Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

YEAH. DRY AS A BONE AROUND THESE PARTS:  Fire Weather.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  Street Snacks (Liquid Diet Chronicles Book 5).

Don’t leave your empties lying in the streets, guys, jeez…

 

Meg Turner had a quiet six months (after the end of the monster incursion). That was because her borders were closed, but her six months of peace were up when her borders came down. While, yes, bringing her borders down allowed for a lot of postponed good things, it also allowed for an ill-considered challenge for her territory and a couple of murderers to waltz across her borders.

 

Oh, and an abandoned fledgling that had awakened to the night, buried in a dumpster. One that the Justices would have seen culled with most of the fledglings in the Kansas City nest. Thank goodness she’d sent Radu to rescue the ones that could recover from being brought over by cannibalistic monsters, and nobody official had paid attention to how many they’d rescued.

 

Between hiding an extra fledgling from the new Justice, Richmond recovering from a nasty case of PTSD, a vampire hiding his feeding on the homeless as animal attacks, and another feeding on her young vampires, Meg has her hands full.

 

And she’d really like to close her borders again, to avoid having to deal with all of this nonsense, please and thank you.

HELPING MR. DU TOIT DO THE NEEDFUL:  Doing My Bit.

LIBERAL WOMEN, I TELL YA:  She did what?

THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER IN LAW’S AD FOR HER BUSINESS WAS TAKEN DOWN BY AMAZON BECAUSE KNIVES ARE WEAPONS:  Honestly! She was showing pocket knives. not even swords. in my day we got our first pocket knife at eight. And yet most of us left childhood with all our fingers and both eyes. This nerfed world is annoying. Anyway, she has new stuff out, and is very upset at the loss of the ad.  Shiny, Sharp, and Stylish… Welcome! To Morrigan’s Mercantile!

DATA IS MORE ELUSIVE THAN YOU THINK:  Echo Chambers.

EDITED BY JAMIE IBSON, WITH STORIES FROM MICHAEL Z. WILLIAMSON, JODY LYNN NYE, KACEY EZELL AND OTHERS:  Plausibly Deniable.

Plausibly Deniable

“Occasionally a few simply honest men are found upon committees. These are useful as adjuncts to give a kind of high moral character to the cause; but the rest of the committee generally think them bores . . . When any peculiarly delicate question arises, it is sometimes important to eliminate one or more of them temporarily from the real committee of management . . . and also of enabling him at any future time to declare truly, if necessary, that he never was present at any meeting at which even a questionable course had been proposed.” Charles Babbage, 1864

“Who? No idea, never heard of him.”Spies, mercenaries, operatives, and criminals everywhere

In Plausibly Deniable, we get a peek behind the curtain. We get to see what shouldn’t be seen, to know what they don’t want you to know, and to find out the true story of whodunnit.

Edited by Jamie Ibson, a wide array of established authors and rising stars contribute to this undeniable original anthology, including: Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson & Jessica Schlenker, Craig Martelle, Jason Cordova & Melissa Olthoff, Jacob Holo & Edie Skye, Kacey Ezell and Nick Steverson, Marisa Wolf, Casey Moores, Jack Clemons, and introducing multiversal man of mystery, Buff Orpington.

They could tell you, but then they’d have to . . . well. You know.