Tuesday, December 15, 2020


Now available:
Bubba and the Late Lamented Lassie

What could possibly go wrong?

Bubba Snoddy is a good ol’ boy with a wonderful family.  His beauteous wife, a sheriff’s deputy, Willodean, is wondrous, his baby has starting sleeping through the night, and his hound, Precious, has taken to the changes with great aplomb.  All is well.

Then the sound of bagpipes fills the air.  His mother, Miz Demetrice, has organized a Scottish appreciation festival, and everyone in Pegram County is celebrating their Scottishness, whether they have it or not.  Bubba is trying his best to take care of the baby while going about his business when he stumbles across…a dead body.

Worse than that, it appears as though Sheriff John Headrick himself is the murderous culprit, and the Pegramville Chief of Police, Big Joe, doesn’t seem interested in whether Sheriff John is innocent or not.

Willodean is barred from investigating the crime, but Bubba isn’t.  He might be toting around an infant with a Bassett hound trailing behind them, but he’s going to get to the bottom of the late lamented lassie come hell or high water.

Available on Amazon Kindle here.

Available on B&N Nook here.

Available on Smashwords here.


 

Friday, June 5, 2020



Now Available!


Blackteeth

A Novel

By

C.L. Bevill



If you’re close enough to see the color of its sharp, pitch colored teeth…


Hesper had been too close.  Along with five other children, she vanished without so much as a shred of clothing left behind.  Ten years later she’s found, soaking wet, on the side of a river, telling a story about monsters with black teeth.  No one believes her, and she is forced to gather up the scraps of her life and move forward.  One of the other missing children’s family does believe she has information she’s not sharing and kidnaps her.  The monsters discover where she’s located, and they don’t forgive slights because Hesper has slighted them terribly.  She has to run for her life and when that doesn’t work, she has to go on a painful and violent offensive to protect herself and others.


The monsters don’t go bump in the night, they go splash in the water…  





Friday, November 1, 2019





Dragon Moon: A Cat Clan Novella
Now Available!
Kale was once half-human and half-something magical.  Now he’s a grizzly shifter and the world is a very different place.  He was also trapped in a shadow realm where he found the love of his life and the mate of his dreams.  In order to save her, he stayed behind to an uncertain fate.
Tatsu is a dragon princess, the only daughter of the King and Queen of the Drakken.  She is also Kale’s mate and once she’d escaped from the shadow realm where they’d been imprisoned, she knew that Kale had to be dead.
Instead both are free and the clock is ticking down to the ceremony for Tatsu’s arranged marriage.  In order to get to Tatsu in time, Kale has to use a whole lot of moxie and quite a bit of help from a motley crew of shifters and otherworldly beings.  In the meantime, Tatsu is only beginning to realize that the Kale she thought was dead is back and all new and improved, while she’s having to deal with the politics of being part of a royal family, as well as finding her long-lost mate.
Dungeons, a catacomb of bones, and misunderstandings all abound in this novella of paranormal romance of about 40,000 words.


Thursday, October 24, 2019




Coming Soon!

Dragon Moon: A Cat Clan Novella

Kale was once half-human and half-something magical.  Now he’s a grizzly shifter and the world is a very different place.  He was also trapped in a shadow realm where he found the love of his life and the mate of his dreams.  In order to save her, he stayed behind to an uncertain fate.
Tatsu is a dragon princess, the only daughter of the King and Queen of the Drakken.  She is also Kale’s mate and once she’d escaped from the shadow realm where they’d been imprisoned, she knew that Kale had to be dead.
Instead both are free and the clock is ticking down to the ceremony for Tatsu’s arranged marriage.  In order to get to Tatsu in time, Kale has to use a whole lot of moxie and quite a bit of help from a motley crew of shifters and otherworldly beings.  In the meantime, Tatsu is only beginning to realize that the Kale she thought was dead is back and all new and improved, while she’s having to deal with the politics of being part of a royal family, as well as finding her long-lost mate.
Dungeons, a catacomb of bones, and misunderstandings all abound in this novella of paranormal romance of about 40,000 words.


Monday, December 17, 2018


Coming Soon - Bubba and the Curse of the Boogity-Boo.
Available December 21st, 2018


It’s two weeks until Bubba’s wife, Willodean, is due to have their baby, the moon may or may not be full, his mother, Miz Demetrice, is up to her old tricks, some movie people are in town making a film about an old and eerie legend of the Boogity-Boo, and Bubba can’t find the right kind of ice cream for his pernickety significant other.  Bubba is plain ol’ worried sick about Willodean and the impending birth.  It’s so much so that when the film director asks for help with a little mystery, Willodean makes Bubba go to get his mind off his fears.  At the secluded and creepy film set on Foggy Mountain, there’s a furtive Bigfoot-like creature meandering about and scaring the crew off, so what’s a good ol’ boy to do?  Why, he’s there to kick some tushie all the way to Tuscaloosa and chew bubblegum, and he’s fresh out of bubblegum.

Book Nine of the Bubba Mystery series.
 


Thursday, November 9, 2017


For all the Bubba fans:

Most of the Bubba novels are now available on Audible or Audible on Amazon for those of you who love your Bubba fix and believe me, these novels make for some great listening!  Two wonderful narrators have brought the Bubba series to life.  Michael Gilboe narrates Bubba and the Dead Woman and Bubba and the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas.  Michael is a playwright, director, musician, composer, teacher, and producer. He is currently heading the Performing Arts Department at the University of Great Falls where he teaches music and theatre.  Mike Alger narrates Bubba and the Missing Woman, Bubba and the Mysterious Murder Note, Bubba and the Zigzaggery Zombies, Bubba and the Ten Little Loonies, and Bubba and the Wacky Wedding Wickedness.  Mike is one of the most popular and recognizable faces on television sets in Nevada and California; Mike is the Chief Meteorologist for KTVN-TV Channel 2 (CBS) in Reno, Nevada. The award-winning weatherman is a holder of the American Meteorological Society’s Broadcast Seal of Approval. He is happily married with two children.  Finally, Bubba and the Curious Cadaver will be available in Audible and Audible on Amazon in early 2018.  Links to the vendors follow the novels.

