It’s always great when a story keeps on giving. I’m always ecstatic when an editor likes a story I’ve written enough to buy it and publish it in the first place. It’s better when good feedback from readers confirm that the story is being enjoyed. Usually that’s about all you can get from a story and it’s more than enough. But every once in a while, one gets another run as a reprint. Year’s Best anthologies are the cream of all reprints, of course, and we all strive and dream of those. But when a magazine publisher collects their favourite stories into an anthology of favourites, that’s just as good.
I’ve just heard from Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine that my weird west ghost story, “Not the Worst of Sins“, is going to be included in their next e-anthology of favourites. This is the story that was nominated for a Best Short Story Ditmar Award last year, so it’s obviously a yarn that resonates well.
BCS released “The Ceaseless Steam“, an e-book theme anthology of the best BCS steampunk stories and as it’s doing well, they’re doing a reprint ebook anthology of Weird Western stories. And they’re including “Not the Worst of Sins”. So I’ll be over here Snoopy dancing!
The anthology will come out in late April from e-book stores like WeightlessBooks.com and Amazon Kindle store and will coincide with a special Weird West issue of the magazine on April 30. I’ll be sure to let you all know again in April when it’s out.
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