A Self-Published Book of Fiction

It’s a little surreal to be writing this but I’ve gone ahead and self-published a collection of my fiction through Amazon:

Half of Something is about 90 pages of “fun” fiction, some of my earlier published stories:

I posted Half of Something a few months ago and haven’t breathed a word of it to anyone. I’m very proud of it, but I’ve continued to send out my “serious” short story manuscript, which is all the things you’d find in the collections coming out from university press contests: sad and somber, thematically linked and rich, with interesting formal experimentation. (I think it’s more than that, of course—funny and weird—but so far only a few presses have agreed, slotting the collection onto their longlists or semifinal rounds.) The stories in Half of Something have (almost all) been published, but sadly a number of the online journals where these stories appeared have gone defunct; I was inspired to collect these stories when a friend asked for a recommendation of my favorite stories I’d written, and combing through the fiction page of my website I saw with horror how many links no longer went anywhere. Publishing this book is as much an act of archiving these pieces as it is an effort to make my name or any of the other goals we associate with publishing.

I would be thrilled if anyone who may come across this blog post would check out this little book. I’d love to hear what you think of them. That’s the point, in the end: to be read, to be out there in the world.