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​Painter of the Dead by Catherine Butzen
October 6, 2020

Theodora Speer loves her job: painting history at a museum. Every job has its downsides, however, and when the Egyptology department needs funds (especially in light of the recent spate of museum thefts), she grudgingly trades her painting smock for an evening gown. Charming donors isn’t usually her idea of a good time, but this evening is different—she meets the mysterious Seth Adler.
          Seth Adler is under a lot of stress, and most of it comes from the local museum’s acquisition of a very specific Egyptian mummy. His family has been donating to the Egyptology department for years, so attending a fundraising gala seems just the ticket to getting closer to the mummy. He doesn’t expect to meet Theo, refreshing in her honesty and intriguing him against his better judgment.
          When Seth’s plan for the mummy collides with Theodora, the evening ends with Seth killing himself. Except it turns out he’s not so dead after all, and it’s up to Theo to keep him that way. Even if it means fleeing the police, practicing ancient Egyptian magic, and confronting the real thief.

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The Cosmic Turkey by Laura Ruth Loomis

After she accidentally smashes a floatcar through City Hall, the bureautopia sentences Janet to captaining the starship S.S. Turkey and its misfit crew. Her mission: to boldly rescue a prisoner from the one corner of the universe colder than her ex-boyfriend’s heart—Pluto. Which, aside from not even being a real planet, is the one place in the universe where chocolate is illegal.
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          In between studying The Space-Faring Moron’s Guide to Common Science Fiction Plot Devices, falling for a rival captain’s boyfriend, and avoiding unnecessary time travel, Janet has a chance to save two worlds . . . or doom them to permanent chocolatelessness.

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Skate the Thief by Jeff Ayers

Skate is a thief, trained and owned by the local crime syndicate, the Ink. When she tries to burgle a shut-in’s home, she gets caught by the owner—a powerful undead wizard. He makes a deal with her: “borrow” books from other wizards in return for a place to stay.

Caught between her growing fondness for the wizard and her past with the crime syndicate, Skate doesn’t know where her loyalties lie. But she’d better figure it out, because there’s a new player in town, one whose magical hypnotism puts them all at risk.

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The Land of the Purple Ring by Deborah J. Natelson

The clockwork man is crafted, to begin with—commissioned by that terrible tyrant Time to serve as her slave for all eternity. His brain boasts balance wheels and torsion springs; he can wind himself up with a key in his side; and, most importantly, his gyroscopic tourbillon heart glimmers with pure diamond.

He is a living being and he is art, and he refuses to remain a slave forever. He therefore slips through Time’s fingers as the Sands of Time slip through the cracks of reality (at least, when the time cats aren’t using them as a litter box).

Among astounding adventures, despite harrowing hardships, and in between escaping interfering enchanters, the clockwork man seeks his imagination, his purpose, and his name.

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The Disposable by Katherine Vick

Fodder of Humble Village is sick and tired of getting speared, decapitated, and disembowelled . . . every day. In fact, he’s not going to take it anymore. No matter what The Narrative, which must be obeyed, tries to make him do.

Everyone in the Taskmaster’s Realm knows how the story goes: the boy of destiny goes on a quest, defeats the dark lord, and gets the swooning princess. It’s a great story, if you happen to be a knight or a wizard or a hero. Tired of being a member of the Ordinary soldier trope, Fodder convinces his fellow soldiers and Ordinaries to mount a coup to defy the Taskmaster and overturn the plot, and becomes the hero he’s always dreamed of being. 

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Hunter's Moon by Sarah M. Awa

After a wild animal attack, Melanie Caldwell ends up sick and disoriented. She and her friends think she’s suffering from infection and just needs to go to the doctor. Then she’s kidnapped on the day of the next full moon, and discovers in the worst way that monsters are real . . . and that she has become one of them. ​

​All Melanie wanted was to get a boyfriend and graduate college. Now she has to somehow deal with agonizing monthly transformations, a secret organization stalking her, friends and enemies trying to discover her secret, and hunters looming on the horizon.

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Bargaining Power by Deborah J. Natelson

The name’s Cartier. Mercedes Cartier. Anyone asks, I'll swear I'm a "secretary." That's what my card says, so it must be true.

Mostly, I keep my head down, do my job. But I'm not about to let power-hungry traitors get away with murder. Or crazy demon-fairy-things seduce my boss. Or psycho cannibal children eat me.

Honestly, I probably shouldn't be having so much fun.

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