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klwardHot on the heels of my previous announcement (simultaneously in fact, but it's all in the timing) my story "Cursebreaker: The Jikininki and the Japanese Jurist" is now available in The New Hero Volume One from Stone Skin Press. Edited once again by Robin D. Laws, it isn't what you'd expect at all :
You see, Mr Laws has a theory about heroes. Strictly speaking, this anthology consists of new incarnations of a very old kind of hero, the Iconic as opposed to the Dynamic. The Dynamic Hero is the one currently championed by both Hollywood and literature, who encounters a situation and is changed by it. The Iconic Hero is not. The Iconic Hero forces the world to change. The Iconic Hero is Batman, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, Sherlock Holmes, Jirel of Joiry, Carnacki the Ghost Finder - you begin to see?
This is my second Cursebreaker story, the first being "Cursebreaker: The Welsh Widow and the Wandering Wooer" in Scary Kisses (ed. Liz Grzyb, Ticonderoga Publications, 2010). I'm working on a third, currently known as "MMM". She's an interesting sort, the Cursebreaker - a classics professor who (unwittingly) made a bet with Fate and now rides the consequences across the gamut of space and time.
Also featuring tales such as "On Her Majesty's Deep Space Service" by Johnny Nexus, "Charcuterie" by Chuck Wendig and Monica Valentinelli's "Fangs and Formaldehyde", both the e-book and the paperback with its wonderful Gene Ha cover are now available from the Stone Skin Press Shop.
You see, Mr Laws has a theory about heroes. Strictly speaking, this anthology consists of new incarnations of a very old kind of hero, the Iconic as opposed to the Dynamic. The Dynamic Hero is the one currently championed by both Hollywood and literature, who encounters a situation and is changed by it. The Iconic Hero is not. The Iconic Hero forces the world to change. The Iconic Hero is Batman, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, Sherlock Holmes, Jirel of Joiry, Carnacki the Ghost Finder - you begin to see?
This is my second Cursebreaker story, the first being "Cursebreaker: The Welsh Widow and the Wandering Wooer" in Scary Kisses (ed. Liz Grzyb, Ticonderoga Publications, 2010). I'm working on a third, currently known as "MMM". She's an interesting sort, the Cursebreaker - a classics professor who (unwittingly) made a bet with Fate and now rides the consequences across the gamut of space and time.
Also featuring tales such as "On Her Majesty's Deep Space Service" by Johnny Nexus, "Charcuterie" by Chuck Wendig and Monica Valentinelli's "Fangs and Formaldehyde", both the e-book and the paperback with its wonderful Gene Ha cover are now available from the Stone Skin Press Shop.
