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Mel Keegan

Biography:

A self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Mel Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure ... but certainly MK is best known for the NARC series, featuring iconic characters Jarrat and Stone. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family.

From 1989 to 2001, GMP Ltd. in the UK issued the Keegan titles, and released eight original novels plus numerous reprints. In 1999, GMP was bought out -- twice! -- and the final owner of the old company was a magazine publisher (Millivres Publishing Group) which had, essentially, no interest in contintuing the old paperback list. In short order the editorial staff was laid off and the writers were set free...

You'd be surprised at the writers who were suddenly adrift without anchor or rudder! Keegan, Josh Lanyon, David Patrick Beavers, Chris Hunt, and others. Some of us have clawed our way back and are rebuilding careers which were badly damaged by the demise of GMP. Regrettably, others have vanished.

Here's Keegan's current backlist (all titles published via GMP and Alyson, plus those in-the-works with Millivres at the time of the shut-down, plus all titles issued to date by DreamCraft:

In GMP and Millivres:
ICE, WIND AND FIRE
NARC #1: DEATH’S HEAD (abridged)
NARC #2 EQUINOX
FORTUNES OF WAR
STORM TIDE
WHITE ROSE OF NIGHT
AN EAST WIND BLOWING
AQUAMARINE

Breakheart (in Swords of the Rainbow, from Alyson)

In DreamCraft:
HELLGATE #1: The Rabelais Alliance
HELLGATE #2: Deep Sky
HELLGATE #3: Cry Liberty
HELLGATE #4: Probe
NARC #1: Death’s Head, complete and unabridged
NARC #2: Equinox
NARC #3: Scorpio
NARC #4: Stopover
NARC #5: Aphelion
The Vampyre #1: Nocturne
The Vampyre #2: Twilight
LEGENDS #1: The Winds of Chance
Dangerous Moonlight
The Deceivers
The Swordsman
The Lords of Harbendane
Tiger, Tiger
Windrage
White Rose of Night (reissue)
Fortunes of War (reissue)
Aquamarine (reissue)
Storm Tide (reissue)

Novellas:
Callisto Switch
Breakheart (unabridged)
Crimes of Passion

Non-fiction and Poetry:
The Hellgate Companion
The Future According to Keegan
Worms in the Big Apple
Mel Keegan: 20 Poems

During 2009, all titles are being made available in every possible ebook format, as well as paperback and hardcover. Visit MK OnLine or The World According to Mel, to join our mailing list ... we'll keep you posted!

Where to find Mel Keegan online:

Website: http://www.melkeegan.com
Blog: http://mel-keegan.blogspot.com/

Where to buy in print:

http://www.dream-craft.com/melkeegan/catalog.htm

Books:

Ground Zero
Ebook Price: $9.99 USD. 103980 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on September 13, 2009
In the winter of 2048 the city of Adelaide suffers a series of bizarre murders, robberies at high-tech labs – and a virus which sprang from nowhere. The three are intimately connected in a mystery that will astonish. Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott find themselves taking point in an investigation filled with unexpected hazard - and reward. Sexy near-future gay action/adventure.

LEGENDS: The Fall of the Atlantean Empire; Book 1 - The Winds of Chance
Ebook Price: $10.50 USD. 93610 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on July 9, 2009
In an era of storm and chaos, One will be born who will command the Power, but the ancient magic flowing in his veins like blood is a curse as well as a gift. The gods of sea and storm have taken Zeheft; and one night destiny brings Vayal's witchfinder to the water gypsies' camp. The Empire of the Atlantan has a slender chance to survive, and its struggle begins on this night.

Aquamarine
Ebook Price: $10.99 USD. 115520 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on May 28, 2009
The late 21st Century: the continents are submerged by rising oceans and Earth is a water world. Russell is a hydrologist based on a floating city, Pacifica. His lover Eric is one of 50 Aquarians, a new sub-species of man, able to breathe water. When the two reject a lucrative bid for their services on an odd salvage, Eric vanishes. An intrigue begins that could endanger the whole Pacifica region.

