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Member Since: Feb. 23, 2011

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G. W. Thomas

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G. W. Thomas has been publishing since 1987 and has appeared in hundreds of magazines, books, ezines and podcasts. He has written non-fiction for Writer's Digest, The Writer and Black October Magazine. These days he contributes articles to Innsmouth Free Press as well as publishes the daily micro-fiction newsletter FLASHSHOT. He is also one of the editors/artists of DARK WORLDS, a modern-day Pulp magazine. He has been a champion for ebooks since 1999 and was brought to tears a few months ago when he saw his first TV ad for ebooks. It's been a long road, folks.

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What are you working on next?

I am currently revising my mammoth Fantasy novel The Stealer of Names. This is really the main work about the Six Cities that "Dragontongue" and all those short stories float around. New things I am working on include a series of novellas about Torel the Gelt as well as some new Book Collector tales. After that, I'll be editing Jack Mackenzie's next SF novel (out this summer!)

Who are your favorite authors?

That's an awfully long list, but to pick some key writers in different genres: horror - H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Hope Hodgson. In Fantasy - Robert E. Howard, J. R. R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance. In Adventure - Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. R. Haggard. In Western - Louis L'Amour, Chad Oliver. In Hard-boiled Mystery - Fredric Brown, Cornell Woolrich, Dash Hammett, Raymond Chandler. In other forms of Mystery - John Dickson Carr, Leslie Charteris, Rex Stout. In Historical - Michael Curtis Ford, Howard Fast, Harold Lamb. In ..... you get the idea.

Where to find G. W. Thomas online

Website: http://www.gwthomas.org
Twitter: @darkworlds21
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/gary-thomas/a/42/689
Blog: http://genrewriter.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ragemachinebooks

Publisher of

The Shattered Men by Jack Mackenzie

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 52,240. Language: English. Published: May 7, 2020 by G. W. Thomas. Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense

(3.00 from 1 review)

Harry Calhoun is a reformed small time crook trying to stay out of trouble, but on a trip to New York trouble finds Harry in a big way. Men are literally falling to pieces. They melt. They shatter like glass, or dissolve into clouds of dust. Harry becomes a wanted man. Desperate and alone, Harry soon comes face to face with the leader of an extraordinary group of heroes known as WILD

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Books

Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas by G. W. Thomas

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 40,730. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Eighteen tales for your yuletide pleasure. From vampires and Frankenstein's monster to alien invaders and Lovecraftian squidgies, G. W. Thomas offers up a treeful of presents, each decorated in terror. Features an afterword on Christmas ghosts by the author.

The Book of the Black Sun II: The Book Collector by G. W. Thomas

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 67,200. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Crime

In 2002 G. W. Thomas published the first volume in this series, featuring Cthulhu Mythos tales that hinted at a world filled with spinning gateways that lead to terror. Finally, he has returned with the sequel collection that fans have begged for: the Book Collector. Set in the same world as the previous book, the tales of the Book Collector are fast-paced Noir Mysteries as well as horror stories.

The Book of the Black Sun by G. W. Thomas

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,410. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun is thirty-two Lovecraftian tales of terror arranged in eight sections, each containing a micro, a flash, shorter story and a longer story. Motifs of strange books, evil creatures and spinning disks that form doorways to other realms are woven throughout the tales, making the final product a creepy, self-referential mandala in itself.

The Children of Cain by G. W. Thomas

Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,760. Language: English. Published: May 6, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Historical

He survived a great battle with the Saxons only to find himself in an impossible world of wind-swept plains and strange rivers. He discovers an eerie city and encounters its only inhabitants .. the Children of Cain.

Dragontongue by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 9. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,500. Language: English. Published: May 5, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

The trows have taken Tantri's young children and it is up to Torel the Gelt to get them back or to kill them for anything is better than being a captive of the trows. Taking the terrible job he follows their trail but it ends in a mystery. The trows are dead! And something even worse has the young girls...Dragontongue.

In Their Pleasant Palaces by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 8. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,900. Language: English. Published: May 5, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Princess Luantishee wanted only to find the Kalduun crossroads but the people of the little village had other ideas. They wanted her to slay their dragon. But the dragon was no longer a threat, having grown old and weary. So why was she there? The village burgher's evil plans made a pawn of her and that would never do for the Silver Princess of Sadavol, bearer of the magical sword Ensate!

Skeleton Tor by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 7. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,030. Language: English. Published: May 5, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Torel warned the strangers to stay away from Skeleton Tor, home of the evil race known as the trows. But the trio have other ideas, ideas that include Sri Lan, the beautiful healer. Their plans will take them to very heart of Skeleton Tor, to its very secret beginnings.

Wekka`s Gold by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 6. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 2,230. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Liaro is on a desperate hunt for his wife and child. Foolish Wekka has taken their baby and gone in search of the legendary treasure in the temple. Only death and worse wait there. Can Liaro find them in time before the terrible guardian reveals the secret of Wekka`s gold.

