I have received my first copy of The Curve of Shadow in the mail, and I pronounce it good. Therefore...
Atrocious Adventure Publishing is now open for business.
There you will find The Curve of Shadow, which contains my current crop of short stories, to wit:
- Public Assistance
- Khamaira's Journey
- The Shepherds of M15
It's a bit more expensive than I would like at $12 (I was hoping for around $4 or $5) but it is very nicely done.
Since I got the first copy in the mail a couple days ago I've been thinking of stuff to do with all this, so I think I'm going to do a new blog just for Atrocious Adventure matters. This blog will have info about my books, events, etcetera. TimeTunnel is and will remain my personal blog.
I will say the whole thing gives one delusions of granduer.
Why "Atrocious Adventure" you ask?
A remarkably long time ago in a place not so far away (early 1980's, East Ridge TN) when I was just a mere sprout, there was a time when I was only just learning how to type. Those who know me in real life will be goggling right now, trying to wrap their minds around the concept that there was ever a time when I didn't know how to type and wasn't rattling the windows with my enthusiasm at the keyboard (so to speak). But yes, there was indeed a time when I actually had trouble with the entire thing. There was a time when I used to look at my hands when I typed. Even worse, I learned how to type on a typewriter, of all infernal inventions. Anyway, way back in these fabled lands of prehistory I would have 15 or 20 minutes at the end of typing classes at least once a week, and while the rest of the class were going on about their hair, getting their nails done and what happened on General Hospital the day before, I would put another sheet of paper in my typewriter and do these one-page movie blurb things revolving around a character known as Minnesota Mike. Minnesota Mike was a sort of teenage Indiana Jones. He had arch enemies (the Slobobian super-spy, Vladimir Von Monkeywrench and a tribe of natives who cursed him with 27 pounds of limberger cheese that would magically appear whenever Mike thought/said the word "juxtaposition"). He had friends (CELLO, a rather schizophrenic computer who would book Mike onto plane flights, but somehow never to where Mike needed to go, and the hacker guy who ran the computer). This mad series had about two dozen episodes in it -- I even wrote a story that appeared in our school newspaper. At the end of each episode, it would always say "Brought to you by Atrocious Adventure." I don't know where I got it. But it fit, and I've always kept it in the back of my mind. There used to be a "Paranoid Productions" that went with it, but my ex-husband kind of took that one over.
So naturally if I was going to start a publishing venture, it would be Atrocious Adventure.
Anyway. Now I do.
And that's my final answer.
1 comment:
Actually, assuming it's a trade-sized paperback and not a mass-market-sized paperback, $12 is about right, assuming that's retail price. The average mass market paperback is running about $7.00 to $7.50 these days. $4 is the territory of Little Golden Books and the like.
Bring a few copies of your book to the bookstore where I work once it has an ISBN. We can do consignment sales. A local attorney wrote one called The Four Horsemen, a mystery/thriller placed in Chattanooga, and sold a few to my boss. We've sold one or two copies so far, and one of our customers who bought one said that once she got started she couldn't put it down. Maybe he'll get picked up by a major publishing house and become the next John Grisham.
So, ya see, it can happen.
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