Short Stories

Dan Moran is editing the three extant Roy the Demon short stories, and will offer them at the FS& store. I stuck up links here, but it'll be a few days before they are live, so if you click on the images now, you'll get to the store, but the stories won't be up yet. 


(EDITOR'S NOTE: They are live, as of February 2nd, 2011.)


Eventually, they'll make it to Smashwords and Amazon.com, but for the nonce, if you want to read 'em, this is where they'll be available. 

I know, I know, it's hard to wait, but ...


While you are waiting, you could buy one of my novels that are up,  or one of Stover's or Dan's book of essays and screenplays. I don't expect any of us would mind that. And it's all good.


And when I get around to it, my link defaults will be to this site for my ebooks. They will still be available at Smashwords and Amazon.com, but Dan's versions look better onscreen, cost the same, are available in all the popular formats, and he's a better publisher in general. Plus he's a nice guy and all. 


Not even to mention that if you send somebody to the site and they buy books, you will get a discount on stuff you buy. Such a deal. 


If you have a Kindle or other reader, I expect Dan can tell you which version to get and how to get one of his products into the device. 

DELIRIUM

Last year at Book Expo America, Expert Swagger Suzie Townsend showed me the ropes. One of the MAIN EVENTS on Suzie's precision-and-efficiency-oriented schedule was Lauren Oliver's signing table. We waited in line for a. long. time. With the 18,000 lbs of books.

Lauren took a minute with each reader, chatted, and Harper was giving BOTH of her books away. OMG. I'd read BEFORE I FALL, and DELIRIUM looked just as good. I snatched greedily and skipped off to continue to pillage and burn.

Last week, I read DELIRIUM:

Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn't understand that once love--the deleria--blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold.

Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demands that all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. Lena Haloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured. A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured, predictable, and happy.

But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable: She falls in love.

OK, I'll wait for the chills to subside...Lauren impressed me in BEFORE I FALL by cleverly examining a very complex subject: guilt and regret. She's done it again with DELIRIUM. Lena is a typical teenager, a little jealous of her gorgeous best friend Hana, nervous about her upcoming examination, which precedes the Procedure that will render her incapable of love. She's got some baggage. A familial history of deleria that has her hyper-analyzing herself for signs of disease. Her insecurities make her so real, and her history is haunting. The choices she has to face are unthinkable. And the end of this book put me in the fetal position (perhaps the most masterful use of repetition of a line I've ever seen). Go! Get it!