Now
that summer has come to a close, so goes the marathon, and I'd like
to thank each and everybody generous enough to participate. From June
20th to today, the blog focused on all things short fiction. Short
stories, anthologies, magazines, novellas, and a bit of flash
fiction, too.
I
figured to cap off the season, I'd list all of the guest posts and
interviews that were featured on the blog for the last three months.
A nice little catalog for your convenience. If you happened to miss
reading some of these blog posts, I encourage you to check them out,
because everyone really came through in highlighting short fiction in
all its goodness. Enjoy.
Interviews:
Bruce Bethke (Stupefying Stories); Louise Bohmer (Old School);
Maurice Broaddus (Dark Faith); Lincoln Crisler (Corrupts
Absolutely?); S.D. Foster (A Hollow Cube Is a Lonely Space); Corey J.Goldberg (Abomination Magazine); Michael Kelly (Chilling Tales);
Simon Marshall-Jones (Spectral Press); Tim Marquitz (Fading Light);
Scott Nicholson (Missing Pieces); Anthony J. Rapino (Welcome to Moon
Hill); Voni Ryan (The Light Side of Dark); Nathan Shumate (Arcane).
Guest
Posts: Nicole Cushing; James Everington; LisaMannetti; KV Taylor.
Round Tables: Corrupts Absolutely? #1; Corrupts Absolutely? #2; Corrupts Absolutely? #3; Shock Totem.
I'll
be honest in saying this marathon was exhausting, at least as much as
blogging can be exhausting. There's a ton of short fiction I wanted
to get to through the summer, but just didn't have the time--and by
the time September came around, the energy. But, believe me, I'll be
pouring over even more short stories and novellas as time goes on.
Compared to novel-length fiction, the short story seems to be
under-appreciated by the casual reader. I find that odd, since it's
such a perfect length of story for someone who doesn't feel they have
a lot of time on their hands. I hope this marathon has at least
opened the eyes of a couple people and enticed them to give short
fiction a chance, where they might have otherwise ignored it.
For
now, I'm just thankful this whole project didn't crash and burn.
Thanks again to everyone who contributed, as well to everyone who
visited and read the reviews, interviews, and guest posts. Maybe we
can do this again next year.
1 comment:
This was great stuff, sir. I appreciate all the time you put into this! =)
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