Hi all.
You all probably know by now, but I co-edit a little site called Solarcide with my buddy Nathan Pettigrew and we just put out our debut anthology for the Amazon Kindle format.
This collection has a great line-up, lots of names you will be familiar with around here. Our headline acts are the prolific Richard Thomas, the hilarious Bradley Sands, the domestically grotesque Caleb J. Ross, and December's book club author, Andrez Bergen.
We have LitReactor celebrities like Joshua D. Moyes (Utah) Jessica Taylor (Averydoll) and Phil Jourdan (one of the guys that helped bring this site about). We got the War-queen Rebecca Jones-Howe and forum favourites like Bryan Howie and Fritz Wolfe. Even the editors have stories in there.
We have bizarro from Jeremy Robert Johnson and Nikki Guerlain and we have horror from Chris Lewis Carter and W. P. Johnson. We even have a little crime fiction from Paul D. Brazill. And that not even all.
Check out the full contents list here.
The anthology is for sale for $3, or the equivalent on the other Amazon sites. Out of the proceeds we are going to donate at least $1 for every copy sold to Duotrope, an excellent resource site for new writers that is run on donation. If you submit to online markets, then chances are you are familiar with Duotrope. They do good work and we're happy to help support them.
We'd love it if some of you guys checked out the antho. It's a great read. There is a real LitReactor core at the heart of this one, and we'd really appreciate any support in making the collection as visible to as wide an audience as we can. Here's a few ways you could help out.
-buy the collection. It's only $3 for twenty five awesome works of fiction
-"like" the collection on the amazon page, this can help rankings too.
-consider writing us a review for the amazon page. If you write for any other websites, a review there would be awesome too.
-share the links around for us, on your facebook, your twitter, every bit of networking helps.
**if you don't have a kindle - you can still read the Nova, there is a link for a free app for desktops and for smartphones below.
Many of the authors of these stories post here regularly. Many are about to go up in combat in the WAR, and five of the stories in here are trophies from the first incarnation of the tournament. If you want to comment on any of the stories here, you might well get an answer from the author. Post spoiler tags please though.
C'mon folks, join the parade! We'll love you long time. We really will :-)
Aww, this thread needs some love. Great anthology, well worth grabbing. Anyone who didn't grab it the first time around should do so now.
Great anthology, well worth grabbing. Anyone who didn't grab it the first time around should do so now.
Even the folk that got the first version should pick this one up! It's a better proof, a tighter read. Plus, y'know, the more sales the better.
Michael helped me and Nathan out with getting this ready. He's a sound fellow, and a gentleman.
I bought it. I want to be able to show it off to my friends (well, I would... if I... *sob*).
For some stupid reason I ended up with a Nook, mostly due to misinformation about restrictions on the platforms. If I had it to do over again...
Awesome thread!
I'd recommend selling it through Barnes & Noble as well. The process isn't that different from going through amazon.
^ once crazy hectic things calms down, we may very well do. Might be a little while though. House move on the horizon, approaching fast.
I bought it. I want to be able to show it off to my friends (well, I would... if I... *sob*).
You could make some friends then show it off to them then convince them to buy it for themselves?
or maybe buy some friends then show it off to them then convince them to buy it for themselves?
or maybe kidnap some friends then show it off to them then convince them to buy it for themselves?
or, seeing as it's you, learn the horse-tongue, then translate it, then show it off to the ponies and convince them to buy it for themselves for their Amazon Hoof edition?
I hope it takes off, man. I'm trying to put together an anthology for Downer Magazine. Did you look into print?
Awesome, me lads! Great to see it back "out there"... ;)
Bought it. Very cool. Well worth $3...
maybe kidnap some friends then show it off to them then convince them to buy it for themselves
If it weren't for Stockholm Syndrome, I wouldn't have any friends....
I started writing a story about Stockholm Syndrome where the main character is madly in love with a girl and kidnaps her. He's a psychologist, so he uses the same events that usually leads to Stockhold syndrome to get her to fall in love with him, including creating a fake person who plays the 'bad guy' to his 'good guy'. Would have been a good story. Somebody should finish writing it.
Bump. People that are reading this, we'd love to get a review when you are done. We will do naughty things to you in dark alleys!
Also, even if you can't afford / can't be bothered to buy it right now, liking it on the Amazon page and posting a link somewhere online for us would be almost as awesome.
Bump. Yeah, I thought before the new batch of WAR stuff goes up tomorrow I might see if we might get a few more eyes on this.
Mike Riser wrote us a lovely, and honest review. We'd be stoked to get a few more if any of you are reading the anthology.
Why not *BUMP* it again, just to keep things percolating...?
There are several stories here I want to read again. It frustrates me greatly that I have seemingly no time to read anymore. Whenever I actually do, I fall asleep. I can't wait for finals to be over so I can read a little (but only when I'm taking a break from writing, which I am so ridiculously far behind with).
There are never enough hours in the day.
I agree though, I have read some of these stories a dozen times and I am still in love.
