An immortal warrior hopes a final battle will set him free…
A big-game hunter preys on endangered species to supply an illicit restaurant…
A new technology soothes First World guilt…
Here are four dark tales that straddle the boundary between reality and speculation. You better hope they don’t come true.
Available in electronic edition!
The Quintessence of Absence
Can a drug-addicted sorcerer sober up long enough to save a kidnapped girl and his own duchy?
In an alternate eighteenth-century Germany where magic is real and paganism never died, Lothar is in the bonds of nepenthe, a powerful drug that gives him ecstatic visions. It has also taken his job, his friends, and his self-respect. Now his old employer has rehired Lothar to find the man's daughter, who is in the grip of her own addiction to nepenthe.
As Lothar digs deeper into the girl's disappearance, he uncovers a plot that threatens the entire Duchy of Anhalt, and finds that the only way to stop it is to face his own weakness.
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Writing Books by Sean McLachlan
Writing Secrets of the World’s Most Prolific Authors
What does it take to write 100 books? What about 500? Or 1,000?
That may sound like an impossibly high number, but it isn’t. Some of the world’s most successful authors wrote hundreds of books over the course of highly lucrative careers. Isaac Asimov wrote more than 300 books. Enid Blyton wrote more than 800. Legendary Western writer Lauren Bosworth Paine wrote close to 1,000.
Some wrote even more.
This book examines the techniques and daily habits of more than a dozen of these remarkable writers to show how anyone with the right mindset can massively increase their word count without sacrificing quality. Learn the secrets of working on several projects simultaneously, of reducing the time needed for each book, and how to build the work ethic you need to become more prolific than you ever thought possible.
Available in electronic and print editions!
History Books by Sean McLachlan
Wild West History
Apache Warrior vs. US Cavalryman: 1846-86 (Osprey: 2016)
Tombstone—Wyatt Earp, the O.K. Corral, and the Vendetta Ride (Osprey: 2013)
The Last Ride of the James-Younger Gang (Osprey: 2012)
Civil War History
Ride Around Missouri: Shelby’s Great Raid 1863 (Osprey: 2011)
American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics (Osprey: 2009)
Missouri History
Outlaw Tales of Missouri (Globe Pequot: 2009)
Missouri: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene: 2008)
It Happened in Missouri (Globe Pequot: 2007)
Medieval History
Medieval Handgonnes: The First Black Powder Infantry Weapons (Osprey: 2010)
Byzantium: An Illustrated History (Hippocrene: 2004)
African History
Armies of the Adowa Campaign 1896: The Italian Disaster in Ethiopia (Osprey: 2011)
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