Another review... and another way to think of my writing
The first full-length review of Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (Amazon | Kindle | Barnes & Noble) came out yesterday. It was a really positive review written by Bruce Durham (an excellent writer in his own right), and it got me thinking of my chosen field of writing. You can read it here.
Most of you know that I will write anything from literary fiction to zombie stories to thriller novels, and have a bit of success selling in each genre, but the greater part of my work seem to be science fiction short stories. Despite the fact that SF is a much smaller market than fantasy, I write and sell these things with alarming frequency. So a single-author collection of short SF (with another forthcoming) is, to me, a natural ocurrence.
And yet, many people are delighted to find a new single-writer collection of straight SF without slippiness or cross-genre-isms to sink their teeth into, which is something I hadn't really thought about all that much. And it's true. The big-selling single author collection seems to have disappeared with the aging of Asimov, Heinlein and Bradbury, and nowadays you almost never see one from a major publisher. Smaller presses and specialty houses still do it, of course, but not the big ones. Of course, the fact that the big short fiction magazine markets have become a bit boring probably has a lot to do with it as well.
Whatever the reason, it's nice to see a reviewer enjoying a short story collection from yours truly.
Writing: wrote a children's story for illustration. Needs a bit of sanding and polishing, but I like the bare bones.