CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

 Curiosity kills more than cats, and when you're not much taller than a pencil, you need to take more care then most. Road Trip is the story of how one fairy's curiosity takes her into the seamy underside of a human world trying to adapt to the complications of being rejoined to the Otherworld - and the crimes that come with it. You can find links to this newly released, stand-alone, urban fantasy short story on this Books2Read page : https://books2read.com/u/4E8O5l .

Harper & the Unicorn released overnight. You can find it at the usual venues: Amazon , Smashwords , Kobo , GooglePlay, DriveThruFiction , Books2Read and via Smashwords and Draft2Digital distribution When Harper goes after a lone unicorn without back-up she’s breaking every rule, and none. The only questions are: will her partner get to her before things go totally to pieces, and exactly how much havoc can one lone unicorn and a P.O.S. officer create before back-up arrives?

This is just to let you know that Reluctant Liaison has just released and will return to the usual price of 2.99, shortly. It is available on Smashwords , Amazon , and DriveThruFiction, and is available via Draft2Digital distribution. I woke up in a car—upside down, staring into the faces of a half dozen pixies sitting on a tree branch. To one side, was a cliff face, to the other, sky, and things were starting to shift. Apparently, I’d had an interesting night… if only I could remember what it was, and why I’d run, and why following the pixies scared me almost as much as the idea of staying in the car… In Reluctant Liaison the Paranormal Operations Squad is faced with a dilemma outside their usual remit, when Otherworld and ‘real’ world cultures clash.

The first new cover that arrived this week was for the urban fantasy short story, Reluctant Liaison , which will be published next Friday. I woke up in a car—upside down, staring into the faces of a half dozen pixies sitting on a tree branch. To one side, was a cliff face, to the other, sky, and things were starting to shift. Apparently, I’d had an interesting night… if only I could remember what it was, and why I’d run, and why following the pixies scared me almost as much as the idea of staying in the car… In Reluctant Liaison the Paranormal Operations Squad is faced with a dilemma outside their usual remit, when Otherworld and ‘real’ world cultures clash.

Show-Down at the Shadow Lake I started writing this piece on January 18, 2014, and completed it on January 23, 2014. It was written for Chuck Wendig’s terribleminds blog flash fiction challenge for this week. This time we were allowed 2,000 words, instead of the usual 1,000 words, and I found this a more difficult target to meet than the shorter lengths. As with all the word maximums for these contests, I used it as the end word count goal. For this contest, we had to roll on three tables to discover the Who, the Where and the Uh-Oh of our story. I rolled ‘7’ earning an accountant as the story’s protagonistic ‘who’. This was followed by a ‘10’, which meant my account was to be found in a casino, facing down the besiegement of supernatural enemies, resulting from a second roll of ‘10’. The story was due by noon on January 24, 2014, EST US. Never do the books when you haven’t had enough sleep – no matter how much the client threatens to do you bodily harm. They’ll do ...