Latest News

New Release!

The new anthology True Story is now available and includes my story “At the Feet of the Electric Messiah.”

Your wait for another Bowen Gillings story has ended. It’s been a long gap in new releases and you’ve been patient. Thank you. This is a story I’ve been trying to place for nearly three years and it finally found a home. True Story is the latest anthology from the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, edited by Amy Armstrong. Look for it on BarnesandNoble.com or in your favorite online marketplace. Paperback and eBook available.

“At the Feet of the Electric Messiah” is a fictional look at the strange and dangerous work conducted by Nikola Tesla back in 1899. For a year, Tesla ran secret experiments at his mysterious Black Box in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Part psychological thriller, part science fantasy, Electric Messiah follows one of Tesla’s assistants as he participates in the madness of one man defying nature to achieve the impossible.

A Night to Remember: The Audiobook is Now Available!

Exclusive to Audible/Amazon, my first audiobook A Night to Remember came out on August 4th!

Audie Award Winner Chris Ciulla performs this fast, fun, funny story of memorable murderous misadventure. After losing his lunch across Monterey’s Coast Guard pier, nervous newly successful writer Walter Straub wobbles aboard the Diego Wind for a sunset cruise with a who’s-who of celebrity authors. It takes a few fruity cocktails, a disputatious dinner, and some playful orca before he’s comfortable in his rented tux and finds the nerve to speak with lovely, bestselling author Avni. All goes swimmingly until a guest becomes fish food. Then more writers turn belly up. When those left look to pin the deaths on him, Walter must either sink or swim.

Click below to experience a sample of Chris Ciulla’s production of A Night to Remember.

“Tiger” Finds a Home

A tale inspired by a friend’s ordeal with COVID joins fellow Superstars

“Tiger on My Chest” is a ticking clock suspense short story five years in the making. When a close author friend came down with a severe case of COVID-19 back in 2020, she coined the phrase “tiger on my chest” to describe her condition. Those words stuck, and became the story of a hitman on a job where failure will cost him his life. It should be business as usual, but a devastating viral infection imprisons him in a claustrophobic hotel room. Getting to his assassins perch will be harder than climbing Everest. He has less than two hours. Time and his body are against him.

“Tiger” comes out in Echo of the Hour, the 2027 anthology by Superstars Writing Seminars and edited by Lisa Mangum and Brie Tart. Release date in eBook and paperback is February 2027.

My Marketplace is LIVE!

Thanks to JT Evans and Kilnar Author Services, I have an online marketplace where you can get books and eBooks directly from me. This allows me to offer coupons and deals you won’t find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other online retailer. So excited!

A Quarry Update

Oooo! I have such exciting news…that I can’t share quite yet. But fingers crossed, it’s gonna be good.

A Quarry of Woes is a humorous fantasy western about an oversized, danger-prone youth with a gifted green thumb who must pair with his estranged, outlaw sorceress mother in order to save their frontier town from a mining baron whose ambitions threaten to tear apart the very fabric of nature and magic. It’s Terry Pratchett does Deadwood, or Kevin Hearne remakes Little House on the Prairie…except my band of misfits actually leaves town once in a while.

Out Now!

Overstuffed Lunchbox: A Bunch of Bite-Sized Bits, my compilation of published and unpublished short works, “masterfully blends, humor, fantasy, and suspense” – GoodReads

Laughs, gasps, and heart-pounding action are crammed inside this bulging box of circus heroes, world-weary warriors, and flirtatious neighbors bearing questionable casseroles. Lunchbox offers up a collection of short tales that are endlessly entertaining.

Where I’ll Be:

• April 1-4, 2027 – Left Coast Crime, Santa Fe, NM

I didn’t look to be a writer, but writing found me anyway. Since publishing my first offbeat short story in Allegory e-zine, I have won awards for my work and continue to find homes for my quirky tales, boldly told.

These stories are for fun-seekers, thrill-seekers, and joy-seekers. I write for those who like to smile as they read. Quirky is my touchstone. Offbeat, my muse. If you’re looking to step away from characters of dark, brooding intensity or worlds devoid of hope, then look no further. This stuff is right up your alley…if you buy books in an alley.

Which is creepy.

Go to a bookstore.