I never thought I would do this.
Nov. 4th, 2011 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waid(General catch-up post and tales of moving woe here).
I never thought I would do this.
This LJ and my slash-fic was supposed to be completely separate from my personal, and professional life...
...but, well. Some of you seem to like to read about historical-type people getting all gay with each other, and some of you seem to like it when I write about historical-type people getting all gay with each other, so...
I have a short story out today in an e-book anthology with some fucking amazing other writers (Jon Courtenay Grimwood! Lauren Goddamn Beukes! I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS.) It’s a ghost story (...sort of) and a love story between two women, (total!ly! Because we can't have the boys getting all the fun). And it’s set in Germany, in the final phase of WWII.
You all know by now how hopeless I am at things like “short” and indeed “on time”, so this is a very LONG short story. It was supposed to be 5000 words. It came out at 11,500. I’m just so grateful my lovely editors didn’t complain.
And It’s available in both the UK and US Kindle stores.
And it’s a co-operative project, so all profits are split equally between contributors.
At the moment, as I understand it, it’s only available as a mobi file which, I think only works for Kindles? (I don’t know, I don’t have any kind of e-reader!) but there’s a conversation about getting it accessible on other devices happening right now. There’s also a very limited print run available through the Tate bookshop, so you could try that should you be interested.
Anyway, you can read an extract from the story here on my propria persona blog, with more about what it is and what it’s doing in an anthology called “Stories of the Apocalypse.”
I am not quite sure how to finish off this post, so imagine me bowing here and thanking you solemnly for your time.
