Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Short/Flash Fiction Collection
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Take a trip to the edges of imagination in this stunning collection of short stories from the five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." There's something here for every reader. Award winners and finalists. "Best of" selections. Science fiction and fantasy. Mystery and horror. Darkness and humor. Love and revenge. An immortal battles Order and Chaos to save the woman he loves. A soldier's widow plans a special homecoming for his body. Strange radio broadcasts haunt a man trying to change the past. A shapeshifter confronts his dark past as a covert agency hunts him. Bizarre deaths threaten a private eye’s favorite restaurant. A woman makes an unexplained stopover on a transatlantic flight. Disaster strikes a space freighter when bad luck joins the crew. The House promises wealth and fame...if it doesn’t kill you first. A thief’s attempt to lift...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction, New Adult
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

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 exciting bonus material: Deleted scenes Alternate plot lines Character notes Setting background …and more! 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 sole survivor, returned home with no memory of what happened, bringing a gift…and a curse. The gift? Will can walk in our dreams. At night in Dream, Will hunts for criminals—and his parents. During the day, his Dream Rider comic, about a superhero no one knows is real, has made Will rich. The curse? Severe agoraphobia. Will can't go outside. So he makes his home a skyscraper with everything he needs in...

Genres: Advice & How To, Writing & Publishing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

"Short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It's spectacular." — Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author & editor Fully revised and current, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago. "Doug has gone through this new volume carefully, updating every possible detail. That makes the second edition as indispensable to the short fiction writer as the first." —Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer—Buy this book! In an engaging and conversational style, multi-award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short stories—and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career. Topics include: - The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

The Thrilling Conclusion to the Multi-Award-Winning Trilogy Will 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 save the world. In The Crystal Key, they battled warring cults to protect an ancient artifact tied to Will's affliction. The Chakana. The Crystal Key. But the key to what? To finding answers, they hope, to the questions that rule their lives. What caused their strange powers? And Will's crippling agoraphobia? Can he be cured? Why did their parents travel to the jungles of Peru eight years ago? Are they still alive? Behind every question is the Chakana. What is the mysterious relic? Why will...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Sequel to the multi-award-winning The Hollow Boys. Finalist for the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel. Will Dreycott is the Dream Rider, the agoraphobic teenage superhero who can walk in our dreams but never in the streets of his city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of those streets who hears voices that warn her of danger. Fader is her brother, who is very good at disappearing. Together, they defeated a body swapper and a witch to save the world (The Hollow Boys). Now, Case battles guilt over living sheltered in Will's tower home while her street friends still struggle. Blaming his affliction for Case's sadness, Will searches for a way to live a normal life with the girl he loves—a way to go outside. But his efforts draw the attention of dark forces. Sinister figures hunt Will in Dream. Intruders scour the vast warehouse of antiquities "acquired" by Will's...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction, New Adult
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

WINNER OF THE AURORA AWARD AND JURIED IAP AWARD FOR BEST YA NOVEL. Vanishing 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 sole survivor, returned home with no memory of what happened, bringing a gift…and a curse. The gift? Will can walk in our dreams. At night in Dream, Will hunts for criminals—and his parents. During the day, his Dream Rider comic, about a superhero no one knows is real, has made Will rich. The curse? Severe agoraphobia. Will can't go outside. So he makes his home a skyscraper with everything he needs in life—everything but the freedom to walk the streets of his city. Case, an orphan Will's age,...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

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 companions. But when an Ojibwe girl is brutally killed in Gwyn's old hometown, suspicion falls on his former lover. To save her, Gwyn must return, to battle not only the Tainchel, but even darker forces: ancient spirits fighting to enter our world… And rule it. Cree and Ojibwe legends mix with current day environmental conflict in this fast-paced urban fantasy that keeps you...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Sunburst Award Finalist | Aurora Award Finalist | CBC Bookies Award Finalist Chimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp]—a story of many parts... A young artist hungers to draw you. A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish. A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew. The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge. A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub. A man is born each day into a new life—only to die each night. A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity. A Norse god's bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion. A woman descends into insanity—or is it the end of the world? A house as big as the world. Chimerascope is the first full collection of short fiction from multi-award winning author Douglas Smith, containing sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection,...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Speculative Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 18+

Aurora Award Finalist We all have things we hide away inside—secrets, fears, aspects of ourselves we keep locked away. Or try to. In that respect, the characters we meet in Impossibilia are like any of us. They have things inside them too. Only their things are a little... different. A dead wife that won't leave. A wolf. The secret to being the luckiest man alive. Impossibilia was Doug's first collection of short fiction and includes the following novelettes: "Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by van Gogh" (Aurora Award Finalist) "Spirit Dance" (Aurora Award WINNER) "Going Down to Lucky Town" (Aurora Award Finalist) In "Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase, by van Gogh," remote viewing drives a search through the past for lost masterpieces. An ex-CIA agent, haunted by the presence of his dead wife, falls in love with a beautiful remote viewer with her own secret. But can viewing...