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Cops and Clobbers In Deadwood
The humorous Deadwood Mystery Series continues, by USA Today Bestseller, ANN CHARLES!
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Violet Parker has big troubles these days—the ticking kind. To duck the Grim Reaper, she needs to get her hands on eighty-plus rare, mystical clocks locked up tight by a thick-headed detective.
The solution? Hijack the truckload of ticking time bombs out from under Johnny Law’s nose.
But no caper ever goes according to plan. What starts out as a game of clocks and robbers twists and turns into a chaos of cops and clobbers.
Will Violet beat the detective in time? Or will she spend Valentine’s Day behind bars?
Cops and Clobbers in Deadwood (Deadwood Humorous Mystery Book 14) eBook : Charles, Ann, Kunkle, Charles: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
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The Deadwood Mystery Series!!!
Welcome to Deadwood—the Ann Charles version. The world Ann has created is a blend of present day and past, of fiction and non-fiction. What’s real and what isn’t is for you to determine as the series develops and the characters evolve.
One thing about this series—it’s going to run on for quite a while, and Violet Parker will have to hang on and persevere through the wild adventures planned for her.
Poor Violet. It’s a good thing she has a lot of gumption to keep her going!
Praise for the Deadwood Mystery Series:
‘What a voice! Hilarious, original, and genuinely wonderful. This fresh and feisty mystery will instantly win your heart. Loved it!’ ~HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity winning author
‘I laughed (a lot), cried (a little), and wanted to stab a certain family member. This story brings all the feels!’ —Renee George, USA Today Bestselling Author
‘Watch out Stephanie Plum, because Violet Parker is coming your way.’ ~Deborah Schneider, RWA Librarian of the Year 2009 & author of Promise Me
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About Ann Charles:
USA Today Bestselling author, Ann Charles, writes spicy stories full of mystery, comedy, adventure, suspense, romance, and supernatural mayhem. When she’s not dabbling in fiction, she’s arm wrestling with her two kids, attempting to seduce her husband, and arguing with her sassy cats.
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| | A New GoFundMe opportunity brought to you by critically acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author, Matthew Hughes! |
| Help me write a novel I’ve been researching for 60 years.
I’m a much-published novelist and short story author. I want to write my long-planned second historical novel. (My first, What the Wind Brings, is the first Canadian title to win the cross-border Endeavour Award).
It’s a project with roots that go all the way down into my teenage years, when I read somewhere that Alexander the Great sent a ship to circumnavigate Africa, because he planned to conquer Carthage and then keep on marching through what, in those days, people thought was just a big island.
The ship sailed but shortly after, Alexander died. Then his empire fell apart as his senior commanders began seizing parts of it and warring against each other to grab still more territory. Nobody knows what happened to the ship and its crew. They were sailing into perilous waters—specifically the seas around Sicily, where the Carthaginians and the city states of Magna Graecia, colonized centuries before by Greeks, were battling and intriguing against each other, with plenty of skullduggery and betrayal.
I’ll use my imagination and some tightly focused research to tell a tale of adventure and derring-do. In addition to Carthaginians and Greek colonists, there will be Sardinian pirates, bumptious Romans (then expanding down the Italian peninsula), Berbers resisting Carthaginian rule in Libya, mercenary slingers from the Balearic Isles, and probably some of the Celtic tribesmen from pre-Roman Spain.
We might even sail out into the Atlantic and up to ancient Britain, where the Carthaginians and their Phoenician forebears used to come to trade for the strategic mineral tin, essential to the making of bronze.
And I’ll have fun designing a ship unlike any other of its times, with as much stealth technology as those times would allow for.
I’ve written the first twenty thousand words and handed them to a literary agent, who is trying to find a publisher for it, but it’s been ten months and so far, not an offer. Historical fiction used to be a major genre and, at sixteen, I aspired to join the ranks of popular HF authors like L. Sprague de Camp, Henry Treece, Robert Graves, and Cecelia Holland. But the genre was later largely taken over by what they called ‘bodice rippers,’ romance novels with a historical setting. So, selling a straight historical novel these days is not easy. It’s especially difficult for a guy like me, who is known as a niche author working in fantasy and space opera.
Still, I would like to write To the Ends of the Earth (working title). I’ve been researching it in a desultory fashion for about sixty years.
The book, as I envision it, will be full of action and clashing cultures, but it will also reflect the truth that L.P Hartley noted in the opening line for his celebrated novel, The Go-Between: ‘The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.’
So, call it a labor of love. I would be grateful to anyone who will help me along. If the agent doesn’t get me a deal, I’ll self-publish it as an eBook and POD paperback. And I can promise you a rattling good read.
Donations can be made at: https://gofund.me/e7fd9bd5
People can read the first three thousand words at https://medium.com/@matthewhughes_65934/opening-of-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-8d3b32d93b69
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|  | Trevor W. Harrison, retired University of Lethbridge professor and well-known public-media contributor, pens a collection of engaging essays about his world travels as a young man
Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields, a fascinating collection of essays recalling retired University of Lethbridge professor Trevor W. Harrison’s world travels in the 1970s and early ‘80s, comes out December 10 from Endless Sky Books, an imprint of Shadowpaw Press.
From working on a railroad in Western Canada to portraying a Hittite in a Biblical movie epic in Israel to attending bullfights in Spain and living like a hippie in Greece, Harrison’s memorable experiences make for entertaining, enlightening, and thought-provoking reading in this collection of personal essays.
