Success!

[LTom]

Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction is now available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other fine retailers as a mass market paperback. I believe there is a Kindle version as well.

This science fiction anthology includes my collaboration with WotF judge Mike Resnick as well as works by other authors such as Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, Paul di Filippo, Lavie Tidhar, Ian Watson, and Steve Rasnic Tem. It was a wonderful opportunity to work with Mike and this collaboration most likely would never have happened had I not participated in WotF.

Keep on writing, folks!

[kyle]

Congrats, Laurie!

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

After "Living Rooms", I look forward to anything you write! That was the most imaginative fantasy I have read in a long time!

[klaatu]

Anywhere But Earth available now.

There are at least three of us from these forums that are on the TOC (Dame, Patty and myself) and at least three WOTF winners (Patty Jansen, Jason Fischer and Cat Sparks) - along with names such as Rob Hood, Margo Lanagan, Richard Harland, Kim Westwood - (plus many more)

An excellent anthology that is sure to win awards.....

I was up in Sydney at the book launch. Met Patty, and a bunch of others. Even signed a stack of copies. (strange feeling, that one - but I think I could get used to it)

Here's a picture from zenashapter.com



Me (Zena Shapter) catching up with (clockwise from top left): Richard Harland, Steve Cameron, Kate Forsyth, Steve Cameron (again!), Alan Baxter, Tania Crivellenti, Saul Garnell, Dawn Meredith, Patty Jansen, Margo Lanagan

A wonderful day, a great launch, and an excellent anthology.

Available in paperback, and very cheap on ebooks, through amazon and smashwords. (29 stories, 724 pages http://keithstevenson.com/CDLblog/online-store/)

Steve

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Great news, Steve! I'm looking forward to reading it.

[E.CaimanSands]

Much applause, to Laurie and Steve.

[Strycher]

Is it just me, or does Steve look Photoshopped into that top one?

[klaatu]

Is it just me, or does Steve look Photoshopped into that top one?

lol - yeah, I see what you mean...

No, I promise you it wasn't.

Steve

[gower21]

Congrats Steve, and pictures!! Super cool. Yeah it does look photoshopped if we are taking votes...but I guess I'll just believe you when you say it wasn't....But it's really hard to be so trusting on the internet and all.

[soulmirror]

Yeah it does look photoshopped if we are taking votes...

I assumed it was one of those life-sized photo cut outs you stand beside and they take your picture.

Well ... okay ... but someday I have no doubt some of you WILL be so famous as writers that you will have life-sized photo cut outs that fans can stand beside and have their photos taken "with" you.

(Actually, I'm going to go on Kickstarter and ask for $5000 so I can print up several hundred of them! oops -- wrong forum! )

[izanobu]

1002 books sold since I started e-publishing 15 months ago. Slow build, but hey, it's a milestone

[Delli]

Congrats izanobu!

[E.CaimanSands]

Nice, grats.

I still haven't sold even a squashed banana.

[ThomasKCarpenter]

1002 books sold since I started e-publishing 15 months ago. Slow build, but hey, it's a milestone

Grats!

Is that shorts and novels together or just novels? I think I'm about half your total, evenly split between novels and shorts. I'm happy with the growth after only 11 months. It's a fun time to be a writer. :)

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

1002 books sold since I started e-publishing 15 months ago. Slow build, but hey, it's a milestone

Milestone? Heck, it's an inspiration!

[morshana]

1002 books sold since I started e-publishing 15 months ago. Slow build, but hey, it's a milestone

Congrats, izanobu!

[MJNL]

So...awesome... Where's my awed smilie?

[izanobu]

That's for shorts and novels together (255 of that is from one short story, seriously. Which I posted in May of this year. Some stuff does better than others, for sure).

[s_c_baker]

Good stuff, iza!

I still haven't sold even a squashed banana.

Have you been trying to sell squashed bananas?

[soulmirror]

1002 books sold since I started e-publishing 15 months ago. Slow build, but hey, it's a milestone

Pretty amazing, though, and often these things are snowball-rolling-down-hill in their building momentum! Keep rolling!

[gower21]

I agree! That snowball is just gonna keep rolling. Congrats Annie!

[E.CaimanSands]

I still haven't sold even a squashed banana.

Have you been trying to sell squashed bananas?

Sure! I don't eat bananas. And they clash with my lovely green hide.

[LTom]

I agree! That snowball is just gonna keep rolling. Congrats Annie!

As a sign I'm just reading things too fast... I first read this as "That squashed banana is just gonna keep rolling." The mental image was... interesting.

[kyle]

I agree! That snowball is just gonna keep rolling. Congrats Annie!

As a sign I'm just reading things too fast... I first read this as "That squashed banana is just gonna keep rolling." The mental image was... interesting.

Brad, can we request a new smilie?

Somewhere halfway between and ?

[izanobu]

And... sold another story to Daily SF. I guess I'd better get my final WotF entry in soon before they post anything of mine (they have 3 stories of mine in the pipe right now, any one of which being published spells my pro-out doom).

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Congratulations, Annie! I look forward to it.

[JLM]

And... sold another story to Daily SF. I guess I'd better get my final WotF entry in soon before they post anything of mine (they have 3 stories of mine in the pipe right now, any one of which being published spells my pro-out doom).

Congrats, Izanobu, on the DSF sale and on the 1000+ sales on your self-pubbed work! May your snowball really pick up speed from this point forward!

[kyle]

Congrats, Annie!

And, yes, get that story in now!

[E.CaimanSands]

Grats, Annie!

As for all these I'm always in favour of more dancing bananas, dancing alligators, dancing spare ribs, you name it.

[soulmirror]

Good gosh, thos are dancing bananas ?!