Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: With the official creation of the new American Pantheon looming, Gunnery Sergeant James O’Driscoll is pulled into the fight for control. Despite all the fights he’s already survived, the Marine Corps has called him to save Boston from the wrath of the Celtic God of Darkness, who wants …
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Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: Ozwald Carnavon used to be a lowly rank-one nobody mining “Red” on a plane of fire. Now, he’s the acting head of the officially sanctioned (but totally broke) Academy of Outcasts. Situated in “The Tube”—a mile-tall wizard tower that fell over fifty years ago and is now an …
Read more “Alumni Alerts: Magic and Bullets (Academy of Outcasts Book 2) by Larry Correia”
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: Colt Ostergaard is a man with a gun who just won’t stay dead. On the harsh frontier world of Tenris, where winters last decades and predators hunt both man and beast, the drifting gunslinger rides the high plains. Haunted by a war he tried to end with mercy …
Read more “Alumni Alerts: Colt Ostergaard: A Man With a Gun by Rick Cutler”
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants (specifically, Nancy Frye and Spearman Burke): They’ve been overlooked, underestimated, and politely sidelined for decades. Fine. That’s fine. Let them keep underestimating. In the pages of Auntie Heroes, meet ten women of a certain vintage who possess particular sets of skills and absolutely zero patience for the alternative. …
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Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants (and it’s apparently Jay Barnson Week around here!): Enemies march on Alcort! Aiden Holt and his allies built the impossible: a free community in the heart of the Frontier, the most monster-haunted wilderness in the known world. Sheltering in an ancient Vault, a fortress full of forgotten magic, …
Read more “Alumni Alerts: Armies of the Forgotten Lands: The Vanished Book 5 by Jay Barnson”
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants (and that’s right Jay Barnson is the subject of two posts in a row!): Brass gears. Steam engines. Impossible machines. In this collection of six high-adventure steampunk tales, daring heroes, stubborn heroines, and dangerous mechanical creations collide in worlds powered by steam and imagination. From desperate airship combat …
Read more “Alumni Alerts: Tales from the Clockwork Coyote by Jay Barnson”
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: The Peace Child was a sacred custom, one which had held for thousands of years. Red was a soldier at the end of a long career, who just wanted to retire to his estate and forget about the world. But then his king asked him to perform one …
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: Heroes are chosen. Monsters are made. John Kincaid lived by one rule: Serve the benevolent Dragons who protect Earth from dangers beyond human imagination. Aston Spencer has a magic spark, but he needs John’s help to learn the ropes and stay alive long enough to grow into his …
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: Step into ten stories of vibrant universes, where gleaming rays of energy shape the future and the past collides with the fantastic unknown. This collection of short stories invites you to explore a genre that is often called “Raypunk” or “Raygun Gothic,” but we call “Plasma Pulp”—because “punk” …
Read more “Alumni Alerts: Plasma Pulp: Lost Worlds, edited by LawDog”
Spotlighting new work by Writers Cantina participants: I, Magi is a gritty historical fantasy of survival, exile, and the first stirrings of a power long thought lost. When a young man’s home is destroyed by war and betrayal, he is forced to flee into a harsh and unforgiving world. With enemies behind him and uncertainty …