Short stories - great for both writer and reader

I remember not long after my life-long addiction to science fiction and fantasy began I bought an Isaac Asimov book without realising it was a collection of short stories.  At first I felt a little cheated.  I was, after all, looking forward to losing myself in a full length novel by my favourite author.  But hey, I was young, didn’t have a lot of money and I’d bought it hadn’t I?’  So with a little reluctance I sat down and opened it.  How wrong could I be?  This was an incredible, diverse blast of imagination.  It was like he’d had all these ideas for stories that wouldn’t make books backed up in his mind and had let rip.  There was science fiction, fantasy and the just plain weird.  Much as I enjoyed his full length scifi this demonstrated to me what a great story teller he really was.  If anything it hooked me even more into his work and I sought out more of his short stories as well as the novels.

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FREE! Dancing with the Devil.  A collection of thirteen short stories of the weird and wonderful. Just follow the link on this page or visit my blog.

Indie author - afraid to change?

It’s daft I know.  There I am, an indie author, with books only selling the odd copy every now and then - yet for some reason I’m afraid to change things.  Perhaps part of it, as I talked about in my last blog, is the vain hope that an agent and publisher is going to come a long and wave their magic wands.  Well, that’s not going to happen and even if it does I’m still the one who is going to be making most of the running.

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