Thalia’s Musings is a series of original novels written by Amethyst Marie. It’s narrated by Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, as she observes the comedy, drama, and tragedy of the ancient Greek pantheon. But when Thalia becomes more than an observer, the Fates take notice. Are Thalia’s powers limited to helping mortal playwrights hack out a comedy sketch, or can . . .
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BEHOLD! The most THRILLING tales ever committed to the inter-net! OBSERVE! As Victorian adventurer and gentle-man of action, Lord Likely, solves BAFFLING mysteries and battles TERRIFYING foes! GASP! As Lord Likely and his hapless man-servant, Botter, encounter killer prostitutes, undead gentlemen, female pirates and HORRIFYING beasts! THRILL! As Likely beds a succession of gorgeous females, while keeping . . .
Thalia’s Musings is a series of original novels written by Amethyst Marie. It’s narrated by Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, as she observes the comedy, drama, and tragedy of the ancient Greek pantheon. But when Thalia becomes more than an observer, the Fates take notice. Are Thalia’s powers limited to helping mortal playwrights hack out a comedy sketch, or can . . .
Special People is a fiction project about people with special and unusual powers and abilities. But don’t call them superheroes! The stories are action-oriented and humourous, but definitely not what you’d expect from your average “superhero fiction.” From a human cell phone to a man who can conjure bacon out of thin air, these are unique, interesting characters, special . . .
Jeff Parker is a perfectly normal young man who is rather rudely introduced to the world of the strange and unexplained when he finds a creepy fortune-telling doll washed up on the beach. In the process of trying to get rid of it, he meets author and paranormal investigator Kenny Tachibana—and, shortly thereafter, falls in love with him. So begin . . .
Torn World offers a unique shared world platform with flavors of science fiction, high fantasy, slipstream, steampunk and alternate realities. Two widely disparate cultures are poised to meet – a close-knit, peaceful, unicorn-herding people, and a sprawling, expansionist, pre-industrial Empire that uses time technology in a near-magic fashion. Created by Ellen Million, multiple authors and artists have used the . . .
In 1996, Dr. Beuctus Guggenheim, head of Research and Development at Cantspell’s Olde Fashund Soupe Phactorie, was given the task of creating a preservative for cream of mushroom soup. His actions set into motion a cataclysm, opening a link between our world and the ‘Mushroom Zone’. Soon a legion of Mushrooms claimed our world for their empire. A campaign of . . .
Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
The most exciting, hilarious and gruesome battles ever to take place in the hypothetical world! What would happen if . . . ? . . .
Rowena has a mother: “This is my life, Mom. Not a Jane Austen novel. Not—” “Listen to me, Miss Independence. He’s a nice young man, but men expect things. Even nice ones, sometimes. He’s going to think that you’re inviting him to do . . . married people things.” Rowena tried to interrupt, but when she opened her mouth nothing came . . .
Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
The experience of smell is the closest thing we have to intimate human contact without actually having it. A woman’s perfume. a whiff of cigarette smoke, a little bit of diesel fume, and some spearmint gum might come close to someone’s first kiss, for example. Of course, it’s impossible to create a first kiss without the human element, but for . . .
A full understanding of Bent Magnus begins with his mind. Imagine if you poured the intellectual horsepower of Einstein, Edison, and Ben Franklin all into one man. Now imagine that the man wasn’t a total pansy, like those other guys, and you have Bent Magnus. Beginning with his birth at the “Fight of the Century” in 1910, Bent Magnus . . .
Okay. In terms of projected fan base for this serial, I’ll admit that I’m probably inside the field. It has all of my happies— queer main characters, supernatural creatures, and the knowledge that almost every chapter is a complete stand alone story.
First, the formatting. The background has an evocative feel [more . . .]
‘A sansanosmilus,’ said the man. ‘Obviously.’
I appreciate any time that a story, regardless of the scope or detail of its world, is willing to dispense with weighty exposition and trusts its reader enough to drop into scene immediately. "Sally Carter," named for its narrator, manages to do this in the [more . . .]