My Book Catalog
Welcome! Here you can find a complete catalog of my commercially available writing, along with buying links, including signed and personalized copies of my print books as well as downloadable ebooks in all major formats.
NOVELS AND SERIES
THE DREAM RIDER SAGA
Urban Fantasy (young adult / adult cross-over)
THE HOLLOW BOYS (The Dream Rider Saga, Book 1) (reviews)
AURORA AWARD WINNER for Best YA Novel | Juried IAP AWARD WINNER for Best YA Novel
382 pages | 978-19-2804-826-8 (ebook); 978-19-2804-827-5 (paperback); 978-19-2804-832-9 (hardcover)
Vanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world. Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home.
At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero…in his dreams. And in yours.
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THE CRYSTAL KEY (The Dream Rider Saga, Book 2) (reviews)
AURORA AWARD FINALIST for Best YA Novel
386 pages | 978-19-2804-828-2 (ebook); 978-19-2804-829-9 (trade paperback); 978-19-2804-833-6 (hardcover)
When a masked swordswoman appears out of thin air, demanding “the Crystal Key," a trail of dark secrets leads Will, Case, and Fader to a mysterious world. Trapped between warring cults willing to kill for an ancient relic, the three friends must master strange new powers that grow stronger and wilder the closer they draw to the truth.
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THE LOST EXPEDITION (The Dream Rider Saga, Book 3) (reviews)
458 pages | 978-19-2804-830-5 (ebook); 978-19-2804-831-2 (trade paperback); 978-19-2804-834-3 (hardcover)
To save Will’s life and solve the mystery of the lost expedition, only one choice remains. Return to Peru. With the Chakana. There, they face an unseen enemy moving them like pieces on a chessboard. To win this deadly game, Will, Case, and Fader must master new powers to defeat their most dangerous adversary ever—a god. At stake this time? Every life, every world, every universe. Everything.
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THE HEROKA UNIVERSE (Novels)
THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD (reviews)
360 pages | Introduction by Charles de Lint | 978-09-9180-074-2 (ebook); 978-09-9180-073-5 (trade paperback);
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.
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THE HEROKA UNIVERSE (Short stories)
SPIRIT DANCE (reviews)
Novelette (AURORA AWARD WINNER)
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe. Prequel to THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD
The Heroka, an ancient race of shape shifters, draw vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert agency that hunts his kind—a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past.
A BIRD IN THE HAND (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human.
DREAM FLIGHT (reviews)
Short Story
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives.
COLLECTIONS
CHIMERASCOPE (reviews)
Finalist for the Sunburst Award, Bookies Award, Aurora Award
332 pages | Introduction by Julie Czerneda | 978-09-9180-070-4 (ebook); 978-19-2804-825-1 (trade paperback); 978-19-2804-837-4 (hardcover)
Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Slipstream
Collection | 16 stories | Includes an Aurora Award WINNER, Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists.
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IMPOSSIBILIA (reviews)
Finalist for the Aurora Award
155 pages | Introduction by Chaz Brenchley | 978-09-9180-071-1 (ebook); 978-09-9180-072-8 (trade paperback)
Science fiction, Fantasy, Urban fantasy
Collection | 3 novelettes | Includes an Aurora Award WINNER and an Aurora Award Finalist
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LA DANSE DES ESPRITS
Finalist for the Prix Masterton and Prix Bob Morane Award
325 pages | Introduction by Charles de Lint | 978-28-4958-010-3 (trade paperback)
Fantasy, urban fantasy
Collection | 13 short stories, translated into French | Contains an Aurora Award WINNER and five finalists
BUY: Dreampress (France)
WRITING GUIDES
PLAYING THE SHORT GAME: How to Market & Sell Short Fiction (2nd edition) (reviews)
Writer's guide | 238 pages | Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch | ISBN 978-19-2804-838-1 (ebook), 978-19-2804-839-8 (trade paperback), 978-19-2804-840-4 (hardcover)
Fully revised, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago. In an engaging and conversational style, multi-award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short stories—and much more. Even experienced writers will find value as Smith takes you from your first sale to using short fiction to build a writing career.
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INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES & NOVELETTES (ebooks)
A BIRD IN THE HAND (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human.
