How do you top inclusion in a Year's Best?
With an inclusion in a Best Of!
And the icing on the cake is that it's my first paid publication!
Elf Esteem is going to be re-published in the Andromeda Spaceways Best of Fantasy anthology!
It'll get the usual caning by the toffee noses. It's written to entertain, after all, and who wants to read that? One review even said that it was written "largely for its punchline". Well guess what? I wrote the bloody thing, and I didn't think of the last line until I was at -wait for it- the last line.
I have a soft spot for Elf Esteem. It's a skewed James Bond, a fact overlooked by most reviewers in spite of the riffs on Aston Martins, Moonraker, "Goodbye, Mr Bond" and a few others. It also has a pinch of Stainless Steel Rat, mainly in the style.
It's about elves and other fantasy tropes, which people see as a downside. Back then I didn't know it was a no-no to "the scene". I just wrote a story I thought would be fun. Many thanks to ASIM for including it, I'm humbled and honoured.
ASIM is producing three best of anthologies (go on, guess what the other two are). They'll be available on CD at Convergence, and will be downloaded from the ASIM site thereafter.
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Hey, well done! You know what they say, there's no trope like an old trope!
BTW, I'm in! "Pants" was selected for Black Box. Sweeeet. Perhaps I should try to sell the other two somewhere else now.
Try www.farthing.com, or google "drabble" and "submission guidelines" for a start.
Don't forget your snake story, too.
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