A collection of poems, essays and short stories by an overeducated redneck. Drinking, comic conventions, breakups, family gatherings, bluegrass and did I mention drinking? No subject is off-limits.

Returning the Favor and Other Slices of Life

Literature & Fiction

Hartness, John G.

Contemporary

John G. Hartness

Six short stories set in the worlds of Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter, Bubba the Monster Hunter, and The Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency from award-winning author John G. Hartness! Some never before released, some only released in anthologies, these short stories and novelettes will have you rolling in the aisles in one breath and reaching for a box of tissues in the next.1) Hammer Time - A Shadow Council Short Story - What happens when Jo Henry first takes up her legendary great-grandfather John Henry's nine-pound hammer? Guest starring Quincy Harker!2) Bubba Dooby Doo, Where Are You? - A Bubba the Monster Hunter Short Story - Bubba and Skeeter investigate a haunting at a ski resort, but there's more going on than meets the eye, and ulterior motives to their visit, too!3) Family Reunion - A Shadow Council Short Story - What happened the first time Dracula and Van Helsing saw each other after the legendary events in Bram Stoker's novel? Find out here!4) Walk the Dinosaur - A Bubba the Monster Hunter Short Story - A brother hunter is hurt, and there's a monster in the desert, so Bubba has to head west to save the day. Or night. Or at least blow something up!5) Rebirth - A Dead Old Ladies Detective Agency Short Story - Lila Grace learns a lesson about forgiveness when a spirit asks her to look in on a grieving widower. But that widower was one of Grace's biggest tormentors through her whole childhood...6) Hazard Pay - A Paranormal Janitors Short Story - Meet Jake and Bernie, the disaster recovery specialists who get called in for the really nasty jobs. It's Jake's first day on the job, and he's about to learn what his new gig really entails. Or entrails.

Hazard Pay and Other Tales: An Urban Fantasy Short Story Collection

Genre Fiction

Independently published

What do you get when you mix the father of all mankind with a snotty archangel, the Father of Lies, a couple of snarky waitresses from Texas and a tattooed street preacher from Tennessee? A cross-country trip to save the world, of course! Adam (yeah THAT Adam) has been around for a long time, but even he's never seen anything like this. He has to gather his ex-girlfriend and his youngest daughter with his ex-wife (you remember Eve, right?) and his oldest surviving son (Cain) and get them across the country for a meeting with Archangel Michael and Lucifer to determine the fate of the world. Along the way there are strip clubs, cheap beer, expensive whiskey, biker bar fights, shotgun blasts in motel parking lots, sing-alongs in public parks and other wild adventures as our group of intrepid immortals and universal icons travel to save the world.

The Chosen

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Children are missing. The police are stumped. Halloween is coming, with an ancient evil on the horizon. The vampires are the good guys. This is not your ordinary fall weekend in Charlotte, NC. Vampire private detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood have been hired to keep a young client from being cursed for all eternity, but end up in a bigger mess than they ever imagined. Suddenly trapped in the middle of a serial kidnapping case, Jimmy and Greg uncover a plot to bring forth an ancient evil into the world, and enlist the help of a police detective, a priest, a witch, a fallen angel and strip club proprietor to save the world. This unlikely band of heroes battles zombies, witches, neuroses and sunburn while cracking jokes and looking for the perfect bag of O-negative.

Hard Day's Knight (Black Night Chronicles)

In the second volume of The Black Knight Chronicles, vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood investigate a series of assaults plaguing the alleys of Charlotte. Along the way they battle trolls, bigotry, fairies, dragons and small minds on the way to a knock-down battle royal inside a steel cage. Yeah, really. All that and vampires, too.

Back in Black (Black Knight Chronicles)

Createspace Independent Pub

She's a black belt. She's a world-class sniper. She's a sophomore. Meet Cindy O'Shea, a normal high school student dealing with homework, a best friend who's a geek, a single mom with her own issues, and the toughest after-school job in the world. She's an assassin. Follow Cindy, her best friend Tina, her nemesis Tamara and Tina's hottie brother Jason to New York City for a Broadway show with a little post-show kidnapping and mayhem for an after-party.

Headshot

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Bubba the Monster Hunter is a big, bad blend of Larry the Cable Guy and The Dresden Files. He hunts the things that goes bump in the night. Then he shoots them. This collection of eight hilarious horror stories features Bubba in all his redneck, highly armed glory!

Bump In The Night (Bubba the Monster Hunter Omnibus)

The end of the world was just the beginning.  Now they have to stay alive.  17-year-old Christin Kinsey started the day with nothing more pressing than an English exam. But when an EMP attack knocked out all technology across the globe, she found herself in the mountains of Georgia trying to stay alive in a world suddenly thrown back in time a hundred years or more.  And when she starts shooting lightning bolts out of her hands, things get really weird. Christin, her younger brother Matt, and Matt’s cute friend Dave have to figure out what this new world is about, why they suddenly have super powers, and what happened to their mom in this apocalyptic fantasy novel geared for audiences 16 and up.  Mad Max meets X-Men: First Class in the first book of the Return to Eden trilogy by the best-selling author of The Black Knight Chronicles.

Genesis

Straight out of the pages of the legendary vampire novel Dracula comes a demon hunter for the modern world. Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker had a son. They named him Quincy. His guardian angel calls him Q. Dracula calls him nephew. Demons call him The Reaper. "There are things in this world that men and women aren't meant to understand. We aren't supposed to know these things exist, much less how to fight them. The things that go bump in the night, the monsters in the closet, the shadow out of the corner of your eye - that's where I live." This exciting new series from the author of The Black Knight Chronicles and the Bubba the Monster Hunter short stories is a walk through the dark side, where things go bump in the night, and somebody has to bump back. Quincy Harker is that somebody.

Raising Hell: A Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter Novella

Bubba's back, and he's dealing with his brother Jason once and for all! This is the collected edition of Bubba the Monster Hunter Season 2, and collects everything since Scattered, Smothered &amp; Chunked. Included in this volume - UnHoly Night Love Hurts Dead Man's Hand She's Got Legs Howl Double Trouble Elf off the Shelf Casket Case Stone Cold Crazy Rest High on that Mountain Bad Moon Rising

Grits, Guns & Glory (Bubba the Monster Hunter)

Saunders, Matthew J.

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