Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Triple Obscura #2
If the project is successful, there will be other anthologies along similar lines, for example QUADRUPLE OBSCURA featuring four writers, each contributing 15,000 words of fiction. And then QUINTUPLE OBSCURA featuring featuring five writers, each contributing 12,000 words of fiction. And then SEXTUPLE OBSCURA featuring six writers, each contributing 10,000 words of fiction, and so on, with the total wordage of each book being no more than 60,000 words.
Who knows where it will all end? Feasibly with 60,000 different writers each contributing one word of fiction. But that's very unlikely.
But anyway, I have drifted off the point, which is that the second issue of TRIPLE OBSCURA is now available for purchase. The featured writers are Kristine Ong Muslim, Tim Newton Anderson, and Jayaprakash Satyamurthy. No idea yet who will be in the third and last issue. The book is available from Amazon and elsewhere...
Saturday, July 06, 2024
In This Poem
The ebook is free from Amazon for the next four days. None of the poems in this new collection have been previously published.
The official blurb for the book runs as follows:
75 poems, none previously published. Concerned with such topics as mythical beasts, robots, ghosts, gods, dilemmas, metaphysics, trousers, bridges, haircuts, paradoxes, windows, journeys, brackets, pretzels, dinosaurs, thunder, duels, bears, kangaroos and dozens of other objects, ordeals and ideas. Always entertaining and offbeat. Regarded by the author as his best poetry collection to date.
"I would call him an indubitable modern sentence master." — SAMUEL DELANY
"Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humour.” — A.A. ATTANASIO
"Wit and whimsy and word-relish, high spirits and bittersweet twists." — IAN WATSON
Yes, I am especially delighted with this one.... :-)
Monday, July 01, 2024
Around the World in Eighty Ways
It should have been published four years ago by an independent publisher based in India (with a unique typographical layout) but that didn't happen, because small press projects often don't happen. That's just the way it is.
Publishing it myself means that it will be restricted in terms of exposure and sales, etc, but at the end of the day (and even at the beginning of the day) it is better for something to be available to the reading public than for it to continue hibernating in a memory stick.
So, for better or worse, the book is now out there...
As always with a new Gibbon Moon publication of mine, the ebook is free from Amazon for a few days (three in fact) and here is the link. An earlier collection of mine, Crepuscularks and Phantomimes, is also a free ebook but only for one more day, so you'll have to move fast if you want that one, and here is the link for it.
I am pleased with Around the World in Eighty Ways. It's short and snappy, like an elastic longitude line on a globe.
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