I was cleaning up some files and found a short story that I wrote about six years or so back. It was a submission for the anthology Star Trek: Strange New Worlds X. Suffice it to say that my submission was rejected but not unkindly.
Dean Wesley Smith the kind and sage editor quite wisely noted that there was no room for that particular story in that particular volume. It just didn’t fit the motif he was creating when he was putting the stories together.
Fair enough of course. I had my own original stuff to write anyway. So humbly, I filed this story away until the other day when i read it and realized it was pretty goddamn good.
Unfortunately there was no way to get this story published. Pocket is no longer doing Star Trek anthologies and the story itself was so tied in to the Star Trek universe that I couldn’t salvage the story for anything else. I was getting pretty bummed out until I realized that I could just put this sucker out there myself for free download.
The most important thing is to be read in the first place. The story is a lot of fun and I want other people to enjoy it too. So out the story is for all of you to enjoy.
I have made the story available in PDF, Kindle format and ePub. I thought about putting it up here in plain old text but I just don't like how stories look as message board postings so I didn't.
I'm hoping the formatting on the ePub turned out. I just did a straight conversion without reviewing it. I'm hoping all the artwork made it over in the conversion. Unfortunately the book probably won’t be all that pretty but the story is what counts and the story is pretty damn good.
Let me know what you think of it. I like it and I hope you will too.
Dean Wesley Smith the kind and sage editor quite wisely noted that there was no room for that particular story in that particular volume. It just didn’t fit the motif he was creating when he was putting the stories together.
Fair enough of course. I had my own original stuff to write anyway. So humbly, I filed this story away until the other day when i read it and realized it was pretty goddamn good.
Unfortunately there was no way to get this story published. Pocket is no longer doing Star Trek anthologies and the story itself was so tied in to the Star Trek universe that I couldn’t salvage the story for anything else. I was getting pretty bummed out until I realized that I could just put this sucker out there myself for free download.
The most important thing is to be read in the first place. The story is a lot of fun and I want other people to enjoy it too. So out the story is for all of you to enjoy.
I have made the story available in PDF, Kindle format and ePub. I thought about putting it up here in plain old text but I just don't like how stories look as message board postings so I didn't.
I'm hoping the formatting on the ePub turned out. I just did a straight conversion without reviewing it. I'm hoping all the artwork made it over in the conversion. Unfortunately the book probably won’t be all that pretty but the story is what counts and the story is pretty damn good.
Let me know what you think of it. I like it and I hope you will too.
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