Sale: Curio

Until January 31, my latest short story and chaotic rom-com Curio is on sale for only .99c! This sale is exclusive to my direct shop and no checkout code is needed. Grab yourself a copy and decompress this weekend with secondhand shop owner Lew, hot guy and habitual customer Henry, and Lew's ridiculous Aunt Julia with her dyed green hair.

Check out my shop here.

Blurb: Llewellyn Cooper and his aunt Julia run Curio Cabinet in New York City’s West Village, where the clientele is as strange as the junk being amassed in their secondhand shop. Llewellyn and Julia have been as thick as thieves his entire life, and Llewellyn can’t imagine being anywhere else six days a week—even if Julia’s bizarre habits and inappropriate conversations drive him crazy. That’s family, though, right?

When Llewellyn drums up the nerve to chat with a routine customer—in part due to curiosity, as Henry McLaughlin returns time and again to purchase nothing but old photographs, but also because the bearded and bow tie–wearing man is the finest thing to ever step foot inside Curio—it seems like Llewellyn will finally have a plus-one for future RSVPs. But just when things start looking up in the romance department, it turns out Henry might be too strange for the Cooper family.

And that’s saying something.

Sale: 25% off audiobooks

Until January 31, 2025 all of the audiobooks for sale at my direct shop will be 25% off! These titles are already cheaper than the Whispersync prices, which means if you want to indulge in the entire Snow & Winter series, you can grab all five books for only $25, which is a pretty mean steal. Also available are my standalone novels Southernmost Murder and Color of You, and my spec-fic novella, 11:59.

All audiobooks will be available for listening on your Bookfunnel app, which is free to download on both Android and iOS.

Hit up my shop Emporium Press and use code at checkout: AUDIO25 and thank you for your support!

2025 with C.S. Poe

Welcome to 2025!

I love January 1st. It has always felt like a natural do-over, a chance to get projects, goals, or plans implemented with a freshly cleaned slate. And to keep that sensation alive, I always deep-clean my house on New Year's Eve, open the windows to let out one year while allowing in the next, and stay up to welcome the change at midnight. And after the rough year I had in 2024, if you told me to hold my breath, dance on one foot, and throw corn at myself for additional good luck, I'd probably do it. I jokingly quote Michael Scott from The Office: I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.

One lesson I took from 2024 is that I will no longer be assigning upcoming books a release date until the manuscript is finished. It's simply too much pressure, which complicates the artistry of writing. And the reader letdown when I've had to cancel pre-orders as well as my self-imposed guilt is simply no bueno. So as I head into 2025, release dates will be shared once I've completed the manuscript. Pre-orders will become available while the book is in edits, since that's a surefire schedule with my amazing team of editors at the helm.

So what can readers expect from me in 2025? A lot. I'm brimming with ideas—a whole heap of cool shit I can't talk about quite yet (a little stitious, remember?) but rest assured, it's in the works and I'm stoked about it! What I am willing to talk about is Memento Mori and Magic & Steam. As many are aware, I'm actively writing Hudson River Homicides, the fourth title in Memento Mori, after several re-writes and burn out, and that will be the first release of the year. Afterward, I'll be returning to Gillian and Gunner's steampunk universe to write and release the long-awaited fourth title in Magic & Steam, The Councilman.

I'll be in attendance at several book events in 2025, including Coastal Magic Convention in Daytona Beach, Florida, RomantiConn in Trumbull, Connecticut, and the annual return to GayRomLit, this time in Scottsdale, Arizona. I hope to see you at any one of these locations!

Otherwise, I plan to keep using this blog to share my book releases and sales, reviews of books I've read and movies watched, and maybe some new character-related content as well. And if you want to stay apprised with my production schedule, available free reads, and much more, be sure to follow my social media accounts or sign up for my newsletter. You can find all of that here.

Thank you for supporting my writing. This June will be my tenth year as a professionally published author, and that simply wouldn't be the case if it wasn't for readers like you. We're going to make this a great year together!

Sale: Curiosities & Subway

Celebrate the New Year with some mysteries! Pick up Book 2 in Snow & Winter, The Mystery of the Curiosities, or Book 2 in Memento Mori, Subway Slayings, for only 99c during the month of January, exclusively at Kobo!

New to either of these series? Never fear! Meet amateur sleuth Sebastian Snow and his homicide detective love interest Calvin Winter in The Mystery of Nevermore. Or join Cold Case detective Everett Larkin and his forensic artist partner and love interest Ira Doyle in Madison Square Murders.

Snow & Winter 2 Blurb: Life has been great for Sebastian Snow. The Emporium is thriving and his relationship with NYPD homicide detective, Calvin Winter, is everything he’s ever wanted. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, Sebastian’s sole concern is whether Calvin would enjoy a romantic date. It’s only when an unknown assailant smashes the Emporium’s window and leaves a peculiar note behind that all holiday plans get pushed aside in favor of another mystery.

