On the Popularity of Short Stories

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I sold some books to Ziffit the other day. They don’t give you a fortune but it’s easy, fast and reliable. They turned down the following as not really having any value:

Elasticity the Best of the Elastic Press edited by Andrew Hook

Far Orbit edited by Bascomb James – stories in the Grand Tradition

View from Another Shore edited by Franz Rottensteiner – European science-fiction

Click on the links for my reviews of these on SFcrowsnest. They were all good anthologies with some excellent stories but out there in the cruel marketplace are worth nothing.

Weep, short story writers. Weep and write a twenty-volume epic fantasy serial to clog up the book catalogues.

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Eamonn Murphy has published over seventy stories in small press magazines and collected them into small, cheap volumes for posterity. They are available at all good eBook retailers and libraries. In his spare time, he writes reviews for sfcrowsnest. Retired now after years of hard labour (building sites and call centres), he lives near Bristol, England, with a nice lady, a nasty Jack Russell, an untrainable loony Labrador and some ducks. He has a BA (Hons) from the Open University but very little common sense. Find out more at eamonnmurphywriter.com.

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