Good News! Soldier’s
Last Wish will be included in an anthology, Best of Commuterlit Volume 1,
to be released in September.
It almost never happened. It began as a writer’s nightmare –
the one in which your work has been accepted but the publisher can’t reach you.
Emails are lost, landline phone is not working. This is the third email we’ve sent. Respond immediately if you are
interested. Yikes!
Commuterlit will be publishing two print anthologies of some
of the best stories and poems from their archives. Volume 2 is scheduled for release in December.
Commuterlit.com is an ezine that posts a new short story,
novel excerpt or poem each day from Monday to Friday, specially formatted to
read on a mobile device (smart phones, iPads, Blackberries). Of course, you can
also access the stories and poems from the www.CommuterLit.com
website at any time. Perfect for that morning coffee break!
Their focus is on works of fiction or poetry that can be
enjoyed during a 20 to 30 minute public-transit commute to work. It’s a mix of
not only literary fiction, but sci fi, fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller, and
romance. If you write, check out their Submissions Guidelines.
This is my third acceptance for an anthology. Simone Press
in the U.K. selected my story, Culling of
a Nation, for their anthology Indie
Trigger - Short Stories (May 2012) that is available on Amazon.
Culling of a Nation,
described by writing guru Brian Henry as ‘wonderfully macabre’, was recently
posted on his Quick Brown Fox website http://quick-brown-fox-canada.blogspot.ca/
If you don’t follow this blog, you should. Here’s the link for my story, Culling of a Nation http://quick-brown-fox-canada.blogspot.ca/2013/07/culling-of-nation-short-story-by.html
As luck would have it, two of my stories, The Legend of Hallowed Ground and Twilight Imagery, will appear in a third
anthology, A River Runs By It, to be
launched in October of this year.
Of my four anthology
picks, Soldier’s Last Wish is about
... well, imagine ... never mind, I’ll give too much away. As the saying goes,
read the book.
Culling of a Nation
is termed speculative fiction ‒ frightening because it is so close to reality.
The stories from the anthology A River Runs By It are about the area where I live. The first
story, The Legend of Hallowed Ground
tells the history of a church that was on our property for over a hundred years
and how we came to discover it. Nothing scary about that. It’s not like there
was a cemetery here. I mean, we’d know if there was a cemetery – right?
The second story selected for this anthology, Twilight Imagery, is spooky. More so,
because it is a true story. Past life regression? It has been suggested. I’ll
wait to see what you think.