Short story subscriptions

This is just a thank-you to everyone who signed up for the short story subscriptions last summer. We've had a few emails go astray, so please do let me know if you haven't received your short story. The list is now as follows:

Chen: Hellbaby, The Foxmother, Reliquary

Cygne: Leucrotta, Gravehunger Moss, Pondlife

Garnet Park: A Prince of the Air, Garnet Park, Cold War.

We've got one quarter (3 more stories) to go. There wasn't a time limit on this, although the numbers were limited. There are a few subs for Chen left, and rather more than that for the other two story sets.

Because this direct model has been a success, I am intending to run it again this summer, and I will probably also be doing a novel on subscription, too (i.e. an instalment a month, rather in the manner of a Victorian periodical). I'll let everyone know in good time, so that they can sign up if they want to. DIARY OF A WITCHCRAFT SHOP II is on its way, and we are also still doing the Herotica project with Lynn Bastian - (if you are waiting for this, as I am aware that some of you are, it's on its way, but has been severely delayed due to the collapse of Lynn's website and computing system. This is all now fixed, but has set her back by a couple of months).

These days, making a living out of writing is a difficult business - in fact, it's never been easy except for a relatively small number of people. We're also, I think, in a transitional time with regard to e-publishing. There are huge questions around different technologies, distribution, and so forth. It's a challenge for all of us to do what we can in terms of direct marketing, different kinds of media, using our various talents in different ways. Although these varying approaches arose, for myself, out of necessity, they have been a very interesting challenge (and could not, of course, have succeeded without the loyalty of my readers - which is very greatly appreciated).