Announcing: Cryptozoology for Fun and Profit

I am beyond pleased to announce my Horror/Comedy novel, Cryptozoology for Fun and Profit, is set for publication by Black Lantern Press (an imprint of Velox Books)! Mark your calendars! Get your pre-order fingers ready!

Cryptozoology for Fun and Profit releases to the public October 2, 2026, just in time for spooky season. Delightful cover art by the talented Drew Huff.

 

Fake hunter. Real monster. No refunds.

Helen Novacic makes a living manufacturing monsters. Through Cryptozoology, Inc., she travels to rural nowhere, plants a few fake footprints, stages a blurry sighting, and cashes the check when the local cryptid festival starts selling T-shirts. It’s legal. Mostly. Victimless. Usually.

Then a teenage township trustee hires her to put Ballville, Ohio, on the map with a Pukwudgie sighting before the town’s New Year’s Eve bicentennial bash. Helen expects an easy payday: one costume, one legend, one carefully managed panic.

Instead, she finds something already hunting the fields and bridges outside town.

Now Helen’s fake monster has competition from a very real one: ancient, armor-plated, and perfectly happy to turn Ballville’s big celebration into a bloodbath. To stop it before the ball drops, Helen will have to dodge a suspicious sheriff’s deputy, a gold-toothed loan shark, one catastrophically ambitious client, and her own chain-smoking mother—who may be the only person in Ohio more dangerous than the monster.