Location: Canada
Member Since: Sep. 25, 2010
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Louis Bertrand Shalako


Biography

Louis Bertrand Shalako began his career writing for community newspapers and industrial magazines, such as The Delhi News-Record, Brant News, The Nanticoke Times, Ontario Tobacco Grower, and the Fire and Safety Equipment Quarterly. A notable writer of darkly humourous speculative fiction, his works have appeared in six languages. His stories appear in publications as diverse as Bewildering Stories, Aurora Wolf, Ennea, Wonderwaan, Algernon, Nova Fantasia, and Danse Macabre. With a unique voice and gifted story-telling across genres, Louis takes the reader on a magic carpet ride and a compelling read. He lives in southern Ontario and writes full time.

Where to find Louis Bertrand Shalako online

Website: http://shalakopublishing.weebly.com
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Blog: http://shalakopublishing.blogspot.com

Where to buy in print

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Gods-Louis-Bertrand-Shalako/dp/0987972324/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Books

The Assassins    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 7300 words. Published on February 15, 2013. Fiction.
Philosopher Heron of Alexandria is teaching school and in his spare time designing and building an aeolipile, the first reaction motor in history. Diogenes and fellow student Peleus follow their teacher into high adventure when assassins are sent by Domitian, Emperor of Rome and persecutor of Christians, with orders to send Heron straight to hell.
The Art of Murder    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 63470 words. Published on October 31, 2012. Fiction.
Whether it's murder or suicide, there must be some compelling motive. Theo Duval had the perfect life. A locked room with the only key in the decedent’s pocket, a book on hypnotism, and one very rich and very dead inventor present Inspector Gilles Maintenon of the Surete with a problem. Why would a young, healthy, and successful man, with a beautiful fiance, and a thriving company kill himself?
Horse Catcher    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 79540 words. Published on October 1, 2012. Fiction.
Ark One returns to Earth after a failed colonization attempt, low on fuel and with 20,000 cryogenically frozen colonists aboard. Worse, 12,000 years have passed, the planet has returned to barbarism, and North America is headed for war. As if that wasn't bad enough, astrogator Dooley Peeters has an insane crush on 'The Ice Queen,' Captain Sandra Jensen.
The Game    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 5920 words. Published on September 26, 2012. Fiction.
How much of who we are is tied up in what we know? If something wiped our 'knowledge,' or higher education, but left our basic faculties, the ability to speak and to act, would we all be created equal again? In The Game, everything must be learned the hard way. A short story.
The Apparition of the Virgin    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 3150 words. Published on September 10, 2012. Fiction.
At the helm on the Great Lakes, Georges is convinced the Virgin has appeared, and with a young family to support, the message has great meaning to him. When he's a little too insistent, people think he's mad. But all is not real in this masterful parody of an international science-fiction undersea crime thriller. A short story.
The Clone    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 2940 words. Published on August 12, 2012. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Cloning the first big love of your life thirty years later might not be such a good idea, even when you have the means to bring her back. A short story. Show More Show Less
Snake Girl    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 2300 words. Published on July 28, 2012. Fiction.
On a solo canoe trip in Algonquin Park, Mason Richards has plenty of time to think. It's never too late to make some changes in your life. A short story.
The Jesus Christ Show    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 2640 words. Published on July 21, 2012. Fiction.
Jesus Christ has his own late-night talk show, where the emphasis is on fun and truthiness. Tonight's guests include The Magnificent Louis, author of 'De-Bunking the Sasquatch Myth,' as well as Chinese acrobats and a girl who can climb into a pickle jar. A short story.
Time-Storm    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: Free! 75890 words. Published on June 2, 2012. Fiction.
Althea is the source of piezo-temporal crystals, which distort time and make interstellar space-flight possible. The Company has a monopoly, but when aliens show up to do a little mining of their own it spells big trouble. Twenty-three year-old mechanical engineering technologist Mickey and his friends race against time to save the others, foil the aliens and win their freedom.
On the Nature of the Gods    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 66940 words. Published on March 30, 2012. Fiction.
