Steven Harper Piziks
Author of The Clockwork Empire,
The Silent Empire, and
the Books of Blood and Iron
Author, Father, Occasional Dragon Hunter
Welcome to my page!
Make yourself at home. The fridge is over to the right, just past the blog feed. The bar and Xbox are upstairs, along with blog and ebook links. The library is below. Mind the cats–they pounce.
I write, I teach, I play the harp. So far I’ve turned out the Books of Blood and Iron, the Clockwork Empire, the Silent Empire, Writing the Paranormal Novel, and a bunch of media, romance, and science fiction and fantasy novels. Have a look around and see what you can find. We don’t lock the doors.
Open Road Media
The wonderful folks at Open Road Media have re-released ebooks of my best-selling Clockwork Empire series and The Books of Blood and Iron series! The new covers are dazzling, and I like to think the stories are pretty good, too. Check them out here.
Steven Harper Piziks
“Half Life”
I’M NOMINATED AGAIN!
My short story “Half Life” in the anthology Skull X Bones is a finalist for the Washington Science Fiction Society Award!
For this piece, I revisited Wanda Silver, who works as a “fixer” for the underground supernatural community when they have a problem with the mortal world. Wanda first appeared one of Esther Friesner’s “Supernatural Suburbia” anthologies: Fangs for the Mammaries, and I decided it might be fun to resurrect her for a fantasy pirate anthology, because … why not?
Eight Mile and the City
I’M NOW AWARD-WINNER AUTHOR STEVEN HARPER PIZIKS
I’m thrilled! My short story “Eight Mile and the City” in the anthology When Worlds Collide (edited by Joshua B. Palmatier and Sam Butler) has won the WSFA award for short fiction.
I do love this story, a noir SF mystery set in near-future Detroit. You can find the anthology here.
I’ve written a number of short stories for the folks over at Zombies Need Brains, by the way. The latest is “Mortal Anger,” an odd little fantasy detective piece for the ZNB anthology Noir. The fair folk offer mortals little vacations to their realm, a place where all your wants and wishes are granted. The price? One of your good memories. The arrangement works, until a prince of the Fae comes to private detective Colton Smith with a problem. The payment he offers has the potential to destroy both the Fae and mortal realms.
The Importance of Being Kevin
The Importance of Being Kevin is in the stores. Kevin Devereaux’s life can’t get worse. He’s on probation. He’s stuck with an unemployed ex-convict dad. And he lives in a run-down trailer on the crappy east side of town. To keep his probation officer happy, Kevin joins a theater program for teenagers and falls hard for Peter Finn, the lead actor in the show―and the son of the town’s leading family. Despite their differences, Peter returns Kevin’s feelings, and for the first time, Kevin learns what it means to be in love. But Peter’s family won’t accept a gay son―let alone a boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks―and in their conservative town, they must keep the romance secret.
Still, they have the play, and they have each other, so they’ll get by― Until a brutal attack shatters Kevin’s life and puts Peter in danger of going to jail for murder.