Following a boom in acceptances that have hit the stands recently  – a boom for me is three – I have a long yarn in the March 2017 issue of The Fifth Dimension.

The Fifth Dimension is published my Nomadic Delirium Press and is another good small press publisher putting out the work of lesser known authors. And they too publish on paper as well and send a real mashed tree copy to the author!

I was especially pleased to sell ‘The Union Man’ as it’s quite long – about 8,000 words – and has been in the trunk for a while. Luckily editor J. Alan Erwine has a bent for stories with a political slant so he liked it.

I reviewed the June 2016 issue of The Fifth Dimension on sfcrowsnest.org. I can’t do this one. It’s a bit dodgy to review your own story. People might think you’re biased.

 

 

 

I had another story published in the February issue of Trysts of Fate # 7 which is put out by Alban Lake Publishing. My romantic yarn is called ‘Pluck It Out’ and although the reference is Biblical the story is science-fiction, though set in the present day.

I like being published anywhere and online is great but the best thing about Alban Lake is that they also do hard copies – and send the author one for free! As they are in the U.S. and I’m in England this is greatly appreciated.

They publish a number of SF and fantasy magazines as well as anthologies and stand alone novels and novelettes. The website is worth a look.

I’ve decided to try and finish all my unfinished novels this year. They may not be very good but at least they’ll be done. Heinlein’s second rule was ‘Finish what you write.’ Actually some are more novellas than novels but they are longer than short stories. I’ll probably self-publish them to the deserved obscurity of Amazon kindle where they can sit unloved on electronic shelves alongside Arnos Hell.