Jack of Harts

Captain William “Bill” Carter rode with the Rangers since Sam Houston formed them to protect the scattered Texian settlements from Indians and other bandits. He signed up with a new name very decade or so for paperwork reasons, but some of the old hands never forgot the day they were young hands and Bill pulled them through a tough scrape with a Mexican nagual. The shapeshifters fought under both Spanish and Mexican flags from Texas, to Mexico City, to Cuba and beyond, and Bill always stood ready to face those and other otherworldly creatures and threats to mankind.

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Coffee Adventures

Captain William “Bill” Carter was a Connecticut Yankee who went west to patrol the American frontier as it expanded. He fought at New Orleans during the War of 1812, and rode with Sam Houston’s Ranger Company against Indian raiders, Santa Anna, and all the way to Mexico City to settle the question about Texas independence. Bill rode with the Texas Rangers for decades under various official names for paperwork reasons, but his primary mission was always the same. To hunt otherworldly creatures and threats to mankind.

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Coffee Adventures

The fine folks over at Raconteur Press have been putting out good anthologies of stories for a minute now. They are new, but they are very good. Nearly three dozen anthologies says they are doing it right. And I checked before I started submitting stories to them.

They picked one of the first stories I sent them, the Guns of Liberty. That one stars the same Captain Jack Hart of my main line Jack of Harts stories. And I’m rather happy with it.

They have picked up three more of my stories so far, and published two, with a character I wrote specifically for them because I wanted to try something new. Captain William “Bill” Carter, Texas Ranger, hunter of otherworldly creatures and other threats to mankind. I posted to social media some time ago that I was thinking about doing some monster hunting stories, and people had some interest in that. Bill Carter was my answer to that interest.

If you are at all interested in science fiction or fantasy short stories, I would like to recommend you to try out Raconteur Press. The ones I’m in and the ones I’m not. A rising tide raises all boats after all. And put in a review if you like it. They’re doing good work. There’s not much more I can ask of such a fine collection of folks.

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