A TASTE SWEET AND SALTY (reviews)
Short Story
Fantasy, Surreal, Slipstream
The man known only as Stranger lived and died in a town with no name. Each day he lived. And each night he died…
BOUQUET OF FLOWERS IN A VASE, BY VAN GOGH (reviews)
Novelette (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance
Maroch, ex-CIA, reluctantly agrees to coach a beautiful young woman “remote viewer” in a scheme to locate lost paintings. But the woman, who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, has her own secrets. Together, they set off a chain of events that may alter the past and destroy both their lives.
BY HER HAND, SHE DRAWS YOU DOWN (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist | Best New Horror Selection)
Supernatural Horror
Cath, a beautiful sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath, but as Cath’s hunger grows, so does Joe’s fear that one day she may draw him down.
DOORWAYS (reviews)
Novelette (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction
Jack's old boss, Dr. Lucius Rainer, head of research at GenTech, is dead. His strange house on his island retreat hides his final project. The house promises Jack wealth, fame, and revenge...if it doesn’t kill him first.
DREAM FLIGHT (reviews)
Short Story
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives.
ENLIGHTENMENT (reviews)
Novelette (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction
Jarrod is a soldier forced to take part in the destruction of entire races. But when his unit encounters the Be’nan, aliens who hold the secret to true enlightenment, no one is prepared for the result.
FIDDLEHEADS (reviews)
Short Story
Horror, strong violence
Twelve-year-old Andy Pembleton's younger brother disappeared two years ago. The loss tore Andy's world apart. His father left. His mother withdrew into guilt, all but ignoring Andy. But Andy is going to change all of that. He has a plan to find his brother—a deeply disturbing one.
GOING DOWN TO LUCKY TOWN (reviews)
Novelette
Urban Fantasy
Charlie the Pearl—con man, gambler, and ever absent father—is about to catch the dream that he’s chased his entire life—the secret of good luck. But it’s a secret that could cost Charlie the only thing in the world that he loves more than a winning streak—his daughter.
GOING HARVEY IN THE BIG HOUSE (reviews)
Novelette (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction
Ages ago, the Builders made the House to shelter humanity from the Outside. The Builders descendants still rule the House. Big G spends his days dealing with Harveys, citizens who breakdown violently in the claustrophobic House. But when Big G finds a strange image at a Harvey call, it leads him to a secret that may finally bring down the House.
JIGSAW (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
YA, Science Fiction, Adventure
Cassie Morant, geologist on the Johannes Kepler star ship, wishes she was back on Earth in her tiny room, lost in one of her beloved jigsaw puzzles. Something has gone terribly wrong. The Kepler’s orbit is decaying, and Cassie has only hours to solve a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle—or the entire crew will die.
MEMORIES OF THE DEAD MAN (reviews)
Novelette
Science Fiction, Adventure
Mary and her son, Jase, survive by their wits in a post-plague Earth. On the run from a vicious gang, they are saved by Bishop, who just may be the Dead Man, the legendary hero of the Fall of Earth. But Bishop’s dark past catches up with them all, forcing Bishop to choose between his love for Mary and Jase, or revenge against the men who killed his family.
MURPHY'S LAW (reviews)
Short Story
Science Fiction, Humour
As First Officer on an under-staffed space freighter, Dex thinks he knows all about Murphy’s Law: if anything can go wrong, it will. But when Dex adds a real-life "Murphy" to the ship's crew, he learns just how bad things can get. A VIP is almost killed. Food systems shut down. The navigation computer is destroyed. Well, at least things can’t get any worse...
NEW YEAR'S EVE (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction
The world awaits the year 2000 with anticipation and dread. Will the "millennium bug" destroy computers world-wide? John Dunne leads the team developing PCWare's first Virtual Reality user interface, complete with virtual human agents. But on Millennium Eve, a Y2K bug is discovered in the software…and John’s virtual girlfriend becomes a little too real.
NOTHING (reviews)
Short Story
Fantasy, Surreal
A woman tries in vain to convince those around her that the world is ending. Is she right…or is she losing her mind?
OUT OF THE LIGHT (reviews)
Short Story
Urban Fantasy, Shapeshifters
Once, Jan Mirocek hunted the things that haunt the night in every culture of the world. Were-beasts. Shape-shifters. Then he made a mistake, and the woman he loved died. Now he shuns the dark, hiding in the lights of a big city. For shifters never come here. Or do they? People are dying, and signs point to a shifter. But can Jan conquer his fears and find the killer?
