Slavic-Folklore-Inspired Fantasy
The Bone Roots – It’s been 40 years since the Fox took Kada’s brother. Though she ran and kept herself hidden, she fears it may be stalking her again, this time to steal her daughter.
Every year, Vedma Kada gives thanks to the bone roots – those that belong to the child-bearing tree who gave Kada her desperately-wanted baby, Secha. Kada lives her life in service of the bone roots and the goddess Zemya, but they cannot keep her daughter safe. Not when Secha’s emerging powers, both mysterious and brutish, threaten to out her for who she truly is…
Meanwhile Sladyana, a rich noblewoman, has spent the last fifteen years searching for her missing daughter, Luba. She was snatched from their home by the Fox thief and Sladyana has heard nothing from her since. But the one who gave Sladyana her daughter has come within her grasp once again, and so has the secret of her daughter’s fate.
The Second Bell – Adult Slavic-folklore-inspired fantasy about a striga and her mother, out from Angry Robot Books, March 2021
Alternative History Romance
1899: A fay grifter seeks fortune and security.
Love was never the plan.
In the late Victorian era, a technological marvel allows scientists to open rifts into the realms of legend. Powerful creatures, weakened and stripped of their memories, are brought to serve the whims of the wealthy elite…
Hare, a young woman with a mythical secret finds herself trapped, facing an unenviable future.
When an equally desperate schoolmistress, Miss Anne Bonningham offers her a chance at freedom, they embark on a daring plan. Disguised as “Miss Edwina Walker,” Hare navigates the treacherous waters of London high society, solely focused on securing a marriage and escaping her past.
However, amidst the glittering balls and intricate social games, as hidden agendas surface and a vengeful figure from her past threatens to expose her true identity, Hare must make a choice: embrace a life of comfort and security or choose freedom and a love that could shatter the very foundation of her world.
ANTHOLOGIES
Whispers in the Earth: World Folklore Reimagined is an enchanting anthology where ancient tales bloom anew.
The book includes twenty captivating short stories inspired by myths and legends from around the globe, each one a fresh take on a timeless tradition.
Hand-printed linocut illustrations by Gabriela Houston breathe life into every fantastical world with a unique work of art, carved into lino, inked, printed by hand and then scanned.
The List of Authors and Stories:
- The Lambton Worm by Stephen Aryan
- Ghost Ships Passing in the Night by Melanie Bell
- Duppy Cyant Frighten We by Jeremiah Brown
- Bonaparte’s Devil by Matthew C. Brown
- A Match Made in Earth by Eliza Chan
- Feeding Monsters by Sarah J. Daley
- Hounded by Jan Edwards
- A Thing of Beauty by David Elikwu
- All the Drowned Women by Tracy Fahey
- Forest Keeper by Genevieve Gornichec
- The Autumn Tree by Dan Hanks
- Persephone Waits by Caroline Hardaker
- An Orcadian Birth by Helen Harradine
- KRATT.A.I. by Sam Horton
- Kozitka by Gabriela Houston
- The Day She Lost Her Horns by Nadia Idle
- Empty Earth by Shannon Ives
- Mara’s Tale by Teika Marija Smits
- Anansi’s Daughter by Rachael Twumasi-Corson
- Lessons in Humanity by Sophia Vahdati
ARTICLES
Articles:
“Where Are All of the Mothers in Fantasy Fiction?” – Published by Den of Geek, March 2021
“Orthodoxy As An Outcast’s Comfort” – Published by SFBooks Reviews
“The Big Idea: Gabriela Houston” – Published on John Scalzi blog
“Writing Through the Microscope: Intimate Versus Epic Narration” – Published by Literary Hub, March 2021
“Slavic Folklore: The Heart of an Incomplete World” – Published by Uncanny, March 2021
“The Second Bell and A Language of My Own” – Published by Women Writers, Women’s Books, January 2021
“The Hidden Side of Darkness: The Second Bell and The Monsters of Slavic Folklore” – Published by Bibliosanctum,
Danger and Beauty in Polish Landscape and Slavic Folklore – Published by TripFiction