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Alpha list of titles:
Bad City (#2 of the HOLMES & STORM Mysteries)
Bad Lands (#1 of the HOLMES & STORM Mysteries)
Chains of Freedom (#1)
Chains of Redemption (#3)
Fright Eater (#2 of THE HOST SERIES)
Gang Approval (#3 of THE HOST SERIES)
The Host (#1 of THE HOST SERIES)
Jabone's Sword (#2 in the SM Series)
Queen of Denial (#1 in the Queen Series)
Recycled (#2 in the Queen Series)
Sword Masters (#1 in the SM Series)
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Jabone's Sword by Selina Rosen (The Sequel to SWORD MASTERS) -- Available now!
Yes, it's true! We finally have it in our hands. Another awesome cover by John Kaufmann. Don't have SWORD MASTERS yet? Then get both now and save $3.00--that's right! S/H is just $3.00 to all the 50 states and territories, regardless of how many books you buy!
Sword Masters by Selina Rosen -- Available now!
Watch an awesome trailer produced by the Publisher, Dragon Moon Publishing.
Listen to Selina Rosen read the first two chapters.
"Sword Masters is an engaging fantasy full of memorable characters. Tarius is a strong but flawed [hero], and the novel is as much about ... emotional maturation as it is about the clash of armies and cultures between the Jethriks, Karthiks, and Amalites." -- Dru Pagliassotti, Reviewer for TheHarrow.com
$17.00 + S/H
Bad Lands, co-authored by Selina Rosen and Laura J. Underwood -- Now coming in Trade Paperback with a great Jon Kalin cover! Order now to be delivered as soon as we have it!
$14.00 + S/H
Bad City, the long-awaited sequel to Bad Lands available now in Trade Paperback with a great Jon Kalin cover! Order now to be delivered as soon as we have it!
$14.00 +S/H
Check out the EXCELLENT REVIEWS below. You can either order from Selina right here using the cart, by emailing Selina, or from Amazon.com.
The following titles were printed by Meisha/Merlin Publishing, Inc., which is no longer in business. Therefore, the only way to get them is by using the cart buttons or by ordering from Amazon.com, from my company, Yard Dog Press, or directly from me!
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QUEEN OF DENIAL (Quantities extremely limited) --
With an intro by Lynn Abbey, and a cover by Don Maitz. $12.00 + S/H |
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RECYCLED (Sequel to Queen) -- With an intro
by Michael Sheard, and a cover by Don Meitz. $14.00 + S/H |
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CHAINS OF FREEDOM -- With an intro by C.J.
Cherryh, and a cover by Charles Keegan. $14.00 + S/H |
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CHAINS OF DESTRUCTION -- With an intro by Claudia
Christian, and a cover by Charles Keegan. $14.00 + S/H NOTE: See below for the third book in the CHAINS trilogy. |
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STRANGE ROBBY -- Check out the VERY nice reviews below, and NOW ON SALE! $5.00 + S/H |
The following titles are available from Yard Dog Press, Amazon.com, and me!
The Host 
Fright Eater 
Gang Approval
The Bubba Chronicles 
About The
Boat Man
About Fire&
Ice 
About Hammer
Town
About Reruns 
About
Material Things
CHAINS OF REDEMPTION -- That's
right! Meisha Merlin went under, but Yard Dog Press obtained the rights both to the book
and to the awesome cover art by Charles Keegan. This, the long-awaited third book in this
trilogy is finally available. $14.00 + S/H
THE HOST -- The first in THE HOST SERIES. These novels address vampirism and spiritual strength from a different point of view. The vampires are TRUELY EVIL, and you will cheer on the rare occasions that they are killed. They aren't afraid of the sun, crosses, garlic, holy water -- they even go to church! The "heros" are a band of medieval reconstructionist "stick-jocks," led by a lesbian rabbi -- yep, and she wields the Kabbalah as well as her sword. $12.00 + S/H
FRIGHT EATER -- The second in THE HOST SERIES. A few years later. Our rabbi and her partner have broken up, leaving her wounded and drained emotionally and spiritually -- not a good place for a Kabbalistic Adept to be. Now a large and powerful neo-Nazi group is gaining power in the city where our rabbi's estranged family live. She must either stand by and watch as her family is terrorized by the neo-Nazis, or do battle with an enemy that is stronger than any she has ever conceived of before. And she is virtually unarmed. $12.00 + S/H
GANG APPROVAL --
The third (and last so far) in THE HOST SERIES. Several years later, our rabbi, her
partner, their son, and their faithful companion journey across the country to visit a
long-lost relative and run smack into their past -- and a nasty nest of the undead. $12.00
+ S/H
THE BUBBA CHRONICLES -- In these tales a whole host of beer swilling, hard living characters spring to
life. Explore the strange and interesting lives of ordinary bubbas as they deal with
aliens, witches, ghosts, zombies and a serial killer. Naturally, there is the
mandatory Elvis sighting. $12.00 + S/H
THE BOAT MAN -- A novella that examines what happens when over half the population of the U.S. is over 65 and voting. This vision of the future is alarming -- largely because it's based on fact and govenment projections -- and only gets worse when the "brain-dead" population of the nursing homes begins to get up and DANCE!! $5.00 + S/H
