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Terry Hayman


Biography

Terry grew up as an Air Force brat in five different countries, before finally settling in North Vancouver, Canada, to raise a family.

He's a former lawyer and business speaker (which gave birth to his co-written management book HURDLES). Now he acts and writes full time. His short stories have have appeared in numerous anthologies and national magazines. His mainstream, crime, and other novels are made available through Fiero Publishing.

Where to find Terry Hayman online

Website: http://www.terryhayman.com
Twitter: terryhayman
Blog: http://www.terryhayman.com/blog

Books

Bringer of Light    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 10070 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 19, 2013. Fiction.
One civilization faces being wiped out by magical invaders from across the sea. Another struggles to answer the question of why magic vanished from most of the world ages ago. Between them is a trio of new magic wielders struggling to learn their craft before they're found and silenced for good!
On the Parapet    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 5980 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 22, 2013. Fiction.
It begins with a dream of a prince and his approaching bride. But what strange changes have these two young people cooked up between them? And how will it shake not only their worlds but that of the dreamer?
Vamp    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 32930 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 11, 2013. Fiction.
Follow Terry Hayman’s keenly-felt takes on the bloodsuckers we all know and love. Meet a dangerous seductress who’s smitten by her prey, a heartless predator hiding from an even more heartless adversary, a vampire born blind, one slipping in from an alternate universe, one just trying to raise a son who’s able to protect himself from creatures his peers know nothing about.
Meant to Be Together    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 5440 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 13, 2013. Fiction.
For Len Brightman, time travel has offered him a second chance to be with the only woman he has ever loved. And this time he’s determined to do it right…
Sweat    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 5440 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 13, 2013. Fiction.
A fleshy man who can remove the top of his skull, aliens who smell awful, copious amounts of sweat and bad cultural jokes. This is not going to be your typical investigation.
Raised by a Vampire    by Terry Hayman
Price: $3.99 USD. 16430 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 15, 2012. Fiction.
When Jared first saw the undead creature who would raise him, he thought it was a dream. His eyelids were already flickering, thoughts tipping from the mostly-fanciful imaginings of a six-year-old into the unrestrained fantasy of the unconscious. And all he actually saw was a shadow that swept from his open window to his bedroom door. No rustle of the air. No creak of the floor...
Dancing with Attitude    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 12430 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 8, 2012. Fiction.
Sometimes, even when you think you’ve got it all, you have to shake things up a little bit, consequences be damned.
Flasher    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 12430 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 8, 2012. Fiction.
When hack writer Paul Monk gets invited to an A-lister party by Hollywood icon Pep Larson, he’s in way deeper than he’s used to, soon drowning in the politics, booze, and bullshit. And when he finds out exactly why he’s there, things get even trickier.
The Last Battle    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 5360 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on July 11, 2012. Fiction.
Bobby reads minds. Which is tough because he’s getting old and his best friends, other costumed crime fighters like him, are struggling with the issues age brings. His best friend lost his mental clarity some time ago, but still has his ability to knock apart doors with his fingers. Not good. And Bobby’s long-cherished secret lover, the Vanishing Vixen? Ah, that’s where the real heartache starts.
Wolves    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 9240 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 20, 2012. Fiction.
Two little girls play in a playground when three timber wolves show up. In a nearby coffee shop, the mother of one is confessing something profound to the mother of the other. Across town, the father of one is finally meeting the man who slept with his wife, while that man’s wife is attempting to seduce the moving men packing up their house. The wolves begin to circle…all over town.
A Blossom Falls    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 4530 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 18, 2012. Fiction.
“A blossom detached and flew higher in the wind. Then it spun further from the tree and began to fall. Ennis saw it, dropped his hand weeder, and began to run. Why he ran for the blossom, he couldn’t have said. Only that the sudden tug in his heart was so strong he could do nothing else.” So begins a short and powerful meditation on life by the author of "Toy Car Dialectic" and others.
Listen Harder    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 6000 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 28, 2012. Fiction.
Young author Paul Morris is blind and still struggling to live independently when a fateful bus trip and an overheard conversation change his life forever.
