AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award winning author.The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing their powers and vitality from their animal totems.Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle years ago with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts the Heroka--a battle that cost him the only woman he ever loved.But when Gwyn is asked by the head of the Heroka to stop an old friend...

A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.The Heroka walk among us. Unseen, unknown. Shapeshifters. Human in appearance but with power over their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd is a Heroka of the wolf totem. Once he led his people in a deadly war against the Tainchel, the shadowy agency that hunts his kind. Now he lives alone in his wilderness home, wolves his only comp...

Aurora Award FinalistThe people we meet in Impossiblia are like any of us. They have secrets…fears…desires. Things they keep hidden. Things they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little…different.A dead wife that won’t leave.A wolf with a past.The secret to being the luckiest man alive.In “Bouquet of Flowers in Vase, by van Gogh,” remote viewing drives a search through the past for lost masterpieces. An ex-CIA agent, haunt...

Sunburst Award finalist | Aurora Award finalist | CBC’s Bookies Award finalistChimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] — a story of many parts…Doug’s second collection contains sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists. Stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity’s last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions t...

WINNER — AURORA AWARD — BEST YA NOVELWINNER — Juried IAP AWARD — BEST YA NOVELVanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world.Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home.At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero…in his dreams. And in yours.Eight years ago, Will's parents, shady dealers in ancient artifacts, disappeared on a jungle expedition. Will, the ...

A Heroka story and an Aurora Award FinalistLilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human.“It’s a very interesting turn-around story, in which our expectations are upended at the last minute. ...a good read, and sadly, far too relevant to our own present world.” —The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf“...great fun to read” —Dreams and Speculations

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who hunt her kind and killed her mate. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives."One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished, for either the girl or the Hoyl. The story charms as well as pains. In other hands, it would be mawkish, but Smith avoids all the pi...

The Thrilling Conclusion to the Multi-Award-Winning TrilogyCurrently a Finalist for Canada's Aurora Award for Best YA NovelWill is the Dream Rider, the superhero who walks in our dreams but never in the streets of his own city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of those streets who hears voices warning her of danger. Fader, her brother, is very good at disappearing.In The Hollow Boys, they defeated a body swapper and a witch to sav...

Most writing craft books, courses, and workshops focus on the tools for being a writer and how to use them: dialog, setting, pacing, plot, openings, exposition, point-of-view. And so on.And on and on and on.Their aim is to add another tool, or maybe even a set of tools, to your writer's toolbox.The problem with that approach is the vast gulf in knowledge between having your toolbox filled with tools and applying those tools to create a story.Those c...

Get the entire multi-award-winning trilogy in one volume! This ebook includes all three books in The Dream Rider Saga:The Hollow Boys (Book 1)The Crystal Key (Book 2)The Lost Expedition (Book 3)Plus get this exciting bonus material:Deleted scenesAlternate plot linesCharacter notesSetting background…and more!Series Description:At seventeen, Will Dreyco...

As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Jack Dexter (Dex to his friends) thinks he knows all there is to know about "Murphy’s Law": If anything can go wrong, it will. And on the perpetually under-staffed, under-funded Restraint, it generally does.But he never expected to actually meet Murphy. The real Murphy. Dex hires Orville Sod onto the Restraint just before the ship makes the jump to deep space. Unfortunately, by the time that De...