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Water Dragon Publishing Welcomes Author Nigel Williams

Nigel Williams

We are thrilled to announce that we have signed an agreement with author Nigel Williams to publish his debut novel, The Sideways Man. Nigel Williams was born in the middle of England and is a voracious reader, geek, and true crime buff. He began writing in later life to stave off the terror of encroaching middle age. He lives in Sheffield with his wife and two young children. When not reading or writing, he usually spends his life fixing the house or wondering where his spare time went. The Sideways Man, a dark fantasy thriller about a serial killer who...

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New Book Release: “Corporate Catharsis: The Work From Home Edition”

Corporate Catharsis - The Work From Home Edition (front cover) v3

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest anthology, Corporate Catharsis: The Work From Home Edition! The pandemic came and the world changed. Lives have changed; work has changed. The boundaries between reality and fantasy have become as blurred as those between life and work.Corporate Catharsis: The Work From Home Edition explores the impact of the COVID pandemic on everyone's personal and professional lives through speculative fiction, featuring stories by Alicia Adams, Antaeus, Pauline Barmby, Steven D. Brewer, Dominick Cancilla, Adrienne Canino, Graham J. Darling, Derek Des Anges, Manny Frishberg, Alex Grehy, Jon Hansen, Alexa Kellow, Jack Nash,...

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New Book Release: “The Future’s So Bright”

The Future's So Bright (front cover)

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest anthology, The Future's So Bright! Out of the darkness of the present comes the light of the days ahead … From all the good things provided by advanced AI to the innocence of discovering new worlds, join our authors as they present uplifting stories of science fiction and fantasy. Featuring stories by Kevin David Anderson, Maureen Bowden, Steven D. Brewer, Nels Challinor, Regina Clarke, Stephen C. Curro, Jetse de Vries, Nestor Delfino, Gail Ann Gibbs, Henry Herz, Gwen C. Katz, Brandon Ketchum, Julia LaFond, R. Jean Mathieu, Syn McDonald, Christopher Muscato, Alfred Smith, A.M. Weald, and David Wright. The Future's So Bright is available now in hardcover, trade paperback, and digital editions.

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Water Dragon Publishing Welcomes Author J. Scott Coatsworth

We are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement with author J. Scott Coatsworth to publish his “Tharassas Cycle” trilogy. J. Scott Coatsworth writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both), brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be and, in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little. A Rainbow Award-winning...

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Water Dragon Publishing Welcomes Author Diane De Pisa

We are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement with author Diane De Pisa to publish her novel, Xarbo. Diane’s grief-and-relief memoir, Love of Finished Years, was published in 2021 from Wipf & Stock. Her prior publications include three articles on Black Elk Speaks, twenty poems in journals, a retrospective on Berkeley in the sixties, and a satirical novel, As Sour Grapes Ripen, condensed and serialized in the Berkeley Times. She has won recognition for both prose and poetry, including a Poetry Society of America’s award for “Bird Tracks: A Pantoum”, and grand prize for a short story,...

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Water Dragon Publishing Welcomes Author Elaine Isaak

We are excited to announce that we have signed an agreement with author Elaine Isaak to publish her fantasy novel, A Wreck of Dragons. Elaine Isaak writes adventure novels inspired by research subjects like medieval surgery, ancient clockworks, and Byzantine mechanical wonders. Published works include Drakemaster (Guardbridge 2022), The Dark Apostle series (DAW), and the “Bone Guard” archaeological thrillers. Her next adventure will be interactive superhero novel Skystrike: Wings of Justice, for Choice of Games. While researching her books, she learned how to hunt with a falcon, clear a building of possible assailants, and pull traction on a broken limb....

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