'The Emerald Noir ladies are killing it, sometimes literally' LIZ NUGENT'Compelling and clever' JANE CASEYThirty-two Irish female crime authors come together to explore some of life's greatest fears in an anthology of original stories teeming with terror.Edited by crime authors Sam Blake and C.L. Murphy, and including a foreword by Emmett J. Scanlan, this collection...

Queenology is the follow up to R.C Blakes' most popular book and timeless message, The Father Daughter Talk. One might call it the sequel. In the Father Daughter Talk he diagnoses the condition of a generation of women who are suffering from a deep father wound and the implications on their choices and self esteem. If the Father Daughter Talk is a diagnosis, QUEENOLOGY is the prescription. In this book (QUEENOLOGY), he expands his message to the woman to the next dimension. He boldly decla...

Every family has a story. Some just haven’t been told – until now. Outport Woman uncovers the remarkable life of Minnie Beatrice Blake, a woman who spent nearly eighty years on Newfoundland’s rugged South Coast. Through Minnie’s experiences, readers are invited into a world of resilience, loss, laughter, and love – where women held families and communities together in the face of hardship and change. Drawing from family memories, local stories, and archival discoveries, this vivid narrativ...

Five stories from a tarnished future . . .Acclaimed writer C. C. Blake turns his talent for spinning gut-wrenching suspense to a cosmic scale.In these five visions of the far future, mankind has expanded into the universe, but he has brought all his worst baggage along with him.Space Nazis, cruel kidnappers, corrupt officials, power mad privateers, evil extortionists, positronic pretties, curvaceous killers, and the ever-present need for revenge populate these inter...

Angela was more than a friend. She was a go-to girl: The only person her bff Callie could confide in. Or so she thought."Heeeey, Angie-Angie-Angela-la. Come over Saturday night. Callie and I are together, again. And we want to celebrate the hap-hap-happy news."When she broke it off with her creepy boyfriend, Callie called it the happiest day of her life. So why is she suddenly getting back together with the creep? And why is Angela hearing about it from Benny, the ex?

The backend of space is no place to get stuck without enough credits to fill the fuel tank on an interstellar frigate, but that's exactly where Captain Rick Cave finds himself. Stuck on a New Slav planet in the outer rings, waiting for the right opportunity to get back in action."No questions asked, Captain Cave."When a scientist and his lovely assistant show up, requesting a ride, Cave agrees. Soon, he finds himself up to his neck in trouble with galactic gangsters and cor...

Sometimes, crime and damnation walk hand in hand . . . When a father discovers his infant daughter has been sold to a drug dealer, he hacks a way through the Detroit underworld to find her. Suspense master C. C. Blake explores every parent's worst nightmare in this thrilling crime story.

Rick Cave knows a thing or two about working with old friends, but when Wallach comes into his life dangling old debts over his head in exchange for a little delivery, Rick finds himself pressed into service. An old flame, mysterious agents of the Star Sultan, and the Secret Police stand between him and a clear shot out off this corrupt world. It will take smarts and courage to get out of harm's way.Looking for patronage in his next race, Finster gets an offer he can't refuse: Driv...

In the far future, humanity has moved among the stars. However, they have brought along all their baggage in addition to the hopes and dreams of better worlds. Theirs are not bright, shiny, litter-free futures. They are lived in, sweaty space operas . . .C. C. Blake's Sweaty Space Operas returns with a brand new pair of adventures set in futures that have dirt under their fingernails and blood on their hands.After flushing himself through an alien waste system in a pr...

Ten stories that range from the day after tomorrow to distant future empires spanning the galaxy. Tough everymen and women plucked from the everyday and given a shot at something far better than they have ever known. A racer on the revenge road. A for-hire captain given a chance at heroism. A detective solving a mystery that might reignite flames from the second American Civil War. A woman seeking justice for the murder and desecration of her father.This omnibus collection includes...

The second pulse pounding issue of Pulptastic Adventures Quarterly presents a trio of action packed stories that explore thrilling storytelling. This issue explores interceptions, back-and-forth transfers of power between equal adversaries. In this issue:A pickup delivers an unsuspecting Good Samaritan into the clutches of a seductive and deadly supernatural predator . . .A rescue mission against dangerous cannibals leads a post-apocalyptic cop into a burg populated...

During the past five decades, the Second Vatican Council has been alternately celebrated or maligned for its supposed break with tradition and embrace of the modern world. But what if we've gotten it all wrong? Have Catholics—both those who embrace the spirit of Vatican II and those who regard it with suspicion—misunderstood what the council was really about?Fr. Blake Britton discovered the truth and beauty of the council while he was in seminary and he has witnessed first...