Spiral Path Books: 31 books

Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer—Buy this book! In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches you how to market and sell short stories—and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith...

Sunburst Award Finalist | Aurora Award Finalist | CBC's Bookies Award Finalist "Showcases the inventive mind and immense storytelling talent of one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction." --Library Journal Chimerascope [ki-meer-uh-skohp] — a story of many...

A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world. "I can't remember the last time I read a book that spoke to me, so eloquently, and so deeply, on so many levels. ... I’ll be...

Aurora Award Finalist. The people we meet in Impossiblia are like any of us. They have secrets…fears…desires. Things they keep hidden. Things they keep locked away. Or try to. Only their things are a little…different. A dead wife that won’t leave. A wolf with a past. The secret...

Twelve-year-old Andy Pembleton's younger brother disappeared two years ago. The loss tore Andy's world apart. His father left. His mother withdrew into guilt, all but ignoring Andy. But Andy is going to change all of that. He has a plan to find his brother—a deeply disturbing one. "...

Aurora Award Finalist When the Shogun’s soldiers burn his village and kill his parents, young Asai is rescued by a strange red hawk and led to a fabled temple. Here, he trains under Ikada, the Warrior of the Red Bird and seeker of the Hidden Light. Asai will be the last Warrior, and...

Aurora Award Finalist | Best New Horror Selection *** Now an award-winning independent film *** Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath still, but as Cath’s hunger grows, so does...

A woman tries in vain to convince those around her that the world is ending. Is she right…or is she losing her mind?  

Maroch, an expert in remote viewing and ex-CIA, reluctantly agrees to coach a beautiful young woman "viewer," who bears an uncanny resemblance to his dead wife, in a scheme to locate lost paintings by Vincent van Gogh, setting off a chain of events that may alter the past and destroy both...

Paulo and Dino run a quiet little bar in Toronto, happily retired from their former gig of being immortal gods on Olympus…and Asgard…and… Well, let’s just say they’ve been around. But their peaceful retirement ends when Pop drops in. And the Father of the Gods has brought company....

Aurora Award Finalist Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human. Urban fantasy; shapeshifters (A Heroka short story) Reviews “It's a very interesting turn-around story,...

A Heroka story. Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who hunt her kind and killed her mate. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives. "One expects magic...

AURORA AWARD WINNER from a multi-award winning author. The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing their powers and vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle years ago with the Tainchel, the...

Hari is the greatest thief that Taryaryo has ever known. Well, at least he was until he tried to steal a certain jewel from the most powerful wizard in the land. The theft went, uh, less than perfectly. Instead of the jewel, Hari finds he has stolen a curse. Now Hari has to tell the truth,...