“Imbecilic Killers, Moronic Murderers, Inept Hired Guns” — Assassins Kickstarter Goes Live Today
Inept, brainless, daft, harebrained, loony, witless, lunkheaded, just plain stupid.
Not exactly attributes you seek when employing a hired gun, right?
Thus opens the kickstarter, live as of today, for Smart Rhino Publications’s upcoming anthology ASININE ASSASSINS. This isn’t their first foray into such topics, preceded as it is by two others, UNCOMMON ASSASSINS and INSIDIOUS ASSASSINS. Both of which, I might add, with stories by me, “The Wellmaster’s Daughter” and “Labyrinth” respectively. But this new volume is a little different, as the kickstarter blurb explains. Smart Rhino Publications is proud and excited to announce the impending publication of ASININE ASSASSINS, to be published later this year! We asked our authors to write stories with an “asinine” element critical to the plot — we preferred dark humor, but we also considered anything comedic, zany, or surreal. The stories could be any genre, but they had to fit the anthology’s theme. We were intentionally broad here and asked the writers to stretch their imaginations. They paid off in spades!
To see for yourself press here (or use what’s now the same link in the post just below), and scroll down to peruse various opportunities, having one’s name inscribed in the book, reserve a paperback copy and receive with it one — or both — of the preceding ASSASSINS books, have editor Weldon Burge edit and comment on an unpublished story of yours. . . . Or scroll down farther for more on the book itself, including bios of all the authors. Our major goals (quoting the text again ) for this Kickstarter campaign are (1) to support the fruitful collaboration of amazing writers and (2) to bring the best crime fiction possible to you, the readers. Smart Rhino takes great pride in publishing quality books for our supporters, and our writers take great pride in providing you with the best stories they have to offer.
My story in this one is called “Shooting Fish,” a science fiction tale with a dab of dark humor (of which more appears also for June 12, below). And, of the writers in general, there are “stretch goals” for the kickstarter too, which if met will mean more pay for the authors!