RADIO NOWHERE (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction, Romance
On the anniversary of his wife’s death, Liam discovers his experiments can open a window back in time. Can he tune that window to the night his wife died? Can he go back to save her? But strange radio broadcasts warn that changing the past means a dark future for the world—or no future at all. How much will Liam risk to save the woman he loved?
SCREAM ANGEL (reviews)
Novelette (AURORA AWARD WINNER)
Science Fiction
Soldiers on the drug Scream will not only kill, they will revel in it. Jason Trelayne is a Screamer, a soldier and forced participant in the enslavement and death of entire races. When Trelayne falls in love with Philomela, a Scream Angel, an alien who produces the addictive drug, he triggers a chain of events that threatens to bring down an empire.
SPIRIT DANCE (reviews)
Novelette (AURORA AWARD WINNER)
Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Heroka universe
The Heroka, an ancient race of shape shifters, draw vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert agency that hunts his kind—a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past.
STATE OF DISORDER (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction, Time Travel
When James Mackaby, respected scholar, husband and father, accepts a dinner invitation from an old rival who has fallen on hard times, he has no idea that revenge is on the menu.
SYMPHONY (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Science Fiction, Space
To the remnants of humanity on the colony ship, The Last Chance, the planet Aurora seemed like a dream come true. Earth-like, unpopulated. Now they aren’t so sure. Now people are dying. To save them, Gar Franck, Communications Officer, must find a way to communicate with the alien intelligence that is attacking them.
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN (reviews)
Short Story
Urban Fantasy, Mythology
Paulo and Dino run a quiet little bar in Toronto, happily retired from being immortal gods on Olympus…and Asgard…and… Well, let’s just say they’ve been around. But their peaceful retirement ends when Pop drops in. And the Father of the Gods has brought company. Unwanted company.
THE DANCER AT THE RED DOOR (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Urban Fantasy
Alexander King has wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, his life has lost its thrill. He needs a new game. And then he meets the Dancer &emdash; achingly beautiful, half-mad, and dancing to a song that only she and King seem to hear. She becomes his new obsession, drawing him into a secret world…and to a very special club.
THE LAST OF A THING
Short Story
High Fantasy
What happens when the world loses the last of a thing?
Four mighty warriors set out to slay the last dragon, opposed by only a fool. But even a fool knows: the last of a thing is something to cherish.
THE LAST RIDE (reviews)
Short Story
Fantasy, Mythology
When Vaya, an immortal Valkyrie and favorite daughter of Odin All Father, intervenes on the battlefield to save the life of a soldier who has captured her heart, she is forced by Odin to choose between immortality and the man she loves. Vaya chooses love, not knowing that the hardest choice still lies ahead of her.
THE RED BIRD (reviews)
Short Story (Aurora Award Finalist)
Epic Fantasy
Fleeing the Shogun, young Asai is led by a strange red hawk to a fabled temple to train under the Warrior of the Red Bird. Unless Asai can succeed where all others have failed—to find the Hidden Light—his people will suffer a thousand years of misery. But when the beautiful Sawako appears, Asai must choose between his heart, his people, and his destiny.
THE WALKER OF THE SHIFTING BORDERLAND (reviews)
Short Story (AURORA AWARD WINNER)
Fantasy
The Walker is a child of the two Realms of the Continuum, a prince of Order and of Chaos—and a rebel against both. When he falls in love with an ephemeral, a mortal woman who is the key to the balance between the Realms, he triggers a struggle for her life—and the fate of her universe.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Short Story
Fantasy, Humour
When Hari tries to steal from the most powerful wizard in the land, he ends up cursed to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Rather career limiting for a thief. But Hari has a plan. Or he did until a demon kills the magician Hari hired. Now that demon is about to eat Hari. At least things get any worse. Oh…wait...
SPECIALTY BOOKS
BY HER HAND, SHE DRAWS YOU DOWN: THE MOVIE COMPANION BOOK (print)
Short story, movie script, interviews, photos, and more
Supernatural Horror
Here is the official companion book for the indie horror film “By Her Hand, She Draws You Down,” directed by Anthony G. Sumner, produced by Alan Rowe Kelly and Anthony G. Sumner, starring Zoë Daelman Chlanda and Jerry Murdock, and based on Doug's acclaimed story of the same name.
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