Jeb is one of the toughest men alive, and he demands respect. After a personal humiliation at the hands of the New York City cops, he sets out on a trail of vengeance. In company with his intuitive horse Rooster, it leads him to the evil Dr. Schmitt-Rottluff, the gaslight era's virtuoso of illicit cloning and mind-bending manipulation of the human genome.
Selected Poems    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 4640 words. Published on February 4, 2012. Fiction.
These poems are inspired by fantasy, nature, mythology, love and heartbreak. If poetry is the language of the soul, it's also the non-literal use of words to convey emotional meaning. It is about feelings rather than clearly-fixed ideas. There's beauty here as well as darkness.
Redemption: an Inspector Gilles Maintenon mystery    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 65060 words. Published on November 29, 2011. Fiction.
Recently widowed and inspired by a boyhood fascination with Sherlock Holmes, the middle-aged Inspector Gilles Maintenon of the Surete is on a walking vacation of Dartmoor when he stumbles upon death in mysterious circumstances. When the woman he is falling in love with is brutally murdered, Gilles swears that he will never rest until the case is solved, the killer is caught, and justice is done.
The Shape-Shifters    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 76070 words. Published on August 17, 2011. Fiction.
Widowed Janet Herbert has two children to raise. Out of work and with unemployment benefits running low, she needs a knight in shining armour to sweep her off her feet and carry her away on a big white stallion. The stranger in town is very handsome—and very French. But the more she learns, the more uncertain she is. Jean Gagnon has just done seven years for a crime he says he didn't commit.
Thirty Years Gone    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 15020 words. Published on July 29, 2011. Fiction.
What would your town look like if the lights went out and never came back on again? Trevor Ratigan has lived long enough to find out. Seventy year-old Trevor is the closest thing to a general on hand when an invasion fleet arrives to seize the strategic Bluewater Bridge. In a world where cattle and corn equates with money and power, the rivalry between Detroit and Chicago is heating up.
The Stud Farm    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 8000 words. Published on June 1, 2011. Fiction.
'The Stud Farm' is a short science fiction story in the tradition of George Orwell's 'Animal Farm.' In a world dominated by an alien technology, ignorance is policy. Whoever controls the flow of information controls your destiny. As for fourteen year-old Farley, he just likes to run.
The Handbag's Tale    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: Free! 11430 words. Published on February 20, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Handbag's Tale is a highly-stylized murder mystery set in Paris, 1924. The story has a vein of dark and sardonic humour running through it. With characters as diverse as Nana the Snake Dancer, poets, painters, proprietors of bawdy houses, inept burglars, it's an unforgettable tale of a classic time and place: Paris, 1924, at the height of party season.
The Paranoid Cat and other tales    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $0.99 USD. 57760 words. Published on October 31, 2010. Fiction.
This collection of science fiction, horror and fantasy is the first from Canada's hottest new speculative fiction author Louis Bertrand Shalako. His edgy, sardonic humour pushes the boundaries of common sense and good taste without getting out of hand! A nice mix of the fun and the serious, the dark and the uplifting.
The Case of the Curious Killers    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 101980 words. Published on October 21, 2010. Fiction.
Brendan Hartle is taking names and kicking some nasty alien butt. 'The Case of the Curious Killers' is a comic space-opera of epic proportions. When aliens abduct security guard Brendan Hartle for use in a mind-control, propaganda experiment, they soon discover he has no objective reality of his own. This has some unfortunate consequences for the Empire, and those who would usurp it.
Core Values    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 97600 words. Published on September 25, 2010. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Inspired by real life and ripped from the daily headlines, ‘Core Values’ is a parody of a 1950’s drive-in movie sci-fi thriller. Charles Henry Brubaker is the other guy. Everything bad happens to poor old Chuck. When everything is going well, that is not the true test. It's when everything and everyone is against you. It's what you do then. That is the measure of a man.
Heaven Is Too Far Away    by Louis Bertrand Shalako
Price: $2.99 USD. 178590 words. Published on September 25, 2010. Fiction.
William Tucker is a flight instructor who casually suggests shooting down the Red Baron. Heaven Is Too Far Away is a satirical send-up of the hunt for the Red Baron. Funnier than Kelly’s Heroes, darker in places than Catch-22, and more irreverent than M*A*S*H*, this WW I Royal Flying Corps memoir and satire will leave the reader in stitches and historians shaking their heads.

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