For the past three days, I’ve discussed the books in the Seavy County Kickstarter. I’ve only shown you dark fantasy novels, and I teased you with the possibility of other genres. Well, here are two of them. Visitations features the science fiction of Seavy County. It leans heavily into aliens, some of them quite amusing. […]
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There is a place called The Devil’s Churn on a part of the Oregon Coast we can all drive to. Is it the entrance into Seavy County, the imaginary magical part of the Oregon Coast? Maybe…. The Devil’s Churn novel features the actual Devil’s Churn and some great mysterious doings. It’s available as part of […]
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Now that you’ve had a chance to read “The Women of Whale Rock,” you have officially entered the world of FantasyLife. You haven’t read the story? Go back to the home page and scroll down. You can read the story for free. Some of the characters in “The Women of Whale Rock” appear in the novel FantasyLife. […]
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Strange things happen in Whale Rock. Lately, swarming gulls appear on the beach, too many of them, followed by a dead body pecked beyond recognition. Sheriff Dan Retsler knows the county coroner’s report—death by drowning—hides something. But what? Surely, not the magic the locals at the False Colors claim. Retsler doesn’t believe in magic…not yet, […]
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The last week of the Seavy County Kickstarter began today. For the past seven days, we’ve focused on the overall things you could get from stories to novels to workshops. The stories and novels are all set in Seavy County, an imaginary part of the Oregon Coast where strange things occur. As I compiled this, […]
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I wrote Consecrated Ground in the 1990s. The book went through publishing hell. The acquiring editor was fired…after he had slapped a new name on the book and forgot to put it into production. A year later, the book came out under the new name, but the sales force at the NY publisher thought they had […]
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Maxwell Sobel writes about heroes for a living. He studies them, imagines them, imagines being them. But when a routine drive turns into a fight for his life, he must become a real hero. Or lose everything. Voted one of the top ten stories of the year by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine readers. “Heroics” is […]
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Sometimes I have no idea where stories come from. They just evolve. Annie Reed and Dave Hendrickson asked me to participate in their Romance For All Seasons anthology subtitled Festive Fall. They asked for something that would suggest fall and told me that it was okay to include magic in the story. Well, my brain […]
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Many of you have read my Seavy County stories over the years. You might even have noticed they were set in a fictional part of the Oregon Coast. Or maybe you just thought I wrote a lot of Oregon Coast stories. (I do.) I put them in a made-up part of the coast because I […]
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It took me a long time to finish this list, and I did start it in July, like usual. There’s just a lot to recommend from what I was reading. And a few things I’m not going to recommend, mentioned below. A good reading month, all in all. Read a recently published history of 1929. I […]
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