Short Stories
Get my short stories in one package, my first ever fiction collection...
EXIT STRATEGY & OTHERS (Fiction Collection)
For the first time, get all the Wendy Ward stories (four novelettes & one short story, including "Forces of Nature", "Breathless", "Harbinger", "Blood Alone" and the NEW novelette "Flashpoint" featuring Kayla Zanella.)
PLUS 6 more stories, including "Undead Air", "Twilight Crossing", "Debts Long Due", "All Heaven in a Rage", the rare, dark humor story "Red Friday", and the brand NEW, noir horror "Exit Strategy."
This fiction collection is available NOW in the Kindle eBook format. More eBook formats to come.
THE STORIES IN BETWEEN features
"Blood Alone"
a Wendy Ward novelette
Just released, THE STORIES IN BETWEEN celebrates the 30th anniversary of the independent genre bookstore Between Books (Claymont, DE), where I've held all my book launch events since my debut novel, WITHER. Since Wendy Ward really began in the aisles of Between Books, where I met my WITHER co-author, I thought my contribution to the anniversary anthology should be a Wendy Ward story. And I wanted to make it a special story. Not only is "Blood Alone" the longest Wendy Ward novelette to date (approx 17,000 words), it also marks a game-changing moment in Wendy's life. You can order a signed copy through my author store or grab a copy online from Amazon.com. THE STORIES IN BETWEEN is a beautiful, illustrated anthology, featuring stories from Jonahan Carroll, Greg Frost, Jonathan Maberry, Maria V. Snyder, and many others. A specially commissioned illustration accompanies each story, including a cool work of art from Don Bethman for "Blood Alone" depicting astral Wendy, Kayla and Abby in her wolf form.
Historian's Note: "Blood Alone" follows the events of "Harbinger."
Reviews
"The stellar lineup of authors includes Bram Stoker Award winners John Passarella and Jonathan Maberry, popular fantasists Maria Snyder and Patrick Thomas, and best-selling novelist Jonathan Carroll.... [M]ost of the tales are entertaining enough to be fitting tributes to one of the East Coast’s most beloved independent bookstores. —Carl Hays, Booklist
Harbinger: A Wendy Ward Story
When Wendy Ward meets a mysterious old woman who could be the mentor she never had, the young Wiccan sees an opportunity to end Wither's curse and finally have the chance to learn her magical craft without fearing for her life every step of the way. But the old woman has her own agenda. And Wendy will face an unimagined threat before the day is over.
"Harbinger" ready for instant download through PayLoadz & PayPal: Buy Now
Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad WINS Eppie Award!
Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad (in which my story "Twilight Crossing" appears) won the Eppie Awards Fiction Anthology Category! View the Winners & Finalists here. Winners were announced during EPICon 2009, March 5-8, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV.
Debuted May at Balticon 2008, BAD-ASS FAERIES 2: JUST PLAIN BAD and features my brand story"TWILIGHT CROSSING"
"Twilight Crossing" features a bouncer faerie, three hired assassin faeries, and quite a few surprises. "Twilight Crossing" is primarily a fantasy story with a hint of horror. It was a lot of fun to write from the perspective of a character who isn't quite what he seems and manages to surprise himself again and again. I kept discovering deeper layers to the narrative.
Order NEW Mundania Press edition (picutred above) from Amazon.com
Order signed copy of Marietta edition from the Passarella Bookstore
Praise for Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad
"Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad fulfilled its promise…This is another one I could hardly put down! This is a must read for all you Faerie lovers out there!" [5 ANGELS]
— CJ, Fallen Angel Reviews (Read full review...)
"Overall, Just Plain Bad is a wonderful collection well worth your time as you lounge poolside or bake at the beach this summer. I highly recommend this anthology to you. Until next time, enjoy!" [About "Twilight Crossing," my story, they said:] "Plots and counterplots of the fae courts are revealed... A nice adventure unfolds from there with surprises all along the way."
—The Fix (Read full review...)
All Heaven In A Rage / Debts Long Due Flip Chapbook*
Two of my stories ("All Heaven in a Rage" & "Debts Long Due") are now available in a newly illustrated flip chapbook from Scrybe Press. Read one story, then flip the book around and read the other. Inside, you'll find a new author introduction explaining the origin of each story.
