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The Standard Tech Case Files

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Josh Stoodley

What Is The Standard Tech Case Files?

The Standard Tech Case Files is my main novel series. It takes place in the fictional city called Fort City, in the fictional state of Zion in the United States. It is an alternate universe where vampires and other mythological creatures are real and have had a an impact on human society and history.

In-universe, The Standard Tech Case Files are Joey Bianco’s reports on the cases he and Jen Ryan work.

What is Standard Tech?

Standard Technologies, Incorporated is the front company of the Black Coats, the ruling vampires of Fort City. It’s what allows them to interact with the mortal human government and do things like pay taxes and investigate crimes while still not being a part of mortal society.

Who are the Black Coats?

The Black Coats are the ruling vampires of Fort City. They consist of Baron Isaak ben Jacob, his Chancellor and dhampyr daughter Jessica bat Jacob, Joey Bianco his Master-at-Arms, Omar Taylor, his Chief Justice, Mikhail Ivanovich Tchaikovsky, his Minister of Intelligence, Chandramathi Dhaliwal, his Master Courtesan, and Nafisa and Neema Bartlett, his Foreign Minister and Minister of Trade, respectively. The newest addition to the team is Jen Ryan, Joey’s squire.

Together they must deal with corrupt cops, sleazy politicians, power hungry and ambitious vampires, battle-mad lycanthropes and a thousand other horrors constantly spawned by the blood stained streets of Fort City.

Welcome to the Fort. Only the dead survive here.

Still Sick

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Josh Stoodley

So the new series might not be up till next week. Until then, check out a preview of my next novel:

The September evening was stifling, like being locked into kiln just as it was beginning to heat up. The air was as still as corpse in rigor mortis. There hadn’t been rain for more than a year, at least not down in Fort City. Maybe upstate they got some, some cold relief in from the mountains. But not even a gaming junky, desperate for his next fix would have taken that bet. They were calling it a drought in the rest of the States, blaming it on climate change or global warming or divine retribution, maybe. The rest of us knew better. This was Fort City, Zion State and her weather patterns hadn’t adhered to any kind of natural pattern since before the dinosaurs, so why start now? We all knew what was coming. A storm, not of lightning and rain but of blood and fire. A Fort City storm. The kind that leaves bodies piled hundreds deep along the roads. The kind of storm that doesn’t break apart families so much as it does wipe entire generations. The kind of storm we haven’t seen in more than three decades, not since I took over from Lukas the Wolfman and ended the drug trade on our streets. The kind that makes damn sure you’ll never sleep again. And then maybe, if the city was satisfied with our tribute, she’d send the rain. Maybe. She didn’t always.

And Sanctuary For All Is Live!

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Josh Stoodley

Yes it is! Read the exciting short story, taking place just after the events of The Black Coats.

Only on falconlord5.com. Here’s the link: http://falconlord5.com/2015/08/10/and-sanctuary-for-all-2/

And Sanctuary For All

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Josh Stoodley

The Standard Tech Case Files: And Sanctuary For All
by Joshua Corbeil-Stoodley

Akisha cowered as the brutes advanced. They were faceless, formless; their bodies made of the same ever-shifting shadows that made up the alleyway. Only Akisha was solid, only Akisha was real. And yet Gloria still couldn’t reach her sister, still struggled through the shadowy world as if the shadows were made of molasses. The hazy brutes had no such problem; they advanced on the cowering dame with the practised ease of sharks. No, not sharks, Gloria reminded herself. Pigs.
“Akisha!” Gloria screamed. “Akisha, run!”
But she couldn’t, no more that Gloria herself could. Akisha stumbled backward, slamming against a shadow wall that had all of a sudden became as solid as if it had been made of brick. There she lay, curled like a hedgehog, as one of her tormentors broke away from the pack.
“Get away from her!” Gloria screamed, looking around desperately for something, anything she could use as a weapon. Something she could use to save her sister.
The shadow-brute who had broken away from the pack was now standing behind Akisha, dragging her roughly to her feet. She clawed at his form feebly, having no more effect than Gloria had.Read More

And Sanctuary For All…

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Josh Stoodley

Will be up in just a few hours. Thank you all for your patience!