Douglas Smith

‘A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing . . . unforgettable’ Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad In 1938, Vienna was the second largest Jewish city in Europe. By 1946, only a few thousand Jews remained. In this extraordinary story of loss, fear, longing and hope, acclaimed historian Douglas Smith chronicles the destruction of Jewish Vienna under the Nazis. Drawing on hundreds of long-forgotten sources, The City Without Jews centres on one remarkable person: Mignon Langnas. A woman of exceptional strength, courage and dignity, Mignon’s story opens a window onto the larger history of Vienna in the Nazi years. The city was at the forefront of the Nazis’ anti-Semitic policies and became a laboratory for developing methods to eradicate the Jews – expropriation, forced emigration, exile and eventually mass deportation to the killing fields and death camps in the East. Watching as nearly every Jew she knew disappeared, Mignon vividly recorded her world in diaries and letters, creating an indispensable and uniquely detailed account that is impossible to forget. In intimate and heart-rending prose, Douglas Smith tells a story like no other – of betrayal, sacrifice, impossible choices and survivor guilt.

An investigation into the deaths of six Aboriginal women and the police responses that left families reeling 'If you think it's hard being a white woman in Australia, try being a black woman.' These were the words that set a team of journalists at the Adelaide Advertiser on an investigation into the tragic deaths of six young Indigenous women.It was Courtney Hunter-Hebberman who uttered those words, up on stage at an International Women's Day event. A shocking number of Indigenous women die every year by murder or suicide, and Courtney's daughter, Rose, was one of them. Rose's apparent death by suicide at nineteen, in a backyard shed, had left her mother craving answers - answers the police seemed unable to give her.Inspired by Courtney's courage and grief, the Advertiser team hoped to shed light on Rose's death and put Courtney's mind at rest. But what they found, as their investigation of one death rolled into another five, was disturbing. Lack of urgency, sloppy searches, poor communication, and assumptions by police were just some of the problems .As the team probed further, even bigger questions about whether Indigenous Australians, especially women, are heard when they speak.Based on the podcast Dying Rose, this is a compelling look at young Indigenous women's vulnerability to danger, and how, when their lives are cut short, their families are left to cope with a grief seemingly compounded by indifference.

"Short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It's spectacular."- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author & editor Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer-Buy this book Fully revised and current, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago. In an engaging and conversational style, multi-award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short stories-and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career. Topics include: The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The benefits of short fiction. Rights and licensing. Selling Your Stories: Knowing when it's ready. Choosing markets. Submitting stories. Avoiding mistakes. How editors select stories. Dealing with rejections. When to give up on a story. After a Sale: Contracts. Working with editors. What your first sale means. Dealing with reviews. A Writer's Magic Bakery: Selling reprints. Foreign markets. Audio markets. Selling a collection. The indie option. Becoming Established: Leveraging your stories. Discoverability and promotion. Career progression in short fiction. "Doug has gone through this new volume carefully, updating every possible detail. That makes the second edition as indispensable to the short fiction writer as the first. ... Lots of writers write good books on craft. Few have the experience to write good books on the publishing business. Doug is one of those few, and this book shows it."- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor Douglas Smith is the ideal person to write this book. His stories have appeared in thirty-seven countries and twenty-six languages. He has three acclaimed collections and has won five awards-three for his short fiction alone. "Douglas Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres." -Robert J. Sawyer, multi-award-winning author

"Short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. ... It's spectacular."- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author & editor Take your first step to becoming a professional short fiction writer-Buy this book Fully revised and current, this second edition addresses every change in the short fiction landscape since the classic original edition came out a decade ago. In an engaging and conversational style, multi-award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short stories-and much, much more. Even experienced writers will find value here as Smith takes you from your first sale to using your stories to build a writing career. Topics include: The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The benefits of short fiction. Rights and licensing. Selling Your Stories: Knowing when it's ready. Choosing markets. Submitting stories. Avoiding mistakes. How editors select stories. Dealing with rejections. When to give up on a story. After a Sale: Contracts. Working with editors. What your first sale means. Dealing with reviews. A Writer's Magic Bakery: Selling reprints. Foreign markets. Audio markets. Selling a collection. The indie option. Becoming Established: Leveraging your stories. Discoverability and promotion. Career progression in short fiction. "Doug has gone through this new volume carefully, updating every possible detail. That makes the second edition as indispensable to the short fiction writer as the first. ... Lots of writers write good books on craft. Few have the experience to write good books on the publishing business. Doug is one of those few, and this book shows it."- Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multi-award-winning author and editor Douglas Smith is the ideal person to write this book. His stories have appeared in thirty-seven countries and twenty-six languages. He has three acclaimed collections and has won five awards-three for his short fiction alone. "Douglas Smith is, quite simply, the finest short-story writer Canada has ever produced in the science fiction and fantasy genres." -Robert J. Sawyer, multi-award-winning author

