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Author/Story Lineup Announced for Keystone Chronicles

7/17/2016

The lineup for the Fall/Winter anthology from Third Flatiron Anthologies has been announced. Third Flatiron publishes four themed speculative fiction anthologies annually. The theme for this volume is the is the Keystone, the central stone in an arch. It's also the critical element that holds everything together.

According to publisher Juliana Rew, Keystone Chronicles is a double issue and features an international group of authors.

Keystone Chronicles is available for pre-order from Smashwords and Amazon. The publication date is August 20. The paperback version will be available shortly thereafter. Third Flatiron will also publish a podcast or two based upon these stories.

Here is the lineup:

Our Problem-Child: Langerfeld the Moon by Marilyn K. Martin
Hunt, Unrelenting by Sierra July
Splinters by Maureen Bowden
Desol 8 by Edward Palumbo
Telling the Bees by Judith Field
Daman by Zerrin Otgur
You Can Not Have a Meaningful Campaign If Strict Time Records Are Not Kept by Desmond Warzel
Racial Memory by Gustavo Bondoni
The White Picket Fence by A. P. Sessler
Every Planet Has One by John Marr
See You on Hel by Bear Kosik
Keystone Mine by John M. Campbell
How Far Away the Stars by Sam Muller
To Their Wondering Eyes by Sharon Diane King
TANSTAAFL by Bascomb James

Grins and Gurgles (Flash Humor):

Rejection by Larry Lefkowitz
I Should've Known Better by Art Lasky
Remembrance of Saint Urho by Damian Sherida

Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/651198

Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IM9H49K

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Accepted for Publication

6/25/2016

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Cue the Rocky theme song! Last night I got a message from Juliana Rew, the publisher at Third Flatiron Publications, telling me that my story, “TANSTAAFL” was accepted for publication. The story will appear in the 2016 Fall Anthology entitled “Keystone Chronicles.” The publication date for the ebook is August 15, 2016, with print version following shortly thereafter.

The theme for the anthology is the keystone—the central stone at the summit of an arch that holds the whole thing together. In this anthology, keystones are the critical elements that other things depend upon for support. As you might imagine, when the keystone is removed, things fall apart, quickly and catastrophically. Juli told us that anything could be a keystone—keystone species, pipelines, cops, beer, or ski resorts—anything at all, as long as it was speculative fiction.

I wrote TANSTAAFL specifically for Juli’s challenge and the story came together much faster than I expected. Yes, it required a fair amount of head scratching and doodling on a pad, but once the ending and the theme were decided, the story wrote itself. Unfortunately the story can’t spell worth a damn and its punctuation sucks out loud, but hey, I had to contribute something to the work.

The title? Well, that’s a tip of the hat to Robert Heinlein who popularized the acronym in his 1966 novel, “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.” In homage to the era, I also tried to emulate the pulp fiction writing style. Get the anthology, read my story, and let me know if I succeeded.

That’s all I am going to say about the story for now. I’m looking forward to the anthology’s publication date. I’m anxious to discover the other keystones. Aren’t you?

OK folks, you can turn up the theme music and join me in my happy dance. “Yo, Adrian!”

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