Solaris has purchased my short story “Evil Robot Monkey” for The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2.
I couldn’t be more pleased. I had a long chat with the Solaris gentlemen, George Mann and Christian Dunn, at Readercon about robot monkeys. It was bar conversation, but I just happened to have this short called “Evil Robot Monkey” and on a whim I sent it over thinking they would get a laugh out of the title.
I didn’t realize that they were actively reading for an anthology.
Behold! A sale. Remember back when I was watching the paint dry and said I had three good things I couldn’t mention yet? This is number 2.
Here’s a teaser snippet of the first few lines for you.
Sliding his hands over the clay, Sly relished the moisture oozing around his fingers. The clay matted down the hair on the back of his hands making them look almost human. He turned the potter’s wheel with his prehensile feet as he shaped the vase. Pinching the clay between his fingers he lifted the wall of the vase, spinning it higher.
I’ll let you know when the book is available for pre-order.
Yaaayyy!! Congratulations! Solaris does *nice* books, too.
Awesome!!!
Congrats! Solaris is such a neat place to be published in (and evil robot monkeys, too–what’s not to like?
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Congratulations!!
Way to go!
Bravo!
as the saying goes – gotta have a monkey!
congratulations, Mary!
Thanks!
How awesome are you?
soooo awesome!
Congrats!! Evil Monkey Robots? Now this, I’ve got to read!
Just goes to show that you never know where a conversation will go.
Congrads!
Looking forward to reading it.
See, I was thinking that this just goes to show that hanging out in the bar is always a good idea at a con.
Or at least not always a bad thing.
Congrats!
What wonderful news! Congratulations!
Congratulations! And I concur that the title is great. How could someone not want to read about an Evil Robot Monkey? Inconceivable!
Congratulations, that’s excellent news! Seems like you’re having an excellent week building fish and selling stories.
Quite a turnaround from Saturday, but not as funny.
Thanks!
-d-: True. I guess I could make an extra copy of the contact and paper-mache that in to Coraline’s head to help her self esteem.
Evan Nichols wrote: “Inconceivable!”
I don’t think that word means what you think it means. . . .