The anthology Strange Economics with my story ‘Expiry Date’ may be up for an Aurora Award in Canada this year. It would be nice to have a story in an award-winning book.
It’s available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK and probably at other Amazon’s too. I’m pleased to note that reviewer Queen of Fractal Beauty said my story was one of her favourites. Praise from Royalty! Here’s the cover.
Why write when there are plenty of stories already?
Frankly, I don’t know.
Why should people read my five thousand words of fluff when there are a million stories out there already, many of them free? You can get most of the classics for peanuts or nothing as ebooks. A person with literary tastes is indubitably better served by Dickens, Flaubert, Balzac and Edgar Allan Poe than by me. Someone with a few pounds (or dollars) who likes SF and Fantasy could spend the rest of life reading Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Silverberg, Dick, Dan Simmons, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen Donaldson and all the other greats.
So why waste time reading a second-rate writer in the small press?
Hell, I don’t know. But if you want to indulge, here’s my latest publication, a short story entitled ‘Flour Power’ in Mundanities # 1 from Nomadic Delirium Press. It’s set in a near future U.S.A. in which the President makes policy via twitter. I wrote it months ago, just reread it in the magazine and believe it’s okay. There are good stories too by Mike Morgan (one of my favourite writers), W.C. Roberts, Lisa Timpf and Benjamin Whitney Norris.
Mundanities is available from
Nomadic Delirium Press directly
(Honesty Corner: this is my Smashwords affiliate link and I will grow fat and rich if you buy it here.)
It should also be available from Kobo and other ebook retailers that Smashwords supply, nearly all of them, I think, except the big one below.
Naturally, pragmatically and inevitably it is available at the big one too. In fact, I strongly urge you to buy it there because Jeff needs the money.
I don’t know why The Fifth Dimension doesn’t give it’s full name or why it’s been shortened. Perhaps the cover isn’t big enough for it.
In any case, the latest issue is out now for just $1.99 as an e-book featuring my story Custer’s Paradox. It’s a comedy I wrote years ago about a son left out of his rich father’s will who goes back in time to put things right.
Here’s the blurb from editor J. Allen Erwine
The September issue of The Fifth Di… takes you to a myriad of worlds that you could never imagine. Go to a world where humans are struggling against the native plant life, and see just how far the children of the colonists will go to protect that plant life. Visit an interplanetary vessel like you’ve never seen before…even the inhabitants of the ship are surprised by what they find. In another world, a man dies…again, and again, and again. On Earth, a woman is visited by a being from another dimension, and he has something that might be amazing to offer to her. Also on Earth, a man struggles with not inheriting his father’s future. Just how far will he go (in time) to try to get what he feels is his? And finally, visit another reality where the heroes you are familiar with have very different lives…
The Fifth Di.. is a decent little magazine and worth a look.
