More short stories

I have released two more short stories into the wild:

“The Saffron Curse”, originally published in On Spec #108, is now available everywhere ebooks are sold.

“…a great romp set in a Vancouver restaurant. This was good fun.” (SF Crowsnest)

Chef Eddie and his partner Amanda luck into a cheap site for the new restaurant they want to build. The old man they buy it from warns them that the site is cursed and makes them promise never to use saffron in their restaurant. But Eddie isn’t superstitious, and when a career-making critic shows up asking for his famous Badaboom monkfish dish—which contains saffron—well, what’s an ambitious chef to do?

This short story was featured in Tangent Online’s 2018 Recommended Reading List.

“The story’s pace and prose bristle with the energy of a crowded kitchen.” (Tangent Online) 

Barnes and Noble, Apple, etc.: https://books2read.com/u/4jarGl

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Saffron-Curse-Marcelle-Dube-ebook/dp/B07MJQWGRJ/

And “On a Dark Road to Nowhere,” originally published in Dawn of the Monsters, Issue 1 of Amazing Monster Tales:

When Naomi’s car breaks down on a deserted road in the middle of a Yukon winter night, she’s lucky to stumble across Maggie’s cabin. Then Maggie shows her what’s hiding in the woods around the cabin…

Barnes and Noble, Apple, etc.: https://books2read.com/u/mvvrX8

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Road-Nowhere-Marcelle-Dube-ebook/dp/B07MFZR6P3/

On a Dark Road to Nowhere

Love pulp fiction?

Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it! 

I’m pleased to announce that my short story, On a Dark Road to Nowhere, is part of a great new pulp anthology, Dawn of the Monsters, the first in the Amazing Monster Tales series. Better yet, I am in great company!

11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more.  Some monsters you’ve seen before…

And some of them you haven’t!

Some monsters are the good guys…

And some of them are very, very bad indeed!

Featuring stories by:

Dean Wesley Smith • Ron Collins • P. D. Cacek • Mark Leslie • Steve Vernon • Annie Reed • Sèphera Girón • Rebecca M. Senese • Marcelle Dubé • Jamie Ferguson • DeAnna Knippling

DAWN OF THE MONSTERS

This volume, DAWN OF THE MONSTERS, features trolls, goblins, creeps, mad scientists, vampires, aliens, Frankenstein, a very nasty ex-girlfriend, a mysterious egg, a bargain you can’t refuse, something dark and mysterious that lives underground, and a disgusting, evil beast straight out of the swamp!

We can’t promise that these tales won’t make you think…but they’ll grab you by your sense of adventure and take you for a ride!

NEXT ISSUE

Look for MONSTER ROAD TRIP…and wear your shades!

BUY HERE!

In the Christmas mood…

Every year, I try to write a Christmas short story because I love Christmas and, frankly, these Christmas short stories are the closest I ever get to being romantic. This year’s offering is set in the Mendenhall Mystery series. Here’s the blurb for “Trepalli’s Christmas”:

It’s Christmas eve day and Constable Marco Trepalli of the Mendenhall Police Department can’t wait to be off shift. He’s planning a big surprise for his girlfriend, Amanda. Something special. Something romantic.

Then a kid doesn’t return home after sledding and Trepalli forgets all about his plans in the mad scramble to mobilize search parties and interview the kid’s friends. And as hour after hour slips by with no sign of the boy, Trepalli braces himself for what could turn into the worst Christmas ever… for him and the kid’s family.

Amazon.ca: https://amzn.to/2Q3SE0u;  Amazon.com: https://amzn.to/2BcidUM

Barnes & Noble, Apple: https://www.books2read.com/u/m2vDp7

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2DK5trg

The Shoeless Kid available for free

In honour of the upcoming publication of the trade paperback of The Shoeless Kid, the first in my Mendenhall Mystery series, I’m making the ebook free for a limited time. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s your chance to see where Kate’s story began.

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2EBK9Fv

Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iBooks: https://www.books2read.com/u/b62qYM

 

The Saffron Curse

My latest short story, “The Saffron Curse,” is among a bunch of excellent stories (even if I do say so myself) in the latest issue of On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic. I just received my copies and am very proud to be included with these writers, especially Robin Carson!

I have no idea where the idea for Saffron came from, but it was a lot of fun to write!

 

No, I’m not excited…

On August 18, I’ll be part of a panel discussion at Bolen Books, in Victoria, with Liz Freeland, Janice MacDonald and LAURIE R. KING!!! No, I’m not excited. 🙂

The panel will be moderated by the wonderful S.G. Wong and the topic is Author Alchemy: Spinning Facts into Fiction Gold.