Something to Remember You By    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 7170 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 26, 2012. Fiction.
“Invading aliens! Biotechnology! Colonization of far off planets!...Terry Hayman’s tale of a young lad getting the last evacuation bus out of town features a dramatic clock-ticking countdown and the kind of harsh realities that old Analog editor John Campbell would have liked. Oh those cold equations!” - SFCrowsnest.com
Reclaiming His Inner Ape    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 9100 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 23, 2012. Fiction.
It’s 1935 in New York City and the terror of the Big Ape is a two-year-old memory that’s fading fast in the middle of the Great Depression. And what of the hero and heroine of that adventure? Can love survive without fifty tons of monster driving the excitement?
The Shit-Eater Blues    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2680 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 29, 2012. Fiction.
He may look like a simple starfish, but Ll-ll is an extraterrestrial orphan, a Child of the Gng, possessed a sense of wonder and a gastronomic appreciation of human excrement. But when he manages to use his vocalizing air bladder to attract the attention of a blues musician whose toilet he inhabits, Ll-ll discovers his true destiny.
Five Days of Grub    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 10900 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 27, 2012. Fiction.
The town they walked into, the man and the girl under his protection, wasn’t friendly. No town was since Doomsday. But it had something going for it, some secret good stuff going on, and maybe even a plan to share. The only trick was figuring out what that “sharing” was going to cost.
On Trial    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 6150 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 22, 2012. Fiction.
Paul Allen’s worst nightmare has come true. His runaway son, Randy, has been convicted for the third time and is going away for life. Unless... As allowed by law, Randy has requested an assisted telepathic link with his father. If, after that link, a testing shows a significant psychological change, Randy gets another chance at freedom. Paul can't refuse. But maybe he should have.
Used by Magic    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 29030 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 7, 2012. Fiction.
Fantasy fiction often has heroes in control of their magic, treating it as an everyday part of their lives. You won’t find that here. These 5 fabulous stories by Terry Hayman aren’t about magic users so much as people who are used by magic, sometimes in terror, sometimes in delight. Experience earth magic, angel magic, Hawaiian magic, even rock and roll magic like you’ve never seen it before.
Beat Jesse, Kill Hitler!    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 8470 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 3, 2012. Fiction.
For the duration of his mission, this time traveler will think of himself only as Rolf Graber, a secret replacement for the Nazi athlete who was Hitler’s best chance to defeat Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympic Games. But the new Rolf Graber is not going to disappoint Hitler. Graber is determined to beat Jesse, for only then can he kill Hitler.
What You Really Want    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 12980 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 14, 2011. Fiction.
When he was sixteen, Colin stumbled into the ability to get anything he really wants. It’s brought him mostly misery and ruined his life. Until, maybe, now. Because Colin has just seen his soul mate for the first time. This may be his last chance to get it right.
Profit Sharing    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 4240 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 11, 2011. Fiction.
When Benjamin Drogan starts work as a idealistic young associate in the law firm Sutherland Pink, he assumes his magics will be an asset. He soon finds he’s mistaken, not only about that, but about everything magical. It’s going to take a radical rethink to make it all work.
The Substitute    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 5230 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 7, 2011. Fiction.
When a teenage girl starts having increasingly brutal nightmares of being attacked by animals, her out-of-work father and stressed-out mother do their best to comfort her. But even as they start to worry about their daughter’s sanity, the dad stumbles onto what’s really going on. And the only way to end it.
Toy Car Dialectic    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 3850 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 2, 2011. Fiction.
And now for something completely different - the entire arc and meaning of one man's life as told in metal, chrome, and plastic.
The Wizard of Light Meets the Wizard of Rock and Roll    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 5260 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
Maxie is on a mission for the cash-strapped high school of science and magic she attends. She must convince the hottest rock band on the planet to come and play for their school fundraiser or watch her school get shut down. But when she actually gets an audience with the band, she finds nothing about them is what it appears.
Plague Poker    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 1100 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 22, 2011. Fiction.
