Muddy Waters (Otherwhere Book 1)
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I had fun, but still… something tickled at the back of my brain. Something didn’t feel right. But by the end of the night, I could barely remember my own name and that tickle went ignored. Just for now. Just so we could celebrate. It had been a very, very long time since I’d been to a party.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
My first attempt at a book read suspiciously like a certain required-reading novel whose title rhymes with “Gourd of the Spies.” I moved on from plagiarizing famous authors and into writing terrible poetry. Then the poetry stopped being so terrible. I started writing short stories, which were also not so terrible. Eventually I tried writing a book that I came up with on my own. It was terrible. So I wrote three more to get the hang of things. And here we are.
When I’m not writing, I perform improv comedy, tell stories on stage, ballroom dance, and craft. I also have identical twin sons. My husband is an ICU nurse and is a great person to be married to if you are an improv person, a book lover, and a nerd. He’s also handy in medical emergencies.
My favorite authors in no particular order: Jane Austen, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, Charles Dickens, and Flannery O’Connor.
Kasper Mützenmacher’s Cursed Hat, by Keith R. Fentonmiller
Berlin hatmaker Kasper Mützenmacher’s carefree life of fedoras, jazz, and booze comes to a screeching halt when he must use the god Hermes’ “wishing hat,” a teleportation device, to rescue his flapper girlfriend from the shadowy Klaus, a veil-wearing Nazi who brainwashes his victims until they can’t see their own faces. Klaus eventually discovers the wishing hat’s existence and steals it on Kristallnacht. But even if Kasper gets back the hat and spirits his family to America, they won’t be safe until they break the curse that has trapped them in the hat business for sixteen centuries.
The Outs, by E.S. Wesley
Memory-stealing blackouts push a seventeen-year-old honor student into kidnapping a little girl to keep her safe from the creature in her room, but the new voice in his head may be worse than any monster in the dark. Now it’s up to a disabled comic book fangirl to save them both before the girl he stole unravels everyone’s future.
Chest of Bone, by Vicki Stiefel
As magical and mundane worlds retwine, empath and unawakened Mage Clea Reese must team up with the secretive James Larrimer to hunt her mentor’s killer and stop the forces of corruption from obtaining the Chest of Bone, the ultimate source of otherworldly power. A woman whose true nature is hidden. A man whose reality is anathema. Together, they create something extraordinary. A Mage… A Monster… A Mission… And a Melody That Binds.
The Curse Merchant, by J.P. Sloan
Baltimore socialite Dorian Lake makes his living crafting hexes and charms, manipulating karma for those the system has failed. His business has been poached lately by corrupt soul monger Neil Osterhaus, who wouldn’t be such a problem were it not for Carmen, Dorian’s captivating ex-lover. She has sold her soul to Osterhaus, and needs Dorian’s help to find a new soul to take her place. Hoping to win back her affections, Dorian must navigate Baltimore’s occult underworld and decide how low he is willing to stoop in order to save Carmen from eternal damnation.