It's not shameless self-promotion if people have mentioned they want to know, right?

[mer]

So, if you happen to have $1.08 left over on your Discretionary Regency Romance Budget Line, you may be interested in purchasing the MP3 of my story, "The Roman and the Regency" at Sniplits.

The reading is absolutely top-notch, from the snippet I've heard of it (I need to sit down with the longer version, and stifle my absurd nervousness whenever I see/hear my stuff performed). There is a sample available at http://sniplits.com/storiesforauthor.jsp?a=79

That is partially directed at you, _earthshine_; I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a whole slew of my stuff that can be listened to, rather than read. If you click through to my bio, there's a list of audio stuff, complete with links. Most of it is free from donation-supported podcast magazines--in fact, everything except this most recent story is!

Oh, other news: The cute robot book, AKA, Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy - 2008 Download (which contains my story "The Girl-Prince") has received a starred review at Publisher's Weekly. I did not get the named shout-out that several of my esteemed colleagues did (yay beth_bernobich and tinaconnolly! For example!), but that's okay, there's enough glory from that star to go around.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

Hey, that's awesome... thanks for thinking of me.

Plus and also: y'know, i actually read these days. A little. I have about 20-40 minutes per workday to kill commuting, and i've finished like 3 books already! In only as many months! :)

So, is there like a "Best of Mer" anthology out yet? What's the best way to grab a batch of your stories and get nice readable hardcopy?

This one is easy.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Go to AnthologyBuilder.com! http://www.anthologybuilder.com/welcome.php

Set up an account, build an antho, and there you go. It doesn't have my most-most recent stuff because that's still exclusive or I'm shopping the reprints, but it's got some good ones.

http://www.anthologybuilder.com/authordetails.php?byline=Merrie%20Haskell

are all my stories, but there are plenty more to go around if you're interested in other things, too. You might really dig the story called "Wikihistory" by Desmond Warzel, for example. Also, I built an anthology of the shortest stories available on the site, in fact: http://www.anthologybuilder.com/view_template.php?template_id=507

Anyway. Buy there, and I get paid, so it's double-cool.

Re: This one is easy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

Paid is good.

So, wait... is there an anthology already made that's The Authoritative fairmer? ...or do i make it up from the 9 stories i see on there?

Re: This one is easy.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

You would make it up. I encourage you to add more stories, too; it's the same price either way!

Re: This one is easy.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_earthshine_/]

w00t! I get to make the Shameless MerFan Antho?!? I feel so fannish!!

I'll see how much it costs and decide if it's worth shopping around. Thanks!