Hooray! I got my copy of Cross & Cosmos: year one in the mail today.
Naturally the first thing I did was flip to the contents page to find out what pages of the book my stories are on. And the answer is pages 347-396. Pages 347-360 are my first TC2 (The Cross & Cosmos) story “Souls are Wild” and pages 361-396 are its companion story “Black Hat Magic.”
This blog post could be a completely selfish tooting of my own flute (an instrument that I do know how to play by the way) or this could be an opportunity to remind myself and you that I am just one of eleven authors in this anthology; author of only two out of twenty-two stories. A 49 page drop in a 453 page book.
So on that humbling note here are some of my favorite (not written by me) stories from the first year of The Cross and Cosmos.
“Christmas Time” By: Kersley Fitgerald (I love time travel stories)
“Power of a Name” By: Avily Jerome (Action fantasy adventure)
“Fungus Among Us” By: Grace Bridges (Who is studying who? the answer might surprise you)
“The Quest” By: J. L. Rowan (Fantasy epic featuring a telepathic animal companion)
Why these four out of all of the amazing stories and awesome writers?
They are all relatively short, they are all from the original first four issues of TC2 so you can go read them online for free HERE, also all four have sequels written only for this anthology so now you have to buy the book not just for my sequel but for these others.
I’ve just had stories printed in a book, what am I going to do next? I am going to read my new book and then write more because seeing your name in print is an instant shot of confidence.
Don’t forget to buy it here: http://www.marcherlordpress.com/bookstore/fantasy/the-cross-and-the-cosmos-anthology-year-1/
C. O. Bonham 