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Short Story Collections Finished

Monday, 19 March 2012

One of the things I've been working on recently, as regular readers will know, is putting all my previously published stories together into collections. I've already mentioned Spell Circles and Eccentric Orbits, which contain fantasy and SF stories published between 1999 and 2011.





Now, to complete the process, comes Life Cycles (mainstream stories) and, the one ring to rule them all, Perfect Circles. Perfect Circles is essentially just all the stories from Spell Circles, Eccentric Orbits and Life Cycles combined into one genre-defying mash-up. Although I've resisted the temptation to intermingle everything and left the stories from each genre grouped together.




Perfect Circles has ended up with seventy-three stories all told, so it's a fairly substantial volume. I think I'm mainly just delighted it's out there so I can move on. I've learned a huge amount in the process of putting these volumes together and it's been fun, but also very time-consuming.

Perfect Circles, should you be interested, is currently available as a free download for the Kindle.

OK, now on with the next ten years of short stories ...

Posted by Simon Kewin at 14:26

14 comments:

  1. Anonymous19 March 2012 at 17:58

    Mighty fine covers, Simon -- and even better stuff found inside. Here's to the next 10 years!

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  2. Simon Kewin19 March 2012 at 18:05

    Thanks, Milo. Already working on the next ten years!

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  3. Old Kitty19 March 2012 at 18:42

    I struggle to write a short story (and we're talking flash fic!!!) every couple of months and here you are with your FOUR VOLUMES of scrummy stories just WAITING to be in print. Ahem!
    :-)
    But seriously!! I am in AWE! Well done you! Take care
    x

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  4. Deborah Walker19 March 2012 at 18:44

    They look fabulous. I love have you've tied them all together.

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  5. Simon Kewin19 March 2012 at 18:52

    Deborah - Thanks; I did spend quite a bit of time trying to make them look like they belonged together but were distinct, too.

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  6. Simon Kewin19 March 2012 at 18:54

    Thanks Old Kitty - and I do hear what you're saying about print versions, I really do!

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  7. Golden Eagle19 March 2012 at 22:33

    Congratulations on finishing!

    I like the covers for the collections. :)

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  8. dolorah20 March 2012 at 02:07

    Wow, that's a lot of short stories. Impressive.

    ......dhole

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  9. Simon Kewin20 March 2012 at 07:18

    Thanks, Golden Eagle and Donna.

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  10. Thomas Taylor20 March 2012 at 17:46

    Simon, they look great. Looking at the Amazon link, 'Perfect Circles' seems to be free! Is that right? I'll have to download it and see...

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  11. Simon Kewin20 March 2012 at 18:11

    Thomas - yep, free for a day or two!

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  12. Sylvia Ney20 March 2012 at 21:28

    These look so interesting! New follower here. I'm trying to get a head start on visiting my fellow "A to Z"ers. I'm really enjoying your blog and I look forward to visiting again.

    Sylvia
    http://www.writinginwonderland.blogspot.com/

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  13. Madeline Mora-Summonte20 March 2012 at 21:35

    I've got PERFECT CIRCLES downloaded to my phone. Looking forward to reading it! :)

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  14. Simon Kewin20 March 2012 at 22:02

    Sylvia - Thanks! I'll be on over to yours soon.

    Madeline - Excellent. Really hope you enjoy it. Many thanks.

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