Eric Asaris illustrated the chapbook covers and three interior illustrations.
If you missed either of these stories in their original small press/short print run lives, you're in for a real treat. AHIAR (novelette length at 10,000 words) tells a tale of science gone horribly wrong, while "Debts Long Due" (4,000 words) is a chilling ghost-in-the-graveyard cautionary tale.
Praise for "All Heaven in a Rage"
"'All
Heaven in a Rage' by John Passarella... packs science-gone-wrong, interoffice
politics, romance, redemption and a wonderful ending into just a few pages."
— Inscriptions
Magazine
The chapbook is available at Amazon.com, and I have signed copies here. You can also order a copy from KayLeighBug Books. List price is $4.00.
*Chapbooks are booklets, made from 8 1/2 X 11 pages, stapled down the middle and folded in half, so they are 4 1/4 wide x 8 1/2 tall. Covers are usually heavier and/or glossy paper stock. Poetry is often published in chapbook format, along with short stories and, sometimes, novellas.
Wendy Ward: " Breathless" — PDF eNovelette - $0.99
First time available anywhere! The second Wendy Ward novelette is now available as a PDF eBook download for only $0.99. Contains an introduction by the author. Two download versions are available, a 272KB version for dial-up users and a 5.58MB high resolution version for broadband users.
This PDF eBook freatures a wonderful cover illustration by Eric Asaris. To order the eBook , visit the Passarella Store.
BUY THE LOW-RES eBOOK - $0.99 (272KB PDF for Dial-Up Users)
BUY THE HIGH-RES eBOOK - $0.99 (5.58MB PDF for Broadband Users)
Wendy Ward: "Forces of Nature" PDF eNovelette - $0.99
The first Wendy Ward novelette is available as a PDF eNovelette download for only $0.99 . Contains a new introduction by the author and a sneak preview of the SECOND Wendy Ward novelette, "Breathless." Two download versions available: 282KB version for dial-up users and a 5.06MB high resolution version for broadband users.
Features a wonderful cover illustration by Eric Asaris. Order with the links below or on the Passarella Bookstore Page.
BUY THE LOW-RES eBOOK - $0.99 (282KB PDF for Dial-Up Users)
BUY THE HIGH-RES eBOOK - $0.99 (5.06MB PDF for Broadband Users)
"Undead Air" in Modern Magic
"Undead Air", my fictional zombie story, features actual morning
show DJs Preston and Steve (93.3 WMMR, Philadelphia PA) and is based upon
the David Seidman painting Zombie
Riot. "Undead Air" appears in Fantasist Enterprises's Modern
Magic: Tales of Fantasy and Horror anthology. Modern Magic features
an Introduction by Kelley
Armstrong, author of Bitten, Stolen, and Dime Store Magic.
Read an excerpt of "Undead Air."
(Order Modern Magic from Amazon.com)
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Send a check or money order for $17.00 payable to
John Passarella at
P.O. Box 381, Swedesboro, NJ 08085
Zombie Riot by
David Seidman is the basis of my
story "Undead Air"
— featuring real morning
show DJs Preston & Steve (93.3 WMMR, Philadelphia PA) — in Modern
Magic.
This print was
personalized
to me by the
artist and by
Preston Elliot & Steve Morrison,
Zombie Slayers.
Praise for Modern Magic
“Overall, MODERN MAGIC ranks as one of
the best and most unusual anthologies I’ve read recently.... Guffaw
out loud as two radio DJs use their monster-movie know-how against zombies
in “Undead
Air,” a tale as perfectly calibrated and deadpan as a textual comic
book.” (excerpt)
—Tangent
Online review
“MODERN MAGIC is a wonderful anthology
of bright, inventive fiction, complimented by great art work that would
do any art show proud. Stephen King tells us that writing is telepathy,
and I was there in the magical realms with the authors—from Sarah
A. Hoyt's magical prelude, “Stock Management” to the gonzo
zombie attitude of [John] Passarella's “Undead Air.” Mary
Rosenblum (“The
Woman Who Walked with Dogs”) does not have to tell me twice to be
in my house by dark.”
—Nancy Holder, Co-editor (with Nancy Kilpatrick), OUTSIDERS,
and author of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: QUEEN OF THE SLAYERS