A Claymore For Dragon by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,130. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Murder in the dragons' den! Vrashkor has been framed for the murder of Grimbolt and his time is running out. Someone has killed the other dragon with a human sword and if the dragon detective can't find out which of his fellows is the culprit he will die by tooth and claw.

The Godsend by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Gods Have Left Us, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,110. Language: English. Published: April 30, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Teric the Bane-Blood is back. After his terrifying adventures in "Black God's Burden", the warrior seeks shelter from his curse. Unfortunately he falls into the hands of the unscrupulous Brother Jardin who exploits his curse for his own profit. Only by better understanding his curse can Teric win his freedom.

The Judas Gift and Other Stories of Mystery by G. W. Thomas

Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,040. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Short Stories

G. W. Thomas serves up five mysterious tales from cozies to hard-boiled. Three tales feature Jessie Roland, Conservation Officer who solves strange cases in the wilds of British Columbia. "From Thy Face I Shall Be Hidden..." is the story of Cain and how he was framed for murder. The last tale is "The Case of the Windermere Woman" (with M. D. Jackson).

The Star-Studded Plain by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ranger Neely, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,530. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera

G. W. Thomas serves up three helpings of Space adventure on the planet Utukku, where the fine sands and constant winds making tracking impossible. Follow Ranger Neely as he chases bad guys and deals with the savage trogs with lazer pistol in hand and his trusty crookback at his side. Science Fiction with a frontier flavor.

The Executioner by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 4. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,680. Language: English. Published: April 29, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

He was a hero of old. When Arkayla the wise-woman called for him and his blade, he came despite his long years. The seeress had a terrible job for him, to play executioner to one who would lie waste to the countryside. That killer was only a baby!

The Rainbow Man by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 20,820. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General

The Rainbow Man is a wizard who will enchant you with his quick wits, his sardonic charm and his mystifying answers to big questions. G. W. Thomas offers all 43 fables featuring this four-armed magician along with an afterword entitled "The Fantasy Writer as Moralist".

The Work We Have In Hand by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 21,560. Language: English. Published: April 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Horror » Undead

Something is going on in the city of Stormcock. Wizards are disappearing at an alarming rate. Fortunately, Emmerant the crystal gazer knows what terrors threaten the City of Birds, and perhaps the entire world. With the help of the rogue known as The Falcon, the unlikely duo must face angry barbarians, possessed hounds and the terror that is Nyoglatha. G. W. Thomas offers up an intriguing world of

Dragontongue & Other Stories by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Six Cities, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 78,750. Language: English. Published: April 27, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

Enter the world of the Six Cities. G. W. Thomas presents 18 tales of the fantastic, the mysterious, along with 40 plus short-shorts about The Rainbow Man to get you thinking, laughing, cursing and wondering. Here is a world filled with questions, strange folk and stranger ways, and best of all, the unknown.

Salvage Rites by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ranger Neely, Book 4. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,710. Language: American English. Published: December 17, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier

Ranger Neely has retired from the service and takes up prospecting. He's not looking for gold but ancient artifacts left by a mysterious race that once crossed the galaxies.

Black Beast of Larraby by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ranger Neely, Book 3. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,210. Language: American English. Published: December 17, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier

On a planet where footprints disappear in seconds because of the shifting winds, how do you track a man? Barton Fisk, the outlaw, had found a way, and Neely was the prey.

Alcestis by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ranger Neely, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,920. Language: American English. Published: December 16, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier

Ranger Neely is trailing a murderer, an alien who leads him on a chase across the harsh surface of the Utukku, the desert planet. Does the killer want to be caught? The mystery deepens as Neely gets closer to a terrible secret.

Ghoultide Greetings: The Ringing of Hell's Bells by G. W. Thomas

Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,390. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “Holiday Train”, “Green Growth the Holly So Doth the Ivy”, and “The Bells of St. Andrew”.

Ghoultide Greetings: Post Oaks and Sand-Drifts by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ghoultide Greetings, Book 5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,480. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “When Johnny Comes Marching Home…”, “Oh, Lucky Man”, and “For Goodness Sake”.

Ghoultide Greetings: Trees Cloth'd in Winter White by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ghoultide Greetings, Book 4. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 8,100. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “And No Bird Sings”, “All the Trees That are In the Woods”, and “The Drawer”.

Ghoultide Greetings: In Shadow'd Nooks & Crannies by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ghoultide Greetings, Book 3. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,970. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “Long Desired and Long Delayed”, “On the Feast of Stephen”, and “Yearbook”.

Ghoultide Greetings: A Stake of Good Holly by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ghoultide Greetings, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,190. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “What Child Is This”, “A Thousand Cuts, A Thousand Deaths” and “Santa”.

