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The Watch
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,680. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » General
The justice system fails many. So, sometimes victims take matters into their own hands. But the quest for justice sometimes hinges on the smallest detail—and a great deal of patience. A riveting story from Edgar Award-nominated author Kristine Kathryn Rusch, “The Watch” offers a different look at an all-too-common crime.
Smith's Monthly #49
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 77,350. Language: English. Published: May 12, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
More than seventy-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Including Bottom Pair, the new Cold Poker Gang novel and five new short stories in some of Dean’s most popular series.
Pleasing Pearl: A Sky Tate Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,490. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) sometimes, for fun, takes cases from insurance companies. She finds them mostly fun and she likes the woman named Pearl who gives out the cases. But sometimes the insurance cases turn out to be so, so much more. And for Sky Tate, then the fun begins.
Cat in a Hole: A Pakhet Jones Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,340. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Superhero Pakhet Jones deals with all things cats. Her job and she loves it. And in this story, Pakhet helps find a cat who vanished into space and time with the help of Poker Boy and others.
Remembering the Last Laugh: A Bryant Street Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,280. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
If The Twilight Zone existed in a subdivision… Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected. Most of the time. But sometimes the strange people who chose to live on Bryant Street end up happy. Even Bryant Street keeps surprising.
Half a Clue: A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,250. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives, volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they fell in love along the way. Vicki, a well-liked attorney for a major firm, simply walked into her own home and vanished without a trace. Picket and Sarge decide to take one more look at the impossible case. Just one more.
Whistle for Help: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,770. Language: English. Published: May 10, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people’s heads and try to help them. Two stunning women, both over a hundred years old and both very dead. A wolf whistle from a jerk never surprised them when alive. But as ghosts, invisible ghosts, a wolf whistle shocked them.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 6: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 161,510. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Volume 6 closes the series with a space opera theme, a genre both Rusch and Smith excel in. Smith starts the volume with “The Tragic Tale of a Man in a Duster” about a cowboy floating alone in the vast reaches of space, who finds solace in cooking trout over an open fire. Rusch closes the volume with “The Spires of Denon,” a novella from her award-winning Diving Universe.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 5: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 119,170. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Volume 5 tackles the topic of war. Rusch leads the volume off with “Embedded” about a jaded reporter who finds himself decidedly out of his element. Smith, with a more whimsical approach, tells the tale of a quiet nursing home where the elderly Brian Saber hides out between missions to outer space as a young Captain Brian Saber in the Earth Protection League.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 4: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 95,390. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Volume 4 explores the meanings of the term “goofy.” Rusch offers up a guidebook for space travel with “Amelia Pillar’s Etiquette for the Space Traveler” and a smart little girl in “Advisors at Naptime,” while Smith takes readers onto the Titanic with Sherlock Holmes and contributes his Nebula Award-nominated tale of a vampire saying goodbye to a mortal lover with “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 3: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 137,730. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Volume 3 takes the series across time, space, and even into alternate history. Rusch’s stories transport the reader from a future White House where staffers time-travel to the past, to Wall Street in the 1920s, to the Underground Railroad. Meanwhile, Smith introduces a time-travel jukebox, a space pirate whose best friend is a talking tree named Fred, and an alternate timeline for the Alamo.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 2: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 148,060. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
The Second Volume in the Acclaimed Series! Aliens populate Volume 2 of the series, and they charm, amuse, or terrify, depending on the story. From “Sighed the Snake,” Smith’s quirky and funny Poker Boy story about the return of aliens to Las Vegas, to Rusch’s electrifying “The End of the World,” this volume of twenty stories will leave your head spinning.
Colliding Worlds Vol. 1: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 121,140. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
The First Volume in the Acclaimed Series! Volume 1 kicks off the series with the theme “Cities.” Beginning with Rusch’s “The City’s Edge” about a man coming to terms with the truth of his wife’s nightmarish death, and ending with Smith’s “Shadow in the City” based on the song lyrics of “Here in the City” by Janis Ian, this volume grips and entertains from page one.
