WORKS BY PAUL GENESSE
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Medusa's Daughter (2010)
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I'm currently writing Medusa's Daughter, which is a love story set in ancient Greece.
MEDUSA’S DAUGHTER
“Can true love break the curse?”
A novel by
P. Genesse
Medusa’s daughter has inherited her mother’s terrible curse and longs to escape her lonely life on the shattered island where her mother and aunts have been exiled. But when a mysterious sailor washes ashore she falls in love, then discovers there might be a way for the curse to be broken. She must look into the eyes of her true love, but if he’s not, she will kill the only man she ever loved.
I'm posting the first draft of chapter one. I've got more to do on it, but I hope you like how it starts. I've always been fascinated by Greek mythology and the Medusa myth has always been one that piqued my interest. The story came to me as I was reading up on the actual myth. There is no mention of Medusa having a daughter, but I thought that if she was indeed raped by Poseidon, there could be a child. What would she be like? How would her mother treat her? The story went from there. I've approached the tale with a more realistic slant and a dark tone. I really love the novel and can't wait to keep writing it.
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The Dragon Hunters, Book Two of the Iron Dragon Series (2009)
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Front cover jacket:
On this hunt, you give up everything.
The last of an order of dragon hunters must track down the dragon king’s daughter and stop her from getting the Crystal Eye, an ancient artifact that will cause the destruction of their world.
An expert crossbowman, Drake of Cliffton, guides his companions to a wizard’s tower where they hope to discover the location of the secret lair of Draglûne, the dragon king. What they learn changes everything and sends them to a dangerous city embroiled in a bitter uprising. They are pursued by the dragon king’s daughter, Verkahna, who may be their greatest ally or their worst enemy.
Attacked by cultists who worship Draglûne and Verkahna as draconic gods, the companions must make an alliance with a mysterious swordswoman who may be a traitor to her own people. They travel into the brutal Khoram Desert searching for the lair of their enemies, a cave on the edge of a vast chasm, the Mouth of the Underworld. The price of survival may mean the end of Drake’s hope to return home and marry Jaena, his true love.
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Terribly Twisted Tales (2009)
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I was asked to write a story for the anthology, Terribley Twisted Tales by DAW Books, editor Jean Rabe. It's turned in and I just cashed the check. The idea was to take a fairy tale and twist it up. Like make Goldie Locks a big game hunter who was after bear and in the end she gets eaten by them.
I was going to do The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Anderson, but I re-read it and found it was like 50 something pages long. I just couldn't do it justice in around 3000 words. So, I found one of my favorite stories from when I was a kid. The story just got to me and I never forgot it. I took the story, paid my respects to the original writer and then made it my own. You probably know the story by Hans Christian Anderson, The Little Match Girl. Well, I wrote a story called, Revenge of the Little Match Girl. I took the nicest, sweetest and most sympathetic character and turned her into a homicidal pyromaniac. I mean come on, she sells matches!
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Catopolis (2009)
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An editor, Janet Deaver-Pack asked me to write a story for the Catopolis anthology. It's about cats in the city. Good times. I wrote a story called, Kitty and the City. It's Sex and the City with cats and it's definitely the funniest story I've ever written. Poor Cassie, an American shorthair with an extreme shoe fetish, is having a lot of trouble finding a good tom.
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Imaginary Friends (2008)
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An editor, John Helfers bought a story from me called, Greg and Eli. I didn't have a lot of time to write this one, but it turned out to be one of my favorite stories. Actually, I really love this story. I didn't have a lot of time to do research or think about a lot of different ideas, so I went with what I knew, my own childhood in a small town in Nevada. The story is fiction, but it has the feeling of what I went through as a kid. A couple of my friends at work read it, and both cried at the end. I was very happy with that. Anyway, you'll find a sample of the story below.
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Blue Kingdoms, Buxom Buccaneers (2008)
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The third pirate witch story came out in the summer of 2008. The original anthology title was She Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms, but the above title was chosen to keep the Blue Kingdoms up front. All the future releases are supposed to have Blue Kingdoms in front of them.
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The Dimension Next Door (2008)
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My short story, God Pays has come out in the Dimension Next Dorr anthology from DAW Books edited by Kerrie Hughes and Martin Greenburg. My story, God Pays, is about Nina, a linguistic archeologist who studies the classic Maya. Poor Nina is dying of cancer and has had a rough time lately. The story is set in the year 2012, on December 21, which according to the Mayan calendar is the end of the world. Nina ends up having a front row seat . . .
