WATTYS 2021 Historical Fiction winner | Writers Of The Past Series. 4000 years ago, in an empire where women were little more than flowers on the wall, one princess cemented her story in history and changed the art of writing for centuries to come. **...
Guy of Gisborne died in 1197. And was reborn. And died. And reborn. And died again. Nine times. A promise made in exchange of a debt paid with the Angel of Death gave him the chance of many lifetimes. To build a dynasty. And dish out a little payback.
1971, it was the summer of drugs. In a small semi rural town called Sunland/Tujunga Merril Graves discovers life through hallucinogenics and the horrors of the mind....
A meteor falls in a small town, and makes a subtle change in Frank Madison. The changes spread to people around him, but not everyone is happy with the way life is going in Madison. Please Note: I have published this book as part of my The Heronmaster collection available at amazon and smashwords. Links to those sites...
Ty, a young man riding the rails is swept up in the events of the Great Depression. He has seen many hardships, like most of that era, and has survived them. But he is about to encounter something even more disturbing when he arrives in Calgary. McConnell house is almost as old as the young city, but with a much da...
Pel has a story to tell. There's the girl who grew up destitute, addicted, single mother to a son she can't protect; the father who left the family, then disappeared; the old family friend, angel and demon both; the Dandelion Knight. But why tell it tonight, before a crowded theater in a city under siege?
A lonely teen sells her soul to become a vampire, only to discover that becoming a monster will forever deny her the love she craves. When sixteen-year-old horror fan Cindy Trent gets dumped by hot senior Scott Carmichael, she is devastated and willing to do anything to get him back. That night, a demon named Sângevaa...
Allan flees Elderwood City because he killed the rich man who murdered his sister. He hides in the ruins of an ancient castle. He discovers the castle was the stronghold of one the legendary mages of yore. Allan learns that the magic never went away, only diminished due to overuse. He has the gift of using magic to ca...
The success of the retooled Mexican Revolution hinges on executing the largest vanishing act the world's ever seen, right under General Obregon's nose. Viva this! "Dirty, rotten hombres with dynamite. Hell yes!" Pancho Villa's latest General isn't like any of the others. Young, inexperienced and visionary, Chancho Vil...
This book has a very controversial past, due to offensive wording. From Wikipedia: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in 1884. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characteriz...
In the early 1920s, Beatrice wonders why her crush, a veteran of the Great War, does not always seem to return her affections.
An essay about the works, quirks, and joys of reading & collecting Alexandre Dumas pere. Mostly archived here so that I don't lose track of it, but also to augment Dumas' new Wattpad page. I wrote this essay about my collection for the 2009 Canadian National Book Collecting Competition. I won first prize.
Confused and jaded since graduate school, Esa is willing to go to extremes to find her true purpose. She attends a weeklong art festival in the desert where she meets a middle-aged shaman who tells her he can help her, but first she must do everything he says. When she agrees, he sends her off on a “Vision Quest” in...
JMW Turner was arguably our greatest landscape painter. He was eccentric and reclusive in later life. James Chalklin dreams of being a painter. A chance meeting leads him into Turner's decaying world, but who is the woman that covers her face to disguise a hideous disfigurement? As James begins to understand Turne...
This novel was removed from dictatorships in Europe during the the 1920s and 1930s. "The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1907. Generally considered to be 'the earliest of the modern Dystopian,' it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States."
My debut novel has been published commercially by Booktrope Editions, a Seattle publisher, under the title, "OFFSIDE: A Mystery," and is available in hard copy and e-editions on Amazon.com and other vendors, including Barnes & Noble/Nook, iBooks and Indie Bound. Here's a link to the Amazon.com page: http://amzn.to/1to...
There are two things in life that Kurt Palmer detests, liars and cheats. Lauren McAllister fits snugly into both categories. Kurt is all Lauren has ever wanted in a husband – and married to her identical twin sister, Diane. After a drunken night out, she agrees to help save her sister's marriage, and temporarily steps...
Buehler's just a regular mook, a bar owner making book on the side. Good life. Until Freddy knocks, sending Buehler's life sideways. * Excerpted from the novel "Livewire Voodoo."
Snippets is a collection of random short stories and anecdotes that is not bound to any genre and written to amuse, inform and entertain.
Hanna Armstrong is a bit of a bitch, there's only one-way thing get done, that's hers. On a management training weekend, after hopping into bed with the instructor, she fondly imagines the rest of her stay will be a walkover, till a lightning storm knock her out cold. Coming to, finding herself surrounded by oddly...
This short story collection by Ambrose Bierce was considered pacifist and disturbing and removed from some military libraries.
*Wattpad Featured Story* A year before MI5 spy Lucas North ends up in Russian prison for 8 years, there is Alexa George, a woman he rescues as a favor to his boss, Harry Pearce. But when Lucas gains his freedom as part of a prisoner exchange, his return to London sets off a series of events that threaten to reveal t...