The Demon Skyxx and the Angel Oe are having a friendly game of poker. The cards are the moves of their respective biochemists in a secret lab in the Middle East. The bids start with these two human lives and quickly escalate.
Life Letters    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 11280 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 19, 2011. Fiction.
Cal knows that his wife’s job as a Senior VP in the high-tech euthanasia powerhouse, Choyces, which has taken the world by storm, is simply wrong. His religious upbringing tells him so, as does his cell of the League of Light. If Cheryl can’t see the truth, then Cal is going to have to leave her and take his daughter, Amy, with him. Then a League member offers him a better way...
Messed Up    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 30100 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 17, 2011. Fiction.
From an almost-innocent dealing with a serial killer to a couple ambitious actors who’ll do almost anything to get ahead in their careers, here are five stories of ordinary people who walk over a fine line and find themselves in criminal territory, either as victims or perpetrators. Some manage to squeak through all right. Some not so much. Grab your weapon of choice and come on in.
The Tides    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 9500 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 13, 2011. Fiction.
Bonnie’s making her way in the world the best way she knows how – finding men who’ll look after her, maybe take her closer to her dream of California. So far she’s done good. She made it to Oregon. She just spotted a new sugar-daddy. But she’s gotta trust her instincts because there are bad men out there…
Rough Cattle    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 10940 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on October 19, 2011. Fiction.
When cowboy Joe Ross hires onto a cattle drive from San Antone to the railhead in Colorado, he expects a long, hard ride. But things go from bad to ugly after a stampede takes them into a canyon where something flashed out of the sky the night before. And now the cattle are starting to act strange…
Jessica Falls    by Terry Hayman
Price: $7.99 USD. 92460 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on October 11, 2011. Fiction.
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When a pathetic blonde begs Chicago attorney Weston Long to help her find her stalker, the hunt becomes a road trip, the help becomes obsession. And the prey gets deadly. “Jessica Falls is not a comfortable story, but it’s one you won’t be able to put down...” —Gerald Weinberg,bestselling author of Freshman Murders
Enter Freely    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.99 USD. 8410 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 27, 2011. Fiction.
Many years after their pursuit and killing of Count Dracula, Dr. John Seward receives a letter from his former professor, Van Helsing, asking him to visit. But from the moment Seward arrives in Van Helsing’s Amsterdam, he begins to feel that something terrible is afoot, and that the adventure he and the professor shared so long ago is not over yet.
An Actor's Life    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2940 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 22, 2011. Fiction.
Waking up in pitch blackness, in a coffin-sized box, isn’t the best way for an actor to start his day. Particularly because he can’t remember how he got there, or where “there” is, exactly. And just about when he figures out the why, dank earth starts trickling through the cracks above his face. Someone better yell "Cut!" soon.
Fun with Broken Bones    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 8400 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 19, 2011. Fiction.
Doing surveillance work for a p.i. company north of Seattle is a scut job of videotaping cheating husbands and fraudulent insurance claimants, but it suits slacker/college dropout Air Fisher just fine. Until the morning he gets an assignment to watch a girl who may be getting beaten by her boyfriend...
The Final Inch    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 6500 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on August 14, 2011. Fiction.
Mitch Daglish is an up-and-coming actor…in soap operas and bland, pretty-boy roles. But when he stumbles into a role under a director who seems to know the secret to truly great acting, Daglish will do anything, cross any line, to get into the theater troupe the director is putting together.
Jumping the Tail    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2770 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 26, 2011. Fiction.
In young Callum’s mind, the fact that Rowena willingly sacrificed herself to the great wyrm doesn’t matter. She must be avenged! But even as Callum rides to his certain death, an old man appears, offering both a way to kill the wyrm and something more...
Life Knots    by Terry Hayman
Price: $3.99 USD. 17170 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on May 21, 2011. Fiction.
From Greek slaves to grieving grocery shoppers, everyone has a life knot or two to struggle through. Join a man who meets a talking dog, a prostitute who witnesses Houdini's murder, a painter committed to painting just one neighborhood,and more. Contains “The Grocery Zoo Story”, “Observe, If You Will...”, “One Place”, “Never His Sword”, and "The Rock.
Limb Poker    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 670 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 19, 2011. Fiction.
