DeAnna Knippling
Biography
Every summer as kids, we would host one group of cousins or another and jump off hay bales, create mazes by crawling the patterns through the tall grass, and steal green apples out of the garden. We also branded calves, killed chickens, and stole steak knives to threaten skunks with. But that's growing up on a farm for you.
Now I write fantasy, science fiction, and horror--and most of it comes from the worlds that I created as a farm kid, one way or another.
My first novel, Choose Your Doom: Zombie Apocalypse, was published by Doom Press in 2010 and can be purchased through Meta Geek.
"This is how I like my zombies: fast and funny. Choose this book, and you won't be choosing your doom. You'll be choosing hours of gooey, gory hilarity."
- Steve Hockensmith, New York Times best-selling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
My short story, “The End of the World,” about fairies on the Great Plains, received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 3.
I also write murder-mystery party games for Freeform Games in the UK.
See my website and blog at deannaknippling.com.
Where to find DeAnna Knippling online
Where to buy in print
Books
A Ghost Unseen
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 2060 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 9, 2013. Fiction.
The realtor told her the house was haunted by the ghost of a four-year-old kid who’d drowned in the pool in the 1960s. But that’s not why she bought the house: she’d bought it because the front room had a gorgeous bay window...and was painted the color of spattered blood.
Red Meat Riding Hood
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 4050 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 1, 2013. Fiction.
Once upon a time in a forest so far away as to be entirely unlike the forests that you get around here, a little girl realized that it was time to grow up and go out into the world, despite the best intentions of everyone around her.
A surreal retelling of a young woman’s journey through an unknown and unknowable forest.
Alien Blue
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $5.99 USD. 108190 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 21, 2012. Fiction.
Bill Trout didn’t mean to get involved with aliens. He just wanted to run his brewery and mind his own business. But that ain’t the way things worked out, and now he’s got some bodies to bury, an alien to hide, and his best friend to talk some sense into. Except Mayor Jack ain’t one for sense. Nothing for it but to make some beer...
Paid
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 9500 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 9, 2012. Fiction.
First published in Crossed Genres #30, "Luck."
Time travel in a multiverse sounded great…except that some of inventor Beauregard’s alternate selves aren’t so nice. Now he’s a private dick hiring himself out to try to clean up the mess he made. And, of course, trying to get paid.
Ebooks 101: Beginning Formatting
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $2.99 USD. 9580 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on April 5, 2012. Nonfiction.
So you’re thinking about selling ebooks, but you don’t know where to start, what ebook software to use, or how to format an ebook. Using this book, you will learn to format your ebooks, what materials you need, and where to publish. For beginning users only. Includes checklists, step-by-step instructions, and templates.
Secret Magic in Small Places
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $5.99 USD. 39540 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on January 1, 2012. Fiction.
Inside every ordinary life hides a few instances of secret magic. The intuition you can’t explain. The coincidence that can’t possibly be true. Ten stories that capture that incredible moment before the wonder is hidden again.
The Procrustean Mirror
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 4570 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on November 23, 2011. Fiction.
Tom tracked his wife as far as the Zorcico before he ran out of leads. Now the bartender’s trying to tell him he can either have what’s in an old wooden box, or he can find out what Betty was coming to the dive bar for.
“What’s in the box?” he asks.
“Your marriage.”
The Cliff House
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 6050 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on November 18, 2011. Fiction.
Ardahl is a weaver of magic and demons—of the power that flows through the land. But he’s a prisoner of the land as much as its master, a prisoner of the Cliff House, where the ruler of the land always keeps a trapped magician to summon water for the people. Now the land has twisted near the breaking point to feed them…but the princessa won’t let Ardahl stop squeezing it. Squeezing it dry.
Threads of Life, Threads of Guilt
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 5770 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on November 8, 2011. Fiction.
Mattie’s ready to give up when her twin, Matt, drags her to Casa Eva, reputed to be St. Augustine’s “fountain of youth” for cancer patients. But can she be cured of losing her will to live?
Creators of Small Worlds
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 5040 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on November 3, 2011. Fiction.
Andrea had one chance to talk to Chris Demoulin before he unleashed horror on Las Vegas—and failed. Now the question isn’t, “could she have stopped him?” but, “can she keep stop herself from becoming just like him?”
Hand of Glory
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 13060 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on October 19, 2011. Fiction.
When you're in an online gaming guild, when the leader says to kill, you kill. You show up on time or you get kicked. You do the job. And you never break loyalty, no matter how much drama is going on.
