WORLD UNKNOWN REVIEW, VOL. II now available!

On December 15, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing1 Comment

514vX7Kqw+L._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg I did an interview with my friend and fellow author L.S. Engler back in October, and one of the topics that came up was the second volume of her forthcoming anthology the World Unknown Review. I was lucky enough to have a story published in both volumes; my short story Nanos Khund and the Traveler, which has never appeared anywhere else, is in Volume II.

Well, Volume II is out— the Kindle version, anyway, and unless I miss my bet by the end of the day the print edition will be linked to the same page. There are nine stories and a novella in there, across all sorts of genres, and, again, one of ’em is mine.

The ebook is only 99 cents, which ain’t much at all, and I believe the print version is going to retail for under $10. I say you check it out.

New SKYLIGHTS review, and another announcement

On February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing8 Comments

Is it possible– I think it is– that Skylights hasn’t actually had a review on a blog yet? I’m up to seven at Amazon, all of which are four- or five-star reviews, and my interweb-buddy D. Emery Bunn just posted a four-star review of the book over at his website. He’d already provided me probably my favorite Twitter-friendly tag line for the book (“Half love letter to NASA, half space exploration porn”) and he just today came through with a full review.

It’s interesting, actually: this is probably the most critical any reviewer of the book has been, especially if I don’t count a textless two-star review at Goodreads. He liked it, but he definitely goes into some details about the parts of the book that didn’t work for him. I’m linking it anyway because I think the criticisms he raises are completely fair, and at least a couple of them are the direct result of deliberate decisions I made while I was writing the book. Sadly, not everyone is going to unconditionally love every single word I write.

Even though you all should.

Anyway, check the review out; the book itself remains a scant $4.95 as an ebook at Amazon, or a little bit more if you want the print edition.

I promised another announcement: I found out that Stone Skin Press was issuing a call for submissions for their anthology Swords v. Cthulhu yesterday. Thought about it, walked out to the living room, and said to my wife “Do you think I can pull together a submission for this in just two weeks?”

“Sure you can,” she said.

And maybe an hour later, I had my story– a story that, granted, has had barely a single word committed to a word processing document just yet, but who needs that, right? Anyway, point is, I’m totally in on submitting something to this anthology, which is always fun, and I’m posting it here because I have a sneaking suspicion that I have a few among my regular readership who might be interested in being my competition.

Anyway. That’s it for now; I’ll try and shut up until tonight unless something really interesting happens.

WARNING: Excitement incoming

On February 15, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing3 Comments

I have not one but two announcements coming tomorrow, which is pretty cool. I’m going to be alone in the house all day, and am hoping to get a hell of a lot of work done. The last time I said that I produced, what, nearly seven thousand words? Something like that? I don’t need to pull that level of accomplishment off but a good chunk of it would be super cool.

Woo!

Woohoo!

On January 7, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing5 Comments

I had actually forgotten that these were coming: my copies of the 2014 World Unknown Review showed up yesterday! And my name’s right there on the back in words and everything! There’s a story in this! By me!

Exclamation points!

I’m not finished with the collection yet but the stories I’ve read are all solid. You ought to check the collection out just because I’m published in it, but hopefully me plus all these other interesting people are all the incentive you need.

The World Unknown Review is available digitally for 99 cents and in print for $7.36.

REBLOG: World Unknown Review is Here!

On December 20, 2014December 20, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Reading, Writing2 Comments

I’m published in this! I just ordered it for my Kindle! Go check it out!

L.S. Engler

The announcement I’ve been chomping at the bit to make is finally here! I might be pushing it out the door a little early (KDP is giving me weird cover issues and the physical book isn’t yet available on Amazon), but I just can’t wait any longer. World Unknown Review is finally here!

World Unknown Review has been an exciting project for me, one I hope to duplicate every year to help put more voices out there in the popular format of our times, independent publishing via Amazon. This first volume brings a lot of really great stories, in a wide variety of genres, from memoir to romance, science fiction and fantasy, adventure and literary. Some of these authors have a hefty list of accomplishments under their belts, some of them have never been published before. There’s a little bit of something for everyone, and, hopefully, everything for someone.