Writing In The Crosshairs: IN THE PROPER ORDER

Saturday, February 1, 2020

IN THE PROPER ORDER

"Significance finds its own order."

- Eudora Welty, On Writing

A friend emailed me asking for the chronological order of my books in their series.

I realized that I do have a few books out there, and reading them in order might make them more enjoyable.

SO HERE GOES

1) HER BONES ARE IN THE BADLANDS - 1927

2) FRENCH QUARTER REQUIEM (to be published the middle of this month) - 1946

3) BEWARE THE JADE CHRISTMAS -1946

4) RAZOR VALENTINE (appropriate for this month with its Mardi Gras and Valentine themes)

1947

5) NIGHT SEASON ( my current work in progress)- 1948

** Each of these volumes are written to be able to be read independently.

SAMUEL McCORD SAGA

1) RITES OF PASSAGE - 1853

2) ADRIFT IN THE TIME STREAM - 1853

3) DRAGONS OF THE BARBARY COAST - 1857 (with 16 year old Mark Twain)

4) NOT SO INNOCENTS ABROAD - 1867 (Mark Twain, Nikola Tesla, & an insane Lincoln!)

5) NOT SO INNOCENTS AT LARGE - 1867 (Same cast but in Paris with dragons!)

6) DEATH IN THE HOUSE OF LIFE - 1848; 1895 (Twain, Wilde in Cairo and Tanis!)

7) THE STARS BLEED AT MIDNIGHT - 1895, Egypt (star aliens and pyramids)

8) HER BONES ARE IN THE BADLANDS - 1927 (McCord becomes a movie mogul.)

9) FRENCH QUARTER NOCTURNE - 2005 - (Hurricane Katrina and undead madness)

10) CREOLE KNIGHTS - 2005 - (Hell comes visiting post Katrina New Orleans)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

IN HIS SAGA

1) BRING ME THE HEAD OF McCORD! (A vampiric Abigail Adams, oh my!)

2.) HUNTER'S MOON - ( guest starring Wolf Howl, the last Lakota shaman)

3) TALES OF THE LAST WOLF (with color pictures even!)

4) TALES TO BE TOLD AT MIDNIGHT - (Sam at the dying of the universe)

THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH

1) CARNIVAL OF THE DAMNED - 1997 (my tip of the Stetson to SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES)

2) THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH - 2005 New Orleans, ghoul friends, and vampire priests!

3) UNDER A VOODOO MOON - 2005 then to 1834 and Madame Lalaurie!

4) THE RIVAL - 1834- McCord, Edgar Allen Poe, and a vampiric Abigail Adams -- oh, and the ghost of John Adams

5) END OF DAYS - Ragnarok has come for New Orleans of all places, 2005, with all my major characters in the fray, even Wolf Howl and Hibbs, the Bear with 2 Shadows!

6) THREE SPIRIT KNIGHT - From Ragnarok to the end of all time, Victor and Alice struggle to save their slain friends.

THE SONG OF WOLF HOWL

1) HUNTER'S MOON

2) END OF DAYS

3) TALES TO BE TOLD AT MIDNIGHT

4) THE LAST SHAMAN

5) RETURN OF THE LAST SHAMAN

THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS

1) HIBBS, THE CUB WITH NO CLUE

2) THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS

3) END OF DAYS

THE ODYSSEY OF BLAKE ADAMSON,

LUCIFER'S ORPHAN

1) LOVE LIKE DEATH -

the clone grown from the tissue found at the tip of the Spear of Destiny makes a fatal mistake, creating a parallel life for himself.

2) LUCIFER'S ORPHAN - the last fae and DayStar torment Blake.

3) LUCIFER'S ORPHAN - JOURNEY OF THE LOST

4) LUCIFER'S ORPHAN - BATTLEFIELD HELL - Hell invades New Zealand

5) THE PATH BACK TO DAWN - Blake awakens to discover there are worse fates awaiting the living than death.

6) BLACK ROSES IN AVALON - To escape DayStar, Blake and the Last Fae travel to time-lost Avalon.

7) LAST EXIT TO BABYLON - Betrayal adrift on the Time Stream.

8) THE LAST FAE - Tales of the Last Fae before she met Blake.

Tales containing the first appearances of

Lucas, the sociopathic O.S.S. operative;

Darael, the Angel provocateur; and

Luke Winters, the Lakota psychologist: ghosts and gangsters.