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Couple of SF Microstories and a Nice Review

Tuesday, 20 March 2012

A couple of Twitter-length SF story publications to report, both at Trapeze. First Steps saw the light of day on March 16th and V2.0 today.


I also came across this review of my SF short story Live from the Continuing Explosion over at StoryADay.org today. In fact it's not so much a review as a 1000 word essay. I'm seriously dumbstruck that the author - Julie Duffy who runs the StoryADay scheme - has gone to so much trouble to analyse and dissect my tale. It's a weird and wonderful experience. Thank you, Julie.


Julie had one main criticism - she wished it had been a novel rather than a short story. Damn, people keep saying that ...

Posted by Simon Kewin at 22:20

6 comments:

  1. Old Kitty20 March 2012 at 22:47

    Loved First Steps!!

    Take care
    x

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  2. Thomas Taylor21 March 2012 at 13:59

    Wow! that review is quite a compliment, Simon.

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  3. Simon Kewin21 March 2012 at 14:01

    Thanks, Old Kitty. Glad you liked it.

    Thomas - I know. I'm delighted by it.

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  4. Deborah Walker21 March 2012 at 14:55

    That review is great.

    I sometimes get readers saying they want more, especially with flash. It can be surprising when you think the story is complete.

    But I think it's a compliment. They liked it, they wanted more, that's great.

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  5. Simon Kewin21 March 2012 at 17:06

    Deborah - It can be surprising. Surprising, too, what readers pick up on. I swear I wasn't aware of all those clever things Julie mentioned!

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  6. Anonymous22 March 2012 at 22:41

    Great job, Simon.

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I'd love to know what you think.