For a long time it looked like the form was withering away. For the first several decades of the twentieth century, serious writers made their money in the short story to finance the work of writing their novels, rather than vice versa. By the 1990s, though, short story markets were drying up. Where were we as readers going to turn to find the new Louis L'Amour or Dorothy Johnson? Fortunately, the internet age -and the rapidly growing market for e-book shorts -has started filling the void.
My short story collection The Stealing Moon is out of print. In the coming year, the stories from it and several new tales will be repackaged as two separate collections from Western Trail Blazer: Cherokee Winter and Red Trail. I currently have several shorts available for 99 cents.
It has come to my attention just today that two of my friends have Western short story collections available for the kindle... for FREE, at least on Jan. 27 and 28. I imagine they'll go back up to their regular price after that. I highly recommend you seek them out. I am also going to mention a couple of collections that can be bought for under a dollar, and a couple of my own individual e-book shorts. Go out and grab you some short fiction!
FREE through Jan. 28:
99 CENT SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS:
INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES BY TROY D. SMITH:
HERE ARE SOME ANTHOLOGIES (a collection has stories that are all by the same author; an anthology has works by several authors)
PAPERBACK CLASSICS:
I share your enthusiasm. Great cover on the Dorothy Johnson collection.
ReplyDeleteI'm noticing that Sayles' A MOMENT IN THE SUN is constructed as a series of short stories - what seems to be several threads with continuing characters. Each chapter so far is like a stand-alone short story and nicely done. The structure of each so far is similar. You are dropped into the middle of a situation and you have to pay close attention to figure out where you are and what's going on. The close reading really pays off.
That sounds interesting, Ron, I'll have to look into that.
DeleteTroy, thank you for listing The Wanted Man. I'm proud to be included among such fine company. And thank you for linking to it on facebook and twitter. I appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteSo much to read and so little time.
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