Bubba and the Dead Woman Audible Amazon

Bubba and the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas Audible Amazon

Bubba and the Missing Woman Audible Amazon

Bubba and the Mysterious Murder Note Audible Amazon

Bubba and the Zigzaggery Zombies Audible Amazon

Bubba and the Ten Little Loonies Audible Amazon

Bubba and the Wacky Wedding Wickedness Audible Amazon

 

Friday, August 25, 2017

Bubba and the Curious Cadaver Now Available!


Bubba and the Curious Cadaver (Bubba Mysteries #8)


What does a gentlemen’s club, mysterious men in black, a dead body, a broken down car with a lady in dire need, a heavily pregnant beauteous sheriff’s deputy, and Miz Demetrice trying to unionize exotic dancers have in common?  Why, it’s Bubba Snoddy and the day things went south, yet again.  Quite naturally, or unnaturally, there’s a humdinger of a mystery again, and Bubba is right in the middle of it.
 
 
 

Friday, February 17, 2017

Now on Sale!


 
On one day everything was normal.  The next morning billions of people had vanished, and new magical creatures had appeared, altering not only the Earth but everyone who woke up on that one day.  Lulu survived the change, only to encounter far worse situations than she’d ever known before.  Two years after a sea of dreams transformed everything, Lulu searches for “tech bubbles,” places where technology is still operational, and consequently useful to the survivors.  What she discovers is that not all weapons from the past are nonfunctioning, and that the past is never truly dead.  She will fight to save the new world and everyone she’s come to love.

Discovering her own powers, Lulu is on a frantic journey to recover items that will shut down a doomsday device.  Nothing will ever be as easy as snapping one’s fingers as she encounters new animals, new people on a weird purple world, and who her enemies really are.

Ruins of Dreams is the fourth novel in the Dreams series.  The order is Sea of Dreams, Mountains of Dreams, Forests of Dreams, and Ruins of Dreams.

 



Friday, February 3, 2017

The Fat Woman and the Teenager OR How my Teeth are Grinding

How many times has it been said that one should beware the teenager?  How I admire the middle school and high school teachers for their ability to deal with this elusively recalcitrant creature of yore.  I always thought that no, it could never happen to me.  Then it did.







HIM, the man to I am married for over three decades, and I had a child late in life, so we both thought we were prepared.  However, I hadn't experienced that noise IT, the child who will be an official teenager in March, makes when it's listening to me and I'm saying something it doesn't want to hear.  The sound: a kind of sigh that is long-suffering, condescending, and sardonic, all at the same time.  I bet you know that sigh.  To be perfectly frank I probably did the same exact sigh when I was that age.  Somewhere my mother is laughing in her grave.  (That laugh from the characters on The Simpsons.  Haha!)






via GIPHY


I got the sigh this morning.  Why?  I think it was simply because I said good morning.  Then it dawned on me that I probably asked for this, in the greater scheme of things.  I tempted karma by saying my kid was different.  My kid is not like the other kids.  My kid won't be like that stereotypical teenager.  Haha!






Actually I think the kid is an emerging emo.  She wants to wear all black now.  Except for jeans.  Blue jeans, everything else black.  I tried getting into it with her.  ("How about that black shirt?  That would look good on you."  This generally results in me getting one of those sighs.)


No, I don't think she's stupid, but I wonder how stupid she thinks I am.  For example, she'll start explaining something to me like she was talking to a two-year-old.  ("First, Mother, you wipe your ass with toilet paper...")




And that sigh.  I want to put ear muffs on before she does it because I think my blood pressure shoots up ten degrees after I hear it.  All that drama.  Dram-ah.


via GIPHY
That's about it.  She's not even officially thirteen, and I'm counting the time down until she's twenty.  I think I'm hosed.

Friday, January 27, 2017

Now Available The Bubba Mysteries Novels Collection

The Bubba Mysteries Novels Collection


Previously published as Bubba and the Dead Woman, Bubba and the 12 Deadly Days of Christmas, Bubba and the Missing Woman, Brownie and the Dame, Bubba and the Mysterious Murder Note, The Ransom of Brownie, Bubba and the Zigzaggery Zombies, and Bubba and the Ten Little Loonies.

Come join Bubba in rural Texas where the murders are fresh and the crazy sauce is brimming to the top!

Six novels and two novellas at a fantastic price!
Over 550,000 words of pure-D Texan hilarity!




Saturday, October 8, 2016

Now Available: Forests of Dreams

Forests of Dreams (Dreams #3)





On one day everything was normal.  The next morning billions of people had vanished, and new magical creatures had appeared, altering not only the Earth but everyone who woke up on that one day.  Lulu survived the change, only to encounter far worse situations than she’d ever known before.  Two years after a sea of dreams transformed everything, Lulu searches for “tech bubbles,” places where technology is still operational, and consequently useful to the survivors.  What she discovers is that not all weapons from the past are nonfunctioning, and that the past is never truly dead.  She will fight to save the new world and everyone she’s come to love.


Book 3 of the Dreams novels.  Book 1 is Sea of Dreams.  Book 2 is Mountains of Dreams.
 



Available on iTunes.



 



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