What’s going on with Narrelle right now? Why, this of course!
The Adventure of the Colonial Boy and sequel short stories, The Swordmaster’s Secret
The HistFic Outside the Box promo starts today and goes till 30 April! You can buy my Sherlock Holmes/John Watson historical crime romance The Adventure of the Colonial Boy and also get a NEW free ebook of short stories, set after the novel, The Swordmaster’s Secret! But it’s only free this week!
Get unusual & queer historical fiction by other authors too, including medieval Islamic stories, 13thC Mongols, Wild West, WWI/WWII, & Shakespeare!
https://books.bookfunnel.com/histfic-outsidethebox/iutb5h4rjx
Pre-order Sherlock is a Girls’ Name
The upcoming anthology 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. T
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.
You can pre-order Sherlock is a Girls’ Name at a 20% discount ahead of its end-of-April release at:
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.
You can pre-order the book at a discount until 29 February, 2024 – it will go back to full price on 1 March – from the publisher at: