BLOG PunkPunk Fiction, And Your Possible Part In It

I was one of those authors. Back in the early 21st Century, Andrew gave me a slot in one of the anthologies. The Alsiso Project was an anthology of stories based on a typo, and the different ways you could interpret it. My story was presented as a lecture, if I remember correctly, about how Alsiso was a feral word. It kept cropping up but we didn’t quite know what it meant yet. Like those elements off in the middle of nowhere on the Periodic Table and you know there’s something between them and the other stuff but you just haven’t found it yet.

It was a fun piece and I’m a sucker for that kind of work so it was fun to write. It got some recognition, some of it as one of the book’s standouts, some of it as one of the book’s standouts for… different reasons. Such is the way of things. I moved on to a triumphantly lumpy career as a fiction writer before deciding I wrote good and other stuff good about non-fiction and that it was noticeably less soul destroying than trying to sell fiction. Andrew stuck the course and, as I say, has produced some pretty serious books over the years. His next one looks to be fun too, and he’s looking for submissions.