Magic Mansion by Jordan Price (best fiction books to read .txt) 📕

of a situation where they were being recorded, repackaged and disseminated for public viewing, with no control over how they would be presented. At the story’s inception, I hadn’t consciously put together the theme of identity versus the selective nature of media and viewer-manipulation, but I was delighted by the way the theme and the setting fed off one another so brilliantly. And then I could parallel those differences with True magic, and the way its presence or absence creates its own sort of us-versus-them dynamic.

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Other Stories by Jordan Castillo Price:

PSYCOP

1 Among the Living

2 Criss Cross

3 Body & Soul

4 Secrets

5 Camp Hell

6 GhosTV

Striking Sparks

Many Happy Returns

CHANNELING MORPHEUS

1 Payback

2 Vertigo

3 Manikin

4 Tainted

5 Rebirth

6 Brazen

7 Snare

PETIT MORTS (with Josh Lanyon, Sean Kennedy and Clare London)

1 Hue, Tint and Shade

2 Slings and Arrows

3 Moolah and Moonshine

4 Other People's Weddings

5 Spanish Fly Guy

6 Pretty Ugly

7 Sort of Stranger than Fiction

8 One Less Stiff at the Funeral

9 Critic's Choice

10 Wishink Well

11 Happily Neverafter

12 London Eye

13 Spirits and Second Chances

14 Just Desserts

15 Loose Change

16 Media Naranja (Other Half)

17 Immortal Coil

STANDALONE NOVELS & NOVELLAS

Body Art

Magic Mansion

Sleepwalker

Zero Hour: A Dystopian Adventure

STANDALONE NOVELETTES & SHORTS

Betweentimes

Fire Thief

Kindred Spirits

Starlight

Sympathy

The Serpent in the Garden

The Voice

Verdant

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Before 2003, if I wrote a story that wasn’t corporate America’s idea of What Deserves to be Published, the best I could have put together was a photocopied ’zine that I distributed at whatever comic shops could be coerced into keeping a few copies on consignment.

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Jordan Castillo Price

Owner, JCP Books LLC