S.H. Allan's Blog: Up and Coming

You can buy my latest story, Te Amo, You Mushrooms, at Amazon, ARe, Kobo, and most major ebook stores. The proceeds for both my short and the anthology itself go to the charity The Trevor Project, "the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24." [from website] My story is only 99 cents if purchased separately. The anthology is about $7 for each of the volumes separately and $10 for the combined. You can get print volumes for $16 each volume. Again, ALL THE PROCEEDS GO TO GLBT YOUTH! :)

Thank you to Debbie McGowan at Beaten Track Publishing for all her hard work on this anthology.

I participated in NaNoWriMo this April during which I wrote Honesty and Artifice. (Actually, I wrote it in two and a half weeks, but that's another story.) As part of that, Lulu gave me a free hardcover of the novel, I just had to pay S&H ($5). I'm sure that deal is available all over the place since the goal is for the author to love it and then buy more (or put it up for sale), but it is still nice.

I decided to go all out and make a cover for it. I wanted it to look as authentic as possible, and since it's just for me, not for resale, I took the liberty of quoting a few of the reviews here for the back cover. Hopefully no one will be upset, but if you are, contact me, and I'll take yours off and repost the image. I'm quite proud of it, actually. Let me know what you think. (Click on the image above to see a larger version.)

Dreamspinner Press's latest anthology, Cuddling, containing my short story, Reboot, will be released on August 12th. That's less than two weeks away! This is my first paid gig, and I'm so excited! I hope that you get a chance to read the anthology and that you like my story.

There are lots of other great tales in it I'm told, including Dream Lover by my friend Nico Jaye. I can't wait to read the whole anthology. You can preorder it here.

My short novel/long novella Closure has been released and is available here free! While you're there, check out all the other wonderful (and free!) stories by other fabulous authors. Many of these writers are well known and popular with many books to their names, such as Andrea Speed, Vicktor Alexander, to name just a few. There are also many unknowns with talent such as brand new writers Eric Alan Westfall,Jaye McKenna, and Reece McKinley. That's just a sampling.

I'm honored to be part of something so wonderful in the company of so many amazing authors and readers.