Books & Stories

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

I AM GRAVITY

Category: Creative nonfiction picture book
Publisher: Tilbury House
Date: Spring 2024

I AM LIGHT

Category: Creative nonfiction picture book
Publisher: Tilbury House
Date: TBD

I AM SMOKE

Category: Creative nonfiction picture book
Publisher: Tilbury House
Format: Hardcover (36 pages, 9 x 11″)

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2 PIRATES + 1 ROBOT

Category: Science fiction picture book
Publisher: Kane Miller Books
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 11 x 9″)

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HOW THE SQUID GOT TWO LONG ARMS

Category: Tall tale picture book
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 8.5 x 11″)

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GOOD EGG AND BAD APPLE

Category: picture book
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 7 x 10″)

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ALICE’S MAGIC GARDEN

Category: Fantasy picture book
Publisher: Familius
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 11.4 x 9.4″)

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CAP’N REX & HIS CLEVER CREW

Category: picture book
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 8.5 x 11″)

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LITTLE RED CUTTLEFISH

Category: Fairy tale picture book
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 8.5 x 11″)

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MABEL AND THE QUEEN OF DREAMS

Category: Urban fantasy bedtime picture book
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 8.5 x 11″)

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WHEN YOU GIVE AN IMP A PENNY

Category: Fantasy picture book
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 7 x 9″)

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MONSTER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES

Category: Fantasy picture book
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Format: Hardcover (32 pages, 7 x 9″)

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CHILDREN’S SHORT STORIES

• “Cheating Death” young adult horror story in THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE anthology (Blackstone Publishing, April 2023)
  
• “The Seventh Son of Cerro Corá” young adult dark fantasy story in THEIR GHOULISH REPUTATION anthology (Dark Lake Publishing, 2022)
  
• “Libbie and Dewey’s Excellent Adventure” young adult sci-fi story in THE LIBRARIAN anthology (Air & Nothingness Press, 2022)
  
• “The Magic Backpack” middle grade fairy tale in Metastellar, 5/3/22
  
• “When Curiosity Saved the Cat” middle grade horror story in WIMBLEDON COMMON charity anthology (Black Hare Press, 2022)
  
• “Bar Mitzvah on Planet Latke” middle grade sci-fi/humor story in COMING OF AGE: 13 B’NAI MITZVAH STORIES anthology (Albert Whitman & Co, April 2022)
  
• “A Proper Party” story (Ladybug, April 2021)
  
• “A Haughty Spirit in the Fall” Halloween poem in CANDY CAPERS charity anthology (Raven and Drake Publishing, 2021)
  
• “Pay the Piper” fractured folk tale (Highlights for Children, TBD)
• “Born to Dance” nonfiction story (Highlights for Children, TBD)
• “Maria & Maslow” sci-fi story, with Livia Blackburne (Highlights for Children, Nov. 2020)
  
• “The Castle on the Loch” young adult gothic horror story in CASTLE OF HORROR IV anthology (Castle Bridge Media, 2020)
  

ADULT SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS

• “Bards of a Feather” adult fairy tale in TROUBADOURS AND SPACE PRINCESSES charity anthology (Hemelein Publications, 2024)
• “Who You Gonna Call?” adult nonfiction essay (Weird Tales Magazine 100th year anniversary issue)
• “Three Little Porcinians” adult fairy tale in A HERO OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE charity anthology (Hemelein Publications, 2023)
  
• “Don’t Mess with a Renfield” adult cosmic horror story (Dracula Beyond Stoker Magazine, issue 2, 2023)
  
• “Guardians of the Grünwald” adult fractured fairy tale in SUPERSTITION anthology (Redwood Press, 2023)
  
• “The Repairwoman” adult sci-fi noir story in THE FUTURE’S SO BRIGHT anthology (Water Dragon Publishing, 2022)
  
• “Not on My Watch” adult cosmic horror/humor story in LOLcraft anthology (Dragon’s Roost Press, 2022)
  
• “Norsemen Cruise Line” adult cosmic horror story (Dracula Beyond Stoker Magazine, issue 1, 2022)
  
• “Caleb the Courageous” adult steampunk story in CATSTRUCK charity anthology (Tenth Life Cat Rescue, 2022)
  
• “Heart of the Dragon” adult steampunk fantasy story in PHANTASMICAL CONTRAPTIONS anthology (JayHenge Publishing, 2022)
  