FIRE & ICE -- A not-so far futuristic sci/fi, police proceedural.... well, just read it and decide for yourself. "In Fire & Ice, Selina Rosen reveals the subtle evil of a segregated society, while showing the metamorphosis of an intelligent, loving relationship between two people. In view of the pathetic compromise of ‘Don’t ask; don’t tell,’ this novel’s near-future premise of carding gays and lesbians like illegal aliens suggests a sinister but believable possibility. This should be a warning to anyone who thinks that anything less than total civil rights for everyone would be an acceptable compromise." — Mark Shepherd, Author of BLACKROSE AVENUE and LAZER WARZ $12.00 + S/H
HAMMER TOWN -- Conner, "the Hammer," McVee has a score to settle and enough spare parts in her body to build a small car. Tarent Powers destroyed her life, but even her enhanced abilities and her job as a police agent couldn't get her close enough to the corporate mob boss to bring him down. Now the key to his unraveling has fallen into her lap. But can she do what's necessary to make him pay even it if means destorying the life of an innocent young woman? Come along for a ride in this future that corporate take-overs, plague and automation have makde. A world where everything from crime, to central government, to the police are run by the corporations, and where a "mad" cult has sprung up whose members want to remake the world using hand tools and good hard work. $12.00 + S/H
RERUNS -- Over
and Over and Over again
Reality bites, though, and her friend's advice to "stop living in the past" is easier said then done since Terry's present mostly sucks on ice.
But Terry's life takes a radical turn when an old friend from the past
offers her an opportunity to live out her dream – and a remarkable new costume.
“In Reruns Selina Rosen introduces us to a world where one woman
and her convictions, along with a bit of help from some friends, do make a difference.
We’ve all wanted to be, or even pretended to be, a superhero sometime in our life.
Terry was lucky enough to play one on television, Dark Avenger, for seven seasons. Years
after the series was canceled someone approached her to actually become what she portrayed
on TV and Vigilance was born… Selina has a certain natural gift of taking the reader
and immersing them into a novel so that the reality of the novel mixes seamlessly with the
reality of the reader’s life and they become one. In Reruns we find out what it is
like to be a true super hero in a world that’s losing faith, without ever having to
actually risk our own necks!” —Stephen Pagel, co-editor of the multiple
award winning anthology series; Bending the Landscape
MATERIAL THINGS -- ICU Psychosis. Something is very badly wrong in the Hospital ICU where Donna's father is supposedly convalescing. Nurses disappear and never return, necessary treatments are delayed without cause, and she can't get a straight answer out of anyone... except the dead guy who keeps talking to her post-op crazy father. $5.00 + S/H
Congrats to Selina & Laura on this Library
Journal review - in their 5/1/07 issue.
This title will publish in June 2007.
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Rosen, Selina & Laura J. Underwood. Bad Lands: A Holmes & Storm Mystery. Five Star: Gale. Jun.
2007. c.281p. ISBN 978-1-59414-473-8. $25.95. M
Spending a week on an island where multiple murders have been committed is heaven to Maggie Holmes, a forensic scientist and author of a book dealing with paranormal activity at crime scenes. All she and friend Vivian Storm, who actually sees murders through the eyes of the victims, have to do is survive the week while they are being filmed for a reality TV show. To boot, they must pretend to be a lesbian couple. The authors add a great dollop of humor to what is the basic plot of Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None. For collections where paranormal mysteries are popular.
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Kirkus Reviews
BAD LANDS
Author: Rosen, Selina Underwood, Laura Review
Date: MARCH 15, 2007
Publisher:Five Star Pages: 282 Price (hardback): $25.95
Publication Date: 6/20/2007 0:00:00
ISBN: 1-59414-473-
Category: FICTION
Classification: MYSTERY
A blood-soaked island is the eerie setting for
a series of gruesome murders. Maggie Holmes, semi-retired forensic pathologist and
investigator of the paranormal, has long been denied access to
Maggie's forensic skills and Vivian's ability
to see what the victims saw as they faced death are stretched to the limit as an ever more
sadistic killer sends the body count skyward in this grisly debut.
A down-market takeoff on And Then There Were None. Not for the faint of heart.
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Two members of the Shea City police force must find a rampaging killer armed with a deadly weapon in Selina Rosen's Strange Robby, a near-future science fiction novel about crime, cover-ups, and friendship. The twist? Agents Spider Webb and Tommy Chan are more than happy to let the killer run free since he's dishing out vigilante justice to the wicked of Shea City.
Webb and Chan's cover-up is not easy, however, as two flavors of federal spooks are keenly interested in the case: the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Special Weapons Task Force (SWTF). There is also hot lesbian love as DA Carrie Long throws her better instincts aside to pursue the edgy, dangerous Spider Webb.
