As of this post, there are 13 days and just over 6 hours left to send in your names for the Beyond the Mist Protagonist Naming Contest
Issue 6 of the journal is now available from castalia house, so there are no more excuses to avoid grabbing a copy, considering your options, and sending in your suggestions.
Get creative, everybody!
The half-price deal on ebook versions of the first four issues of Sci Phi Journal is into it’s last day, so take advantage of that while you still can.
In other news, I have rearranged the kindle version of Selected Verse: Faith and Family so that the Amazon ‘Look Inside’ feature is now much more informative. If you ‘look inside’ and select the ‘kindle book’ tab, it will show you the first five poems, plus part of the sixth. If you select the ‘print book’ tab, it tells you the complete list of contents, so you know which of the poems from this blog are to be found inside.
I hope that this will enable prospective readers to make a more informed decision on whether to buy a copy of the collection for themselves.
Look whose name got put in a separate cage – rawr!
The Kindle ebook version of Sci Phi Journal Issue 6, featuring Beyond the Mist chapters 10 and 11, and the Beyond the Mist Naming Contest, is now on sale:
UPDATE: The paperback version is also now available from amazon:
or direct from createspace:
https://www.createspace.com/5581465/?tag=theologyweb-20
The first four issues of the rest of the journal are still on sale for another few days, so this is your last chance to get caught up with the action for less. Enjoy your read, feed your mind and good luck in the contest!
Sci Phi Journal Issue 6, featuring Beyond the Mist chapters 10 and 11, (plus of course the Beyond the Mist Naming Contest), is about to enter the final proofreading stage. Here to whet your appetite is a look at some of the artwork in the issue by the irrepressible Cat Leonard. First of all the cover image
Then artwork for each of the issue’s stories. Let your imagination run wild!
In less than 8 hours, I will be taking part in another livestream discussion on depicting female characters in fiction.
The livestream can be followed here:
Any questions for the group can be left in the comments section there.
Another SuperversiveSF roundtable discussion is coming up tomorrow (Saturday the 6th of June) at 3pm Eastern time (7pm GMT, 9pm Central European Time), the topic being dystopian fiction in all its forms. If you have any questions that you would like the group to discuss, leave a comment at this page:
http://superversivesf.com/2015/06/03/dystopian-fiction-live-stream-this-saturday-3pm/
A link to the livestream will appear at http://www.superversivesf.com when it goes live, so listen in and hear me (and writers more knowledgeable than me) discuss this fascination with societies gone so horribly wrong.
How many times have you been offered the chance to name a character in a published work? And how many times has that been for the main character of a work where a substantial portion has already been published?
As those of you who have been following Beyond the Mist know*, the main character has no memory of who he was, would like to recover his old name, but has the option of choosing a new one for himself. The instalment in Issue 6 has been tweaked so that it will end just as he is about to choose a new name, and I am inviting Sci Phi Journal’s readers to choose what that will be.
This will be done in the form of a contest; the winning entry will determine his legal name in the story world from that point forward, (and will remain so even if he later discovers what his old name was). This name will reflect what he has discovered about himself so far, as well as what kind of man he intends to become in the future.
The format of the contest is as follows:
The contest is now open, good luck and spread the word as widely as you can, please!
*and if you haven’t been following the story, now is your chance to catch up, since chapter 1 can be read for free here, and the ebook versions of issues 1-4 of Sci Phi Journal are now half price for the whole of this month.
To celebrate the editor’s 40th birthday, he has decided to reduce the price of the first four issues of Sci Phi Journal to only $1.99 at amazon and Castalia House for the next month.
So if you haven’t grabbed copies of this fine periodical yet (and got yourself thoroughly hooked on Beyond the Mist), now’s your chance to begin a series of literary and philosophical journeys you won’t regret
http://superversivesf.com/2015/05/30/sci-phi-journal-on-sale-now/
A special Beyond the Mist event will be announced soon…
There is going to be a major announcement concerning Beyond the Mist in a few days, so watch out for that.
In the meantime I uploaded a slightly better formatted ebook of Nobility Among Us to amazon, and put together a new poster, what do people think?
Selected Verse: Faith and Family gets the red carpet treatment
I recently received a shipment of paperback versions of Selected Verse: Faith and Family, so can make those available to people in the Czech Republic for 125 crowns plus postage (where applicable), which is much less than the 6 dollars plus postage for ordering from the createspace estore or US amazon.
For those of you in the UK, I have managed to reduce the price of the paperback on UK amazon to only £2.99, and eligible for super saver delivery (free shipping when forming part of an order over £10)
The price in the other european amazon territories is €3.99, and also eligible for free delivery when part of an order that exceeds the required threshold.
I was unable to reduce the US amazon price, however I was able to introduce a discount code for the createspace estore, so that by placing the book in your cart and then quoting the discount code:
36AUPWCS
You get a dollar discount, lowering the unit price to only $4.99.
The Zwyckyverse 