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The relentless ticking of a clock as time slips away marks the breathless pace of these remarkable stories. In Fiction River’s third edition of its Pulse Pounders series, these sixteen authors push the envelope of the thriller form. From a man desperately searching for his missing little girl to a chef racing to finish a cooking competition to an airship captain facing a deadly adversary, these stories will keep your pulse racing until the very end. “… fans of the unconventional will be well satisfied.” —Publishers Weekly on Fiction River: Pulse Pounders Table of Contents “Payback is a Bitch” by Diana Deverell “Death-Blind” by Robert Jeschonek “The Airship Adventures of Captain Jane Fury” by Anthea Sharp “Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest” by Henry Martin “The Tomb of Arisel” by Bonnie Elizabeth “Goodnight, Madison” by Lisa Silverthorne “Romancing the Puffin” by Louisa Swann “Dominant Species” by Dayle A. Dermatis “Three Seconds” by T. Thorn Coyle “Blood Chase” by Leah Cutter “Caterpillar Boot Man” by Valerie Brook “The Case of the Dead Son” by Laura Ware “Breakfast at Luigi’s” by Thea Hutcheson “Black Phantom, Gray Op” by Stefon Mears “The Last Ramekin” by Liz Pierce “The Princess, the Huntsman and the Monster” by Erik Lynd Fiction River is an original fiction anthology series. Modeled on successful anthology series of the past, from Orbit to Universe to Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, the goal of Fiction River is to provide a forum for “original ground-breaking fiction of all genres.” Each Fiction River volume comes in ebook and trade paperback format, published by WMG Publishing, and features some of the best new and established fiction writers in publishing. Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are award-winning editors, as well as award-winning writers, and act as series editors for the anthologies. For more information about the authors or Fiction River, go to www.fictionriver.com.
Authors
TT. Thorn Coyle has been arrested at least four times. Buy her a cup of tea or a good whisky and she'll tell you about it. A salty-tongued, tattooed mystic, Thorn is author of the alt-history urban fantasy series The Panther Chronicles, the novel Like Water, and two short story collections. The Witches of Portland will be out in Spring, 2018. She has also written multiple non-fiction books including Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists & Other Creatives, Kissing the Limitless, and Evolutionary Witchcraft. Thorn's work appears in many anthologies, magazines, and collections. She has taught magical practice in nine countries, on four continents, and in twenty-five states. Her other occupations have been numerous, and include working four years each on the Pacific Stock Options floor (as a young Anarchist punk with a blue, flat-top Mohawk), in a woman-run peep show, and full time in the San Francisco soup kitchen she ended up volunteering at for twenty years. All of this, along with her activism, informs her fiction. An interloper to the Pacific Northwest, Thorn joyfully stalks city streets, writes in cafes, and talks to crows, squirrels, and trees. Thorn is active on: Twitter @ThornCoyle Facebook https://www.facebook.com/tthorncoyle Medium https://medium.com/@ThornCoyle Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ThornCoyle http://www.thorncoyle.com
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A native Oregonian, Diana Deverell was a US Foreign Service Officer and served in Washington DC, San Salvador, and Warsaw, before she moved to rural Denmark to write fulltime. Her latest release is LAY BARE THE LIE, the sixth book in the Nora Dockson legal thriller series, featuring a woman ex-con turned appeals lawyer. The first five books in order are HELP Me NORA, RIGHT THE WRONG, HEAR MY PLEA, JUDGE ME NOT, and OPEN THE DOOR. “Mercy Find Me”, a story spun off the series, was a finalist for the 2019 Derringer Award for short mystery fiction. and is now available as an ebook short story. Diana debuted as a published writer in 1998 with 12 DRUMMERS DRUMMING, her first Casey Collins International Thriller. 12 Drummers Drumming, her first international thriller. The latest thriller in the series is CHINA BOX. The four-book series spans seventeen years in the career of her heroine, State Department intelligence analyst Casey Collins. Diana has also written the political thriller BITCH OUT OF HELL starring security pro Bella Hinton and told in Bella’s own salty words. Bella is the heroine of “Payback is a Bitch,” a short story appearing in the Fiction River – Pulse Pounders: Countdown, edited by Kevin J. Anderson. Before shining in stories of her own, Bella played a supporting role in several international thrillers taking place from the Cold War to the present. Diana’s published short fiction includes five stories starring FBI Special Agent Dawna Shepherd which are available as ebook short stories. Dawna’s early adventures are collected in RUN & GUN: A Dozen Tales of Girls with Guns and she plays a supporting role in BITCH OUT OF HELL and three international thrillers.
Leah Cutter writes page-turning fiction in exotic locations, such as New Orleans, ancient China, the Oregon coast, rural Kentucky, Seattle, Minneapolis, Budapest, and other places. Her fiction includes literary, fantasy, mystery, science fiction, and horror, and has been published in magazines, anthologies, and on the web. Read more stories by Leah Cutter at www.KnottedRoadPress.com. Follow her blog at www.LeahCutter.com.
