I can now make this official. My short story “Hard Times in the Vancouver Continuum” will be featured in the upcoming ZNB anthology PORTALS. This is the third ZNB anthology I’ve appeared in along with ALIEN ARTIFACTS and THE DEATH OF ALL THINGS.
You can click on the image above or the link here to pre-order, or pick up the other anthologies. You’ll be helping me out, and helping keep small press anthologies from a great company going. Oh, and that picture? Yeah, you can get an art print of it. You’re welcome.
This year, my short story “The Pumpkin Spice Revolt” is scheduled for inclusion in ChiZine’s The War on Christmas anthology. This means two Andrija Popovic publications coming up.
And there will be a first this year. I’ve submitted stories under another name – A.J. Harris – to a few anthologies of a steamier nature. Well, looks like I’m going to see print (virtually) in one. The A.J. Harris story of transhuman romance in a flooded world, “Shelter from the Storm,” will be in Stranded: A Boys Behaving Badly Anthology.
Why a romance anthology? Honestly, my first publication was in a (now out of print) collection of erotic ghost stories. And I’ve always written steamier items. Ask me about the book line proposal I’ve always had in my pocket. “Imagine Pathfinder Tales but with sexy bits.”
Why A.J. Harris? My sister calls me AJ. Figured it would be a good name for an alter ego. And I chose Harris because H seems to be a good spot in the alphabet.
Wait, you mean, why the pseudonym? Well, half of it is marketing. I want to establish a separate brand for that name (should it ever come to it). The other half is about, um, making sure that my family and friends know they can stay away from those short stories if they don’t like that sort of thing.
Here’s hoping I can get more news to post like this.
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