The Mountain That Writes turns around and comes back for a second pass:
This Book Bomb is a little different. Because the ones I’m doing right now are to get more people exposed to the works we nominated for the infamous Sad Puppies slate, we’re bombing a bunch of works at the same time. I don’t like putting this many links, but time is of the essence, and next week I’ll post about the Campbell nominees and Best Related Works.
We did three novellas last week and it was a huge success. They’re still selling well a week later. Overall we sold a couple thousands novellas, which in novellas is freaking huge.
But shorter fiction is tough, because it isn’t always available for sale by itself, but is usually bundled as part of an anthology, or in a magazine which often isn’t available on Amazon.
As you can see from the list below, luckily many of these are available on Amazon, and some are available for FREE:
BEST SHORT STORY
- “Goodnight Stars” by Annie Bellet, The Apocalypse Triptych
- “Totaled” by Kary English, Galaxy’s Edge
- “On a Spiritual Plain” by Lou Antonelli, Sci Phi Journal #2
- “A Single Samurai” by Steve Diamond, Baen Big Book of Monsters
Both Rabid Puppies recommendations in the Short Story category can be read for free at the following links. I can attest that Sci Phi Journal #2 is quite good and I think the Big Book of Monsters looks particularly interesting.
- “Turncoat” by Steve Rzasa, Riding the Red Horse
- “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” by John C. Wright, The Book of Feasts & Seasons
I’ve also got a short story you can read which is not part of either slate, but I promised to make it available for free reading, so here it is:
- “The Logfile” by Vox Day, The Altar of Hate
BEST NOVELETTE
“The Journeyman: In the Stone House”by Michael F. Flynn, Analog, June 2014
“Championship B’tok” by Edward M. Lerner, Analog, Sept 2014
“Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium” by Gray Rinehart, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
And the Rabid Puppies recommendation in the Novelette category:
“Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” by John C. Wright, The Book of Feasts & Seasons
The Book of Feasts & Seasons is presently ranked #54,462 on Amazon and has a 4.9 rating on 16 reviews. It’s genuinely that good, so I’d highly recommend reading it if you haven’t yet, and posting a review if you have.
