Kim Antieau: 65 books

Samuel and Richard have been together for centuries, bound by the disease that makes them vampires. One evening, they meet their new neighbor, Caroline, and everything changes. This story was originally published in Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction. Kim Antieau has written many novels, short stories,...

Kim Antieau guides you through a year of wisdom, humor, beauty, inspiration, and love in these daily quotes from her own writings featuring the Old Mermaids and some of the other wise and mystical characters from her books and stories. See what gifts Grand Mother Yemaya Mermaid, Sister Laughs A Lot...

MOST OF US hear the call to create. We write, cook, paint, make music, garden, or pursue some other creative endeavor. But sometimes our will falters. We lose motivation or become overly critical of our efforts. We abandon our projects or never start them in the first place. Kim Antieau understands...

India Lake loves the wild and she will do anything to protect it—including taking off her clothes. India Lake is in the middle of a full blown mid-life crisis. Her love life is stalled, to say the least. And her boss forces her to take a two-month vacation after she loses her temper with...

What happens when a weary but still dedicated activist and defender of the environment decides to change her tactics and learn a new way? Acclaimed author Kim Antieau returns to school in Seattle to learn sustainable food systems and permaculture methods. She plans to bring her knowledge back to her...

When the old sea dries up, the Old Mermaids find themselves washed up on the new desert. These tales of the Old Mermaids remind us of the beauty all around us, even on those days when we wonder how we’ll survive, let alone thrive. Sister Ruby Rosarita Mermaid brews a magical storytelling soup...

An ancient Irish curse holds Sara in its grip: Cormac MacDougal steals her red cap which means she must become his fish wife or she and her unborn child will die. One night she can bear her life no longer, and she seeks out her true love, Ian McLaughlin. When she finds him in the arms of her sister,...

Maggie lives on the edge of Tucson where she edits technical manuals and creates medicine from desert plants until one morning when she hears her dead dog barking, a stranger shows up in her driveway, and an unexplainable rift appears in the land, separating Maggie and her neighbors from the rest...

Demeter’s search for Persephone, her daughter lost in the underworld, inspired the Eleusinian Mysteries, a 9 day celebration so powerful much of it remains a secret to this day. Now, in a radical reimagining of this potent & ancient story, Antieau updates the tale for modern sensibilities. The...

When the Old Sea dried up, the Old Mermaids found themselves in the New Desert where they learned to survive and thrive in a strange environment. Now they bring their wisdom and sea smarts to you in The Old Mermaids Oracle, a practical tool for navigating life’s ever-changing circumstances. The...

I WILL NEVER HAVE A HUSBAND, BUT I HAVE THE BEST BROTHER IN THE WORLD. YOUR BREATH ON MY CHEEK -- ON MY SCAR -- FELT LIKE THE BREATH OF ALLAH. Nadira is spoiled goods. Scars from a beating she received for a crime that her older brother allegedly committed tell the world that she is worth less...

It hasn’t rained in Michigan for a long while, and Billy Forché’s parents are worried they will lose the farm. Billy is tired of his silent father and is glad when his father’s stepbrother, Andrew Forché, comes to the farm to dry out and bring rain. That’s Andrew’s gift: He can make it...

On his way to M. Garnier’s chateau, Jean-Jacques Rieux gets lost in the forest and is rescued by a mysterious woman who turns out to be Garnier’s much younger wife, Marie. Garnier claims she has the mark of the beast on her because her parents were killed by werewolves. As Rieux observes Garnier’s cruel treatment of his wife, he begins to wonder which one of them is the beast.