Keeping Up with Short Fiction

[dr_mabeuse]

Reading makes you a better writer, right?

I'm curious as to how many people keep up with contemporary short stories and, if so, where you find them.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Reading makes you a better writer, right?

I'm curious as to how many people keep up with contemporary short stories and, if so, where you find them.

---dr.M.

I do, and I usually find them in either local bookstores, or buy them online.

I tend to buy most new horror and erotic horror anthologies as and when they come out. I get regular newletters from a few of the specialist online bookstores that there are and look out for new stuff that interests me.

I also own most of the short story anthologies of my favourite authors. I love a good novel, but short stories can be very good to pick up and read when the mood takes.

Lou

 

[Guest]

I read certain book reviews regularly and will check out short story writers that way. Also, the New Yorker online has a new story every week (I print them out to read).

One review some time ago led me to Maeve Brennan whose short stories are jewels.

Perdita

 

[ChilledVodka III]

Just get the clue an' check out the nearest second-hand book shop man.

Every book say it's illegal to re-sell the book, but the second-hand book shops do their dance.

There must be something good in them.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Re: Re: Keeping Up with Short Fiction

I do, and I usually find them in either local bookstores, or buy them online.

I tend to buy most new horror and erotic horror anthologies as and when they come out. I get regular newletters from a few of the specialist online bookstores that there are and look out for new stuff that interests me.


Lou

Any chance you can toss the names of some of those bookstores out our way? Much easier than actually doing the research for myself.

I think that pretty much answers how up-to-date I am on short fiction. If I see a book that looks interesting, like those "Year's Best" anthologies, I might grab one, but that's not to stay current, and sometimes, I buy the older ones. It's solely for entertainment.

Q_C

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Re: Keeping Up with Short Fiction

Any chance you can toss the names of some of those bookstores out our way? Much easier than actually doing the research for myself.

I think that pretty much answers how up-to-date I am on short fiction. If I see a book that looks interesting, like those "Year's Best" anthologies, I might grab one, but that's not to stay current, and sometimes, I buy the older ones. It's solely for entertainment.

Q_C

Shocklines is one of the best online bookstores for horror fiction: Shocklines homepage

There's quite a few others, who are also publishers, that sell their publications direct to the consumer (some really good offers can be found through these). Here's a couple:

Cemetery Dance

Bloodletting Press

And the big mass market publisher: Dorchester Publishing (Leisure)

This is a good site, which publishes short stories online: Horrorfind

Lou

 

[matriarch]

I don't read enough.
Especially the last year.
Just don't seem to have had the time.

I have avoided book shops the last months, deliberately. Now I feel happier about going back in and seeing what I've missed the last 12 months.

I intend to do better.
Really better.

I'm a sucker for short, humorous stories; stories that have clever play on words and incredibly convoluted vocabulary (I just love long words that roll off the tongue); stories that don't take themselves seriously and twist reality just enough to make you question what you are reading, and what you are thinking.

I'm a total romantic, love short, romantic stories, no matter if its him/her, her/her or him/him. If its well written, keeps my attention and leaves me smiling, I'll read it.

I do read the reviews in the big Sunday papers and I take note on here of what people are reading.

 

[Guest]

i find that when im reading a book and then go to write a story, the story is flavored with what ive been reading.

i love the "chick lit" books that are out now and im addicted to them...mostly because they are authored by brits. the sense of humor is a huge draw for me. that and the usually bright endings...all things are possible.

i buy most of my books online and read them on my clie'...erm.. plam piolet. much cheaper and less use of trees...im a huge advocate.

me 2 pennies.
v~