The author of more
than thirty books for adults, teens and children, Michael Cadnum is
best know for his adult suspense fiction and young adult fiction
based on myths, legends, and historical figures. His acclaimed novels
include The Book Of The Lion (a National Book Award finalist,
a Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist, and an Owl Creek Book Award
winner), Calling Home (Edgar Award nominee), Breaking The
Fall (Edgar Award nominee), A
Dark Wood, The
Leopard Sword, Flash,
and Seize The
Storm.

Cadnum’s numerous
short fiction has been collected in CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES and
Earthquake Murder.
A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the
Helen Bullis Prize for his poetry, his many books of poems include
This Early Dark, The Woman Who Discovered Math,
By Evening, and Long
Afternoons. Cadnum’s short
stories “Daphne” and “Can’t Catch Me” were both
performed as one-act plays.

In honor of this day, CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES joins Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint. The first time digital edition of this collection is is now available through the Tachyon site or any major digital retailer.

“Turns the familiar on its head, from basilisk to gingerbread man, and makes you forget, for a few charmed moments, that these aren’t quite the tales you thought you knew.”
—Patricia A. McKillip, author of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld and Wonders of the Invisible World

All of us at Tachyon
wish Michael a very happy birthday.

Tachyon’s Particle Books e-book imprint highlights excellent imaginative fiction. The titles, or Particles, include both young adult and adult fiction; subgenres will include science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, and thrillers.

Lovingly-curated, the Particles are a dynamic mix of original, newly-collected, hard to find, and out-of-print material.  

Particle Books was named as an homage to the faster-than-light (and as of now hypothetical) tachyon particle, perhaps best known from Star Trek.

Over the next couple of months, the first wave of extraordinary titles from Mary Shelley, Joe R. Lansdale, James Morrow, Jane Yolen, and James Patrick Kelly will hit the virtual shelves.

For more information about CAN’T CATCH ME AND OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law