My in-laws are very excited that I'm going to be published in a book, Outcast (I've been published a few times already, but skip that for a moment), and they want to support me by getting a copy of it when it comes out.
That's very nice of them, but these are people who never read. Well, except for the odd local paper, seniors weekly and any women's magazine containing the words 'princess' and 'commemorative'. Next April they'll unwittingly step into cutting edge reality-bending australian speculative fiction.
I grew up on Australia's Nymboida river, famous for its white water rafting. On one rafting trip I went on, an older asian gentleman showed up in a suit. I don't know what he thought he'd paid for, but the reality was somewhat different and necessitated a dry cleaning bill. I expect it to be like that.
I'm kind of glad Shadow Box was an e-anthology.
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I shot milk out my nose (and I wasn't even drinking milk!) when I conjured up this image of an elderly asian man wearing a suit in a raft...comedy gold!
Perhaps you need to submit more stories to women's mags, with subjects on commemorative princesses issued by Franklin Mint (only 50,000 available this run!) that lose weight while dating their mother's cousin's uncle's ex-roommate's father.
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