Updated March 2, 2024
Smashwords Expands Distribution
Smashwords recently merged with Draft2Digital, where we will be publishing some ebooks in the future. Our most recent ebooks are still available free to Kindle subscribers, but ebooks available via Smashwords are now also available at reduced prices at many other stores, including Apple, and Barnes & Noble. To take advantage of these avenues for purchase, you can open a free account at Books2Read.com. Happy reading!
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Third Flatiron Stories on British SF Association Awards Longlist
We’re proud to announce that four short stories from Third Flatiron’s Rhapsody of the Spheres anthology (as well as the anthology itself) have been nominated in the BSFA awards longlist for 2023:
A Touch of the Grape by Sharon Diane King
Euterpe by Maureen Bowden
Changing of the Guard by Taylor Dye
The Stellar Instrument by Brandon Case
My own short story collection, Twelve All in Dread: The Twelfth Witch and Other Stories, also made it onto the longlist.
Award winners will be announced at EasterCon, Levitation, being held at the Telford International Centre, 29 March to 1 April 2024.
Congratulations to all of our authors!
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Updated December 28, 2023
Rhapsody of the Spheres
Like Barbie, we’re in the pink this summer! The Summer-Fall 2023 anthology, Rhapsody of the Spheres, is coming August 21. You can reserve your copy of the ebook by pre-ordering on Amazon.
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Best British SF Features Hogan Story
Two asteroid miners drink to the end of the job in Liam Hogan’s story, “Last Bite at the Klondike,” which appeared in our “After the Gold Rush” anthology, chosen for the “Best of British Science Fiction 2022,” edited by Donna Scott. Congrats, Liam!
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Top 10 Finishers in Critters Readers Poll
Third Flatiron is happy to announce that Wulf Moon won the “Best Author” category in the recent Readers’ Poll. Third Flatiron also had numerous “Top 10” finishes:
Anthologies: After the Gold Rush (#6) – available on Amazon
Short Stories (all appearing in After the Gold Rush):
Fantasy and Science Fiction: “Facing Reality” by Yelena Crane (#4)
Positive Futures: “Last of the Gen Xers” by Angelique Fawns (#2) and “All Our Signs Align” by Eve Morton (#3)
Horror: “Past the Projections” by James Tager (#5)
Magical Realism: ”Showdown at Sueno Hueco” by Wulf Moon (#2) and “Live from the Troll Factory” by Edward Barnfield (#4)
Moon’s “Showdown” story also won second place in the “All Other Short Stories” category.
Editor Juliana Rew came in at number 5, and Third Flatiron was 8th in the Publishers category
Congratulations to all of our entrants!
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Wulf Moon’s “Sophie’s Parisian Stationery and Parfumerie Magnifique” Wins in Critters Readers Poll
January 18, 2022
We’re proud to report that Moon’s story took first place in the “All Other Short Stories” category. It appeared in the Third Flatiron anthology, Things With Feathers: Stories of Hope. The postapocalyptic story follows the efforts of a sentient building AI whose main purpose is to help its human customers. Moon also won the Best Author category.
A number of other stories from the anthology placed in the top 10, including David Cleden’s “Ephemeralities” (SFF), Bruce Arthurs’s “The Best Damned Barbershop in Hell” (Horror), Sharon Diane King’s “The Sorcerer’s Appendix” (Magical Realism), and Gerri Leen’s “What Hope Might Ask” (Positive Future).
Third Flatiron won second place kudos in the Publisher and Artist (Keely Rew) categories. Additional results are listed at critters.org/predpoll
Congratulations from Third Flatiron to all winners and nominees!
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