Monday, November 23, 2009

Wrongful Logic

I am going to try to sell a collection of my short stories. A longshot, to be sure, but everything is, where writing is concerned, and I'd like to think that anything will increase my odds. Something really is better than nothing.

The collection will be entitled "Wrongful Logic." I picked 12 of my short stories for it, mostly horror, a little science fiction and literary. A good cross-section of my work:
  • Bait
  • Chosen
  • Maenad
  • A Monsters Sleeps Inside Me
  • White Meat
  • Entropy's Vestal Virgin
  • Pigeon Man
  • Airlock
  • The Atomic Baby
  • Mermaid's Smile
  • The Shape
  • Living With Syn
I think that's a decent sampling. I have enough short stories for a couple of anthologies, but this would be a nice "how do you do?" from me to a casual reader, before they dove into some of my long fiction. I should tally it up, see how many words that would be.

79,602 words. So, that'd be a decent-sized book.

The challenge will be getting the interest of anybody in the publishing world on that. But it'll be another iron in the proverbial fire, so that'll keep me warm in the coming winter months.