Every story, whatever the genre, happens somewhere. Every story involves characters whose background has helped make them what they are. This chapbook provides a structured approach to aid the author in creating the place and characters, a checklist of fifty-two categories Lee developed for writing her own books. The checklist and its accompanying commentary and […]
Lee Killough
Science Fiction, Supernatural, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Urban Fantasy
Lee Killough has spent most of her physical life in Kansas...except for an interesting stay in Washington DC during the hippie era at the end of the 70's...but due to discovering science fiction at age eleven, in her imagination she has lived all over the Galaxy. She began storytelling about age four, making up her own bedtime stories. Mostly about cowboys and horses. Once she discovered the SF and Mystery sections of the library, however, the stories became SF and mystery. With a preference in mysteries for police procedurals, thanks to the influence of TV shows like Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Naked City, and M-Squad. She also began writing the stories down...and in 1970 published her first short story "Caveat Emptor" in Analog magazine. Her short story "Symphony For a Lost Traveler" received a Hugo Award nomination in 1985. Her first novel, A Voice Out of Ramah, came out in 1979. While she began by publishing science fiction, her work has evolved into a combination of SF or the supernatural and her other favorite genre, mystery...producing stories about future cops, space going cops, vampire cops, werewolf cops, and ghost cops. Entering the electronic age, her books are now being republished as e-books by Books We Love.
Books by Lee Killough
ISBN: 9781893687905
ISBN: 978-0-986-74333-7
Homicide detective Allison Goodnight has a big problem. A rogue werewolf killed the victim in her latest case. She knows the signs; she is a werewolf, too. Her whole family is. It is urgent that she close this case without revealing the killer’s nature before humans’ racial memory of her kind awakens. But her new […]
Blood Games (The Garreth Mikaelian Mystery Series Book 3
ISBN: 978-0-986-74332-0
Vampire Garreth Mikaelian thought he had his existence all arranged. He is comfortably settled in a town where, his nature unknown to those around him, he works the night shift as a police officer. His blood comes in bottles. He has a routine and friends. But that peace is shattered when his fellow officer and […]
ISBN: 978-0-986-74334-4
Inspector Cole Dunavan finds himself in the middle of a parking garage with no memory except of his murder. After remembering who he is and accepting that he is now a ghost, he has more problems. He is a ghost with no idea how being a ghost works. No one sees or hears him. He […]
ISBN: 978-1-926965-18-5
In an ancient Africa of verdant Sahara plains, warrior woman Jeneba Karamoke has grown up scorned by her people because her father was a leopard man. When she rescues a party of fellow warriors from cannibalistic monster half-men, she hopes it will finally win acceptance for her. But no…in order to prove she isn’t lying […]
ISBN: 978-1-926965-30-7
It would be logical for the culture of a distant planet unconnected to Humans to be…well…alien. A different social and family structure, different legal system, different religion. But maybe some things aren’t that alien: war, politics…murder. A natural disaster like an earthquake would seem to be perfect cover for murder. But the murder is discovered, […]
The Garreth Mikaelian Mystery Series Book 1
ISBN: 978-1-926-96537-6
When San Francisco Homicide Inspector Garreth Mikaelian begins hunting a mysterious red-haired woman who appears involved in the murders of two out-of-town businessmen, he faces a killer unlike any he has investigated before. For unknown to him, Lane Barber is a vampire. When Garreth comes too close, she attacks him and turns him into a […]
The Garreth Mikaelian Mystery Series Book 3
ISBN: 978-1-927476-93-2
Two years ago Garreth Mikaelian was turned into a vampire by the seductive Lane Barber. He tracked her to a small Kansas town and when she tried to kill him, killed her. He thought. But a call comes from his old partner in San Francisco that seems to indicate Lane is still alive. Garreth goes […]
This Lee Killough Special Edition published by Books We Love contains all three of the Garreth Mikaelian vampire cop mysteries: Blood Hunt, Bloodlinks, and Blood Games.
ISBN: 978-1-937105-43-3
Teo Azkuharaz and his fellow archeologists expected to be answering scholarly questions in the ruins on the planet the team is bound for. But the questions become those of life and death when their ship is attacked and taken prisoner by the yfel, a brutal reptilian race defeated millennia ago by the Virinian empire. Now […]
ISBN: 978-1897492413
Friendly. Useful. Current. Written by a collection of well-known authors for new authors, The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Novels: Volume 1 covers a wide range of topics necessary for building your first paranormal novel. Paranormal novels are found in all sections of the fiction bookstore. One of the most prevalent forms of fantasy masquerading […]