Well, depending on your definition of book that is. Katalagein is a short story collection of most of my SF/F cat stories, which were published all over the place between 1996 and 2011. Several were award winners, one appeared in Further Adventures of Xena Warrior Princess, (and appears here by very kind permission of ACE,) and there are another five original to this collection for a total of 16 stories. The book is out as an ebook on Smashwords via the publisher, Sky Warrior Books, and it’ll cost you $4.99USD to DL and read. I hope lots of you do and that you all enjoy the pitter patter of furry paws.
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I checked your website trying to find out if the characters from Horsing Around are THAT Xena and Gabrielle. Love the short story collection. I started with your Beastmaster novels. Please, please, please write more Beastmaster novels! Thank you.
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Hi Lorene, yes, they were THAT Gabrielle and Xena, back when the TV series was in its last year or so an anthology of the Xena and Gabrielle short stories was published. I had the story in that, and later on, was kindly granted permission to reprint it in Katalagein.
As for thr Beastmaster novels, sigh. Andre was an old friend with whom I stayed a number of times. She ASKED me to write more Beastmaster and loved the three books I completed. We had planned to do more – quite a few more – but then she died, the copyright went elsewhere and the elsewhere wouldn’t allow me to write in that world any further. I’d have loved to do more, we’d planned not just Beastmaster but more Witch World/Dales books too, and all that went by the board. Nothing I can do. Instead I’ve been writing Holmes books for Wildside, (as well as fantasy for them) and enjoying it, but I still regret the 6 more Beastmaster and 5 more Witch World/Dales books we’d planned, and I feel sad that while I’d promised I would keep writing in her worlds, because of circumstances I had to break that promise.