Fun House Mirrors
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,990. Language: English. Published: April 23, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
When Cassandra’s career in politics takes a turn she doesn’t expect, she struggles to accept her new reality. So, when she starts seeing things in mirrors that shouldn’t appear, Cassandra knows what she sees could prove gift or curse. Or both. “Rusch is a great storyteller.” —RT Book Reviews
The Year of the Cat: A Cat of Feral Instincts
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 46,420. Language: English. Published: April 19, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
Make nice with cats and other creatures? Not feral cats. Domestic cats cuddle and purr, but feral and wild cats hiss and roar and scratch. For survival. And sometimes for nefarious motives. In this fantastic group of ten stories, expect some dark stories, some even gruesome ones. Unlike the other eleven volumes in this series, expect some truly dark stories, with villainous cats.
Smith's Monthly #48
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 55,900. Language: English. Published: April 8, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General
More than fifty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Introducing Card Sharp Silver, a novel in the new Cave Creek series, a shared world “Where the Unexpected Meets the Real World.” Also includes Heinlein’s Rules: A WMG Writer’s Guide.
Puckish Behavior: A Wyrd Systers Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,310. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
When Noah Whitestone approaches Portia with a problem, she considers it with skepticism. Portia solves theatrical problems with her two sisters. Magical theatrical problems. But the Whitestones’ problem proves particularly tricky. To solve it, Portia and her sisters must risk not only themselves but also a lot of innocent lives.
Penny Dead: A Sky Tate Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,290. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) can see when someone seems about to die. Her new client looks almost dead. Sky first needs to find out why. And then keep her client alive. Somehow. No other detective like Sky Tate to bring some fun into a deadly situation.
Cat in a Different Place: A Pakhet Jones Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,130. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
I always wanted to create a character in my Poker Boy universe who dealt with cats. Superhero Pakhet Jones deals with all things cats. Her job and she loves it. And in this story, Pakhet helps a neighbor and superhero track down her kidnapped cat.
Wrong Turn: A Bryant Street Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,930. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
If The Twilight Zone exited in a subdivision… Bryant Street, where things just never seem right, never work right, never exist as expected. Stephen King said writers should write about what scares them. Subdivisions terrify me at a deep level, so I created Bryant Street. I lived this story far too many times in subdivisions. Luckily escaped with my life each time, but only barely.
The Remarkable Way She Died: A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,680. Language: English. Published: April 2, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
Picket and Sarge, two recently retired Las Vegas Detectives volunteer their time for the Cold Poker Gang task force that solves cold cases. Plus, they fell in love along the way. Connie Dipkin’s case remains at the top of the strange cold cases of all time in Las Vegas. She died standing up, in the middle of a sidewalk, with no wounds, and stood there dead for three hours before someone noticed.
Lost Time: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,680. Language: English. Published: April 1, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Marble Grant and Sims work as two ghost agents in the Poker Boy universe. They crawl into people’s heads and try to help them. Working alone, late at night on the Vegas Strip, Marble runs into a man so lost in grief, he seems to be dying. Sometimes dying might be the best solution. Sometimes living becomes a torture. But not for Marble and Sims to decide.
Maelstrom: A Diving Universe Novella
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 22,050. Language: English. Published: March 23, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Nedda Ferguson-Lithe lost her father on the Gabriella’s final mission. The ship’s disappearance remains one of the great mysteries of the sector. But as Nedda interviews the crew’s survivors, she finds more questions than answers. “Like everything [Kristine Kathryn Rusch] writes, the story is beautifully-told and has a lot of heart. Who could ask for anything more?” —SFRevu
A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 18,000. Language: English. Published: March 18, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith offers up five fantastic space opera stories in his bestselling Seeders Universe series. The people of Earth thought they alone represented humankind. But when Earth falls, the truth about the origin of the universe shatters that myth. And sometimes one answer only leads to more questions…
Lost Robot: A Sky Tate Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,410. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
This story resulted from an invitation from Writers of the Future to write a story around a wonderful Bob Eggleton cover done for Volume 35. One of Dean Wesley Smith’s first stories appeared in Writers of the Future Volume #1, so thirty-five years later, having a story in Volume #35 excited him. So, Dean wrote this story of a superhero detective from his Poker Boy universe, Sky Tate.
