Five Extra Stories Have Been Added to "Forever in the Memory of God and other Stories"
Well, well and hey ho.
When I was learning all about the joys of ebooks... when I was preparing for the imminent self-publication of my third novel, The Volunteer, I thought I should practice first, and, as many of you know, I brought out a mini collection of short stories called Forever in the Memory of God and other Stories.
So, did I learn anything?
One lesson was that people don't seem to like "mini" collections. Or at least my people don't, my speculative fiction-reading buddies. I stole the idea from a Romance writer and her victims enjoyed the concept. However, we few, we who are enamoured with impossible worlds, are always looking for more of them.
So, I've added five extra stories.
--Are they new stories, Peadar?
Nope and no. These are stories that are easily available for free in other places. Two of them, Heartless and The Sunshine Baron were tremendous successes in audio form over on Podcastle.org. The other three are skulking about online, whether on the Black Gate website or elsewhere. So, it's not an indication of a flurry of brand new work on my part, I'm afraid.
All I've done, really, is to bring my eight existing secondary world fantasies into a single collection. I'll probably do the same at some point for my SF work and my Irish-based short stories.
If you've already purchased a copy of the book and would like to read, or reread these extras, you should be able to delete your old copy from wherever you put it and download the new one for free. If not, please let me know and I'll sort you out. And I'll thank you too. Again.
Other than that, how is everybody? I can't wait to see some of you in London soon, and others in Dublin the following week, and still others in Belfast shortly afterwards :)
When I was learning all about the joys of ebooks... when I was preparing for the imminent self-publication of my third novel, The Volunteer, I thought I should practice first, and, as many of you know, I brought out a mini collection of short stories called Forever in the Memory of God and other Stories.
So, did I learn anything?
One lesson was that people don't seem to like "mini" collections. Or at least my people don't, my speculative fiction-reading buddies. I stole the idea from a Romance writer and her victims enjoyed the concept. However, we few, we who are enamoured with impossible worlds, are always looking for more of them.
So, I've added five extra stories.
--Are they new stories, Peadar?
Nope and no. These are stories that are easily available for free in other places. Two of them, Heartless and The Sunshine Baron were tremendous successes in audio form over on Podcastle.org. The other three are skulking about online, whether on the Black Gate website or elsewhere. So, it's not an indication of a flurry of brand new work on my part, I'm afraid.
All I've done, really, is to bring my eight existing secondary world fantasies into a single collection. I'll probably do the same at some point for my SF work and my Irish-based short stories.
If you've already purchased a copy of the book and would like to read, or reread these extras, you should be able to delete your old copy from wherever you put it and download the new one for free. If not, please let me know and I'll sort you out. And I'll thank you too. Again.
Other than that, how is everybody? I can't wait to see some of you in London soon, and others in Dublin the following week, and still others in Belfast shortly afterwards :)
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