Review of Shawn L. Bird's Murdering Mr. Edwards (audiobook version)

...is up at Ottawa Review of Books for April, 2023.
https://www.ottawareviewofbooks.com/single-post/murdering-mr-edwards-by-shawn-l-bird

New Drabble Published

I find I'm only getting time to write the occasional drabble (stories exactly 100 words) these days, but it's fun and keeps my hand in, as it were. "Spellcheck" is a silly fantasy piece; the title tells it all.

Spellcheck" in Scribesmicro #28

(you have to scroll a few pages to get to mine)

Posthumous Two-Book Deal for Dave Duncan with Shadowpaw Press

The Late Dave Duncan Canadian Author

Edward Willett Shadowpaw Press

Robert Runté Editor

From Shadowpaw Press (Edwart Wilett):

I'm thrilled to announce that Shadowpaw Press has obtained the rights to publish two previously unpublished novels by the late, great Canadian author Dave Duncan, one of the first authors I met in the field, long before I was a published novelist--he gave a reading at the Saskatchewan Science Centre while I was communications officer there. Edited by Robert Runte, THE TRAITOR'S SON and CORRIDOR TO NIGHTMARE will be released late this year or early in 2024.

THE TRAITOR’S SON

"They know the world is dying, but they hope not in their lifetimes. Meanwhile, they’re top dogs and will do anything to stay that way."

Doig Gray is fifteen when his father is killed in a mining accident, which Doig comes to realizes was no accident. Torn from his mother and sister, Doig is sent off to college, his every movement monitored in case he has inherited his dissident father’s unacceptable attitudes . . . or passwords. Doig has nothing but his own sense that there’s something desperately wrong with the world—and a last name that evokes the assumption that he’s destined to be the next traitor-hero.

THE TRAITOR'S SON is a science fiction novel about a colony world where everything that could go wrong already has. Stuck on the wrong world at the wrong site, with the wrong leaders, the colony is doomed to extinction unless immediate steps are taken to correct—everything. But 500 years of hiding from the reality of their situation has created an unchallengeable status quo—and the Accident Squad determined to ensure it remains that way.

CORRIDOR TO NIGHTMARE

When one life ends, another begins.

After forty years as the village school teacher in the idyllic valley of Greenbottom, Agatha is looking forward to a quiet retirement. Instead, an enigmatic stranger arrives to drag her through a long-closed portal to another world.

Confronted with a completely foreign culture steeped in magic and violence, Agatha finds herself a crucial pawn being played between rival factions. The only way forward through the rigid traditions and convoluted politics of the Archons of Otopia is to remain true to herself and her Greenbottom ideals.

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The agent for the deal was Wayne Arthurson of The Rights Factory.

Perfect Audio Production of "Day Three"

Ridiculously pleased with CB Droege's perfectly nuanced narration of my flash fiction, "Day Three", on his Manawalker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast, #807, March 16, 2023.

http://manawaker.com/podcast/day-three-ffp-0807/

Originally published in Pulp Literature #21 and repinted in Metastellar, Sept 3, 2021 and The Best of Metastellar's First year., July 2022.