D Ryan: 117 books

Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in...

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed;...

A collection of three short stories from Matthew D. Ryan. Of Dragons, Love, and Poison: The king’s daughter and son have disappeared. The nation of Heshra is in an uproar. Who did the deed? What does it portend? Amidst the swirling rumors of deceit and treachery, the king turns to the warrior,...

My name is Matthew D. Ryan. I’m a writer. A few years back I had a psychological meltdown that convinced me that I am the antichrist. The current diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder. This book is the story of my struggle with schizoaffective disorder and the delusional belief system that has grown...

The Cavern. A Place of Myth, Magic, and Mystery: In a world of fantasy, a place of enchanted quartz crystals and sinister beings of shadow, live a magical people as strong and hearty as the crystalline rocks from which they have been fashioned: they are the Quartzians: A people secluded, distrustful...

Three short stories by Matthew D. Ryan. THE GARDEN A fantasy short story of an adventuresome youth and the trouble he finds on the road. Jak Winston is but a mere sixteen years old, but he's already seen enough trouble to last a lifetime. He's a vagrant and a tramp, but that has given...

Three fantasy short stories by Matthew D. Ryan. THE DEVIL'S CAT—IN GOLAI A fantasy short story of a mystical, diabolical cat with potent magic powers. In this fairy tale, the hunter Pedro Billman is hired to assist another hunter bag the Devil's Cat in a small Central American village...

What’s better than a story about a sexy gay cowboy? How about a whole posse of them? Editor Drew Hunt has rounded up some of the finest authors in the M/M western genre to bring you this collection celebrating gay cowpokes! Meet real men who ride the trail or ride the rodeo, join a wild west...

Fairy tales don't always have happy endings. The hero doesn't always get his girl. True love's kiss doesn't always wake the sleeping princess. Finding the rabbit hole you fell through seems impossible when you've given up all hope of returning to the reality you once knew. The first time Jack...

Juliette Foster is a college sophomore out of options. After being forced to move out of her dorm, thanks to a roommate who fails to respect boundaries, Juliette is welcomed back into the loving home she grew up in. Problem is, her parents have gotten comfortable with their daughter being away...

It’s a tale as old as time … Calla loves bartending at Grimm’s, the hottest club in Anderson, but not nearly as much as she loves antagonizing her beastly boss and seeing just how far he’ll let her go. *In the second installation of Tantalizing Tales from Grimm’s, the crew...

Securing privacy in the current environment is one of the great challenges of today’s democracies. Privacy vs. Security explores the issues of privacy and security and their complicated interplay, from a legal and a technical point of view. Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon provides a thorough account of...

A Sorceress with a Vampire is a Terrible Thing to Face … In this, the exciting sequel to Drasmyr, Coragan and his companions face a new enemy, a crafty sorceress with the power of magic at her beck and call … not to mention a sinister vampire. Now, Coragan must enter a world where the darkness...

Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony, and all she wanted was a night out with her seven girlfriends at the hottest new club in...