I mentioned to BCW's acquiring editor Michael Bracken that I was enjoying the mystery/science fiction crossover stories he had been selecting for BCW, many of them originals, and he confessed to challenging writers to come up with stories that mixed the two genres. I thought, Aha! So that’s where they have all been coming from! It’s a Good Thing in my opinion. And this... [click here for more]
Paisley Sterling has no idea of the trouble she's getting into when she and her teenaged daughter are called home for a family funeral. Paisley's mother, the elegant and stylish Anna Howard Sterling is delighted when they decide to extend their visit after Paisley's New York townhouse is rented out from under her. Things are going well until Anna discovers she has been cheated out of a sizable inheritance.... [click here for more]
William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: "En Route to the Great Eastern Circus" (on the creation of this great show); "The Great Eastern Circus of 1872" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); "The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie" (how a show... [click here for more]
Life's a picnic for Paisley Sterling -- until a tornado cuts a swath through the charming little town of Rowan Springs, Kentucky, and the home she shares with her mother and daughter on Meadowdale Farm. Paisley struggles to restore order to her life, but fate intervenes, and before long she finds herself caught up in an international mystery of truly evil proportions...involving kidnapping, murder,... [click here for more]
300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.... [click here for more]
Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling takes time off to enjoy the holidays only to be interrupted by her agent. Seems like Leonard Paisley, the fictitious detective who is supposed to be writing her mystery novels, is required to make a personal appearance. Paisley would love to tell the world that "Leonard" is a fake and she does all the hard work, but her agent insists they keep up with the sham until... [click here for more]
Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling is happier than she ever dreamed. As successful writer she is free to return to her mother's farm in Kentucky where she trades in her panty hose and high-heeled shoes for jeans and loafers. Her only problem is the pen name of "Leonard Paisley" that her agent encourages her to assume because "a detective novel will sell better if it's written by a man." Unfortunately... [click here for more]
Like any successful writer, Paisley had the help of generous friends and colleagues on the way up. Now, insists her mother, it's her turn to come to the aid of a fledgling novelist. But how can reading a manuscript open the book to murder, involving Paisley in a plot to blackmail some of the leading citizens of her beloved Rowan Springs? Solving this crime brings danger very close to home--and someone... [click here for more]
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