"You can't smoke crack. You're dead."
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PsyCop Main Stories
Among the Living • Criss Cross • Body & Soul • Secrets • Camp Hell • GhosTV
PsyCop Shorts and Side Stories
Thaw • Striking Sparks • Many Happy Returns • Mind Reader • Stroke of Midnight
F.A.Q.
Victor Bayne, the psychic half a PsyCop team, is a gay medium
who’s more concerned with flying under the radar than in making
waves.
He hooks up with handsome Jacob Marks, a non-psychic (or “Stiff”)
from an adjacent precinct at his ex-partner’s retirement party and
it seems like his dubious luck has taken a turn for the better. But then a serial killer with a gruesome M.O. surfaces--and no one agrees what he looks like.
Solving murders is a snap when
you can ask the victims whodunit, but this killer’s not leaving
any spirits behind.
As a psychic homicide investigator, Victor Bayne doesn't get much time to relax. Thaw offers a rare glimpse of him off the clock. Heard of the PsyCop series, interested in m/m fiction, but never tried it? Take a taste of Victor and his sexy boyfriend, Jacob, whose smoldering good looks threaten to melt the ice rink they're skating on.
Criss Cross finds
the ghosts surrounding Victor getting awfully pushy. The medications that
Victor usually takes to control his abilities are threatening to destroy
his liver, and his new meds aren't any more effective than sugar pills.
Vic is also adjusting to a new PsyCop partner, a mild-mannered guy named Roger with all the personality of white bread. At least he's willing to spring for the Starbucks.
Jacob’s ex-boyfriend, Crash, is an empathic healer who might be able to help Victor pull his powers
into balance, but he seems more interested in getting into Victor’s
pants than in providing any actual assistance.
Andrew’s life is spinning out of control, and he’s desperate for some guidance. He’s heard there’s a palm reader in Wicker Park who’s the real deal: a certified, honest-to-God psychic. He’s confident that she’ll tell him exactly what he needs to hear. Too bad he didn’t account for how long it would take him to find parking.
The psychic’s gone, but one of the other shopkeepers in the building has a sympathetic ear. He’s pretty easy on the eyes, too. Striking Sparks is set in the PsyCop storyverse, but it stands alone. Newcomers can hop right in and try it. Veteran PsyCop fans will be treated a nice, long look at Crash.
The holidays.
Food. Family.
Returns.
In this short story, Kenneth moonlights part time at SaverPlus to earn enough money to buy himself a state of the art computer system. He just wants to do his job and go home. But a sexy blond customer is looking for service, and he won't take "no" for an answer.
This PsyCop short can be read as a standalone!
Fascinating things can be learned on a field trip.
Crash has something to prove to one of his internet colleagues. Luckily he knows a level-five medium who can debunk the theory that mummification ties a spirit to the material plane.
Vic is perfectly willing to go to the museum with his lover's ex-boyfriend, but it seems like nothing he says or does will satisfy Crash.
Thanksgiving can't end too soon for Victor Bayne, who's finding Jacob's family hard to swallow. Luckily, he's called back to work to track down a high-profile missing person.
Meanwhile, Jacob tries to find a home they can move into that's not infested--with either cockroaches, or ghosts. As if the house-hunting isn't stressful enough, Vic's new partner Bob Zigler doesn't seem to think he can do anything right. A deceased junkie with a bone to pick leads Vic and Zig on a wild chase that ends in a basement full of horrors.
Jacob Marks has noticed that crimes are committed whether or not he happens to have a social engagement on the agenda. Date another PsyCop, and the likelihood of having a successful night out are cut in half.
Of course Jacob feels sorry for the poor sap in the Fifth Precint who's been shot. But did he have to go and get himself offed on New Year's Eve?
Vic has just moved in with his boyfriend Jacob, he can't figure out where anything's packed, and his co-worker is pressuring him to have a housewarming party.
Can't a guy catch a break?
On a more sinister note, Vic discovers there's absolutely no trace of him online. No trace of anyone else who trained at "Camp Hell," either.
Everyone Vic knows has signed a mysterious set of papers to ensure his "privacy." The contracts are so confidential that even Vic has never heard of them. But Jacob might have.
What other secrets has Jacob been keeping?
Victor Bayne honed his dubious psychic skills at one of the first psych training facilities in the country, Heliotrope Station, otherwise known as Camp Hell to the psychics who've been guests behind its razorwire fence.
Vic discovered that none of the people he remembers from Camp Hell can be found online, and there’s no mention of Heliotrope Station itself, either. Someone's gone through a lot of trouble to bury the past. But who?
Forty-eight thousand adults in the United States are considered missing persons. It's difficult for police to act on cases of missing adults, because while the subjects might be a victim of kidnapping, accident or assault, they also might be seeking a fresh, if somewhat abrupt, start. Various factors determine whether an adult is likely to bail from their regular life: job, family ties, mental state.
Sometimes, though, you just know when one of your friends is in trouble.
Victor Bayne scored a zero on the precognitive portion of his Psychic exam—in fact, if given a choice, he always seems to pick his least advantageous option. But something in his gut is telling him that while his best friend Lisa may fit the profile of a person who picks up and leaves without a word to anyone, she might very well be in danger.
And if he needs to play nice with the FPMP to get to the bottom of things, so be it.
Coming soon!
Why are the stories such different lengths?
Among the Living was originally written as a standalone story for a line of novellas that had a maximum word count of 35,000 words. As story organically followed story and I began publishing the PsyCop books myself with no restrictions, the story length grew longer, thus the difference in length between the early stories and later stories.
Why are they self-published? Can't you find a publisher?
I have published with several publishers but enjoy the creative freedom I can only get from self-publishing. I'm a graphic designer by training, and prefer to have my cover art and typesetting the way I want them. I also like having the final say on editorial decisions.
So self-published means unedited, right?
No way. I wouldn't dream of putting out an unedited story. I have a talented editor and a couple of proofreaders on my team. The occasional small typo does slip through, as with stories by big publishers with big staffs, but we're all dedicated to giving you big-publisher-quality ebooks and paperbacks from a small, indie staff.
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