Featured Author for July

[j_cheney]

Every month, AnthologyBuilder features several authors and offers a dollar off if you add a stories by one of those authors to your personalized Anthology. (So the price drops from 14.95 to 13.95 for up to 350 pages of awesome fiction you pick yourself!)

And I'm pleased to be among that number this month!

I have two stories up for sale at AnthologyBuilder:
"The Stains of the Past" is my first published story (Feb. 2006), set in the same 'universe' as several of my other works including my WIP. (In fact, one of the characters in Devil in the Details is the granddaughter of two of the characters in this story.) It's a speculative fiction romance, and is the story of mine that was cited in an article on an academic blog. (I still find that incredibly bizarre.)

"A Hand for Each" was first published in the Shimmer Pirate Issue (November 2007). The polar opposite of the first offering, it's a sea-faring horror story styled on the writings of Richard Dana (Two Years Before the Mast).*

So, if you're looking for something to read this summer, AnthologyBuilder is the place to check out. And if you buy something of mine, you could save some money as well! (which everyone knows I like)

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*I like to think of this as a 'guy' story.

Comments

[ckastens.livejournal.com]

Congrats on being a featured author! Very cool.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I noted that this month included a bunch of WOTF people, so that's a plug for the contest. ;o)

[amsaph.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm totally jealous :P

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks... ;o)

[samhidaka.livejournal.com]

J.,

I've been kinda busy, and haven't been reading blogs for several months. I did look in a while ago, and I saw your post about you not being sure about whether you can put "Touching the Dead" in AnthologyBuilder. Then my attention got called elsewhere, before I could respond, and I never got back to it.

JBU buys first publication rights, and non-exclusive rights to continue selling the story. All other rights revert to the author, as soon as JBU publishes the story.

You can do anything you want with "Touching the Dead" -- including putting it up in AnthologyBuilder.

BTW, congrats on being included in THE BEST OF JIM BAEN'S UNIVERSE II.

Sam

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Sam! Yes, I imagine you guys have been awfully busy.

I've actually been hesitating lately because I'm considering try to sell that to a couple of foreign magazines, and have basically been dragging my feet. I need to get on the ball...perhaps tomorrow. ;o)

And WoW! You can't imagine how excited I was (and how intimidated) to spot my name on the TOC of JBU2 a couple of weeks ago. I really owe you a ton of thanks for all that you've done both in helping me get that story into shape and for all the support and advice you've given throughout the publication process there. I'm really grateful!