Switchblade Goddess

"Snyder's third story of trouble-prone mage Jessie Shimmer picks up where Shotgun Sorceress left off. Jessie may have helped free the town of Cuchillo from the fiendish demigoddess Miko, but Jessie still has plenty of unfinished business to clean up, starting with the devil in Miko's soul and Jessie's own magical illness. Worse, her familiar and friend, Pal, is dying and any cure will require extremely unusual measures. With Miko ready and able to torture her anytime she falls asleep, Jessie must marshal every bit of strength to maintain her sanity and focus until she can overcome her troubles. Even the help of her boyfriend, who has his own history with Miko, and her father, an outlawed mage, may not be enough. Snyder injects this edgy urban fantasy with an erotic charge and a horrific flavor, creating a space where sex and terror coexist and no comfort zone is within sight. Agent: Professional Media Services." Publishers Weekly Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Lucy A. Snyder is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Spellbent and Shotgun Sorceress, as well as the story and poetry collections Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Hellbound Hearts, Doctor Who Short Trips: Destination Prague, Chiaroscuro, GUD, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. A Texas native, she lives in Worthington, Ohio, with her husband and occasional co-author, Gary A. Braunbeck.