Novels
“The Ship freshens up classic space-adventure elements with vibrant prose, welcome wit, and a clear love of the genre—Ricketts both honors and challenges readers expectations. ” - BookLife Review
After pirates kill her three crewmates, Sam decides it's time to sell her ship and get out of the space business altogether. She hasn’t got a clue what she’ll do instead, but anything’s got to be better than captaining a kraken-class cargo cruiser haunted by the memories of her friends.
The problem is, just when Sam’s supposed to be meeting a buyer, she finds herself enacting a rescue instead. Of a woman who might be an entirely different kind of problem.
Kate knows what it’s like to lose someone. But having lived her entire life on planet, she can’t understand why Sam would want to sell her escape to the stars. It feels like incredibly good luck when the slightly surly captain agrees to assemble a new crew and take her up for one final job.
But when they end up kidnapped by a space mobster and forced to track down the same pirates that killed Sam’s shipmates, it’s starting to look like retirement might be permanent for them both.
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Short Stories
3-4-1
Have you ever read a story or watched or movie or listened to a song and thought, “I wish that the writer had done x”?
That’s what 3-4-1: Three Tales Told Nine Ways is. The three authors involved each wrote a main story. Then they swapped those around and asked each other to take whatever part of the story inspired them and write their own version. So some of the tales are thematic copies with a change of scenery and some take just a few words and spin out an entirely new story.
Paper & Kindling
Paper & Kindling contains twelve short stories and four poems, each paired with a beautiful illustration. Inspired by each other, these tales explore from the heights of the stars to the darkest depths of the human mind and just about everything in between.
Room For One More
Room For One More contains twelve short stories and four poems, each paired with a beautiful illustration. Inspired by a wide range of myth, folklore, and urban legend, as well as each other, these tales follow the winding roads through the Underworld out onto the empty highways of the American West, with a number of intriguing stops along the way.
Fantastical Visions: Volume 1
From the streets of modern day cities, to medieval villages, to the deck of a flying ship, this book will take you there. Meet zombies, elves, kings, and ever ordinary human beings, all wrapped up in magical events.
The range of fantasy is wide and ever growing, so plunge in now, and be prepared to be swept away.
“Jathen Longblade”
Fantastical Visions: Volume 2
Presenting another collection of memorable stories of the fantastical! Thrill to the storytelling of up-and-coming fantasists, as they take you to faraway lands populated by magical characters.
“Let Sleeping Dragons Lie”
Fantastical Visions: Volume 3
Fantastical Visions III contains fourteen illustrated tales of fantasy and wonder. From heroic to tragic, light to dark, fanciful to painfully real, these stories explore the many facets of the genre.
An elven thief takes on the forces of darkness in "Thick as Thieves."