GCO has been announced as a finalist for 2012 Book of the Year

Grid City Overload has been announced as a finalist for Foreword Review's 2012 Book of the Year in the LITERARY category. The winners in each category will be announced in the next couple of months. This is a huge honor for me, and I'm excited for the results to come in.

To help me out in this competition, I'm asking that everyone who has read Grid City Overload please leave a review on the book's Amazon page. Leaving a review will help me out immensely by attracting the attention of potential publishers and judges. Whether you liked it, hated it, or were so-so about it, please share your opinions in a review. If you do so, I'll probably be honor-bound to buy you a beer at some point, so please also feel free to consider it an investment.

Until then, here's the full list of finalists for the LITERARY category:


    

GRID CITY OVERLOAD by Steven T. Bramble

MOTHERLESS CHILD by Marianne Langner Zeitlin

THAT'S NOT A FEELING by Dan Josefson

TOTAL SECESSION by Adam Connell

THE SIX GRANDDAUGHTERS OF CECIL SLAUGHTER by Susan Hahn

CODE OF THE FOREST by Jon Buchan

FROTTAGE AND EVEN AS WE SPEAK by Mona Houghton

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCE by Martin Skogsbeck

INTO THIS WORLD by Sybil Baker

HATTIE by Anna Bozena Bowen

RENATO THE PAINTER by Eugene Mirabelli

SO L.A. by Bridget Hoida

THE EMANCIPATING DEATH OF A BORING ENGINEER by Michel Bruneau

VANDAL LOVE by Deni Bechard


                   


                      GLORYBOUND by Jessie van Eerden

Please review!

New Short Story Published in WHOLE BEAST RAG

[Looks like I managed to worm my way into a really great lit journal, WHOLE BEAST RAG. My new short story, LENTES OSCUROS, which means "dark glasses" in Spanish, can be found in their fourth issue, AMERI/A, that they just posted last night. This is a very well-run online zine, and I'm excited to be a part of it.]

READ LENTES OSCUROS

[I can also be found on their homepage, by clicking on the box that looks like this:]