It’s publication day for my fantasy short story collection, AT THE GATES AND OTHER STORIES.

I didn’t set out to be a short story writer. I always thought I would write novels (and I do, of course), but there is something irresistible in the perfection of a whole story contained in a short, well-crafted package. It’s the glint of sunlight that hints at an ocean, a single flower instead of a whole garden.

Most of my short stories were written in a ten year period between 2001 and 2011, although I’ve continued to write the occasional short story since, and this collection includes one story, Slipper of Glass, that was written in 2020 and has never been published anywhere else.

I’ve been really lucky with my stories. They’ve been published in a whole range of professional magazines and anthologies, from Interzone and Strange Horizons to Realms of Fantasy and The Year’s Best Fantasy, but this is the first time that I’ve gathered what I think are the sixteen best in a single volume.

I love these stories, and I hope you will, too. You can buy the collection as an ebook pretty much anywhere that sells ebooks, and you can buy a paperback version via Amazon.

This collection contains sixteen stories, with about 70,000 words of fiction. I hope there will be some stories in there that you love as much as I do.

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Patrick Samphire is the author of the middle grade adventure Secrets of the Dragon Tomb, to be published in January 2016. The post Publication Day! first appeared on Patrick Samphire - Thrilling Tales, Astounding Adventures. Content is copyright Patrick Samphire.