‘Reworking these stories from my youth brought me back in touch with people and places along the way, all of which have never really been forgotten,’ Dr. Harrison says. ‘I’m thrilled to see this collection of not-quite-memoirs released upon an unsuspecting public.’
‘I thoroughly enjoyed reading Dr. Harrison’s essays and vicariously joining in his travels as a young man,’ says Edward Willett, publisher and editor of Endless Sky Books. ‘I’m excited to be able to share them with readers, who I’m sure will enjoy them every bit as much as I did.’
More about Tales This Side of the Elysian Fields
‘Travel takes you to places in yourself you might not otherwise visit...’
In this delightful and intriguing collection of essays, Trevor W. Harrison, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge and a well-known contributor to public media, tells sometimes light-hearted and sometimes poignant tales of his life between his late teens and early thirties, a time when, like many other young people of the era, he travelled the world, beginning with hitchhiking or driving across western Canada and the United States in the early 1970s and travelling to Europe and Asia in the mid970s and early 1980s.
From working on the railway in a small town to playing a Hittite soldier in a Biblical movie, from life among the hippies on a famous Greek beach to life in a houseboat on India’s Lake Dal, from bullfights in Barcelona to the towering Himalayas, Harrison invites readers to travel with him, to meet the people, see the places, and experience the events he encountered as a young man.
The stories we tell of our lives, Harrison says, are ‘the offspring of a pleasurable intercourse between fiction and non-fiction, gestated over time.’
There is nothing more innately human than the telling of tales. Enjoy these while you, too, are still this side of the Elysian Fields. |
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About the author:
Trevor W. Harrison is a retired Professor of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge. He is best known for his studies in political sociology, political economy, and public policy.
He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven books, including a book of poetry, as well as numerous journal articles, chapters, and reports. Dr. Harrison is also a frequent contributor to public media, including radio and television.
About Endless Sky Books
Endless Sky Books is an imprint of Shadowpaw Press. Founded in 2018 by Edward Willett, Shadowpaw Press, located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, is a member of Literary Press Group (Canada) and the Association of Canadian Publishers and publishes an eclectic selection of books by both new and established authors, including adult fiction, young adult fiction, children’s books, non-fiction, and anthologies.
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|  | Vancouver author Brad C. Anderson’s latest science fiction novel explores the societal and personal costs of rebellion and civil war in a far-future setting
Ashme’s Song, the latest science fiction novel by Vancouver writer Brad C. Anderson (author of Duatero), is a gritty, action-filled, far-future cyberpunk-infused science fiction tale about resistance, rebellion, and civil war—and the terrible toll it takes on individuals and families. It releases December 17 from Shadowpaw Press.
‘Ashme’s Song is a science fiction story exploring family and heroism at a time of civil war,’ Anderson says. ‘I wrote this book because I wanted to explore the tension between wanting to fight for your people versus fleeing with your family.’
‘Ashme’s Song is a gritty, thoroughly engaging, and thought-provoking exploration of timeless themes of oppression, resistance, and family ties, combined with fascinating worldbuilding and a strong cyberpunk element,’ says Edward Willett, publisher and editor of Shadowpaw Press. ‘I was pleased to be able to reprint Brad’s previous novel, Duatero, through the Shadowpaw Press Reprise imprint, and I’m thrilled to now be able to share this brand-new work with readers.’
More about Ashme’s Song
Violence has an echo, growing louder with each reverberation ... how do you stop its echo once it starts ringing?
Ashme is a New Mesopotamian—a ‘Meso.’ She dreams of being a hero, fighting against the brutal Ostarrichi ruling her country. She is an indigo child, her DNA modified by sentient AI, enabling her to control computer systems at will. With this power, she has something to offer the Meso resistance. Her twin brother, Shen, however, suffers from a neurological disorder and needs someone to care for him. Increasingly, that task falls on her.
How can she become the hero her people need when her brother’s needs are overwhelming? If she continues caring for Shen while joining the resistance, she risks leading Ostarrichi forces to her home. If she leaves, then looking after Shen will fall to her cousin, who is already overworked caring for his frail grandmother.
As her society collapses into violence, Ashme must choose between her fellow Mesos, her family, and her values. |
| About the author
Brad C. Anderson lives with his wife and puppy in Vancouver, Canada. He teaches undergraduate business courses at a local university and researches organizational wisdom in blithe defiance of the fact most people do not think you can put those two words in the same sentence without irony. Previously, he worked in the biotech sector, where he made drugs for a living (legally!).
His stories have appeared in a variety of publications. His short story ‘Naïve Gods’ was longlisted for a 2017 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. It was published in the anthology Lazarus Risen, which was itself nominated for an Aurora Award.
About Shadowpaw Press
Shadowpaw Press, located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, was founded in 2018 by award-winning author Edward Willett. Shadowpaw Press is a member of Literary Press Group (Canada) and the Association of Canadian Publishers and publishes an eclectic selection of books by both new and established authors, including adult fiction, young adult fiction, children’s books, non-fiction, and anthologies. |  |
| | Rune of Revenge
Book Four of the Outside the Thalsparr Series
The Epic series continues in a new direction by
Bjorn Leesson
NOW ON PRE-SALE WITH RELEASE THIS FEBRUARY BY THALSPARR PRESS |
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