington. But Kyle Worthington hides his smarts and his dreams, until he discovers a body in an alley on the way home from school. The police can’t solve the crime, but Kyle can—unless his very wealthy and very powerful father stops him.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8070 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 3, 2010. Fiction.
A mystery short story from this Edgar nominated author. Everyone thinks Kyle Worthington is the good-for-nothing only son of Jackson Worthington. But Kyle Worthington hides his smarts and his dreams, until he discovers a body in an alley on the way home from school. The police can’t solve the crime, but Kyle can—unless his very wealthy and very powerful father stops him.
Broken Windchimes: A Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 18030 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 1, 2010. Fiction.
A Short Novel. Winner of the Asimov SF Magazine’s Readers Choice Award for 2009. He’s a former child prodigy, the biggest star on Pané, when one error ruins his career forever. Now he must learn how to survive on a space station very far from home.
Price: $2.99 USD. 18030 words. Published by WMG Publishing on June 1, 2010. Fiction.
A Short Novel. Winner of the Asimov SF Magazine’s Readers Choice Award for 2009. He’s a former child prodigy, the biggest star on Pané, when one error ruins his career forever. Now he must learn how to survive on a space station very far from home.
The Poop Thief
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 31, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Portia Meadows runs one of the few pet stores in the entire world that sells familiars to the magical. Familiars—delicate, moody creatures that they are—keep magic clean and pure. To lose a familiar means losing magic. A wonderful fantasy story by the bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 9410 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 31, 2010. Fiction.
(3.00 from 1 review) Portia Meadows runs one of the few pet stores in the entire world that sells familiars to the magical. Familiars—delicate, moody creatures that they are—keep magic clean and pure. To lose a familiar means losing magic. A wonderful fantasy story by the bestseller Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Secret Lives of Cats
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $0.99 USD. 8340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
Winner of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award for 2008, this Anthony-nominated story was one of the most talked about stories of the year.
Price: $0.99 USD. 8340 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
Winner of the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award for 2008, this Anthony-nominated story was one of the most talked about stories of the year.
The Spires of Denon: A Short Novel in the Diving Universe
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 30170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novel Diving Into The Wreck spawned a universe so vast that one novel can’t contain it. The Spires of Denon doesn’t involve Boss or her crew. Instead, this powerful short novel follows Miklós Verr, hired to guard an archeological dig near the mysterious Spires of Denon.
Price: $2.99 USD. 30170 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s novel Diving Into The Wreck spawned a universe so vast that one novel can’t contain it. The Spires of Denon doesn’t involve Boss or her crew. Instead, this powerful short novel follows Miklós Verr, hired to guard an archeological dig near the mysterious Spires of Denon.
The Recovery Man's Bargain: A Retrieval Artist Short Novel
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Price: $2.99 USD. 29930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
A short novel set in the universe of the bestselling Retrieval Artist novels by award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. She has won the Hugo Award for her writing and her editing and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award three times.
Price: $2.99 USD. 29930 words. Published by WMG Publishing on May 30, 2010. Fiction.
A short novel set in the universe of the bestselling Retrieval Artist novels by award-winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. She has won the Hugo Award for her writing and her editing and the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award three times.
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