It’s not a poker game for the squeamish when I’m out of bola but my one remaining opponent, the insect-like Krita’an, is willing to let me bet my body parts. Some of those are replaceable. Some not.
Observe, If You Will...    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2190 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 15, 2011. Fiction.
A Montreal prostitute is being grilled for her knowledge of Harry Houdini’s death. But if the mysterious customer who took her to Houdini’s last rehearsal and performance is really a killer, how did he do it, and why?
The Grocery Zoo Story    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2520 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 5, 2011. Fiction.
When Baxter meets a talking dog in a grocery store, he’s sure it’s evidence that the produce has been spiked with LSD. But then the dog tells him how it got there and it’s strangely compelling...until it’s all just TOO DAMN MUCH!
Toxic Love    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 1770 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on April 2, 2011. Fiction.
Erik’s last play to free himself of a vampire lover doesn’t go at all like he expected.
Just One More Thing    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 840 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 31, 2011. Fiction.
Charles Peter Cross Gerald Wentworth Farthing Smith would have been named just “Charley Smith” if his parents had any sort of self-control. And it just got worse from there. But they’ll pay for their over-parenting of him. Oh, yes, come high school graduation, they’ll pay.
Lavender    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2620 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 25, 2011. Fiction.
A small town in the Midwest is about to be transformed by a strip-mining conglomerate, and a professor at the local high school has called three of his former students to persuade the town to reject the change. When the first two go down in defeat, it's up to a sports writer who left the town years ago and is riddled with doubts. But sometimes the town itself provides inspiration...
Leptoid in my Ear    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 1090 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 21, 2011. Fiction.
Frank Olin’s got a very tiny secret weapon in his war on mediocrity, but no matter how much he tells people about it, no one believes him. And perhaps that’s just as well...
And I Shall Answer    by Terry Hayman
Price: $2.99 USD. 6460 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on March 5, 2011. Fiction.
When Will Manderly’s son, dying of AIDS, tells his father that his dying wish is to know for sure whether there is a God and what that God thinks about him, Will creates an intelligent GodBot on the undernet that will grow and learn through interaction with humans. But as time grows short, even Will can't predict the directions his "gift" will take.
One Place    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 960 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on February 21, 2011. Fiction.
Art agent Madeline is stalking a brilliant Parisian painter with an impossible story attached to his name. But when she finds him, the truth is even more heart-rending than the myth.
Dark Paths    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 22650 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 14, 2011. Fiction.
Explore the dark places of the human heart with stories ranging from classic horror to Greek myth, to modern warfare. Includes “A Different Hunger", “The Shopping Cart People”, “To Ride the Serpent Once More”, "Peter and the Vampires", and "So Hot."
Off-World    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 30770 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on January 13, 2011. Fiction.
Imagination flies, and sometimes its stories are just too wild to be contained on this earth as we know it. So leave this muddy backwater behind and join Terry Hayman in 5 tales of adventures on distant worlds and in deep space. Contains "A Time of Leaving", Millipede Lessons","The Girl Who Left", "Upgrades", and "The Last Angel."
The Rock    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 1270 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on December 1, 2010. Fiction.
Andrew and Frank used to swim in this lake as kids. Used to reach this island, this particular rock. Used to play a game of “How far down can you go before you have to come up again?” Now Frank is dead and Andy is out in the lake all alone, swimming to the rock.
Being Human    by Terry Hayman
Price: $4.99 USD. 21490 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 25, 2010. Fiction.
Five science fiction and fantasy tales close to home and heart. In "Call My Name”, find out what sort of power someone can hold over you in the future if they know your true name. In “Dropouts”, figure out exactly how and why things in the airport are just...wrong. Also "We Don’t Know Where You’ve Been, Mr. Jones”, "The Last Hotel", and "Real Death", with a foreword by the author.
God in the Walkie-Talkie    by Terry Hayman
Price: $1.49 USD. 2260 words. Published by Fiero Publishing  on November 24, 2010. Fiction.
Stuttering, clumsy Wilbur Longshanks is not the most popular brother of the post-apocalyptic Cheyenne monastery. And having God suddenly begin speaking with him through an ancient walkie-talkie does not enhance his popularity. Nor do the brothers listen to his recitation of God’s message that the planet is about to be vaporized...
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