Only 371 shopping days until next Christmas. Dinner isn’t served. But Breakfast and Lunch are always available. Get ‘em while they’re hot at your favorite online bookseller. Bite-sized literary morsels for the brain are good for the holidays or anydays.
This just in … my new short, short story “Giant Rock,” inspired by my recent trip to The Integratron, has been accepted for publication in Bright Flash Literary Review. Thank you to them. And, yes, aliens are involved, as are baby quails, a giftshop saleswoman named Venus (who looks like Marilyn Monroe in “Some Like It Hot”), and a talking bobcat.
Very humbled and grateful to receive these generous comments from a reader in Spain:
“I bought your latest book on my Kindle and read it this week. Here’s what I discovered: you are a great writer with a highly developed imagination who has the extraordinary talent of being able to inhabit a plethora of distinct perspectives. You not only write from different viewpoints, but your stories take the reader on a roller coaster of emotion. You cannot be pigeonholed!”
It’s May 4th and I’m excited to announce that “Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories” officially hits the market TODAY. No, the book doesn’t have anything to do with a galaxy far, far away, but May the Fourth be with this action-packed page-turner anyway.
You can pick up a copy online. Or order it from your favorite local bookseller. Just be on the lookout for the funky, well-coiffed alien on the cover.
Thanks to Lois Lane for asking a few questions about my new book.
Here’s an excerpt from my response to a question about whether my extensive experience as a writer in the gaming industry has influenced my short story writing:
“Working on such an amazing range of games helped shape my interest in writing short stories in different genres and styles. In Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories, for example, I include a few science-fiction stories, a few horror stories, a few crime-gone-wrong stories — and even a love story or two. And, yes, there are stories where aliens try to rip your guts out.”
Check out the entire interview here. And thanks again to Lois Lane.
GET “LUNCH” AT THE BEST BOOKSTORE IN THE UNIVERSE.
“Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories” comes out officially on May 4. But you can pick up a pre-release copy NOW at the one-and-only Christopher’s Books in San Francisco.
For all my Potrero Hill friends (or anyone in the Bay Area for that matter), run don’t walk on over to Christopher’s – keeping socially distanced, of course – and grab some “Lunch.”
The countdown is on.
Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories is coming out one month from today, on May the Fourth – because as much as I love Wookiees, Droids, and Skywalkers I want my little book to compete head-to-head with the entire Star Wars universe. May the Force be with the little book with the well-coiffed alien on the cover.
Pre-Order available now on Bookshop.org, Amazon.com, or your favorite online bookshop.
First there was “Breakfast” … now there’s “Lunch.”
Yes, I’m excited to let you know I checked this project off my list while staying home during COVID-19.
“Lunch with the Alien and Other Short, Short Stories” is Coming Soon (paperback and ePub versions).
Stay tuned for further details.
