Homicide Detective Ned Zaleski resents the chief’s decision to enlist Sherlock Holmes’ help in Zaleski’s latest murder investigation. Zaleski fails to see how Holmes, newly transported to t...
https://kriswrites.com/2024/04/29/free-fiction-monday-second-fiddle/
For two centuries, Injustice Collecting allowed for balance in a system populated by many sentient species. Everyone understood the system and its necessity. Until the humans arrived. They want j...
https://kriswrites.com/2024/04/22/free-fiction-monday-the-injustice-collector/
I’m so pleased to announce that the second collection featuring my popular characters Spade and Paladin has just hit print! The collection features a brand-new, never-before-seen novella about ...
https://kriswrites.com/2024/04/11/a-new-spade-paladin-collection-with-a-brand-new-story/
…to this day. I was, in the parlance of children, eight-and-a-half. Apollo 8 had left Earth’s orbit and was the first crewed spaceflight to fly to the Moon. They orbited 10 times. What I reme...
Last year, I published three pieces of short fiction in Asimov’s SF Magazine. I’m both stunned and happy to report that all three have made the Readers’ Award Final Ballot. Thank you so muc...
My husband, Dean Wesley Smith is a master at that same kind of eerie and just off-kilter story that appears on the Twilight Zone. He wrote for several Twilight Zone properties back in the day, so...
https://kriswrites.com/2024/02/13/like-twilight-zone-type-stories/
Lots of weird little things to share and announce. First, we’re making a number of changes at WMG and on the websites and such. One of the most visible is the Publishers Blog, which will become...
https://kriswrites.com/2024/02/06/classes-a-new-blog-and-a-small-gift/
I started the Holiday Recommended Reading List when I realized that I point out all the great holiday stories in January, after the season has passed. I am always a month behind in reporting what...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/11/24/special-holiday-recommended-reading-list-3/
It doesn’t seem like I’ve been all that silent here, but I have been. We experienced one of those life events that knocked us out of our routine and put us into a whole new world. A week ago ...
The next Diving novel takes us back a little bit in time, because I needed to learn a bit about the various cultures I was writing about. So Ivory Trees looks at some shenanigans in the Empire as...
https://kriswrites.com/2023/09/05/want-to-get-the-new-diving-novel-early-heres-your-chance/