Transcendence

What Will You Discover Between the Darkness and the Light?

When the mortal coil wears thin and the great unknown draws nigh you might spy the narrow gap between the mystical and the mundane. You might even notice something’s looking back.

Transcendence takes a hard look at humanity in nine tales of difficult choices, great rewards, and journeys beyond expectation.

• In Skippy, Don does not like what he sees in the mirror…but will he survive it?

• A Fury finds form—and retribution—in The Kindly One.

• If I Had the Chance takes do-overs to a new level.

• Aisa has a death-ly choice to make in The Misses Moirai.

• Ruby Red sweeps you away in a dance on the edge of madness.

• Purgatory is when you think you’re damned…hell is when you are right…

• Fredrich tries to drown his sorrows in Stoli and Solitude.

• For Camirel finding purpose means total transformation in Emberling.

• Transcendence…where you look into the heart of a star and find yourself.

The extraordinary awaits… will you step beyond the bounds of commonplace existence?

Award-winning author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has worked both sides of the publishing industry for longer than she cares to admit. Currently, she is a project editor and promotions manager for Dark Quest Books and has recently started her own press, eSpec Books. Her published works include five urban fantasy novels, Yesterday's Dreams, Tomorrow's Memories, Today’s Promise, The Halfling’s Court: and The Redcaps’ Queen: A Bad-Ass Faerie Tale, and a young adult Steampunk novel, Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn, written with Day Al-Mohamed. She is also the author of the solo science fiction collection, A Legacy of Stars, the non-fiction writers’ guide, The Literary Handyman, and is the senior editor of the Bad-Ass Faeries anthology series, Dragon’s Lure, and In an Iron Cage. Her work is included in numerous other anthologies and collections. She is a member of the Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers, the New Jersey Authors Network, and Broad Universe, a writer’s organization focusing on promoting the works of women authors in the speculative genres. Danielle lives in New Jersey with husband and fellow writer, Mike McPhail, mother-in-law Teresa, and three extremely spoiled cats. She can be found on Facebook (Danielle Ackley-McPhail) and Twitter (DMcPhail). To learn more about her work, visit www.sidhenadaire.com or www.badassfaeries.com.

These stories touched me. They made me think. And, as an author, they inspired me. I can think of no better compliment to give another author. -Jennifer Brozek, award-winning author

I attend a minimum of twelve conventions a year, including FarPoint, Mysticon, Dreamation, Ravencon, Balticon, The Maryland Faerie Festival, Confluence, Shore Leave, Capclave, Philcon, Dexcon, and Chessiecon.

In addition to this I maintain a very active social media presence, blog, and blog tours throughout the year.