Publications

NOVELS

Clockwork Heart: WINNER, RT BOOK REVIEWS’ 2008 BEST SMALL PRESS CONTEMPORARY FUTURISTIC.

SOON TO BE REPUBLISHED BY EDGE/TESSERACT BOOKS AS THE FIRST OF A TRILOGY!

Taya is one of Ondinium’s metal-winged couriers, privileged to travel freely across the city’s sectors and mingle indiscriminately among its castes. But even she can’t outfly the tangled web of terrorism, loyalty, murder, and secrets that is cast around her when a daring mid-air rescue leads to her involvement with the Forlores: handsome, brilliant Alister, who sits on Ondinium’s governing council and writes programs for the Great Engine, and awkward, sharp-tongued Cristof, who has exiled himself from his caste and repairs clocks in the lowest sector of the city. What secrets are they hiding, and how far can love carry them in a city that beats to the ticking of a clockwork heart?

Go to the Clockwork Heart page on this site for downloads, reviews & more.

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An Agreement with Hell, from Apex Book Company (January 2, 2011).

In the divine struggle between good and evil, humans are hardly noticeable to the mal’akhim, but when an ancient seal is broken on the grounds of a California college campus, beings from dimensions beyond the balance of  holy and unholy erupt from the earth. A retired priest and an ailing magickian must trust the mysterious Walker Between the Worlds and his skin-eating demon familiar as they step through Heisenbergian passages of probability and battle forces that are so far beyond demon they cannot be fully seen in earthly dimensions.

Amidst the earthquakes and interdimensional intruders, the students and staff of California Hills University step across the boundaries of their knowledge and faith, revealing their true natures as the night erupts in earth and blood.

Art  by Katja Faith, cover design by Justin Stewart.

SHORT STORIES

• The Manufactory [Reprint] (Ceaseless Steam: Steampunk Stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Firkin Press, July 2012. )
• Ghost in the Machine (The Mammoth Book of Ghost Romance, May 2012)
• Code of Blood (Corsets & Clockwork, May 2011)
• After the Sleep (reprint, January 2011, Alien Shots)
• Pan de Los Muertos (reprint, December 2010, Dia de Los Muertos)
• To Every Thing there is a Season (August 2010, Apexology)
• Peter, Peter (reprint, The Three-Lobed Burning Eye Annual, v. 4, edited by Andrew S. Fuller, from Legion Press, November 2009)
• The Manufactory (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, November 19, 2009 — audio version posted January 21, 2010)
• Terminus (w/Jo Gerrard; Magic & Mechanica anthology, Ricasso Press, January 2009)
• Bookmarked. (Reflection’s Edge, October 2007). Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (2008).
• Night Shift (Worlds of Wonder, July 2007)
• Changing the End (Anotherealm; July 2007)
• Defender of the Faith (Reflection’s Edge, August 2006)
• Strange Vintage (Fear of the Unknown, March 2005)
• Joseph’s Plaint (Ideomancer, June 2004)
• Peter, Peter (Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Summer 2003)
• Pan de los Muertos (Strange Horizons, April 2003)
• After the Sleep (Dark Fire, March 2003)
• Analogues (Erratica, Spring 1997: reproduced on this site)|

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

“Love and the Machine: Technology and Human Relationships in Steampunk Romance and Erotica” in Steaming into a Victorian Future: A Steampunk Anthology.  Julie Anne Taddeo & Cynthia J. Miller (Eds.). Scarecrow Press, 2013.

(to come) Special issue on boys’ love manga in The Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics — co-editor.

Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. Levi, McHarry & Pagliassotti (Ed.). McFarland Publishers, 2010.

GloBLisation and Hybridisation:Publishers’ Strategies for Bringing Boys’ Love to the United States. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 20. April 2009.

Reading Boys’ Love in the West. Participations, 5(2). November 2008.

MISCELLANY

“Twelve Reasons to Roleplay.” In Packer, Alex J. (2000). Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel REALLY Good … Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing.

How Do I Write a Steampunk Story? @ Age of Steam

QUERIES

Publisher queries should be sent to Trisha Telep, pretextagency — at — murderone.co.uk.