Shapechanger’s Birth is now available as a trade paperback. Get it through Amazon or (a few days sooner) directly from the publisher. The publisher login is the same as your Amazon login, since it’s an affiliate.

Buy through the Publisher.

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Or you can buy the Kindle edition.

I’ve added to this site an excerpt from Book Two of the Mary McCarthy trilogy, Shapechanger’s Progress. The book is mostly done, but I won’t publish it until I’ve finished Book Three, Shapechanger’s Destiny. Three is not plotted in complete detail, and I may have to make minor changes in Two to make them fit well together.

In Two Mary is still involved in the Org, though increasingly less so. She wants it to become independent of her so she can travel the world, possibly in new identities.

In the excerpt “Dame Edith” has started a publishing company. Mary in her Dr. McCarthy persona travels to England to induce literary lights to sell rights to their backlist titles to the company. This should be possible since the titles are no longer earning money and even an Irish publisher might bring in some miniscule funds.

She goes to a party put on by George Elliot. There Mary meets several authors, including Elliot, Charles Dickens, Dicken’s associate Colin Wilkie, and Benjamin Disraeli (an author as well as politician).

She also meets other influential people, including Barbara Bodichon and Sophia Jex-Blake. And Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female American medical doctor. That last meeting is to have a major impact on the history of the world.

To read an excerpt from Progress go here.

Two ebooks and one “eshort” are now up on Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

The origin story for the Tales series can be downloaded now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It is The Demon in the Forest, a version of the same story posted on this site.

The ghost/demon on the cover is a photo of the Antarctica summer cloud cover taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1990. Rights assigned to the public by NASA.

The forest photo was taken by me in Ballyvaughan, Ireland, on the south coast of Galway Bay – where Mary McCarthy woke from the dead a shapechanger.

I’ll upload The Super Olympian to Amazon and Barnes & Noble soon.

The background is from a photo I took in Galway, Ireland, when I went there recently. Behind Sasha is Galway Bay, and on the other side is Ballyvaughan, where Mary McCarthy woke from her grave a shapechanger.

The complete Shapechanger’s Birth can be downloaded now from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  Since it is the first of my books that anyone will see, I’ve priced it at $2.99 to sell quickly and give everyone an idea of what the next books will be like.

I’ll follow it with the other two books in the Mary McCarthy trilogy, spaced out in time depending on how Birth is received.

Meanwhile I’ll post The Super Olympian, as soon as I come up with a cover for it that I like. I’m thinking of classifying it as Young Adult.

Ebook versions of the three novels I’ve finished will soon be available on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble web sites.  For more info see the page on ebooks.

And stay tuned here!

How did the shapechangers come to be?

Find out in The Demon in the Forest.