SHORT FICTION:
Death’s Appointment Book, or The Dance of Death (in Sky Whales and Other Wonders) 2009
The Desert in Exile, Byzarium, March 2006.
The Chess-Girl & The Sorcerer-King, Cabinet des Fées, 2006.
The Story of the River and Ophelia, Cabinet des Fées, 2006.
The River in Winter, Cabinet des Fées, Volume 1, 2006.
The Tower, Cabinet des Fées.
The Tale of the Desert that Vanished Inside Her, MYTHIC 2.
Were, Alleys and Doorways, Torquere Press, December 2006.
Ganymede of the Thames, Reflection’s Edge, December 2005.
The Tragedy of Ferdinand, Reflection’s Edge, August 2005.
Galatea Revisited, Reflection’s Edge, May 2005.
The Tale of the Scorpion Prince, Reflection’s Edge, March 2005.
NOVELS:
The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter: In a world gone to flames, the miller’s daughter must guess his name. Based on the story of “Rumpelstiltskin”, this sharp, dark tale of a girl and the creature who offers her assistance is a finely woven tapestry of daughters, fathers and lovers and the breaking of the threads that bind them.
IN PROGRESS:
Owl Skin: A retelling of the French tale “Donkey Skin”. Upon her mother’s death, Princess Emily is enticed into an affair with her father, a Sorcerer-King living in a dead man’s skin, who has a fondness for owls. Clad in the skin of a snowy owl she flees the kingdom, only to face a far more daunting world beyond its walls. A tale of blind Queens and broken Heroes, talking Snakes and sympathetic Spiders, and overall a young woman struggling not to forget, but to forgive. Forthcoming from Papaveria Press.
Nightingale Machine: In a future where steel and bone intertwine, a haughty mechanical Empress demands a new and pleasing Thing to cure her boredom. When her faithful servant brings her a cursed and lonely nursemaid made solely of bone and flesh, the lines between human and machine, flesh and metal, mothers and daughters will change forever.
The Claudius Trilogy
Vice of Kings: An ambitious young man, a tyrannical brother, and the lonely queen who loves and fears them both. A re-telling of Hamlet from Claudius’ point of view, this is a story of love and hate, enchanted gardens and living castles, wounded consciences and a vengeful Prince who will stop at nothing to be king.
Enter, Elsinore: We know the stories of Claudius and Hamlet, but what of the others in Elsinore’s walls? This is the story of Elsinore’s minor players, the wise Yorick, choleric Laertes, ambitious Polonius, drowned Ophelia and doomed lovers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. A companion to Vice of Kings, Enter, Elsinore is the story of a living castle who sees all too clearly the fates of those who dwell within her.
Claudius in Purgatory: After death what awaits a usurping king with a ruined conscience? Join Claudius as he crawls upwards through the kind of Purgatory Dante never dreamed of filled with living statues, hungry gardens and the guilty conscience that stalks him through each maze-like passageway to drag him down to Hell.