A Menu of Memory: A Bryant Street Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,990. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Every day, J.C. Dunn comes home to his wonderful house on Bryant Street. He used to love the place, now he fears it. Every night it smells of spaghetti sauce and fresh garlic bread. He lives by himself and never cooks anything like that. But the smell, every day, persists, like a swarm of insects invading his home.
Under Glass: A Cold Poker Gang Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,270. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
A woman’s hand, perfectly encased in a box of glass. Found by kids in a field ten years before. Retired Detectives on the Cold Poker Gang Task Force in Las Vegas finally get assigned the case. What happened the decade before to the unknown woman? A twisted Cold Poker Gang mystery short story.
Cat in the Air: A Pakhet Jones Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,950. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Dean Wesley Smith always wanted to create a character in his Poker Boy universe who dealt with cats. The Year of the Cat, a series of twelve cat anthologies, gave him the perfect chance. Superhero Pakhet Jones deals with all things cats. Her job and she loves it. And in this story, Pakhet faces a conundrum only a cat can create.
Profile Gap: A Thunder Mountain Short Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 2,290. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Institute traveler, Sharon Kent, wants to keep a man who existed in the past alive. She likes him, and they had set a date for dinner before he was killed. But in timeline after timeline, she keeps going back to find out what happened to him. Finally, she discovers he died in a mine cave-in in every timeline. And thus always stood her up for their date. But this time, she hopes to rescue him.
Mystery Cat: A Poker Boy Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,020. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Poker Boy often saves the planet, other humans, sometimes other superheroes, and even dogs. But never a cat, at least until now. With cats, he needs the help of a superhero of cats, Pahket Jones. And as typical of Poker Boy, nothing ever remains simple. Even saving a cat.
Blind Poet
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,880. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary
The poet sits on the sidewalk, a fedora for tips in front of him. He hands out poems to those who can see. Some read his words one way, others another. And some can’t see his words. At least not at first.
The Portal of Wrong Love: A Poker Boy Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,090. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
An elderly woman makes couples disappear right off the Las Vegas Strip. Poker Boy and Patty must first stop her and then rescue the lost couples from some unknown place in time and space. A story of aging, of love, and sanity. And maybe just a little sex as well.
Cat in Waiting: A Pakhet Jones Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,650. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Pakhet Jones works as a superhero in the world of cats. She exists in the Poker Boy universe in Las Vegas and eventually works with Poker Boy. Cats call the humans that take care of them companions. And do what they can to help them. But sometimes it takes more to save a companion. Sometimes it takes Pakhet Jones.
Black Coffee: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,570. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Urban
Ghosts Marble and Sims, with their new roommate, accounting superhero Canyon Stevens, must face a problem worse than death: A perfect cup of coffee. A cup of coffee so good, orgasms nearly resulted from a single sip. Yeah, that good. And that dangerous. Another wild day in the ghost-life of sexy Marble Grant.
Smith's Monthly #47
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 60,960. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories
More than sixty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Ring Game, a new novel in the Cold Poker Gang series, plus five new short stories; and How to Write Fiction Sales Copy: A WMG Writer’s Guide.
Smith's Monthly #46
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 53,080. Language: English. Published: February 18, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Fantasy » General
More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Hot Springs Meadow, a new short novel in the Thunder Mountain series, plus six new short stories.
Death Stopped for Miss Dickinson
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 11,250. Language: English. Published: February 17, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
Poet Emily Dickinson writes about death like one who knows it well. But how she knows it proves a mystery to most who know her. Most, but not all. One knows her secret. One who loves her. One whose meeting she might come to regret for an eternity.
Thieves: A Diving Novel #9
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 137,750. Language: English. Published: February 16, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
A race against time. Weeks after Boss’ injury from the runabout dive, she continues the mission to salvage Fleet wrecks for the Lost Souls Corporation. But something happens in the Boneyard to catch her attention. Something that sparks her interest with an intensity she thought she lost. Boss assembles her old team with the clock ticking to solve the mystery before time runs out for good.
