Paroxysm Press has recently released their anthology of 100 flash pieces, 100 lightnings, and I’ve now received my contributor copies. This publication has been quite the wait, but it’s been worth it. Just look at the contributor list below.
| Fred Zackel Shona Snowden Sam Cooney yt sumner Allen Ashley Ella Joseph Jen White Adam Walter Martin Davey Stephanie Gianopoulos Chuck McKenzie Aaron Polson Jason Colavito B. Michael Radburn Martin Livings Sam Drane Rosaleen Love Kaaron Warren Rob Riel Kim Goldberg James Davies Eugene Gramelis Mark McAuliffe Matthew Chrulew Peter Dawncy Emma Kathryn Douglas Thompson Mark Delaney Mari Mitchell Rob Parry Blanket Barrowclough R.H. Reese J.G. Poulos Steven Paulsen Rick Kennett Gitte Christensen Harper Hull Kev Webb |
Stephanie Campisi Robert Long Mark Smith-Briggs Michael Zerbe Vicki Frei Thomas Canfield Paul Haines Jenny Sinclair C.S. Fuqua Matthew R. Davis Rijn Collins Benjamin Kensey Rick McQuiston Deborah Sheldon Ian C. Smith Catherine Noske Michelle Jager Angela Readman Raymond Gates M. Winkler Rod Cod Jack Horne Frank J. Collins Sheri White Daniel Powell Jason Nahrung Nicky Peacock Sean Williams Lucy Sussex Angela Slatter Joanne Anderton Jessica Reisman David Witteveen M.K. Hobson D.A. Cairns Sean King (Cover Artist) Greg Rich (Interior Artist) Stephen Studach (Editor) |
I ordered two ebooks from Twelfth Planet Press recently, and the whole process was seamless, as it is every time with TPP. Such a different experience from many other ebook publishers and sellers. Thank you TPP!
Authors include Chris McMahon, Bren MacDibble, SG Larner, David McDonald, Jessica May Lin, Jason Fischer, Louise Katz, Steve Cameron and me.
I received an email last week from Keith Stevens, editor of couer de lion publishing, letting me know that my story Dark History has been accepted for publication in issue 4 of Dimension6, due out in March 2015.
Dimension6 is a relatively new free and DRM-free electronic magazine featuring fine original fiction and distributed three times a year, with each issue offering three new stories, and with an annual collection released at the end of the year.
Past issues, featuring Robert Hood, Steve Cameron, Cat Sparks, Dirk Strasser, Alan Baxter, Robert N Stephenson, Richard Harland, Charlotte Nash, and Jason Nahrung, can be downloaded free, and the annual collection is available at a very reasonable price. Livejournal is behaving very badly today, so I haven't been able to insert any links, but here is the couer de lion publishing website:
http://keithstevenson.com/CDLblog/
At almost 11, 000 words, Dark History is novelette length. Because of its length, a novelette can be harder to place, so I'm very pleased that Dark History has found a home, and such an excellent one at that. I'm really looking forward to reading issue 4 of Dimension6, as well as the other two issues due out in 2015.
My short story Shuttle Season, a SF story with a distinctly Australian flavour, is now available in the Triangulation anthology Parch, edited by Stephen V. Ramey. Described as a "strong collection of 20 original stories by today's up and coming writers", Parch is the latest edition of Parsec Ink's acclaimed anthology series and I'm very pleased to be a part of it.
Here's a taster:
The air was so dry furniture hollowed into brittle skeletons. Willy willies sent folding chairs flying into the bland blue sky and end tables rolling like tumbleweeds over endless expanses of desert, never to be seen again. Nowhere was more desolate than this piece of Australian outback and there were no people more suitable for inhabiting this inhospitable universe than we, all done without the luxury of a spacesuit and often without shoes. This was why the spaceport took so many of us. We would put up with conditions no self respecting urban dweller would stand for.
Heard a little bit later today in Ballarat: the theme from Star Wars played on bagpipes.