Crimes of Passion
Ebook Price: $2.00 USD. 12360 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 28, 2009
Just when you thought the world was perfect...! Brad and Frank have built a great life in LA. Brad was on the bike racing circuit and Frank came west to work in the music industry. They met at the track, before the crash that ended Brad's racing days -- and Frank has some skeletons in the closet that are about to come rattling out and refuse to be stuffed back in! At last: comedy, Keegan style!

Callisto Switch
Ebook Price: $2.50 USD. 22590 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 28, 2009
At the close of the 21st century, Lee Vidar is a Starship Industries switch pilot on the Callisto-Europa run. The job is easy: pick up the Orion engines -- used to power our first starships on the voyage to Hope -- ferry them to the run's midpoint, hand off the dangerous cargo and return to Callisto. But today nothing goes to plan, and Lee's sometime lover and old friend Johnny Dujohn is involved.

Tiger, Tiger
Ebook Price: $5.50 USD. 44940 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 28, 2009
In 2073 the wild tiger is extinct, but as a species they flourish. Gene-tweaked to make them the size of big dogs, they've becom exotic pets. Few people care if wild tigers are gone, but aged billionaire Cass Vandermeer owns tracts of Tasmania, where a few real tigers still battle to survive. In the last wilderness, Alec Fitch and Sonny Moran are rangers at war with gene smugglers and poachers.

Windrage
Ebook Price: $5.50 USD. 45860 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 24, 2009
In this opus Keegan looks at nuclear winter, and how we survive after the impact of a big, rocky asteroid. It's 2025, 15 years after doomsday. Massive storms are still coming; they bring choking dust, temperatures of thirty below -- worse, they drive 'roadies' with them, and the nomads spell trouble for towns that have begun to rebuild -- like Windrage. Gay SF action and romance from the maestro.

The Deceivers
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 133010 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 22, 2009
It's an age when sail and steam are technologies at war; the ancient tradition of the tall ships is ending. Men like Bill Ryan and Jim Hale are caught in the jaws of change: survival depends on courage, strength and a willingness to take terrible risks. Meticulously researched, amazingly detailed -- you'll treasured this one like FORTUNES OF WAR. Full info and samples at www.melkeegan.com.

Fortunes of War
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 144670 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 22, 2009
In the spring of 1588 two young men fall in love: Dermot Channon, a soldier serving the Spanish ambassador in London, and Robin Armagh, son of an English earl. War between England and Spain separates them for years, but when Robin's brother is abducted in Panama he sails with the 1595 fleet, commanded by Drake. A cruel twist of fate reunites the lovers. Full info and samples at www.melkeegan.com.

The Lords of Harbendane
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 151010 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 18, 2009
There are seasons for peace and seasons for war. This is a season for sheer survival. Rogan Dahl and Tristan Carlin meet by chance and are caught up in the storm of events leading to the greatest battlefield of their time. Their meeting is the pivot-point around which the future revolves, for both Harbendane and their own lives, as they're enmeshed in an illicit love affair which could mean death.

Dangerous Moonlight
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 212430 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 17, 2009
In the style and spirit of FORTUNES OF WAR comes this rollicking historical set in 1727, in a world of highwaymen, duels fought over honor, fortunes won and lost on the cards -- and delicious gay romance. It’s a era of swords, pistols, midnight chases, deceit and sensuality. If you enjoy Keegan's historicals, don't miss this meticulously researched tale of stunning heroes and outrageous fortune.

Twilight
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 106730 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 16, 2009
The first sequel to vampire cult classic NOCTURNE: a readers' choice Keegan title -- impossible to synopsise here! For press notes, cover blurb, reviews, research tales, publishing history and much more, go to http://www.dream-craft.com/melkeegan/twilight_dc.htm ... and then return to Smashwords to order your ebook. Also available in paperback, and a hardcover is planned for Christmas '09

Nocturne
Ebook Price: $10.95 USD. 203980 words. Fiction by Mel Keegan on April 15, 2009
Step into the glittering world of the ancient, the immortal -- the vampyre. Intrigue welcomes Capt. Vincent Bantry to London,1892. He's a veteran of the Far East, opium smugglers, Manchu warlords, but little in his experience prepares him for Irish occultist Michael Flynn, who's like no man he ever knew. Flynn draws him into an occult, exotic world, where the Tarot foretells an uncertain future.