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Almost Brothers ($8) (2008)
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Almost Brothers will be my third short story in print and is releasing January 2008 from DAW Books. It will be featured in the Fellowship Fantastic Anthology, which will have a story by Alan Dean Foster and lots of other great writers. I'm so honored to be in the anthology with them all.
My story is a dark tale about two young refugee boys who must save the lives of the other refugee children under their care. My hope is that someday Almost Brothers will be chapter one of a novel.
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The Golden Cord ($23) (2008)
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This book came out in hardcover from Five Star Books in April of 2008 and has become their bestselling fantasy novel ever.
THE GOLDEN CORD
Some bonds can never be broken.
A hunter must leave behind his true love, give up all hope of survival, as he is forced to guide his most hated enemies on a suicidal journey to the lair of the dragon king.
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Death comes from above in the plateau world of Ae’leron, where griffins and dragons prowl the sky. Those who escape becoming prey—or enslavement in the Drobin Empire—hide in secret villages. Surviving in the depths of the Thornclaw Forest, the people of Cliffton live on the edge of the Void—an abyss of clouds that surrounds the plateaus and blocks the view into the Underworld.
Guardians work tirelessly to protect each village, and Drake, along with his pair of guard dogs, is Cliffton’s most dedicated and vigilant. When two Drobin warriors appear outside the gates, he is forced to confront his most hated enemies. But the secretive Drobin hide the true nature of their journey and why wyverns hunt them.
Drake’s world becomes a whirlwind of change as he leaves his true love and guides the Drobin on a suicidal journey to the lair of the dragon king. He must do this, for if he doesn’t, war will consume the world and destroy everything he loves.
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Blue Kingdoms: Shades and Specters ($11) (2007)
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Between twilight and dawn, half-glimpsed things lurk in the swirling sea mist, long dead things that have clawed their way out of the darkest abyss, things that were better left entombed.
In this second volume of Blue Kingdoms Stories, you’ll find a host of specters, ghosts, monsters, and more . . . guaranteed to shiver your timbers.
For those of you who read my first Blue Kingdoms story, “The Pirate Witch,” and wanted more, you should enjoy “The Queen’s Ransom.” It’s the sequel to “The Pirate Witch,” in Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms, still available on my website, and features Maeve Tierney, the infamous Pirate Witch herself. If you haven’t read the first one, the second one is an independent story, but builds upon what happened in the first tale.
In "The Queen's Ransom" Maeve gets to see that going after her dead ex-husband's treasure is not the best idea, especially because she had a hand in his death.
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The Pirate Witch in the Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms ($15) (2007)
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This is the story I wrote for the Blue Kingdoms anthology, based in the world that Steve Sullivan and Jean Rabe created. The book released in May of 2007. It's out now! Please order an authographed copy from me for $15 plus $ 3 shipping. It's published by Popcorn Press (www.popcornpress.com), which is a great small press that is up and coming. They're planning more Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms books in the next year. I can't wait!
This story features Maeve Tierney, who probably shouldn't have married the infamous pirate, Bull Tierney, because in the end he did what all pirates do--he went after another person's booty.
Below is a sample, the first page and a half of the story. I hope you enjoy it.
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The Mob ($8 for the whole book or $1 for just the story) (2006)
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The Mob is my first short story and has been published in the Furry Fantastic anthology by DAW Books and came out on October 3, 2006. The anthology is about sentient animals. The Mob is your basic meerkat mafia story. Think Watership Down with meerkats. You can purchase it at all the big bookstores, Borders, Barne's & Noble (even Walmart) or online at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble.com. Or you buy just the story as an Ebook from the Sony Ebook store. Click on the purchase link above to go to the Sony Ebook Store.
The Mob came into being because the editor of the anthology, Jean Rabe, contacted me out of the blue and asked for a story. I had about a week to get it to her and in that time I managed to write The Mob. I've always loved meerkats, they are my favorite animal--long before Meerkat Manor on the Animal Planet came out. Ever since I'd heard about the anthology I had thought about writing a meerkat story for it. The day the story was due I was not happy with how it turned out--I needed more time! But I had a deadline--which I found out later was midnight on the deadline day. I sent it off to my great writer friend, Brad Beaulieu (visit him at www.quillings.com). He made a ton of suggestions and I frantically made the changes that I had thought about making before, but was too afraid to do with the limited time remaining. In the end, I incorporated the changes Brad suggested and the story was a big hit with Jean Rabe--and subsequently made it into the anthology as the lead story in its section, the non-cat/non-dog section of the book. Getting the lead story was very encouraging and without Brad's help I don't think the story would have turned out as well as it did. Writing seems like it's a solitary business, but even the best writers out there need someone to look at the work and offer suggestions.
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