The Vengeance Quilt
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 10090 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on October 14, 2011. Fiction.
God’s work weighs on Sebastian, a new priest, harder than most. But dealing with demons is his penance, and God never makes a burden harder than you can carry. Or so he believes when the rivalry between two of his parishioners spirals into the supernatural. A Weird West tale.
The Edge of the World
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: Free! 7100 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on October 6, 2011. Fiction.
When Jack was a kid, he was kidnapped by fairies. Sounds great, right? Except surviving the fairies was hell. Jack only escaped with the help of his best friend, Felix.
Now his kidnapper’s dead, and Felix has come to take Jack back to the fairies...
Basement Noir
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 4730 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on September 28, 2011. Fiction.
Everybody's got some hidden faces they don't show the world...but what happens when they start killing each other off? P.I. Spade is created out of dreams and memories to investigate the the murder of a personality, only to learn that the crime he was sent to investigate isn't the one he needs to solve.
Lady of the Floods
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 5460 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on August 26, 2011. Fiction.
The gods can build in a single night a tower that would require the toil of many men over many seasons. Balathu, chief of scribes, brings the King’s offerings. Balathu is a virtuous man, but the tools of the gods are lovely in his sight, and in the sight of the King.
Truly, weak men are always seized by fate.
Blind Spot
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 5180 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on August 12, 2011. Fiction.
Maxine invented a modern art technological miracle: a mirror that shows the world...without the viewer. But Thomas, who follows her through illusion after illusion to find the real woman,science sees what she can't: that people will kill to get her algorithms.
Devil Mountain
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 6850 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on August 5, 2011. Fiction.
The alien called him her beloved devil for tempting her away from her brood and tried to make him promise not to take revenge if the other humans didn't understand their love. Now he’s on top of Devil Mountain, looking down at the town that murdered his wife, and he has no promises to keep.
Things You Don't Want But Have to Take
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 8310 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on July 19, 2011. Fiction.
She hid from the thing for years, but it found her and came to her in a box with no real return address and her own handwriting on the label. She knew what would happen if she tried to fight the cold thing with its claws in her neck. Her only hope was to hide it from her husband...
Family Gods
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 3780 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on July 6, 2011. Fiction.
A young soldier returns from a war to bury his mother, only to find that his wife has betrayed him. Now, in order to save his daughter from the same conflagration that consumed his mother, he has to learn how to tame the rage inside him...a rage made stronger and more violent by the family god, a god of murder, fire, and anger that has haunted them for generations.
How to Fail & Keep on Writing
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $2.99 USD. 14960 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on June 7, 2011. Nonfiction.
Afraid of rejections? So afraid that you never put your stories in the mail? This book will show you how to overcome fear of failure when It comes to writing, submitting, and publishing your fiction.
Mother & Child
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 2380 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 11, 2011. Fiction.
A family that goes on separate vacations in virtual reality...only to find that the mom won't come back. A girl who finds her life's calling not in nurturing, dolls or motherhood, but in a classmate's pain. A mother who refuses to let her daughter get judged on a so-called Judgment Day.
Three short stories of mothers, children, and the uncanny bonds between them.
Abominable
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 3370 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on May 4, 2011. Fiction.
When a guy finds the love of his life and works his fingers to the bone to get her what she wants, he doesn't expect her to fall in love with a...a sheep farmer. Trapped in a blizzard, a guy who gave up everything to be with his wife discovers there's still more to give. Something warm.
Death by Chocolate
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $2.99 USD. 21130 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
Ellie doesn’t like chocolate. So when the Devil makes her a deal—she can be skinny, pretty and immortal, but if she ever eats chocolate, she’s going to Hell—she takes it. Then the bad boy at the top of her sexual bucket list appears.. She’s tempted, but she trusts him even less than she trusts the Devil…
The Business That Must Be Conducted in the Dark
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $0.99 USD. 4530 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
Annalise thought she knew her programming: take care of Master Zorac in all ways. But especially, and most deliciously, sexually. Then Master Zorac runs away from their Mistress, and Annalise discovers that her programming is more complex than she ever knew.
Haunted Empire
by DeAnna Knippling
Price: $2.99 USD. 23070 words.
Published by Wonderland Press on April 7, 2011. Fiction.
SF Adventure in the vein of Firefly/Serenity:
When Aoife Cavenaugh is kidnapped by her thieving, smuggling bastard of a cousin-in-law, she's torn between the need to avenge her beloved cousin and her greed for the research lab on his spaceship.
If only she can trick him into satisfying both of her obsessions...
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