What’s going on with Narrelle right now? Why, this of course!
Dual Book Launch: The She-Wolf of Baker Street and Dark Deeds Down Under 2
Saturday 25 May 2024 , 2-3pm, Readings St Kilda,112 Acland St, St Kilda
The She-Wolf of Baker Street and Dark Deeds Down Under 2 are getting a dual launch at the St Kilda Readings store, hosted by crime writer Kagtherine Kovacic, with Emma Viskic and Robert Gott representing the crime writers and me for the menopausal werewolf!
The event is free but you need to book: you can do that here at Trybooking
Review of The She-Wolf of Baker Street!
I’m thrilled with my first review for The She-Wolf of Baker Street!!! Ashleigh Meikle says:
“As ancient & modern worlds, mythology & reality collide…this unique Holmesian adventure was brilliantly executed, & managed to traverse the fae traditions in a modern context to allow the story to work well & come to life as part of the Holmesian cannon of literature.”
- Read The Book Muse review here
- Follow the Books2Read link to buy!
- Clan Destine Press
- Improbable Press (US)
The Swordmaster’s Secret and other Stories: The Further Adventures of the Colonial Boy
The HistFic Outside the Box promo has ended, but you can still get these short stories, set after the events of my Sherlock Holmes/John Watson historical crime romance The Adventure of the Colonial Boy online via my KoFi and Patreon stores!
It contains:
- The Swordmaster’s Secret
- A Less than Ideal Husband
- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
- Winter Ice
- The Case of the Vinegar Valentine
- Bored
- The Beekeeper’s Children
You can get The Swordmaster’s Secret at:
Sherlock is a Girls’ Name
Sherlock is a Girls’ Name – edited by me and Atlin Merrick – features 11 short stories and 4 221bs where Sherlock identifies as a woman, all written by female-identifying authors. The stunning cover art, featuring 11 Sherlocks from all the longer stories, is by the fabulous Andrea L Farley, who also did the art for Clamour and Mischief.
I also have a story in the anthology – “The Solitary Recyclist”, a futuristic tale of Sherlock Holmes living on the Londinium, one ship in a fleet of generations starships, and how she meets a sentient android named W4t50n.
Other stories imagine Holmes in 1990s Russia, Victorian London, contemporary USA, worlds of magic and more, and her many Watsons include ghosts, a young boy who doesn’t speak, a teenage tuba player, a stranger on a plane…
Along with me, anthology authors include Tansy Rayner Roberts, Eugen Bacon, Sarah Tollok, Verity Burns, Dannye Chase, Kenzie Lappin, JD Cadmon, Millie Billingsworth, Stacy Lawhorne, Karen J Carlisle, Katya de Becerra and Atlin Merrick.
Sherlock is a Girls’ Name is now available at:
- Clan Destine Press
- Improbable Press
- These online stores via Books2Read
Walking Shadows re-release
Over on my Patreon, the serialisation of my second Vampires of Melbourne book, Walking Shadows, ended late last year, after being out of print for several years.
Now the new ebook, with its pretty new Jill Harris cover (that matches that on the re-release of The Opposite of Life) is now available!
Get Walking Shadows at:
Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead
I’m so excited to have a story in Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead, published by Improbable Press and edited by Atlin Merrick with cover art by Claudia Caranfa.
The anthology is inspired by the idea of rewriting the (out of copyright) literary lives of female characters who got a raw deal in the original telling – from Anna Karenina and Dido to Wendy Darling and Annabelle Lee. Thirty-two stories give these women not just new endings – some of them get different paths altogether, which avoid those endings of suffering, madness and/or death. My story, “Metamorphosis”, sets Madame Butterfly on a different course.
Get this fabulous anthology at: