Publication History October, 1999, E-book (html, pdf); Hardshell Word Factory ISBN: 1-58200-509-5; $5.50. See * May 2000, Trade Paperback (first printing); DarkTales Publications ISBN 0-9672029-7-3; $24.99 May 2001, Trade paperback (second printing); DarkTales Publications Same ISBN - $19.99 (both editions out of print) Notes: first printing discerned by slightly heavier cover stock and an error on the colophon pageidentifying the novel as Yvonne Navarro's Deadtimes. Second printing includes $19.99 price on back cover. May 2005, Trade Paperback; Hard Shell Word Factory ISBN 0-7599001-4-0, $14.95 - out of print. December 2006: Limited Edition, Delirium Books (contains the author's preferred text and includes deleted scenes and an alternate ending, plus Introduction and Afterword; limited to 337 signed hardcovers). Cover by Dave Kendall. $50.00. - out of print. July 2008, Delirium Books, trade paperback. $16.95. ISBN 978-1-934546-02-4. Contains author's preferred and corrected text minus the deleted scenes, alternate ending and special introductions and afterwords that were included in the limited edition. Cover by Dave Kendall (same cover as limited edition hardcover). Out of print. Hard Shell Word Factory Ebook/Trade Paperback edition, 1999

IN A PEACEFUL NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE, TERROR LIES LURKING BENEATH THE SURFACE...

Phillipsport, Maine seems to be the perfect place for novelist Rick Sychek to settle in to. A small seaport village, it is quaint and peaceful, just what Rick needs in order to write his next novel. On his drive into town Rick runs over what appears to be a large crab in the road. About the size of a common house cat and sporting a segmented tail that resembles the stinger of a scorpion, it is unlike any crustacean he or anybody else in town has seen before. Within the next day the town is literally besieged by hundreds of the creatures -- which Rick calls Clickers due to the sound their claws make as the click together -- as they ravage and plunder anything unlucky enough to get in their way.

NOW THE WAVE OF TERROR BEGINS...

Hundreds of Clickers literally beach themselves in a wave of terror that ends in horror and death for some....but it brings the town together collectively in a fight to drive the creatures back. Rick joins his new friends in fighting the creatures off only to discover that the Clickers aren't merely here to ravage and pillage. They are being driven up on the shores of this New England by instinct. For something is hunting the Clickers. Something far worse than any of them could ever imagine...

1999 P.E.A.R.L. Nominee for Best Sci-Fi! (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature)

DarkTales Publications Trade Paperback, 2000		Delirium Press, limited edition, 2006

* Note: in December, 2009, this edition was reissued without the author's permission by Mundania Press, who aquired Hard Shell Word Factory in a buyout. It was available in Kindle, Nook, Sony, Microsoft Reader, and other formats for the better part of six months before all editions could be recalled. The author apologizes to those readers who may have picked up the Kindle or Nook edition, as these were an error-ridden mess. In the meantime, don't yell at Mundania Press; the blame lies entirely with ebook distributor MobiPocket, who automatically placed the entire Hard Shell catalog back into print shortly after Mundania aquired them, regardless of whether or not the books were under contract. Somebody should have been fired for this. - JFG