There Is No Cat
This may sound like a peculiar confession, but I love writing short stories.
“Peculiar,” because up until five years ago never really tried shorter fiction, and I have been a writer for a really long time. So you’d think I would have.
The first thing in my way, was that every time I thought up a new story and got down to writing it, the story ended up taking an entire novel’s worth of words. (This is a problem I have in everything, incidentally. You should see my work emails.)
The second: I didn’t know what to do with a short story once I’d finished it. Because unlike novels and novellas, it’s really hard to self-publish anything that short. You need a magazine to buy it, or you need to wait until you have enough stories to self-publish a collection.
The solution to the first problem was to go into a story with no story whatsoever. Literally, nothing other than a title. The solution to the second was Lightspeed Magazine.
And now, the really cool part: I’ve written enough shorts to put out my first collection.
There Is No Cat: Schrödinger’s Catastrophe and other stories has seven stories in total. Five were previously published in Lightspeed, and two are new pieces you can’t get anywhere else. You can pick it up wherever, in ebook or print (audio is pending). Links are at the bottom.
Pick up a copy! And hopefully, you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I did writing them.
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