The Reckless imprint has been as busy (and as lucky in the works it has attracted) as its older Candlemark sibling. After the high-stakes interstellar diplomacy of Wisps of Spider Silk, the noir interplanetary sleuthing of Piper Deez and the Case of the Winter Planet, and the oneiric frissons of mythic Dreaming the Dark comes Martha Hood’s The Miasma Is Not for Us to Say: a witty fusion of Stephen King and Elmore Leonard with a pitch-perfect take on small-town bureaucracies, alliances, enmities and intrigues—brought to a head by a semi-sentient cloud of evil-smelling fog.

Martha A. Hood lives and writes in Irvine, California. Her fiction has appeared in a number of publications, including Interzone, Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine, The Sockdolager, and Tales of the Unanticipated. She blogs, sporadically, at Speculativemartha.wordpress.com. She shares her abode with a husband and two cockatiels. The Miasma Is Not for Us to Say was inspired by a bad smell during construction in the Hoods’ dining room.

We expect to share The Miasma in spring of 2020. Mark your calendars for the shoals of small-town politics!