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There are just two days left of Fireside Fiction’s Year 4 drive, and it’s looking grim. They need $13,000 to keep on publishing, but as I’m writing this, they’re at $8,096. Over the years, Fireside’s published a lot of great content, so I hope you’ll consider signing up for a Year 4 subscription, or support them on Patreon.
Oh, and remember that time they published a short story by yours truly? Good times.
I’m happy to announce that my short story, My name is Ronald by the way, is in issue 20 of Fireside Magazine. Go forth and read it, along with the rest of the stories in there.
Fireside Fiction publishes great short fiction, as well as (soon) books. Year 3 has started, with issue 16 and back issues made free. There are ways to support them if you enjoy what they do.
And now, finally, Year 3 has begun! We have a completely redesigned, free website. (Thanks so much to Pablo Defendini for his beautiful work.) We have a variety of ways for people to support us as we work to move away from Kickstarting to a more sustainable model.
You’ll find a short story of mine later in Year 3. I’m thrilled about that, obviously.
During the successful Fireside Magazine Year 2 Kickstarter, which I helped fund with my extreme (hrm…) generosity and, more importantly, unquenchable thirst for words and stories of all sorts, I made a promise. This happened in the middle of the night, and I said something like this:
If Fireside Magazine gets funded I’ll write a short story and give away for free. It’ll be about a guy with a sword.
At the time I had no idea what that meant, but for some reason “a guy with a sword” felt right. I might’ve been tired, slightly drunk, or both. We’ll never know because I have a lousy memory. (more…)
I promised a short story if the crowdfunding campaign for Fireside Magazine Year 2 went through, and it did. True to my word, I immediately (literally, since I pushed the magazine over the edge with my bourbon-infused donation) started writing.
The story I promised had just one theme: A guy with a sword. I blame that one on Twitter, it is simple enough to fit in 140 characters or less.
Other than that, I had no ideas.