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How to Maintain Your Magic Mountain: or, Bureaucracy & Basilisks

When you’re lower middle management in a Magic Mountain, the Employee Handbook and managerial structure are nearly as big a menace—and definitely as twisty—as the never-ending chasms within the mountain.

Luckily, Rhonda loves the chasms and intricacies of both the Mountain and her own Department of Cavern Care and Quality. She likes working for the mountain, and she knows how the rules work there—or at least, how to make the rules work for her. She certainly doesn’t want to leave her position.

Unfortunately for Rhonda, a series of managerial murders puts her next in line for the hot seat as Manager of the Mountain itself. And as if that weren’t enough, the nearest Magic Mountain, catching wind of their plight, has begun to make noises about folding both mountains into one Magic Mountain—whether or not Rhonda and her Mountain want to do so.

If the paperwork doesn’t kill Rhonda, the next internal coup might—and that’s reckoning without the basilisks in the lower caverns, the Magic Mountain itself, and the Dark Lord currently haunting her inbox with increasingly pedantic demands to hire out the mountain to him.

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A Word From The Author

W.R. Gingell is an Australian author of urban fantasy, fairy-tale retellings, and madcap science fiction who doesn’t seem to be able to write a book without a body suddenly turning up. She solemnly swears that all such bodies are strictly fictional in nature.

She lives in a refurbished 1970s Bedford Bus in the south of Tasmania, where she spends her time reading, drinking a truly ridiculous amount of tea, and raising spinach, strawberries, and one small, fluffy dog. Like Peter Pan, W.R. never really grew up, and despite the inconveniences of chronically ill life, is still occasionally to be found climbing trees.

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City Between

When you get up in the morning, the last thing you expect to see is a murdered bloke hanging outside your window. Things like that tend to draw the attention of the local police, and when you’re squatting in your parents’ old house until you can afford to buy it, another thing you can’t afford is the attention of the cops.

Oh yeah. Hi. My name is Pet. It’s not my real name, but it’s the only one you’re getting. Things like names are important these days.

And it’s not so much that I’m Pet. I am a pet. A human pet: I belong to the two Behindkind fae and the pouty vampire who just moved into my house. It’s not weird, I promise—well, it is weird, yeah. But it’s not weird weird, you know?

This Aussie urban fantasy is set in Hobart, Tasmania; it’s heavy on crikeycore, gothica, and australiana—and blood. Enter at your own peril.

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What Readers Are Saying

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Between Jobs was a (refreshingly) original urban fantasy.. I felt like it had some rich world building (although sometimes I was a little confused) and a quirky and engaging premise.. The creativity was what kept me hooked and the characters were very cool! …Overall, it’s a clever and intriguing read that left me keen to continue the series..

Ariella

Amazon Reviewer for “Between Jobs”

Ooh, I really enjoyed this book. Such an interesting premise, and full of very mysterious and quirky characters… The story doesn’t so much End, but continues on in the next book – which is where I’m off too now. Need to find out what happens next. Hello Amazon, Goodbye $5 🙂

Dallass

Amazon Reviewer for “Between Jobs”

Right from the start I need to confess that I’ve read almost everything that this author has written, and I’m writing this review after I’ve read this book twice. I enjoyed it very much after the first read, but I took my time with the second so I could appreciate all the surprising twists. I especially liked the way that the central character Viv is on such an unexpected adventure, and how rapidly she is having to rethink how she approaches what should be ordinary, everyday experiences. The action takes place over a short time, but the drama is great. I am eagerly anticipating the next book in the series.

Christine O’Malley

Review on “Splintered Life”

Jane Austen meets Korean steampunk in the latest release from literary genius, W.R. Gingell! …I was deeply impressed that I never felt the story was rushed, failed to make sense, or had holes.

Also, where can I buy a Yong-hwa? (You think I’m joking, but I’m not.)

Overall, I loved this book. I look forward to the upcoming installments in the series and getting to Gingell’s backlist!

Elisabeth Wheatley

Review on Lady of Dreams

Lady Quartet

From Book 1: To dream from a distance, or wake and risk losing it all? Confined to her couch, Clovis Sohn spends her days and nights dreaming, drifting further away from the outside world with each passing day. But Clovis’ dreams are also real, giving her a glimpse into the lives of those around her… When a moment of unthinking sympathy twines Clovis’ dreams with the bored, playful composer Yong-hwa, she must decide whether to keep dreaming in the comfort of her chaise lounge, or to awaken into a reality that is by no means so sure or familiar as her dreams.

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