Raine Wilkins covers Life and Style stories for the Chicago Courier. When she runs into Niko North outside a gala event, she finds herself drawn to him in ways she can't explain. She trusts him—an enigmatic...

Lothario Johansonn invented the computer that runs the North Pole. He spends his life maintaining the machine, a thankless and almost impossible task. When the machine suffers a critical malfunction,...

The youngest of Santa Claus's children, Pippa North feels estranged from her siblings. The competition to become the next Santa Claus doesn't help. So she invites them all to take part in a Santa run...

Julka spends her days inspecting rooftop entrances for the Big Night as part of Santa's Advance team—a team that includes an annoying elf on double secret forever probation. She hates her job. She wants...

Nissa Kealoha helps control Santa's image—his brand. An Image Specialist with Claus & Company, she helps promote his positive image and deflect anything negative. This year, Nissa finds herself counting...

Imperia Encanto's only knowledge of the holiday season comes from holiday movies. Imperia struggles, not just with the holidays, but with the private school she and her sister Grace attend. As the daughters...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine gives you "afterlife" like no other magazine. No idea what afterlife means exactly, but these ten stories suggest a few things.  Not sure why we thought the afterlife might...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

Pakhet Jones works as a superhero in the world of cats. In the Poker Boy universe, every detail on Earth functions with superheroes and gods watching over that area of life.Pakhet, through her cat, discovers...

Kristine Grayson's twisted worldview shows itself in these five stories of love, geeks, and happily ever after. In "The Charming Way," a nerdy Prince Charming falls in love with an Evil Stepmother. "Geeks...

All writers face obstacles to their productivity—sometimes physical, sometimes mental, sometimes both. In this WMG Writer's Guide Bundle on Productivity, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned...

Making the wrong decisions on the business side of publishing can destroy a writer's career. In this WMG Writer's Guide Bundle on Business, New York Times bestselling authors and renowned business bloggers...

Sky Tate, The Best Woman Detective in the World, gets lots of strange clients. But nothing like the woman who walked into Rocky's Bar one warm Las Vegas afternoon like melted butter over a stack of waffles.Yummy.And...

The police often show up at science fiction conventions, but not because Secret Master of Fandom and private detective Spade calls them.But that all changes when Paladin finds a box with a note, a box...

Sheriff Dan Retsler finally believes in magic. His experiences in Whale Rock make magic impossible to ignore.But Retsler never signed up for magic, so he plans to leave Whale Rock.His successor arrives...

A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up sixteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations,...

USA Today and New York Times bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to one of his favorite characters, Pakhet Jones, a superhero tasked with protecting cats.When cats become the target of an advanced...

This 54th issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than seventy thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Including The Taft Ranch, the full novel from Dean's...

This 59th issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than eighty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, including the entire six-story collection The End Might...

Searching for a lost Seeder Mother Ship with over a million people on board might be an impossible task under normal circumstances, but the Mother Ship went missing over three million years earlier.Finding...

When Noah Whitestone approaches Portia with a problem, she considers it with skepticism.Portia solves theatrical problems with her two sisters. Magical theatrical problems.But the Whitestones' problem...

This 66th issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than seventy thousand words of fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, including two full novels from the popular Mary Jo Assassin...

Dora Vannoy vanished without a trace in July 1905. Not the Dora Vannoy who found a journal in 2024, but a long-lost ancestor.The 2024 Dora decides to find out what happened to her namesake. The 2024 Dora...

The Fleet designed the new SC-Class ships with an impenetrable bridge. The most protected spot on the ship. Right in the center.So, when Lieutenant Balázs Jicha realizes the bridge of the Izlovchi now...

Dita Jean Harris believed that long-haired Henry Nye died under the mudslide that submerged the mining boomtown of Roosevelt. Idaho in 1909. But common knowledge held that no one died.She wanted to prove...

This 58th issue of Smith's Monthly contains more than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith, including a new short novel, Big Eyes, in his Pakhet...

More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Death Takes a Diamond, a new full-length novel in the Mary Jo Assassin series, plus five new short...

Sky Tate (superhero detective in the Poker Boy universe) can see when someone seems about to die. Her new client looks almost dead.Sky first needs to find out why.And then keep her client alive. Somehow.No...

In this secretive WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of secret themed holiday stories to add a bit of intrigue to the...