• USSF: Sailing the Deepest Sea” adult nonfiction essay (Metastellar, 2022)
  
• “The Ghosts of Enerhodar” adult military horror story in LITERALLY DEAD: Tales of Halloween Hauntings anthology (Alienhead Press, 2022)
  
• “Guests for Dinner” adult urban fantasy story in CASTLE OF HORROR VIII (Thinly Veiled 1980’s) anthology (Castle Bridge Media, 2022)
  
• “A Vampire, an Astrophysicist, and a Mother Superior Walk into a Basilica” adult fantasy story in THREE TIME TRAVELERS WALK INTO… anthology (Fantastic Books, 2022)
  
• “Unbreakable” fractured myth story in MUSINGS OF THE MUSES anthology (Brigid’s Gate Press, 2022)
  
• “The Case of the Murderous Alien” adult steampunk story in SPIRIT MACHINE anthology (Air and Nothingness Press, 2022)
  
• “Log of the Starfreighter Demeter” adult horror/sci-fi story in BEYOND anthology (Great Void Press, 2022)
  
• “The Troll Sons of Grýla” adult fantasy story in THE HAUNTED QUILL anthology (Megara Publishing, 2021)
  
• “Was Hellboy’s Prince Nuada Actually Tolkien’s Fëanor?” nonfiction essay (Interstellar Flight Press and TheOneRing.net, 2021)
  
• “Alien with a Bad Attitude” adult sci-fi/humor story in STRANGELY FUNNY VIII anthology (Mystery and Horror LLP, 2021)
  
• “Demon Hunter Vashti” adult horror story in THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR (Denver Horror Collective, 2021). “A superior anthology,” says Publishers Weekly. Horror Tree gives the anthology 4 out of 5 “ravens”. Awarded an IPPY Bronze Medal by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
     
• “A Supreme Leader’s Work Is Never Done” adult political satire in dyst Literary Journal (RoseyRavelston Publishing, 2021)
  
• “Sweet As Honey” adult fairy tale mashup in UPON A TWICE TIME anthology (Air and Nothingness Press, 2021)
  
• “The Crowe Family” adult urban fantasy story in CASTLE OF HORROR V (Thinly Veiled 1970’s) anthology (Castle Bridge Media, 2021)
  
• “Norsemen: The Best Netflix Series You Haven’t Seen” nonfiction essay (Interstellar Flight Press, 2021 and Best of the Year Three anthology)
       
• “The Kelpie of Loch Ness” adult contemporary fantasy story in IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE IV anthology (Sinister Smile Press, 2021)
  
• “Four Fab Physicists” adult sci-fi/humor short story in STRANGELY FUNNY VII anthology (Mystery & Horror LLC, 2020)
  
• “Gluttony” adult horror/humor short story in CLASSICS REMIXED fractured fairy tale anthology (Left Hand Publishers, 2019) & in Metastellar, 12/31/21
   

ADULT FLASH, POETRY & MICRO-FICTION

• “Betwixt Canopy and Cavern” adult fantasy story in GARGANTUA anthology (Air and Nothingness Press, 2023)
  
• “The Last Enchantress” adult fairy tale (The Fairy Tale Magazine, 2023)
  
• “My Master’s Eyes Cannot Abide the Sun” adult horror sonnet in SHAKESPEARE UNLEASHED comic book (Monstrous Books, 2023)
  
• “Alien Parasite” adult sci-fi/horror drabble in DARK STARS anthology (Shacklebound Books 2023)
  
• “Disagreeable” adult fantasy drabble (Flash Fiction Magazine, 12/10/22)
  
• “The Greater Good” and “Eat Prey Love” adult sci-fi drabbles in PLANETSIDE anthology (Shacklebound Books, 2022)
  
• “Misadministration of Justice” course descriptions in NAFALLEN UNIVERSITY 2022-2023 COURSE CATALOG (Madness Heart, 2022)
  
• Silmarillion haiku in TheOneRing.net‘s the Great Hall of Poets, 2022
  
• “Swarm of Drones” adult sci-fi poem (Utopia Science Fiction magazine, 2021)
  
• “Poisoned Stew to Go” adult fantasy/humor story (Enchanted Conversation, 10/31/21)
  