Sunburst Award Finalist Aurora Award Finalist CBC Bookies Award FinalistChimerascope ki-meer-uh-skohp]-a story of many parts... A young artist hungers to draw you.A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub.A man is born each day into a new life-only to die each night.A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity.A Norse god's bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion.A woman descends into insanity-or is it the end of the world?A house as big as the world.Chimerascope is the first full collection of short fiction from multi-award winning author Douglas Smith, containing sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists.Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.Chimerascope includes the following stories: Scream Angel The Red Bird By Her Hand, She Draws You Down New Year's Eve Out of the Light State of Disorder The Boys Are Back in Town Symphony Enlightenment Nothing Jigsaw Going Harvey in the Big House The Last Ride The Dancer at the Red Door A Taste Sweet and Salty Memories of the Dead Man

Sunburst Award Finalist Aurora Award Finalist CBC Bookies Award FinalistChimerascope ki-meer-uh-skohp]-a story of many parts... A young artist hungers to draw you.A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish.A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew.The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge.A mysterious dancer leads a businessman to a most exclusive nightclub.A man is born each day into a new life-only to die each night.A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity.A Norse god's bar in Toronto hosts an unplanned family reunion.A woman descends into insanity-or is it the end of the world?A house as big as the world.Chimerascope is the first full collection of short fiction from multi-award winning author Douglas Smith, containing sixteen of his best stories, including an award winner, a Best New Horror selection, and eight award finalists.Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.Chimerascope includes the following stories: Scream Angel The Red Bird By Her Hand, She Draws You Down New Year's Eve Out of the Light State of Disorder The Boys Are Back in Town Symphony Enlightenment Nothing Jigsaw Going Harvey in the Big House The Last Ride The Dancer at the Red Door A Taste Sweet and Salty Memories of the Dead Man

"Give me the Crystal Key "Will Dreycott is the Dream Rider, the agoraphobic teenage superhero who can walk in our dreams but never in the streets of his city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of those streets who hears voices. Fader is her brother, who is very good at disappearing. Together, they defeated a body swapper and a witch to save the world (The Hollow Boys).Now, Case battles guilt over living sheltered in Will's tower home while her street friends still struggle. Blaming his affliction for Case's sadness, Will searches for a way to live a normal life with the girl he loves-a way to go outside.But his efforts draw the attention of dark forces. Sinister figures hunt Will in Dream. Intruders scour the vast warehouse of antiquities "acquired" by Will's missing parents. And a masked swordswoman attacks Will, demanding "the Crystal Key" before disappearing into thin air.Are they all searching for the same thing? Something from Will's parents' shady past? For the swordswoman leaves behind a flowery scent, Will's only memory from the lost expedition eight years ago that gave him powers in Dream but cost him his parents and his freedom.A trail of dark secrets leads Will, Case, and Fader to a mysterious world. Trapped between warring cults willing to kill for the Crystal Key, the three friends must master strange new powers that grow stronger and wilder the closer they draw to the truth.This time it's not just the fate of the world at stake...but the multiverse.Indiana Jones meets Teen Titans in The Dream Rider Saga, a fast-paced urban fantasy trilogy from "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction" (Library Journal).Praise for The Dream Rider Saga: "A must-read story for YA fantasy fans." -Blueink Review (★ Starred review) "Inventive, engaging, and boundless fun." -The Ottawa Review of Books "Fast-paced and entertaining." -SF Crowsnest "A fun supernatural tale with well-developed characters and a touch of romance." -Kirkus Reviews

"Give me the Crystal Key "Will Dreycott is the Dream Rider, the agoraphobic teenage superhero who can walk in our dreams but never in the streets of his city. Case is his girlfriend, a survivor of those streets who hears voices. Fader is her brother, who is very good at disappearing. Together, they defeated a body swapper and a witch to save the world (The Hollow Boys).Now, Case battles guilt over living sheltered in Will's tower home while her street friends still struggle. Blaming his affliction for Case's sadness, Will searches for a way to live a normal life with the girl he loves-a way to go outside.But his efforts draw the attention of dark forces. Sinister figures hunt Will in Dream. Intruders scour the vast warehouse of antiquities "acquired" by Will's missing parents. And a masked swordswoman attacks Will, demanding "the Crystal Key" before disappearing into thin air.Are they all searching for the same thing? Something from Will's parents' shady past? For the swordswoman leaves behind a flowery scent, Will's only memory from the lost expedition eight years ago that gave him powers in Dream but cost him his parents and his freedom.A trail of dark secrets leads Will, Case, and Fader to a mysterious world. Trapped between warring cults willing to kill for the Crystal Key, the three friends must master strange new powers that grow stronger and wilder the closer they draw to the truth.This time it's not just the fate of the world at stake...but the multiverse.Indiana Jones meets Teen Titans in The Dream Rider Saga, a fast-paced urban fantasy trilogy from "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction" (Library Journal).Praise for The Dream Rider Saga: "A must-read story for YA fantasy fans." -Blueink Review (★ Starred review) "Inventive, engaging, and boundless fun." -The Ottawa Review of Books "Fast-paced and entertaining." -SF Crowsnest "A fun supernatural tale with well-developed characters and a touch of romance." -Kirkus Reviews

After Douglas Smith and George Looney graduated from Bowling Green State University with their MFA degrees, Douglas' in fiction and George's in poetry, they never lived in the same city again. They visited one another when they could, met at AWP Conferences when both could get funding from the educational institutions they were working at, and they spent time over two different summers in Austin, Texas researching the William Goyen special issue of Mid-American Review. And they sent letters back and forth through the US mail. These poems started out as those letters. At some point they decided to work with a particular series of those letters, to hone them into poems, and to create this chapbook of corresponding poems. Sadly, Douglas did not live to see it in print.

