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Until Dawn\n<\/strong><\/em>A Supernatural Anthology<\/strong>
\nRed Penguin Press
\nSept. 3, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n
Buy from Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n My story is titled \u201cThe Dog and the Dead Man<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n Lyana is both a witch and a Crime Scene Investigator for the Metro Washington D.C. police department, but her latest case, the murder of a prominent local philanthropist is going to test her ability to keep the two callings separate. The murdered man had a bit of magical talent himself, and it\u2019s clear that the crime could only have been committed using magic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the last few months, I’ve had quite a few stories accepted for publication in various periodicals or anthologies. They cover a broad range of genres.\u00a0 Those I know of with approximate release dates:<\/p>\n C My story is titled \u201cThe Princess and the Dragon<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n If you think this story is a standard handsome knight rescues damsel from fierce dragon tale, think again. Here are the first three paragraphs to give you the flavor:<\/p>\n Suppose that, like Cyndrith, you happen to be the child of an ambitious mother joined to an insolvent father, a young lady of high birth, better than average looks, and broad but unorthodox education. As fate twists\u2014only slightly assisted by your own and Aunt Vellie\u2019s peculiar talents\u2014you catch the eye of a neighboring prince at a time when he\u2019s under pressure from the relatives to consider his duties. Your problems are solved. Right?<\/em><\/p>\n But further suppose that you do the obvious and necessary, you snag your man, and then you wake up the next day or week or month to find the honeymoon is over and you discover that your handsome, charming husband is a terrific dancer but an incompetent prince? And worse yet, your father-in-law, overjoyed that junior is finally settling down to business, and having just enough\u00a0<\/em>mens sanus\u00a0left to realize that he\u2019s losing it, decides to retire to Bath to take the waters, leaving the kingdom in the hands of your sweet but unqualified husband.<\/em><\/p>\n Cyndrith found the literature dealing with her particular problem scarce; the old legends insisted that everyone tended to live happily ever after, but her story looked likely to be a short, brutal tale \u2014 a leader who is hazy on the difference between cavalry and chivalry can generally expect an early and traumatic retirement.<\/em><\/p>\n Clearly, Cyndrith will have to take care of her own rescues, including confronting a rather unusual dragon!<\/p>\n Home for Holidays<\/strong> Going home for Christmas is not at the top of Lyndsay Williams\u2019 list of things she wants to do, but when her foster brother Josh asks her to come, she agrees, though Lyndsay and the rest of her foster family have never been close. She arrives to find that Josh has also invited his best friend Aaron Hampton to join them. Lyndsay had a crush on Aaron growing up. At Josh\u2019s wedding, she and Aaron found a special connection, only to have their reunion end in disastrous humiliation. Really, she\u2019d hoped never to see Aaron again. The holiday promises to be memorable, though possibly for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n BOULD Anthology<\/strong> Carolina Crimes: 20 Tales of Rock, Roll, and Ruin. 42 Stories Anthology Prepare for some BSP (blatant self-promotion) here.\u00a0 This released today (Sept. 3): Until Dawn A Supernatural Anthology Red Penguin Press Sept. 3, 2021 Buy from Amazon My story is titled \u201cThe Dog and the Dead Man.\u201d Lyana is both a …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,141,57,14,18,7,204],"tags":[227,226],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-christmas","category-dragons","category-magic","category-mysteries","category-romance","category-writing","tag-anthologies","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Crunchy_w_Chocolate1-199x300.jpg\")
<\/a>runchy with Chocolate<\/strong><\/em>
\nAn Anthology of Dragon Stories<\/strong>
\nOctober, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nA Christmas Romance Anthology
\n<\/strong>November, 2021
\nMy story is \u201cThe Ghosts of Christmas Present\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nNovember, 2021
\nMy story is titled \u201cReservations Required.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Date: TBA
\nMy short story is titled \u201cRock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Never Forgets.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Date: TBA
\nMy 42-word short mystery story is “BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"