Sebastian is quickly swept up in a series of grisly yet seemingly unrelated murders. The only connection tying the deaths together are curiosities from the lost museum of P.T. Barnum. Despite Calvin’s attempts to keep Sebastian out of the investigation, someone is forcing his hand, and it becomes apparent that the entire charade exists for Sebastian to solve. But with each clue that brings him closer to the killer, he’s led deeper into Calvin’s official cases.

It’s more than just Sebastian’s livelihood and relationship on the line—it’s his very life.

Memento Mori 2 Blurb: Detective Everett Larkin of New York City’s Cold Case Squad has been on medical leave since catching the serial killer responsible for what the media has dubbed the “Death Mask Murders.” But Larkin hasn’t forgotten that another memento—another death—is waiting to be found.

Summer brings the grisly discovery of human remains in the subway system, but the clues point to one of Larkin’s already-open cases, so he resumes active duty. And when a postmortem photograph, akin to those taken during the Victorian Era, is located at the scene, Larkin requests aid from the most qualified man he knows: Detective Ira Doyle of the Forensic Artists Unit.

An unsolved case that suffered from tunnel vision, as well as the deconstruction of death portraits, leads Larkin and Doyle down a rabbit hole more complex than the tunnels beneath Manhattan. And if this investigation isn’t enough, both are struggling with how to address the growing intimacy between them. Because sometimes, love is more grave than murder.

Translation: I delitti della metropolitana

The Italian edition of Subway Slayings (Memento Mori 2) is now available with Quixote Edizioni and entitled, I delitti della metropolitana. It's available to purchase at Amazon or read in KU, and the paperback edition will be available soon.

Blurb: Il detective Everett Larkin della squadra Casi Irrisolti di New York è in congedo medico da quando ha catturato il serial killer responsabile di quelli che i media hanno soprannominato gli “Omicidi della Maschera della Morte”. Ma Larkin non ha dimenticato che un altro memento – un’altra morte – è in attesa di essere trovato.

L’estate porta la macabra scoperta di resti umani nella metropolitana, ma gli indizi portano a uno dei casi già aperti di Larkin, che riprende così il suo servizio attivo. Quando sulla scena del crimine viene rinvenuta una fotografia post mortem, simile a quelle scattate in epoca vittoriana, Larkin chiede aiuto all’uomo più qualificato che conosce: il detective Ira Doyle dell’unità Artisti Forensi.

Un caso irrisolto su cui in precedenza ci sono stati molti pregiudizi, così come la decostruzione dei ritratti di morte, conduce Larkin e Doyle in una tana del Bianconiglio ben più contorta delle gallerie sotto Manhattan. E come se l’indagine non bastasse, entrambi si stanno chiedendo come affrontare la crescente intimità tra loro. Perché a volte l’amore è più serio dell’omicidio.

Publisher: Quixote Edizioni
Series: Memento Mori
Vol: 2

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Sale: Southernmost Murder (audiobook)

Tis the season of giving, and audiobooks.com is offering 50% off Southernmost Murder! Narrated by the wildly entertaining Wyatt Baker, this standalone mystery is packed full of humor, history, sex, and a killer who'll stop at nothing to recover a long-lost pirate treasure in Old Town, Key West.

Pick up this novel for $8.50 and meet Aubrey and Jun today!

Blurb: Aubrey Grant lives in the tropical paradise of Old Town, Key West, has a cute cottage, a sweet moped, and a great job managing the historical property of a former sea captain. With his soon-to-be-boyfriend, hotshot FBI agent Jun Tanaka, visiting for a little R&R, not even Aubrey's narcolepsy can put a damper on their vacation plans.

But a skeleton in a closet of the Smith Family Historical Home sure does throw a wrench into the works. Its identity drags Aubrey and Jun into a mystery with origins over a century in the past. They uncover a tale of long-lost treasure, the pirate king it belonged to, and a modern-day murderer who will stop at nothing to find the hidden riches. And if a killer on the loose isn’t enough to keep Aubrey out of the mess, it seems even the restless spirit of Captain Smith is warning him away.

The unlikely partnership of a historian and special agent may be exactly what it takes to crack this mystery wide-open and finally put an old Key West tragedy to rest. But while Aubrey tracks down the X that marks the spot, one wrong move could be his last.

Sale: Backlist at Smashwords

Join readers at Smashwords for their end of year sale, going strong until January 1, 2025! Pick up majority of my backlist for 25 - 50% off, including series: Snow & Winter, Memento Mori, Magic & Steam, and A Lancaster Story. Stock up on some funny, feel-good, and romantic short stories to top off your reading count for the year: New Game, Start, Love in 24 Frames, That Turtle Story, and my newest, Curio.

Go to my Smashwords profile for a complete list of titles on sale. Happy reading and Happy New Year!