DISCOVERY
Do you prefer to hold books in your hands and see them on your shelf, rather than reading them off a screen? I know I do!
Now's your chance to do exactly that with my newest print offering, DISCOVERY. This is the first quarterly Year of Stories print collection. It contains 13 stories and is about 200 pages long. Here's the blurb from the Store page:
The first three months of Tim Sevenhuysen's Year of Stories project are packed with real human characters making their way through fantastic challenges and strange worlds. From outer space to the high seas, from the far reaches of the future to an ancient kingdom torn by war, your journey will carry you to places of wonder and terror, hope and heartache, victory and defeat.
DISCOVERY contains 13 short stories, notably including Diana and the Animal, A Kingdom of White, Darla, Dragon Hunter, and Unsettled, as released on TimSevenhuysen.com between January and March 2012.
You can preorder your very own copy of DISCOVERY right now for $11.99. The proof is in the mail on its way to me right now, and I hope to officially release the book and start shipping people's orders by mid-March.
If you've been looking for a good way to contribute to the Grocery Fund, maybe this is the right option for you!
If you live in Victoria (or will be in Victoria at some point) and would prefer not to pay shipping, send me an email and let me know you'd like a copy, and we can work out arrangements for how to get the book in your hands. (That goes for friends and family, too!)
The number of preorders I get will affect how many I have printed in the first run, so please place your order sooner rather than later and help me save on the shipping. Thanks!
The Timdex
With all of the different series and projects I'm working on right now, and all of the things I've worked on in the past, I decided it was about time I start to organize that information in a somewhat accessible way.
Enter The Timdex. This is my new wiki, where I'll be archiving info about my fiction projects and other things I work on, hopefully with your help!
On the main page of the Timdex I've made a list of different pages I'd like to eventually have built. If you are a fan of one of my projects and think you could help make some of the pages for it, I'd really appreciate a few minutes of your time.
Year of Stories – Week 8
Welcome to week 8 of the Year of Stories! It's Pirate Week!
Free this week is Captain Blackbird and the Mutineers, a 2,300-word humourous pirate adventure, now available to read for free or buy in the Store.
Synopsis
It's a beautiful day to be a pirate, as far as Captain Blackbird is concerned, but it seems his crew feels differently. They're sick of getting scurvy and going weeks without finding any treasure! When they take a stand and threaten mutiny, Captain Blackbird knows there's only one solution: it's time to go hunting for treasure in the treacherous caves of Gorgon Isle!
The highlighted Store release for this week is Jary's Got a Gun, a 3,500-word comedy about a man who finds "the last gun on earth." Read it now for only $0.99!
Synopsis
On the morning Jary Tomlin finds the world's last remaining gun, he and his wife are having an argument in the kitchen. They're being evicted, and Jary can't imagine how life could possibly get much worse. Then he accidentally knocks a hole in the wall of the garage, and "worse" is exactly what he finds hidden inside.
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
Flare Fiction: Volume 2
It's here! My latest chapbook, Flare Fiction: Volume 2, is now available in the Store, for whatever price you wish to pay.
Here's a little bit of information about the collection:
These stories are experiments, in a lot of ways. Can Imaginary Enemy get you to care about the plight of an imaginative young boy in less than a page and a half? Can A Brain Well-Watered encapsulate the creative process in only 315 words, and inspire you to go searching after your own fresh inspiration? Can A Long Story make you laugh the first time you read it, and sigh with pity the second? These are the kinds of challenges I set for myself as an author. You, as readers, are my audience, my targets, my judges, and often my inspirations.
As with my previous chapbooks, you can set your own price by adjusting the "quantity" of dollars and cents while you're ordering.
Flare Fiction 2 is also available to grab from Amazon for 99¢.
If you read and enjoy the collection, please head over to Amazon and leave a review! Reviews really help other people find my work, so your thoughts and comments are very much appreciated.
Year of Stories – Week 7
Welcome to week 7 of the Year of Stories!
Free this week is Escape Velocity. It's a 1,700-word sci-fi romance, now available to read for free or buy in the Store. Here's the synopsis:
I thought stasis would be like sleeping. I thought I’d simply close my eyes on Earth and when I opened them I'd be a hundred light-years away, with no memory of the intervening time or the immense distance I had travelled. I thought stasis would be an escape, but I've spent the absent infinity of our voyage through space exploring the inside of my own head, reliving every one of those moments, those days, those joys, those sorrows.
The highlighted Store release for this week is Captain Blackbird and the Mutineers, a 2,300-word pirate adventure. Read it now for only $0.99!
It's a beautiful day to be a pirate, as far as Captain Blackbird is concerned, but it seems his crew feels differently. They're sick of getting scurvy and going weeks without finding any treasure! When they take a stand and threaten mutiny, Captain Blackbird knows there's only one solution: it's time to go hunting for treasure in the treacherous caves of Gorgon Isle!
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
DISCOVERY
Prefer the feel of paper to the look of a screen? DISCOVERY is the first quarterly Year of Stories print book. You get nearly 200 pages of exciting fiction for only $11.99!
Preorder now! DISCOVERY will go to print in mid-March.
Flare Fiction: Volume 2
Year of Stories
Special People
Special People is serialized superhero fiction with a fistful of twists.
Special people have special problems.
Galloway’s Hunt
Galloway's Hunt is a novelette set in the world of Galloway's Voyage, my work-in-progress novel based on the same title character. Buy it now for only 99¢!