Bewildering Stories welcomes...

Nicola Somerscales

Nicola hails from the West Midlands and now lives with her family in North Lincolnshire. She majored in Visual Communication at university but after a varied career has found a vocation in writing. She’s composed a number of science fiction short stories and novels and holds a responsible position in the Universal Writers Group.

“The Auctioneer’s Prize” is set on a planet far from Earth. One of the inhabitants’ major sources of revenue is a kind of cattle market, where semi-sentient beings from alien planets are sold for their specialized abilities. Not everyone agrees that the trade is ethical, especially when the auction is revealed for what it is: a slave market. And its prospective bonanza is trafficking in human beings.

Nicola Somerscales’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Nicola. We hope to hear from you again soon and often!