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Happy publication day to Steve Stred and CHURN THE SOIL!

It's also the launch of my new weekly FIVE FOR FRIDAY feature, and Steve was kind enough to share his time to field five questions for this first instalment. Check it out HERE!

I'm pleased as heck to have been invited to take part in Nikky Lee's '10 Questions' feature. We discuss The Nightshade Cabal, how I found my way to paranormal steampunk, the roundabout Sherlock Holmes influence, and how much help Google Maps isn't when your story is set in 1881. Check it out!

https://www.nikkythewriter.com/post/1...


The Nightshade Cabal

Friends and fiends, I found out last night that my book, The Nightshade Cabal, is a finalist for this year's Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence 'Best Crime First Novel' award! I'm truly honoured, surprised, and terribly excited to have made the shortlist. I MADE THE SHORTLIST!

*ahem*

This Friday on Reddit my publisher, Parliament House Press, is doing an Ask Me Anything event as part of r/Fantasy's Small Press Friday spotlight series. I'll be one of the panelists, along with four other Parliament House authors: Don Roff, Kayvion Lewis, Ryan Leslie, and Danielle K Roux.

I'll be the lone Canadian panelist, answering and all questions about my novel, The Nightshade Cabal, my writing process, path to publishing, favourite pizza toppings, and anything else relevant (or not, as the case may be).

Kicking off at 9am EST.

I just wanted to stop by and share the news that my first novel, The Nightshade Cabal, has just been released as an audiobook. It's a paranormal steampunk murder mystery set in 1880s Halifax, and my narrator Dean Ruple did an absolutely fantastic job of bringing the story to life!

CLICK HERE to check out a sample.


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All Isaac Barrow wants is to be left alone to pursue his supernatural research and tinker with his inventions. But when you’re the only technomancer openly practicing the craft in 1880s Halifax, trouble has a way of finding you. When a routine mechanical service call reveals the grisly handiwork of the Nightshade Cabal – an underground cult of necromancers – Barrow finds himself in a race against time to put a stop to the Cabal’s depredations before they can kill anyone else and turn them into... office machinery?

Then there’s the mystery of Emily Skye, a missing teenager with strange abilities of her own. Believing her disappearance to be connected to the Nightshade Cabal, Barrow agrees to help track down the missing girl. But even if he can find her, will Miss Skye aid him in his struggle against the Cabal? Or might she turn out to be the deadliest threat of all?

The Nightshade Cabal

This may be a trick or treat, depending on your taste, but I've got a brand new short-short story freshly posted at the Parliament House Press website. Click here, scroll on down to find and download 'The Wizard of North Creighton Street,' and check out some of the other new flash stories from my fellow Parliaverse authors while you're there.

Also, be sure to vote for your favourite Hallowe'en Hearth Story for a chance to win free books from Parliament House Press!

Friends and fiends, my debut novel THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL is due out soon from Parliament House Press! But did you know this is not the first tale of our reluctant hero, Isaac Barrow?

Barrow's first outing was 'A Murder at Carleton House,' first published in 2016 in the anthology ENIGMA FRONT: BURNT from Analemma Books. The anthology has since fallen out of print, but now through February 23rd, anyone who preorders THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL can claim a FREE copy of the story!

Simply preorder the novel in any format, screenshot your confirmation, and email the image to Cabal.Preorder@gmail.com. That's it. You'll receive 'A Murder at Carleton House' in epub and mobi formats on February 24th, the day before the novel's release.

The Nightshade Cabal

Hey, friends and fiends! This morning my publisher, Parliament House Press, revealed the cover for my debut novel to the world!

THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL will be released on 25 Feb, 2020. In the meantime, how gorgeous is this cover?



The Nightshade Cabal