Anna Butler

Biography

Anna was a communications specialist for many years, working in various UK government departments on everything from marketing employment schemes to organizing conferences for 10,000 civil servants to running an internal TV service. These days, though, she is writing full time. She lives in a quiet village tucked deep in the Nottinghamshire countryside with her husband. She’s supported there by the Deputy Editor, aka Molly the cockerpoo, who is assisted by the lovely Mavis, a Yorkie-Bichon cross with a bark several sizes larger than she is but no opinion whatsoever on the placement of semi-colons.

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Books

The God's Eye
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 113,520. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Adventure » Action
Rafe Lancaster can’t go with lover Ned Winter to Aegypt for the 1902/03 digging season. Ned goes south to the highlands of Abyssinia when he links the strange Antikythera mechanism to the Aegyptian god Thoth. Out of contact and far from help, when he doesn’t return at Christmas as he promised, everything points to trouble. Rafe must abandon his dying father or risk never seeing Ned again.
The Jackal's House
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 115,290. Language: English. Published: November 3, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
2018/19 RAINBOW AWARD WINNER JOINT First Place: Best Gay Historical Romance. JOINT THIRD Place: Best GAY BOOK. Excavating in Abydos, Aegypt, Rafe and Ned face tricks and pranks escalating to attacks and death, while jackal-headed Anubis roams the desert. Can Rafe and Ned stand against both the god and House plots when the life of Ned’s son is on the line?
The Gilded Scarab
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 116,020. Language: English. Published: November 3, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Lancaster's Luck, Book 1 Second edition Rafe Lancaster returns to London in Nov 1899 after crashing his aerofighter in the 2nd Boer War, hard up, homeless, needing a new career. Buying a coffeehouse near the Britannic Imperium Museum, he must deal with jealous ex-lovers, murder, and kidnap attempts before finding happiness with the man he loves. Oh, and learn to make the best coffee in London.
Taking Shield - The Complete Series
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 489,860. Language: English. Published: November 3, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » Science fiction » Military
Rainbow Award-winning space opera/military sci-fi series: Earth is dead, dark for thousands of years. Her last known colony, Albion, has grown to be regional galactic power in its own right. But its drive to expand and found colonies of its own has threatened an alien race, the Maess, against whom Albion is now fighting a last-ditch battle for survival in a war that’s dragged on for generations.
Taking Shield 05: Day of Wrath
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 107,060. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Military, Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera
RAINBOW AWARD WINNER : Bennet is returning to the Shield Regiment, leaving the Gyrfalcon… and Flynn. Promotion and being given command of a battle group is everything he thought he wanted. Everything he’s worked towards for the last three years. Except for leaving Flynn. There’s time for one last flight together. A routine mission. But what waits for them out there will change their lives forever
Personal Relations
Price: Free! Words: 25,510. Language: English. Published: July 15, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Kit Lewis and John Hogarth are two thirds of one of the best Public Relations outfits in the business. Kit has loved John for years now, but John's wary. He's seen far too many of Kit's loves fall by the wayside to risk it. One day, though, Kit's sober when he makes the offer and John is particularly open-minded.This collection of six light-hearted short stories charts their relationship.
Passing Shadows
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 30,890. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Earth’s a cinder. The unknown alien race is ravening outward from the solar system, devouring every human colony on the way. Li Liang’s one of the few survivors, racing ahead of the Devourers. Will Liang and the pitiful remnants of humanity find somewhere to start again? Or will she, too, echo the dreadful last message coming out of their dead home? They’re coming. Oh God, they’re coming.
Taking Shield 04: The Chains Of Their Sins
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 101,220. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
RAINBOW AWARD Shield Captain Bennet arrives on the Gyrfalcon to take up his final posting before returning to the Shield Regiment. Here he faces the fallout from Makepeace—ethical, political and above all, personal. Worst of all, how can he stand to see Flynn every single day, with the Fraternisation Regs keeping them apart? It will be an interesting year. Bennet can hardly wait for it to be over
Taking Shield 03: Makepeace
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 97,560. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Shield Captain Bennet decodes enough T18 data to send him behind the lines to Makepeace, once a human colony but now under Maess control. The mission fails, costing Albion one of her irreplaceable dreadnoughts and causing political upheaval and the threat of public unrest. But the real nightmare is discovering what the Maess have in store for humanity. It’s not good. It's not good at all.
Taking Shield 02: Heart Scarab
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 98,420. Language: English. Published: June 1, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
Invasion. Telnos is overrun by the Maess. Evacuating civilians, Bennet is caught in a vicious fire fight and left behind, presumed dead. His family is grieving. Joss, his long-term partner, grieves with them. Flynn has no ‘right’ to grieve. He isn’t family, partner or lover. All he is, is broken.
Taking Shield 01: Gyrfalcon
Price: Free! Words: 99,750. Language: English. Published: May 30, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Gay
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A colony of long-lost Earth, Albion is losing the war against an alien enemy. Shield Captain Bennet is dropped behind the lines to steal priceless intelligence that will change the course of the war. He expects action. He expects to risk his life. What he doesn’t expect is the impact on his partner Joss, or on his father - or to meet Flynn, the new lover who will turn his world upside-down.
FlashWired
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 22,070. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Cal Paxton and Jeeze Madrid are the top scouting team on the Pathfinder-class starship, the Carson, on the very outer edge of Earth's expansion across the galaxy. They're wingmen, best friends and lovers. When Jeeze is shot down over a planet inhabited by a race Earth has never before encountered, what will Cal find when the Carson can finally mount a rescue mission?