The Last Repairman

Today my short story, The Last Repairman, is published on the Daily Science Fiction website.

Here's the link.





I hope you enjoy The Last Repairman.  If you do, rate the story and maybe leave a comment here on on DSF's facebook page.

Treasure Hunt 2014

Each year The Elora Festival Singers hold their major fundraiser, a massive Book Sale during the first weekend of May.

As always, the Beynon family found a horde of treasure.  Here's a look at my share of the booty:

 Here's a H.G. Wells book I'd never heard of before and, lucky me, it's a first edition.

 The Works of Alexandre Dumas, Volume Five, 1893.

  This one is kind of awesome.  The worn leather cover looks fairly unassuming.  Let's have a look inside...

The cover is mighty loose (in fact, it's not attached) but let's look at those Roman Numerals...

MDCCLXXIX .....hmmm.....that's 1779

The book is in pretty rough shape but it is 235 years old.

Wow...235-  that's old.

This other leather book is an infant by comparison.

Printed in 1801, this book is a mere 213 years old.












Some impressive treasure, for sure, and everything at a bargain price.

The Last Repairman

Here's some nice news - my science fiction story, The Last Repairman is set to be published on the Daily Science Fiction Website on Friday May 9th, 2014.  It will also be distributed to their 8,500 subscribers on the very same day.

Today I am doing line edits of the manuscript.  I've been through the thing twice now and haven't found a mistake.  That speaks to the editing I did before sending it to DSF but also to their editorial process.  They've been through the thing and cleaned up typos.  I'll have my usual editor (my eagle-eyed wife) read through the proofing manuscript, too.  The more eyes the better.

I'm very excited about this particular publication.  With a subscriber base of 8,500 and access to anyone with a web browser, this story has more opportunity to reach readers than any of my previous publications.

Also in the news, I recently sold the audio rights for The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife (published in Tesseracts Seventeen (Edge, 2013)) to Escape Artist Inc to be podcast on their horror podcast website.  .  The story will be read by a professional voice actor and Pseudopod.org will feature the story towards the end of August 2014.