Tamara M. Bailey
My thriller, THE OTHER OLIVIA (Orphan Black x The Matrix), with Improbable Press, is now available! See below for details or read an extract.
My fantasy-crime, BLOOD & STONE (a procedural in a gritty, steampunk-inspired city) will be out in 2024 with Clan Destine Press. More info available soon.
My short story, The Devil’s Teeth, appears in Clamour and Mischief, which you can pre-order from Clan Destine Press.
My short story, Ghosts in the Forest, appears in Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging (Volume Blue). You can buy a copy of this in hardback, paperback or e-book format either from the Australian site Clan Destine Press or the US (and worldwide) site Improbable Press.
THE OTHER OLIVIA
Pitched as Orphan Black x The Matrix, The Other Olivia follows Olivia Alexander (nee Sharp), who thinks her biggest problem is discovering her husband’s affair.
Then a stranger accosts her on the street warning, "Don't sign anything." When Olivia reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart. Suddenly assassins, safe houses, and ruthless global corporations are her new reality, and she's running for her life.
In a shadow world unknown to Olivia, Livvie Sharp's partner goes missing, someone tries to kidnap her little girl, and now she too is on the run as someone hunts her. Someone who knows everything about her. Someone using her loved ones as weapons to bring her down.
Then Livvie meets the other Olivia.
Read an extract of The Other Olivia here.
Then order my techno-thriller at Clan Destine Press’s website if you’re Australian, or Improbable Press’s website if you’re elsewhere.
CLAMOUR AND MISCHIEF
A clamour of rooks. A mischief of magpies. A storytelling of crows.
All the corvids – the rooks and ravens, the jays and jackdaws, the crows and magpies – have the best collective nouns. A parliament and a party. Tidings and titterings, bands and trains. An unkindness.
Clamour and Mischief brings a veritable storytelling of crows to the corvidae, the bird family known for intelligence and cunning and for their connection with folklore and urban legends. These storytellers come from around the world and include award-winning and -shortlisted authors as well as emerging writers and fledgling authors in their professional debut.
This anthology’s sixteen striking stories are imbued with all the humour, darkness, wisdom, artfulness, vengefulness and magic of the birds that inspired them. Take them as a jest, a guide, or a warning – but don't, whatever you do, ignore them!
DARK CHEER: CRYPTIDS EMERGING
Here are stories for lovers of chupacabras and hulders, griffins and gargoyles.
Here be darkly cheery tales of ancient creatures beneath still waters, in the attic, or the shadows right by the bed.
Herein an autistic hiker meets a cryptid who wants her camera; a Japanese tanuki seeks his fox daughter; and two women fall in love, never mind one's a swamp monster.
Here be stories of changelings, nix, and demons adopted, of hungry kraken and cryptids we'd see if only, if only we looked into treetops, behind doors, or in our own back gardens.
Here there be monsters.
Thank all the gods.
