Bryant Street imprint: 57 books

When Buckey the Space Pirate decides to take a creative writing course, of course he turns for help to his best friend, Fred the talking oak tree. Fred knows the English language better than any human alive. But Fred is still an oak tree, and oak trees do have their quirks when it comes to...

Maria Webb hated men with too much body hair. But then a magical guy with a lot of hair came striding nude toward her on the beach and everything changed. This time she fell in love with a man with very bushy eyebrows and some special talents that no one would have expected to find with a nude man...

Sometimes you must go back to find the future. Buckey the Space Pirate travels back in time with his friend Fred, the talking oak tree, to learn why Fred refuses to recite his new limerick, the last limerick in Fred’s first poetry book. Over a hundred years in the past, in a forest...

For a vampire, saying goodbye to your mortal lover can be the hardest thing you ever have to do. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a Nebula Award nominated story from USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith. Dean Wesley Smith has also been nominated...

They met on a Tuesday, a hot Tuesday in Southern California, and filled up an entire shopping cart with groceries and conversation and dreams. Sometimes not getting a shopping cart can lead to a lot more than just carrying your food to the checkout counter under your arm. A grocery story...

The special jukebox inside the Garden Lounge takes a listener back through time to the memory from a song. But sometimes that memory can be deadly for the time traveler. And time-loops do exist, even in the Garden Lounge. A twisted-through-time love story by USA Today bestselling writer...

Do you really need a lack of morals to climb the corporate ladder? What happens if the morals you used to cherish get taken by the women you love? A story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith of love, greed, corporate ladders, and blondes. Lots of blondes. “The Keeper...

Mathew died at the age of fourteen, but that didn’t stop him from wanting to grow up. Set in the primative area of Idaho, “Growing Pains of the Dead” tells a gentle ghost story of a young boy named Mathew who finally gets a chance to grow up one hundred years after he died. Bestselling...

Sometimes, to save the world, a guy must take on the cheerleaders. John Divine lived through a vision of the end of the world, a world ruled by cheerleaders, a world he refused to live in. His choice obvious.... He must stop them. A humor story by bestselling writer Dean Wesley...

Poker Boy has saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Leverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the...

Mary did her best in her small restaurant to keep everything just perfect. She swept and cleaned constantly and didn’t much like crude behavior near her. And everyone knew of her bad stomach. But after death, she must put aside her prim behavoir for just a moment to move forward. A...

When men start getting run over by slow-moving train cars in a gold rush town in the mountains of Idaho, Marshal Duster Kendal must solve the murders. But there might not be a motive besides the fact that Duster Kendal lives. Duster knows exactly what to do about that. And he needs to do it fast before...

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had made a different decision? A bar napkin with a strange saying and a dragon gives Richard Cone just that: A second chance. Bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith returns to his popular Jukebox series with an origin story of the new...

A mystery story about a grown man, an attorney, alone on Christmas Eve, who can’t allow himself to believe in Santa Claus. But someone keeps eating the cookies. Every year. Just as it happened in his childhood. Maybe Santa Claus really does exist. Or maybe, just maybe, this...