Happy Busted Flush Day!

Okay, it was yesterday. Sorry. I was socked-in tight writing on my new Annja book – getting near done, here. Also, in the evening I went to a tree-trimming way the hell and gone up in the foothills with one of my Meetup groups. Which, by the way, was fun.

Anyway, it’s out, huzzah: Busted Flush, second volume in our new-generation Wild Cards trilogy, and first in which yours truly has an entry. Three, in fact: short stories called “Volunteers of America,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” and “A Hard Rain Is A’Going to Fall” (where do I get those titles?) which form an arc of their own within the Greater Scheme of Things™.

You can check out a(nother) very nice review here at Bookgasm.

In case you’re interested, and since you’re reading this blog I’ll blithely assume you are, I got paid, both in money and Consortium Points, the same as everybody else who did a single story apiece. And this is entirely fair and satisfies me. My overall contribution is más o menos the same length as everyone else’s; it’s just that the exigencies of the project (by which I mean, what George told me to do) dictated that I chop it up in three.

If you’ve been wondering about the fate of The Radical – and, amazingly, I learn there are people who are – he’s back.

As always, you can help support this site, and me, by clicking the above link to buy your copy through Amazon. (No one has yet done this, by the way. Dudes! and Dudettes!) While you’re at it, you can do the same with the prequel, Inside Straight. The Publishers Weekly review quoted on Busted Flush‘s Amazon page is probably right: you’ll find it way easier to track this one if you read the first one, well, first. And you’ll certainly want to be prepared when the third and final volume, Suicide Kings, comes out next year! So why not buy both? They make great gifts!

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