Somtow in amazon vella
TERRESTRIAL PASSIONS
The widowed Mrs. Dorrit lives a marginal existence with her brother, a vicar, and twin daughters in a cottage on the estate of her wealthy cousin, Lord Chuzzlewit, in the West London village of Little Chiswick. As the season dawns and a rakish Earl takes up residence in the once-abandoned Flanders House nearby, their lives, and the marital prospects of Alma's daughters, become immeasurably complicated when a starship lands in her apple orchard.
CLUB X (NOW IN SEASON THREE!)
World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow's first Kindle-Vella series now online! St. Cecilia's boarding school is a hotbed of hormones, mystery, fantasy, and dark secrets! Five kids (three boys, a girl, and a boy-girl) uncover the dark secrets of their school amid mysteries of identity and sexual attraction. Vampires! Dancing nuns! Club X solves every mystery. Season 1 "Vampire in the Closet" done ... Season 2 "Zombie in the Fridge" is finished and now we are in Season 3: “Banshee in the Bathtub!”
DELICATUS
The historian Suetonius tells us that the Emperor Nero emasculated and married his slave Sporus, the spitting image of murdered Empress Poppaea. But history has more tidbits about Sporus, who went from "puer delicatus" to Empress to one Emperor and concubine to another, and ended up being sentenced to play the Earth-Goddess in the arena.
BORN, UNDEAD
Caught in the bizarre, creepy world of the Thai underground of shamans and sorcerers, Immanuel Fischbein, a washed-up expatriate private eye tries to solve a mystery about stolen fetuses. The trouble is, the people who hired him don't want a solution ... By the World-Fantasy Award winning author of "Club X" - complete in only 8 episodes, but more stories are coming in this world!
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN TINSEL-TOWN
World Fantasy Award winning author's S.P. Somtow's satirical take on Lewis Carroll features young Alice Liddell accidentally zapped to Hollywood in the 20th century by the "transtemporizer," invented by Dr. Albert Einstein, the White Knight, pursued by the Rev. Dodgson, famous Victorian mathematician, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll.
VALENTINE’S SHADOW:
Release from Vampire Junction
S.P. Somtow is finally working on a fourth book in the classic Timmy Valentine series. Vampire Junction was named one of the all-time Top 40 by the Horror Writers’ Association back in the 1990s. It has never been out of print and is considered ancestral to the “splatterpunk” movement.