Bart Lessard is the made-up name of a cranky loner. He uses scattershot subject matter in his fiction (anything but “literary”). His novels and novellas include The Danse Joyeuse at Murderer’s Corner (about shanghaiing in old San Francisco), Rakehell (a drunken swordsman in the Thirty Years’ War), Full of Days (a dying child-killer in a hospice), and Dead Men’s Teeth (Poe with guns). He also does cover design and layout for his author pals.