Ghoultide Greetings: Reflections On a Christmas Ornament by G. W. Thomas

Series: Ghoultide Greetings, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 8,280. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost

Christmas has always been a time of magic and strangeness. G. W. Thomas dips his pen in that ink and writes tales for the season. Three stories from Ghoultide Greetings: Horror Stories For Christmas, featuring “The Face, The Hands That Tell the Time”, “The Ornament”, and “The Green Man”.

That's Really Super, Super-Gal by G. W. Thomas

Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,850. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Parody

Super-Gal is on trial for her life. She's accused of murder and if she's found guilty she will face the most terrible fate possible -- becoming a mere mortal.

Flashshot 2010 by G. W. Thomas

Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,100. Language: English. Published: August 14, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author

10 great writers from the pages of the daily genre micro-fiction newsletter. 500 stories including the flash fiction of Mike Whitney in a special section all his own, "The Mongo Files" as well as Guy Belleranti, Ellen Lindquist, Adrian Ludens, Terrie Leigh Relf, Stephen D. Rogers, Esther Schrader, G. W. Thomas, Pavelle Wesser, and Grayson What.

The Book of the Black Sun: Widdtr by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 9. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,160. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

One of eight quartets from G. W. Thomas' The Book of the Black Sun, a collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction. Each quartet is made up of a micro fiction piece of 100 words or less, a flash story 300-500 words, a short story of around 2000 and a longer story.

The Book of the Black Sun: Sutor by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 8. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 9,750. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: Rutor by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 7. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,600. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: Nadir by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 6. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,650. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: K'Ehlor by G. W. Thomas

Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 11,550. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: Hator by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 5. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,190. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: Extor by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 4. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 7,550. Language: English. Published: July 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

The Book of the Black Sun: Eldir by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 3. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,730. Language: English. Published: July 26, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

One of eight quartets from G. W. Thomas' The Book of the Black Sun, a collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction. This one features "Cat House", One of eight quartets from G. W. Thomas' The Book of the Black Sun, a collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction. Each quartet is made up of a micro fiction piece of 100 words or less, a flash story 300-500 words, a short story of around 2000 and a long

The Deathmaster's Folly by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Gods Have Left Us, Book 3. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 20,460. Language: English. Published: July 1, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic, Fiction » Horror » Undead

This first half of the adventures of Fauston and Ramid, followers the necromancer and his assistant, to the cold and barbaric reaches of Shan. Here Fauston is paid to help an ambitious warlord to conquer his neighbors and create a kingdom. To do this Fauston supplies Lord Brekka with undead soldiers. But darker magic lurks in the secret black book Fauston hides under his bed.

The Case of the Blue Man by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Athenodorians, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,080. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult

Baron von Klarnstein and his granddaughter Boudicca have come to England on a short vacation but the Mystery of the Blue Man, a vampirish fiend is too much to resist.

Black God's Burden by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Gods Have Left Us, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,940. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

The temple held the blackened heart of an ancient god, now fled from the Earth. Teric had no choice but to retrieve it. But was he prepared to become a vessel of an ancient evil?

Body of Work by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 4,280. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult

The Book Collector is on the trail for the Book of the Black Sun. Where has the renter hidden it before he died? The answer is both shocking and exciting.

Black Sun by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Black Sun, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,830. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Military

The cloned inhabitants of Station 7734 were far from earth. When terror comes it comes in the form of the Black Man, Nyarlathotep.

Laocoon by G. W. Thomas

Series: Brett Hope, Book 2. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,220. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

Brett Hope is following a trail of blood, death and evil. The tracks speak of a captive girl but when he starts to find corpses he's not sure who's hunting whom?

Heller by G. W. Thomas

Series: Brett Hope, Book 1. Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,660. Language: English. Published: February 19, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction

Deputy Sheriff Hope finds more than he bargains for when he picks up the runaway bride of a ruthless land owner. Too bad he already has troubles of his own in the form of a pursuing demon.

The Case of the Phantom Legion by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Athenodorians, Book 1. Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 17,650. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal

(4.00 from 1 review)

A short novel about the Athenodorians, a secret society that faces evil in the 1920s. Pulp fun with invisible monsters.

Swords of Fire 1 by G. W. Thomas

Series: The Gods Have Left Us, Book 4 · Sirtago & Poet series, Book 4. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 59,270. Language: English. Published: April 25, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Epic

In the tradition of Lin Carter's FLASHING SWORDS anthologies of the 1970s, four novellas of Heroic Fantasy, longer tales of swords and sorcery. Featuring David A. Hardy, C. J. Burch, Jack Mackenzie and G. W. Thomas.

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G. W. Thomas' favorite authors on Smashwords

Jack Mackenzie

Latest book: The Shattered Men.
Published May 7, 2020. (3.00 from 1 review)

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