• Hobbit haiku in TheOneRing.net‘s the Great Hall of Poets, 2021
  
• “Zombieland Walden” adult horror drabble in DARK MAGIC anthology (Eerie River Publishing, 2021)
  
• “Zombie Boarding School” adult horror story in SCHOOL’S IN anthology (Black Hare Press, 2020)
  

• “Witches’ Brew” adult horror story in HEXED anthology (Iron Faerie Publishing, 2020)
  
• “Fallen Angel” adult fairy tale story (Enchanted Conversation, 10/14/21)
  
• “Out, Damned Virus” adult humor drabble (Daily Science Fiction, 9/17/20)
  
• “Zombie Oliver Twist” adult horror drabble in 100 WORD BIGGER ZOMBIE BITES 2 anthology (Reanimated Writers Press, 2020)
  
• “O Captain” adult horror drabble in OCEANS anthology (Black Hare Press, 2020)
  
• “Leviathan” adult horror drabble in FORGOTTEN ONES anthology (Eerie River Publishing, 2020)
  
• “Lend Me Your Arms” and “All the World’s a Shipwreck” adult horror/humor drabbles in 100 WORD ZOMBIE BITES anthology (Reanimated Writers Press, 2019)
  
• “The Zombie Brigade” adult horror/humor drabble in APOCALYPSE anthology (Black Hare Press, 2019)
  
• “Ghost Father” adult paranormal/humor drabble in BEYOND paranormal anthology (Black Hare Press, 2019)
  
• “Sins and Virtues” adult dark fantasy/humor drabble in ANGELS fantasy anthology (Black Hare Press, 2019)
  
• “Forbidden Love”, “Blind Date”, and “Zombie Sonnet 43” adult horror/humor drabbles in MONSTERS dark fantasy anthology (Black Hare Press, 2019)
  
• WRITING ARTICLES
  • “5 Powerful Writing Techniques That Bring Stories to Life” in TheWriteLife webzine
  • “3 Free Apps for Making an Impressive Book Trailer” in TheWriteLife webzine
  • “So You Want to Write a Picture Book” in TheWriteLife webzine
  • “Children’s Book Authors: Have You Tried Kindle Kids’ Book Creator?” in TheWriteLife webzine
  • “Should You Self-Publish or Go Traditional?” in TheWriteLife webzine

EDITING

• COMBAT MONSTERS adult World War II fantasy anthology (Blackstone Publishing, 2024)
• WINK young adult contemporary fantasy anthology (Brigid’s Gate Press, 2024)
• THE HITHERTO SECRET EXPERIMENTS OF MARIE CURIE young adult horror anthology (co-editor with Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Blackstone Publishing, 2023) – stories by Mylo Carbia, Stacia Deutsch, Sarah Beth Durst, Henry Herz, Alethea Kontis, Susanne Lambdin, Dee Leone, Jonathan Maberry, Emily McCosh, Seanan McGuire, Steve Pantazis, Lissa Price, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Scott Sigler, Christine Taylor-Butler, Jo Whittemore, Jane Yolen.   Learn more
  
• COMING OF AGE: 13 B’NAI MITZVAH STORIES middle grade anthology (co-editor with Jonathan Rosen, Albert Whitman & Co, 2022) – stories by Sarah Aronson, Nora Raleigh Baskin, Barbara Bottner, Stacia Deutsch, Debbie Reed Fischer, Debra Garfinkle, Henry Herz, Alan Katz, Nancy Krulik, Stacie Ramey, Jonathan Rosen, Melissa Roske, Laura Shovan, Jane Yolen.  Learn more
  
• BEYOND THE PALE adult dark fantasy anthology (Birch Tree Publishing, 2014) – stories by Saladin Ahmed, Peter S. Beagle, Heather Brewer, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Kami Garcia, Nancy Holder, Gillian Philip, Jane Yolen.   Learn more      Buy on Audible.com

• FREELANCE EDITOR
  The Serpents of Eden adult fantasy novel (Running Wild Press, 2024)
  
  Sun Loves Clouds picture book

OTHER PROJECTS

NORSEMEN forever

• NORSEMEN forever is a fan site for the hilarious Netflix viking series.

 

SIX DEGREES OF SAURON

• Henry co-developed with LOTRproject a free web application that applies Six Degrees of Separation to the characters of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. The Dark Lord is closer than you think!