Mike Jansen's Blog: The Chronicler - Posts Tagged "amazon"

My first English book would be a novel, or so I thought. However, the translation of 'The Failing God' took quite a bit more time than expected. And then my publisher asked me about all the short stories I had written for his and various other anthologies and magazines and could he publish an anthology with some of my work in it. Odd how these things come together. I discussed it with my Dutch publisher, Roelof Goudriaan of Verschijnsel, who thought it was a magnificent idea. He liked it so much, in fact, that he wanted to publish the same anthology in Dutch. Go figure. All of a sudden it's a Dutch and an English anthology.



In the past weeks I have prepared the anthology and decided on a title. Here's how funny coming up with a title for an anthology can be: We were discussing some of the work in the book and the weird ideas I've come up with over the years and James (Ward Kirk) was shooting down most of my title ideas. Which was difficult enough typing out with one hand on my phone in the Facebook app, as I had my sleeping daughter in my arms. It was enough to drive me crazy and at some point I remember thinking "this must be how Ophelia felt." Now, Ophelia I was reminded of because I was looking at the various Tais Teng covers on his deviantart site, that were available to me. And I really liked the "Young Ophelia" cover he did. So then it hit me. I typed "Ophelia In My Arms" in the app and got an instant "Like" back from James. That's how we decided on that title.

So, "Ophelia In My Arms", a collection of some older and lots of recent work, roughly one third of all my stories. But that's OK. James wants to publish the rest as well, so expect more weird titles in the future.

As a "thank you" to my daughter, I dedicated the book to her.

By the way, it's available in print, kindle and smashwords ebooks, so get your copy today! I hope you will enjoy my many dark musings.