Senecus needs to curb his impulse to kill.Since becoming immortal after the destruction of the Roman Ninth Legion he's kept his secrets. Including the bad habit of killing vile humans.Now... he wants to be a better man. Senecus longs to reconnect with his Native American family yet can't risk exposing them as shapeshifters. To curb his impulses... and the boredom that comes with the monotony of eternal life... he joins Michael, the Church's top assassin, in a hunt to chase down monsters. Battling a great serpent. Running down a rogue jinn. Eliminating vampire assassins. With each new death-defying adventure Sen begins to realize he's not just saving humanity... but his own tarnished soul. Little does he realize, his efforts to be better may just cost his partner, Jo, her life...

Vanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world. Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home. At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero...in his dreams. And in yours.Eight years ago, Will's parents, shady dealers in ancient artifacts, disappeared on a jungle expedition. Will, the sole survivor, returned home with no memory of what happened, bringing a gift...and a curse. The gift? Will can walk in our dreams. At night in Dream, Will hunts for criminals-and his parents. During the day, his Dream Rider comic, about a superhero no one knows is real, has made Will rich. The curse? Severe agoraphobia. Will can't go outside. So he makes his home a skyscraper with everything he needs in life-everything but the freedom to walk the streets of his city. Case, an orphan Will's age, survives on those streets with her younger brother, Fader. Survives because she too has a gift. She hears voices warning her of danger. And Fader? Well, he fades. When street kids start vanishing, the Dream Rider joins the hunt. Will's search becomes personal when Case breaks into his tower to escape her own abduction. Fader isn't so lucky. As Will and Case search for Fader and the missing kids, an unlikely romance grows between the boy with everything and the girl with nothing except the freedom Will longs for. But as they push deeper into the mystery, they confront an ancient power feeding on these forgotten kids to restore itself. And once restored, no one in the world will be safe. To defeat this creature, Will must do the impossible. Go outside. Indiana Jones meets Teen Titans in The Dream Rider Saga, a fast-paced urban fantasy trilogy from "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction" (Library Journal). Praise for The Hollow Boys"An assured, confident novel... A must-read story for YA fantasy fans." -Blueink Review (★ Starred review) "Inventive, engaging, and boundless fun." -The Ottawa Review of Books "Fast-paced and entertaining... I enjoyed The Hollow Boys immensely" -SF Crowsnest "A fun supernatural tale with well-developed characters and a touch of romance." -Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Douglas Smith"The man is Sturgeon good. Zelazny good. I don't give those up easy." -Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner "A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." -Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner "His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner "Stories you can't forget, even years later." -Julie Czerneda, multi-award-winning author and editor

Vanishing street kids. An ancient evil. The end of the world. Our only hope? A hero who can't leave home. At seventeen, Will Dreycott is a superhero...in his dreams. And in yours.Eight years ago, Will's parents, shady dealers in ancient artifacts, disappeared on a jungle expedition. Will, the sole survivor, returned home with no memory of what happened, bringing a gift...and a curse. The gift? Will can walk in our dreams. At night in Dream, Will hunts for criminals-and his parents. During the day, his Dream Rider comic, about a superhero no one knows is real, has made Will rich. The curse? Severe agoraphobia. Will can't go outside. So he makes his home a skyscraper with everything he needs in life-everything but the freedom to walk the streets of his city. Case, an orphan Will's age, survives on those streets with her younger brother, Fader. Survives because she too has a gift. She hears voices warning her of danger. And Fader? Well, he fades. When street kids start vanishing, the Dream Rider joins the hunt. Will's search becomes personal when Case breaks into his tower to escape her own abduction. Fader isn't so lucky. As Will and Case search for Fader and the missing kids, an unlikely romance grows between the boy with everything and the girl with nothing except the freedom Will longs for. But as they push deeper into the mystery, they confront an ancient power feeding on these forgotten kids to restore itself. And once restored, no one in the world will be safe. To defeat this creature, Will must do the impossible. Go outside. Indiana Jones meets Teen Titans in The Dream Rider Saga, a fast-paced urban fantasy trilogy from "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction" (Library Journal). "The man is Sturgeon good. Zelazny good. I don't give those up easy." -Spider Robinson, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner "A great storyteller with a gifted and individual voice." -Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner "His stories are a treasure trove of riches that will touch your heart while making you think." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo and Nebula Awards winner "Stories you can't forget, even years later." -Julie Czerneda, multi-award-winning author and editor