LILITU Book II Title & Release Date Announced! (And...a FREE novella?!)

Good news, LILITU fans! I just heard back from my publisher, Crystal Lake Publishing, and can officially announce the title and release date for the next novel in the LILITU universe:

LILITU: BLOODY CALEB

OCTOBER 3, 2025

Even better, in September, we'll be launching SAINTKILLER, a FREE novella in the LILITU universe.

You can read SAINTKILLER, MEMOIRS OF A SUCCUBUS, and BLOODY CALEB in any order. Then characters from all of these will converge in Book 3, which I'm working hard on now.

More information coming soon!

OUT NOW: BLOOD GAMES, featuring my story A LITTLE RED THREAD

My short story A LITTLE RED THREAD appears in the anthology BLOOD GAMES, edited by Gabrielle Faust. The anthology has stories focused on "vampires and their games," and can be purchased from Amazon using this link.

Press release:

Do you care to gamble...with your life?

An aging cage fighter meets an unfortunate fate and is offered the opportunity of a lifetime by a mysterious Russian Fan...

A Countess and her lover’s game tests the limits of their vanity...

A young vampire in Mexico City must compete in an ancient Mayan game to survive....

Throughout this highly innovative collection, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning authors of BLOOD GAMES: A Vampire Anthology explore the world of the undead and the twisted games they play, not only with their prey, but with each other.

“Introduction” by Dacre Stoker

“A Word From the Editor” by Gabrielle Faust

Authors Included:

Jonathan Maberry

Linda D. Addison

Jeff Strand

Gabrielle Faust

Sèphera Girón

David C. Hayes

JG Faherty

Roh Morgon

Rain Graves

Michael H. Hanson

Sumiko Saulson

John Palisano

Gustavo Bondoni

Jonathan Fortin

Andrew Robertson

I had a lot of fun writing this one. I hope you enjoy reading it just as much!

STORY SALE: THE SOULLESS EYES OF A FISH

I'm delighted to announce that my REVERSE MERMAID story THE SOULLESS EYES OF A FISH will be appearing in Atomic Carnival Books's GREATER THAN HIS NATURE anthology.

It comes out Oct. 24, 2023. You can pre-order it here: https://atomiccarnivalbooks.square.site/

Description:

In every laboratory that is, was, or ever will be, there are two diametrical energies at play: chaos and control. The raw pandemonium of what is, and the diamond-sheen of what could be. And in between? Blood, bones, and bodies. Because no equation, no solution, will ever contain the wild entropy of the human heart.

Featuring 20 tales of mad science gone awry from Katharine Duckett, A.T. Greenblatt, Ally Malinenko, Tyler Battaglia, Samantha H. Chung, Jonathan Fortin, Brianna Nicole Frentzko, Josh Hanson, Wade Hunter, M.W. Irving, Pooja Joshi, Andrew Kozma, K.L. Mill, Lena Ng, Robert Perez, Zachary Rosenberg, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Violet Schwegler, and Nicole M. Wolverton. Edited by Eirik Gumeny.

But what are Reverse Mermaids, you ask? Well, instead of their top half being human and bottom half being fish, they're fish running around with human legs. For a laugh, watch this performance of one singing "PART OF YOUR WORLD": https://youtu.be/xBCGVqyWrSQ