The panel comes at the end of the Sisters in Crime Canada West Writers Retreat, which takes place that same day. The panel is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the doors open at 6:30 p.m.

BOLEN BOOKS is at #111 – 1644 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC

Come join us!

Sci-Fi Stories – Space Opera Mashup

The Sci-Fi Stories — Space Opera Mashup anthology is now available for sale everywhere ebooks are sold. And next week, the print version will be available, too! Mashup includes 10 space opera short stories:

“Murder on Marawa Prime” by Vonnie Winslow Crist
“Astromancer” by Debbie Mumford
“One Universe is Never Enough” by Mary Jo Rabe
“A Little Old Fashioned” by Rita Schulz
“Funeral Sails” by Scott T. Barnes
“Station OSCX-9” by Marcelle Dubé
“GENIE and the LAMP” by Steph Bennion
“Runaway” by Barbara G.Tarn
“Seeking Sky” by Jennifer R. Baumer
“Final Chapter” by Randy Tatano

I’m quite pleased that my story, “Station OSCX-9,” (one of my few SF stories — let alone space opera!) is in such good company!

You can get your copy for only $4.99 at http://books2read.com/u/4AY5XN

 

PLAGUE YEAR: An A’lle Chronicles Mystery

Hallelujah.

It’s done. Finished. Wrapped up.

Well, okay, only the first draft, but still, it has THE END actually written down.

Plague Year is the second in my A’lle Chronicles Mystery series and it’s been five years in the writing. Not that it actually took five years to write, you understand. I started it five years ago. In between then and now, I wrote four novels (The Untethered Woman, The Forsaken Man, Shelter, Ghosts of Morocco) and ten short stories. So I’ve been busy. But still… five years is a long time to have characters waiting impatiently for you to get back to them.

To the left is  the draft cover for Plague Year, though it may change before publication. I’ll announce here when Plague Year is available for pre-order. And, in case you’re curious, here’s the cover for the first in the series, Backli’s Ford. Here’s the write up for Backli’s Ford:

In the early 18th century, an A’lle generation ship crashed in the woods of Lower Canada. Survivors stumbled out of the wreckage to find French settlers working the land. While many of the colonists sheltered the injured A’lle, some reacted with fear and loathing. Two centuries later, nothing much has changed.

This is the world Constance A’lle, first A’lle investigator for Lower Canada, must deal with when she investigates the beating death of an A’lle boy in the small village of Backli’s Ford.

Set in 1911, Backli’s Ford follows Constance as she survives an ambush that would have killed a human, fights prejudice in the constabulary, and discovers a terrible secret that risks destroying the delicate balance that has endured for two centuries between A’lle and humans.

Now to get going on revisions…

Backli’s Ford links:

books2read.com/u/mV7MN2

Amazon: https://amzn.to/2ISf6ah

Kobo: https://bit.ly/2xlYmTi

 

Laurie R. King coming to Victoria, B.C.!

The Canada West chapter of Sisters in Crime is organizing a one-day retreat in Victoria, B.C. on August 18. There will be five presentations for mystery/crime writers, including one by Laurie R. King, famous for the Kate Martinelli series, the Stuyvesant & Grey series and the Russell & Holmes series. I’m very excited to attend and look forward to meeting Ms. King!

Interested? See here.

The lovely Sherry D. Ramsey, curator of Short Flights of the Imagination (https://bit.ly/2GglIhd), interviews me today about my short story (Chimere) in the bundle https://bit.ly/2GgXhMt. I ramble on about series, process, and current and upcoming stories. Thanks, Sherry!

Here’s the table of contents:

Watcher Ghost by Linda Maye Adams

In Search of the Perfect Cup by Russ Crossley

Chimere by Marcelle Dube

Finder by Michael Jasper

The Bear in the Cable-Knit Sweater by Robert Jeschonek

Unsafe, Unsound by Kate MacLeod

Ghosting by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Moon Spell by Rita Schulz

By Her Hand, She Draws You Down by Douglas Smith

The Librarian by Blaze Ward

And some package deals (collections!):

One Horn to Rule Them All by Lisa Mangum

The Cache and Other Stories by Sherry D. Ramsey

Decision Points by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (ed.)

Bad Ends by Rebecca Senese

S, F & H by Harvey Stanbrough

A fine collection for anyone who loves short fiction!