Lee Edward Mcilmoyle: 14 books

A private dick gets shot up to keep him from giving away trade secrets. A child remembers the monster he called friend. A secret agent discovers he is being watched while waiting for the man he is assigned to kill. A rich Sultan has second thoughts about a magic transaction he has hired a Djinn to...

Half a decade ago, the first stirrings of a true new shift in rock and roll music was felt, perhaps for the first time since 1991 with the Grunge Sound. Music both innovative and yet highly respectful of the great albums that had informed the Rock ‘n’ Roll of the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. For one...

This is a long chapter taken from the novel Terminal Monday. I'm releasing it as a novella because I believe it reads perfectly well on its own. It also serves as a litmus test for those who are unsure about whether they want to read the entire novel.It retells the considerably exaggerated...

Jeannie Kinneman is a good Judge's daughter with a good job in the city and good prospects. Her only vices are a fondness for good food, good scotch, good wine, and bad men. One particular bad man, actually: Sterling Carcieri, private investigator. When she invites him over for Christmas dinner,...

To the Quotidien, the interplanetary police arm of the Pancivilion Transunion, Chief Bioengineer Djoran Sendal Lav is more trouble than her groundbreaking research into Foldspace travel is worth. When one of Djoran’s bioprobes infects her with the spore-borne spirit of an alien prophetess, it becomes...

It’s the fall of 2007, and Richard Burley is riding a losing streak. Not only is his marriage on rocky ground, but his writing career has devolved from co-writing one best seller thirteen years ago to writing freelance ad copy for brochures and radio commercials. And he has a dark secret; an under-the-table...

Richard Burley is dead. Long Live Richard Burley.This isn't the sort of supernatural story you might suspect it is. It's really an examination of the possibilities of what it is to be Richard Burley, which in a real sense is an examination of what it means to be YOU. For Richard isn't...

LinkTales is a collection of stories and anecdotal reference material for the LinkWorlds series of (mostly unpublished) roleplaying games, which first saw print in LINK: West in 2003. The main story is one of mystical power and corruption, as men serving the Queen of Britannia race against...

The old man (Pat Burke) has lost a lot of things in his life, and still hasn't completely reconciled with many of them. But the one loss that still stings the most is the death of his beloved dog, Athena.This story is a short meditation and a prayer for our beloved companions. We all have them. Do they know how much we love them?

Richard Burley is a failing playwright, living in Brooklyn with his wife Kara. He's forty and it's getting hard to make ends meet as a writer, but he's still determined to try, whatever the cost. But now his problem is, he's run out of things to say with his writing, and no one...

A short story excerpted from the upcoming LinkTales volume II, set in the world of Euroboros, which also includes stories from the Link: West (RPG) and The Bride of War.Richard Caslon thinks he is a great predator, a man and Darkling of distinction, and not one who will soon succumb to the...

When we left Richard, he was hospitalized after a series of events that may or may not have been in his head. All that pain and confusion, all those nights of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll, and of course, all those stories he wrote, and he can't be too certain any of it really happened....

In the last three years, I have written somewhere in the realm of three hundred thousand words of fiction, and haven't published most of it. A LOT of false starts and mistakes, which would probably have been good to go if I hadn't felt like I was losing my way.However, as I mentioned, I...

Life in the Order of the Widowed Dragon has never been easy. For countless centuries, a lone Steward has protected and served the people of Aachen, living amongst and yet apart from them, never knowing kinship, gratitude or love. Martin had accepted this long before he took up the mantle himself. However,...