The latest issue of Spaceports and Spidersilk is out from Nomadic Delirium Press and features my story ‘Sneezy and the Pre-Cog’ the fourth Sneezy story but they can be read independently. Sneezy is a telepathic big cat helping a pioneer family on a new world.  Spaceports is an SF and Fantasy magazine suitable for children and there are plenty of other stories besides mine.

Also out this month is The Spirit of Mars which Nomadic Delirium are using to launch their Mars Station Beta series. This consists of several short stories set against the same background. I’m proud that my story is the first to go out.

Nomadic Delirium also publishes The Divided States of America series, a similar set up where writers submit stories against a common background. My review of the first block of stories can be found at sfcrowsnest

While I’m plugging I ought to mention the Universal Book Links you can create at books2read. The links are free to make and they’re very useful for readers as they offer all the sites where the book is available.

 

I finally got my first 6 months worth of Royalties for The Brigstowe Dragons, put out last September by the estimable men and women at Alban Lake Publishing. Their terms are quite generous as I get 20% of print sales and 60% of any e-book sales – not bad at all in the sometimes cruel world of publishing. They sold 3 paper copies and 1 e-book.

My royalties were…..$4.62

I’m hoping it will be a slow starter like Harry Potter. Otherwise, as my dad used to say, you’d make more singing outside the Odeon, even with my singing. Alban Lake presumably has other more successful works out there as sales from mine wouldn’t even cover the printing costs; or the cover for that matter.

Oh well. I like writing so I might as well carry on. Short stories still sell for $20 – $50 so I’ll keep doing them.

‘Here Ug, what do you think of those white people?’
‘I’m sick of ’em. Coming over here with their pale skin, their pointy tools and their agriculture. Send ’em back where they came from, that’s what I say.’
‘Yeah, you’re right.’
‘Be quiet. I’m going to have a nap, or an UgKip as I call it.’

DNA shows early Briton had dark skin