Tag: anthology

  • Reviews and Amazon Rants

    It means a lot to get good reviews. It means quite a lot to get a good rating, though slightly less than a well thought out review. It also means a lot when Amazon decides ‘f*** you, we don’t like you having nice things, so we’ll delete your best reviews’.…

  • Days of Winter Guardians

    I have left it so long since the last blog post that the whole layout of this New Post screen has changed. But anyway, it’s time to update the world on my goings on and allow you to unbate your breath. The main, important things are that I have now…

  • Felinity – BBB

    Felinity An Anthology Collected By Sammy HK Smith Felinity, noun, plural fel-in-ities. 1. The quality of being cat-like. 2. A divine being, a cat. Grimbold Books is proud to present our first Kristell Inkling, a collection of feline inspired flash fiction stories written by authors from all around the world.…

  • Anatomy of a Book Cover

    As usual, a slightly misleading title. I’m not going to share my theories of what makes the perfect book cover. I’m going to share my process of getting a book cover. Because I don’t have anything better to do. Step Uno The first thing I do is think what I…

  • More Wyrdness

    Just a brief update. Firstly, here’s an interview I did a couple of weeks ago and forgot to tell anyone about. Oops… Secondly, Wyrd Worlds, the free anthology of which I am part of, is now up on Amazon (UK and US). So that rounds off its availability nicely. Amazon,…

  • Wyrd Worlds Anthology

    Rather abruptly, I am a part of a science fiction and fantasy anthology called Wyrd Worlds and published by WyrdStar. A collaboration of twelve authors, Wyrd Worlds contains science fiction and fantasy short stories ranging from two or three thousand words to thirteen and a bit thousand words. Some are…

  • Kira

    Kira is the 23-year-old title character who takes us through twenty four hours of her life in my new steampunk short story. She lost her home and her family fifteen years ago to a brutal organisation known as the Government, and now etches out a meagre existence in another small…

  • Steampunk

    I’ve finally thought of something else to blog about! I was asked a while ago to write a short steampunk story, with a 10,000 word limit, for an anthology. It was very nice to be asked – especially when I saw some of the other writers who’d be doing it.…