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The Clocktower Books authors are a diverse and talented group, offering a wide range of fine stories, from adventures on distant worlds to love and murder in the big city. Most of these books are available in both print and digital editions.
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Renee Horowitz Promotion The Rx Trilogy will be featured on this page very soon. Renee's award winning mystery stories feature pharmacist Ruthie Kantor Morris.
In Rx For Murder [Book 1 of the Rx Series] [MultiFormat] what did his prescription records reveal to convince pharmacist Ruthie Kantor Morris that Harry Stokes's death was murder? 
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In Deadly Rx [Book 2 of the Rx Series] [MultiFormat] did pharmacist Ruthie Kantor Morris make a fatal mistake in filling a teenage girl's prescription or did someone else substitute the blood-thinning medication? 
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In Rx Alibi [Book 3 of the Rx Series] [MultiFormat] when Andrea Felder is murdered, pharmacist Ruthie Kantor Morris discovers a prescription drug the police have overlooked. Does it pinpoint the killer or is it a false lead?
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RENÉE B. HOROWITZ was a professor of technology at Arizona State University until her recent retirement. During her university career, she published many academic articles and conference papers. Renée also is a past president of the Tombstone Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband and has two sons and a granddaughter. Her authentic, behind-the-scenes look at pharmacy in the Rx series is inspired not only by her pharmacist husband, but also by both their pharmacist dads.
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Coming September 2009: Lethal Journey (Thriller/Historical)—John T. Cullen has written a gripping novel, based on the legend of Kate Morgan, and also his own research (see: Dead Move, below). The novel is a finely honed, minimal machine with the forward momentum of an express train through a darkly atmospheric Victorian nightscape. Kate Morgan is a fearless, amoral villainess whose 1892 escapades recall 1993's The Last Seduction—but, remarkably, she and most of the other characters were true-life people who really lived and did these things. Kate is on the run from her violent and dangerous husband, Tom Morgan, a gambler and murderer. Kate's target for blackmail is the fabulously wealthy John Spreckels, owner of the Hotel del Coronado, at the moment visiting on urgent business with President Benjamin Harrison at the White House. The victim of a plot gone horribly wrong is pregnant and desperate young Lizzie Wyllie of Detroit, a beautiful and elegant Fallen Woman who becomes that most venerated icon of Victorian sentimentality and denial, The Fallen Angel—recalling Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and a thousand other such pale, lovely ghosts. And, yes, her ghost still famously haunts that great U.S. official landmark, the Hotel del Coronado, into the 21st Century.
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Scary Book: The Bad Season by Dennis Latham (Horror/Fiction)—Something stalks Owenton Hollow…in rural Kentucky during certain summers known as the bad season. Locals bury their dead and keep the events secret so the media will avoid Owenton County, which had become a prime marijuana source. By 1995, several outsiders had built houses near the hollow, and the DEA began enforcing drug laws in Owenton County. None were aware of the danger they faced. Based on fact and myth, this is an account of what happened when a misfit squad of strangers led by a Marine Vietnam veteran faced the impossible…an enemy that could not die. Clocktower Books, ISBN 0-7433-0905-7. Buy online or through your favorite bookstore —more at Dennis Latham's web page.
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Coming September 2009: A Walk in Ancient Rome (Ancient History/Nonfiction)—John T. Cullen takes the lay reader on an unforgettable and unprecedented walk through all fourteen regiones (districts) of the Imperial capital in 150 A.D. during the reign of Antoninus Pius. One of the 'Good Emperors' according to Edw. Gibbon, Antoninus rules over the Roman Empire at its zenith. Richly illustrated, with plenty of maps, this revised edition (due out Spring 2008) takes you not only to the usual highlights (the Roman Forum, the Colosseum) but into every nook and cranny (from the police station across the street from the Praetorian Guard barracks, to a house in the Subura; from the Portico of Europa to a carriage maker's shop near the Porta Capena, and much more…revised official website will open Fall 2009.
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World-Class Mystery and Ongoing Ghost Story: Dead Move: Kate Morgan and the Haunting Mystery of Coronado by John T. Cullen (Historical Fiction/Mystery/Ghost Story based on a true 1892 crime)—She still haunts the fabulous Hotel del Coronado across the bay from San Diego to this day. The 'Beautiful Stranger' checked into the great resort on Thanksgiving Day 1892 and died mysteriously of a gunshot to the head on the back stairs, overlooking the beach, during one of the century's most overwhelming sea storms at night. Was it murder or suicide? Why did she choose that particular hotel, the most expensive and exclusive in the region, when she had almost no money and no resources but the clothes on her back? She came alone and died alone, so who was the mysterious Dr. Anderson after whom she inquired almost hourly? He was supposed to meet her, but never showed up. Was he her brother, as she claimed, or her lover? She was pregnant and taking 'terrible medicines to induce a miscarriage,' according to the leading San Diego medical examiner—who was not permitted to autopsy her. John T. Cullen is the first to examine this world-class mystery in its historical context. It was a national sensation in its day, and can be again today as the amazing background starts to reveal itself. Clocktower Books, ISBN 0-7433-0914-6. Buy online or through your favorite bookstore —maps, pix, more at John T. Cullen's web page.
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Available Now: Spring & His Summers (Erotica/Fiction) —The sizzling erotic memoirs of a young man (taxi driver, handsome artist, and lost soul in his early 20s) who encounters a seemingly endless stream of adventures with slightly older (late 20s, early 30s) alluring, world-wise women who offer mystery and enlightenment. The encounters are pleasurable, sizzling, explicit, erotic, and always palatable—no turnoffs. The women are each unique, and present themselves as three-dimensional persons with humor and a mix of good points and faults that play against young Peter May's naive, sincere nature and turbo-charged libido.—more at this official page.
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A Book for the Holidays: The Christmas Clock (Seasonal/Fantasy Fiction)—a darkly humorous, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing holiday fantasy. Written in the spirit of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and other macabre seasonal celebrations with a sentimental payoff. Appropriate for adult and teenage readers. Advance reading copies of The Christmas Clock available to official reviewers upon request—more at this official page.
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Print and Digital:Our titles are available in all digital formats, especially from Fictionwise (now an independent division of Barnes & Noble). Our titles are available in print and e-book formats from Powells. Also available online to order in print from B&N, Amazon, and other e-tailers around the world. You can order our titles in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K.in most bookstores associated with national distributors. In the U.S., our main distributors are Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Returns=yes.
—CAJ, Executive Editor.
Submissions
We have stopped accepting open submissions for the immediate future, sorry. We have become very focused on quality rather than quantity, and plan to publish at most a handful of books each year. As a very tiny press, that allows us to optimally see a book through from acquisition through editing and production, through distribution, marketing, promotion, and life cycle maintenance. Our books come to us through back channels. This is not to say that, one day, we may not broaden our accessibility again. When and if that happens, there will be an announcement.
—CAJ, Executive Editor.
History
Clocktower Books, launched 1996 by business partners John T. Cullen and Brian Callahan, has been designated by digital publishing historian Karen Wiesner as 'the world's sixth digital publisher.' Under the imprints Neon Blue Fiction and The Haunted Village, they were the world's second publisher to release weekly serial chapters of entire novels on line as early as 1996. Their magazine Deep Outside SFFH, later Far Sector SFFH, had a ten year run and was at one time the world's oldest web-based magazine of sf/f/h without print antecedents. Brian is now proprietor of a wonderful graphics company, SighCo, located in the historic center of New Orleans and a survivor of Katrina. Clocktower Books, in San Diego, continues as a tiny publisher with a huge heart.
—CAJ, Executive Editor.
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