
Taking inspiration from the lives of Joe Meek, Phil Spector, and Timothy Leary, BACKMASK is a historical fiction novel about girls, drugs, rock n roll and subliminal messages.
Malarkey books 2023
"Despite the far-out premise, Cieri’s well-researched attention to the period means that this somehow feels like a book where the names have been
Taking inspiration from the lives of Joe Meek, Phil Spector, and Timothy Leary, BACKMASK is a historical fiction novel about girls, drugs, rock n roll and subliminal messages.
Malarkey books 2023
"Despite the far-out premise, Cieri’s well-researched attention to the period means that this somehow feels like a book where the names have been changed to protect the (extremely) guilty."
-- Sam Reader, Reactor Magazine, April 2026
A 22 tale collection,
with 22 illustrations by Soren Häxan and Rachel Lilim.
Dark, introspective, grimy, urban, strange.
Castaigne Press, 2023
“Like a puddle of blood in a back alley of New York City that whispers to you of what could have been via a static-slathered Bluetooth connection…” --Evan Dean Shelton, editor, writer
"... high, ti
A 22 tale collection,
with 22 illustrations by Soren Häxan and Rachel Lilim.
Dark, introspective, grimy, urban, strange.
Castaigne Press, 2023
“Like a puddle of blood in a back alley of New York City that whispers to you of what could have been via a static-slathered Bluetooth connection…” --Evan Dean Shelton, editor, writer
"... high, tight, crisp prose, provocative and often humorous metaphor. Tempered with engaging detail and sharp intuition which tap into a character or a place’s essence." --Peter Onelio for the Aither Review, February 2023

When an epidemic of missing person cases is on the rise, the police refuse to act. Instead, Alex Delatorre goes to Thundertown for answers and finds clues leading to a new Lord trying to unite the population.
No one has seen the Lord, and the closer Alex gets to him, the farther Alex gets from his path home.
Ninestar Press, 2020
"...as
When an epidemic of missing person cases is on the rise, the police refuse to act. Instead, Alex Delatorre goes to Thundertown for answers and finds clues leading to a new Lord trying to unite the population.
No one has seen the Lord, and the closer Alex gets to him, the farther Alex gets from his path home.
Ninestar Press, 2020
"...as if Charles de Lint had had a nightmare visitation from China Miéville."
--Amazon review, March 2020
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