Dragons, Cats, and Formidable Femmes
Ginger Blue Publishing (2024)
Hardcover ISBN-13: 979-8887870403
Paperback ISBN-13: 979-8887870267
ASIN: B0D127DCQL
The collection includes an introduction by Jody Lynn Nye and two award-nominated short fictions, “Lord Bai’s Discovery” (finalist, 2011 Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award) and “The Wrong Refrigerator” (finalist, Novelette Category, 2018 Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Awards).
5 Tangent Online 2024 Recommended Reads
“Pas de Demons”
“Rosemary’s Kitten”
“The Nameless Stranger”
“A Taste of Heaven”
“The Big Fish”
The entire collection bubbles with whimsy and wit, emotion and humor, and occasional chilling fear. Well worth your time.
Wendy S. Delmater, Abyss and Apex
Two elements that recur through the collection are comedy and horror. If either is your jam, this may be for you. The works are all Fantasy, containing elements like dragons or talking cats. This reviewer has previously suggested that if one third of a volume’s stories are worth recommending, the collection is worth a consumer’s consideration. This proportion certainly holds for the reviewed works, making the volume a winner.
C.D. Lewis, Tangent Online
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With Nine You Get Vanyr
(with Teri Smith)
Samhain Publishing (2007)
ISBN-10: 1599983605
ISBN-13: 978-1599983608
2008 Indie Book Awards finalist in two categories (Science Fiction/Fantasy and Humor)
2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Choice Awards, second place in Science Fiction/Fantasy
2006 Love Romances & More Cafe Honorable Mention in Science Fiction/Fantasy
“Fans will never look at Atlanta’s DragonCon the same way again after this fun filled fantasy.”
Harriet Klausner
“An intriguing blend of fantasy and science fiction, this story is full of action and fascinating characters.”
Susan Mobley, Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“Sometimes a reviewer begins to read a story and simply forgets immediately she is reading for review: it doesn’t happen sufficiently often, but With Nine You Get Vanyr is one fine example.”
Annie, EuroReviews
“Run to grab this exciting new book from Ms. Smith and Ms. Ward.”
Dawn, Love Romances and More
Fantasy Art Templates
(with Rafi Adrian Zulkarnain)
American Edition (Out of Print)
Barron’s (2010)
ISBN-10: 0764144219
ISBN-13: 978-0764144219
English Edition
A & C Black Publishers (2010)
ISBN-10: 1408122189
ISBN-13: 978-1408122181
Illumina: The Art of J.P. Targete
Paper Tiger (2003)
ISBN-10: 1843400715
ISBN-13: 978-1843400714
“Jedi Mind Tricks: From the Reel to the Real”
Strategy Strikes Back
Potomac Books (2018)
ASIN: B077FHS3MQ
ISBN: 1640120335
ISBN-13: 978-1640120334
“This may be the most innovative and interesting book on military strategy ever published. While this may seem like an exaggeration, Max Brooks, bestselling author of World War Z and a fellow at both West Point’s Modern War Institute and the Atlantic Council’s Art of Future War project has done the seemingly impossible—made the esoteric subject of military strategy simultaneously fun and educational to the masses.”
Jerry Lenaburg for New York Review of Books