Smith's Monthly #45
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 65,150. Language: English. Published: January 26, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
More than sixty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Heads Up, a new full-length novel in the Cold Poker Gang series, plus four new short stories; Black Coffee: A Marble Grant Story, The Portal of Wrong Love: A Poker Boy Story, Blind Poet, and Cat in Waiting: A Pakhet Jones Story. Also includes Stages of a Fiction Writer: A WMG Writer's Guide
A Look at His Heart: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,510. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Marble Grant and her partner, Sim, discover a handsome and new superhero about to die suddenly of a heart attack. Canyon Stevens looks completely healthy and right out of a magazine ad. Can they save him? Another Marble Grant story with heart, in more ways than one.
A Lady in Heat: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 3,010. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on a beautiful, drop-dead sexy woman moments before she actually drops dead. That sort of kills all the fun in the moment. While the Fremont Street Experience swirls around the three ghosts, Marble works to figure out why the woman’s ride in a bright-light tunnel seemed late. No telling what might happen when Marble Grant and Sim stride to the rescue.
Delightfully Dizzy: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 2,270. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Date Night for ghosts. Ghost agents and former superheroes need date nights. Marble Grant and her beautiful partner, Sim, hit the bars just as any young and healthy couple, even though they died a while back. Sex occupies their minds, plus drinking. Maybe too much drinking. So can two drunk ghosts save the day? With Marble Grant, who knows.
A Thief of Regrets: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,250. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Marble Grant’s partner and lover Sim discovered her old boyfriend still pined after her, even though Sim died months earlier. The poor guy needed help. And who better to give him that help but two ghosts? With a little assist from Poker Boy and Patty Ledgerwood, they might help him survive. The fourth story in the growing Marble Grant saga.
Always a Way: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,580. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on one of the darkest secrets of human nature. Can two former superheroes now turned brand new, but very dead, Ghost Agents figure out how to save hundreds of lives in their first large case together? And stop the evil at the same time? The third story in the growing Marble Grant saga.
That Old Tingling: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 3,820. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Marble Grant, superhero, discovers a lot of training goes along with being dead. But with the training, she felt like a kid again, thankfully she didn’t have to start all the way back in diapers. Just about the point she gets the hang of the basics of being a Ghost Agent, she meets her new partner, Sally Glass, Sim to her friends. Two hot women ghosts with attitude. What could possibly be better.
Blind Date: A Marble Grant Story
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 4,690. Language: English. Published: January 25, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Dying on a first date sucks. Dying on a blind date sucks even worse. Marble Grant, superhero, finds herself suddenly dead in a disgustingly smelly back alley and not catching a white-beam ride to the other side of whatever. As a superhero, she knew about Ghost Agents. Never met one, but knew they existed. She never heard of superheroes making the transition to Ghost Agent before, either.
Politicians, Lost Causers, and Abigail Lockwood
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,260. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2021 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
1912--When someone tries to stop presidential hopeful Kate Wells from speaking at an event organized by the influential Abigail Lockwood, Abigail knows the Lost Causers, who long for the days of the Confederacy, want to send her a message.
Squishy's Teams: A Diving Universe Novel
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 48,500. Language: English. Published: November 17, 2020 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
Diving readers know that Squishy enlisted others to help her destroy stealth tech in the novel Boneyards. But exactly what happened to those teams remained a mystery—until now. Ten people signed up to help Squishy in her fateful mission. Only five returned. But what exactly happened to them? Who survived? Note: Before reading Squishy’s Teams, please read Boneyards.
Totality
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 9,260. Language: English. Published: August 12, 2020 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Romance » Short stories
When the first solar eclipse in years arrives on the Oregon Coast, Bryce Walker faces west, away from the eclipse. Instead of watching the sun go dark, he sees a woman wade into the dark, dangerous ocean. Alone. He needs to help her. Because no one else sees her. No one else even knows she's there. Bryce’s attempt at heroism might save a life or two—maybe even his own.
A Bad Day for the Dream: A Cold Poker Gang Story
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,370. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2020 by WMG Publishing. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Police Procedural
Thirty years ago in Las Vegas, Becky Penn said goodnight to her mother to go out with friends and vanished without a trace. Retired Detectives Bayard Lott and Julia Rogers, members of the Cold Poker Gang, take on Becky Penn’s cold case.
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