Asinine Assassins Up Early in Paperback (Kindle to Come)

Strange are the ways of the publishing biz. The following came to me roundabout via the Short Mystery Fiction Society (shhh, I think even Editor/Publisher Weldon Burge may not have known it until yesterday).

From Amazon: Synonyms: absurd, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky, loony, lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky, weak-minded, witless

The 24 stories in the ASININE ASSASSINS anthology involves characters (e.g., assassins, guns for hire) with the above synonyms in mind. ASININE ASSASSINS is an anthology of stories about inept, brainless, ridiculous hired guns, assassins, and murderers. This is the third in the “Assassins” series, which also includes UNCOMMON ASSASSINS and INSIDIOUS ASSASSINS. Here is crime fiction with a difference! And, while not scheduled for Kindle until September 14 (or so Amazon says), ASININE ASSASSINS, originally set for early next month (see July 19, et al.), appears to have been available in hard copy since last Thursday, August 19!

So that’s only a few days ago anyway and there’s no rule that says publishers can’t be early — the target, after all, could have been as soon as just ten days from now. My story in this, “Shooting Fish,” is a science fiction crossover of bungling an alien invasion of Earth — that is, if the titular aquatic creature fails to be put down — one of two dozen tales in all, all of which can now be ordered in paperback form by pressing here.

And that’s not a bad thing.