The
just-around-the-corner world Selina Rosen has built in
But the SWTF doesn't have much choice. Turns out that Webb is a bit of a weapon herself—an empath. Is Strange Robby yet another book about cops with special powers? Yes, it is. And it's a good one. How good? Shades of Lance Henrikson's Frank Black from Millennium.
The very skills that make Webb such a great detective ensure she leads a life of bitter alienation. Being able to understand what people feel has its disadvantages. We lie all the time. Normal people learn how to hide their dislike and distrust of strangers, but Webb sees right through that and can tell how weirded out people are by her. Hers is a lonely life, punctuated by sudden violence, empty affairs, and psychological demons the likes of which you and I are lucky not to know! In fact, her only two good relationships are with in-the-trenches partner Chan, and a man in a coma. Oh, and being a gay ex-marine who rarely thinks before she acts and is too stubborn to back down (much less change the name "Spider Webb") doesn't help Webb's situation that much, either.
That's the hand she's dealt; that's the hand she plays. The romance angles, be they between Webb and Carrie Long, or Tommy Chan and his wife Laura, are some of the best of the book, and make a nice break from the shadowy goings-on, while simultaneously upping the stakes by showing what Webb and Chan stand to lose should they fail to keep a step ahead of the game.
Selina Rosen does an outstanding job of conveying the claustrophobic confines of maintaining a cover-up while investigating a cover-up. She handles secondary characters with respect as well, moving them up in priority and forcing the reader to invest in these most vulnerable characters. Tommy Chan is especially well done. As long-suffering friend of Spider Webb, he's seen her come through "in the shit" as the kids say, and they've formed bonds. But then, he's not an empath. He's just a regular second-generation Asian-American struggling with his interracial marriage and putting himself out there on the edge against the Man, his spooks, and things much worse than empaths. Robby Strange, low-income handyman and terrible swift sword of justice, also stands out. Take your brooding anti-hero, make him a bit on the slow side, then give him a lot of familial responsibility and you've got Robby Strange. He handles it all well, considering.
In many ways I was reminded of M. Night Shyamalan's in its examination of the burdens of having any kind of special power. Especially something like knowing who the bad guys are and having to decide what to do now.
One of the things about realistic characters is that, like real people, they are infuriatingly self-centered at times, and often their own worst enemies. This makes for some very tense reading at times, as the reader is forced to wonder who will win—the villains, the protagonist, or the protagonist's self-destructive traits.
And that's a nice problem for a reader to have.
by Selina Rosen
368 pages
Strange Robby is
many things -- a love story, a sci-fi tale, a murder mystery, a dark comedy -- all rolled
into one. Really, it’s just a good read. The book focuses on a police detective named
Spider Webb (the unusual moniker was a gift from her eccentric late mother) and her
partner Tommy Chan, set sometime in the not too distant future. Spider and Tommy are
working one of the biggest cases in the history of
The thing is, Tommy and Spider aren’t
really sure they want to catch this guy. The people he’s offing are not technically
innocent victims but rather repeat offenders who’ve slipped through the gaping cracks
in the system. Nasty customers, one and all. It’s hard for the two detectives,
seasoned pros, to look too hard for a guy who’s essentially doing their job for
them…only better. The Fry Guy, more commonly known to those around him as the title
character, Strange Robby, isn’t your typical serial psycho. He’s got a special
talent, more than one actually.
Rosen paints incredibly vivid pictures, and her writing is really tight. I loved these
characters, not one of whom is completely perfect or infallible. Rosen populates the book
with people who are good, bad, evil, and just about every shade of grey in between. People
who love their families and those who love, or hate, their jobs. People who make mistakes.
Real, normal people that you can identify with -- even the ones who aren’t exactly
"normal." This is the real strength of the piece, along with Rosen’s razor
sharp wit and sense of humor. Spider is a fabulous main character, a strong female lead,
incomparable. She’s not a real girly woman, nor is she very masculine; she’s
very definitely a woman, a tough cookie who doesn’t take any crap off of anyone.
She’s a decorated veteran of a war, a top detective, and member of the SWAT team.
Certain elements of the story reminded me of
Stephen King’s Firestarter with a secret government agency, paranormal
abilities, and genetic experimentation. And if you don’t know by now what a huge King
fan I am, then let me assure you that’s high praise. But Strange Robby is
definitely its own story.
This book was not a funhouse, it was not a
carnival ride. Don’t expect a roller-coaster because you won’t find it here. But
it’s strong, sassy, funny, and interesting and completely unique…just like
Spider. Rosen managed to keep track of all the intertwining threads of the tale and
eventually tie them off into a neat bundle, which includes a story with a heck of a punch.
I enjoyed the story quite a bit...its darkness, its humanity, and especially its humor. I
laughed out loud often and well. If you’re looking for a terror train that’s
jumped the tracks, out of control and zipping along at breakneck speed, then this
isn’t for you. But if you’re looking for a solid story with likable characters,
not to mention some intrigue and murder (people explode…it’s pretty cool) enough
to sweeten the pot, I think you’ll enjoy Strange Robby.
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