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Books & Audiobooks
Published: May 02, 2016
I recently read a couple of delightful books that my dad gave me, Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops and More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops, both by British bookseller and writer Jen Campbell.
They’re collections of short dialogue vignettes, real things that real people have said to real booksellers (most of which bookstores are identified in the book). I found many of them laugh-out-loud funny. There are also a lot of amusing ... » read more
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Abracadaver
The Seventh Esther Diamond Novel
R.I.P. = Reanimated, Infernal, and Pretty damn dangerous!
After struggling actress Esther Diamond gets cast in a guest role on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department, her ex-almost/sometime boyfriend, NYPD’s Detective Connor Lopez, vows he’ll never forgive Esther for convincing her narcissistic co-star to add verisimilitude to his performance as a morally bankrupt cop by shadowing Lopez on the job.
But Esther’s fellow thespian is her best bet for keeping an eye on Lopez 24/7—and, more to the point, on Lopez’s new partner, Detective Quinn. Esther and her friend Max, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York City from Evil, suspect Quinn of being involved in the latest mystical mayhem to menace Manhattan—where corpses suddenly aren’t staying quite as dead as they should.
While Max and Esther try to determine what Quinn’s role is in the supernatural reanimation of the deceased downtown, a part-time mortician courts Esther, and a dangerous foe with deadly intent changes everyone’s dinner plans one cold winter night…
“Fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series will appreciate this series’ lively heroine and the appealing combination of humor, mystery, and romance.”
— Library Journal
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Latest News
No Pub Date Yet For Esther Diamond #8, Goldzilla
This is on me, not my publisher, as I am running behind schedule. As soon as I’ve got a release date, I will post it here!
Meanwhile, I’ve got a couple of new short stories due out soon. “Achilles Piquant and the Elsinore Vacillation” will appear in Galaxy’s Edge, an online magazine edited by some guy named Mike Resnick; and “The ∏ Files,” an affectionate spoof of multiple TV shows and movies, will appear in the new Unidentified Funny Objects collection from UFO Publishing.
