Weird Westerns discussion

Howdy, partners! Cat Rambo (President of SFWA, Nebula and World Fantasy nominee) and I are putting together a Weird West themed StoryBundle for late 2019.

How it works: authors contribute their books (ebooks). StoryBundle broadly advertises the bundle. Readers choose what they will pay per book (minimum $1 each) and can expand to get bigger packages (so you could include your series, with the first book being available in the main bundle and the rest in the upgrades, for example. Part of the profit goes to charity, part to the authors, and I think a small bit goes to StoryBundle. Great way to expand your readership and do some good at the same time!

We're courting some well-known authors in the field, and I think it would be a great opportunity. We're curating the list, but if you'd like to submit something, let me know and we can chat about it in messages.

Thanks!

Hi Sable,

I would love to participate, if you and Cat will have me. I have participated once in the past, in a curation put together by Kevin J. Anderson, so I am familiar with what StoryBundle is, I know what to expect, and I will help promote the bundle.

I have met Cat a few times previously, both at conventions and through WordFire Press, so she may remember me.

I was one of the authors in Straight Outta Tombstone (unfortunately I don't have the rights to that, so I can't offer it) and have published several Weird Western short stories over the last few years. I have put together and self-published a collection of nine of these stories, and that is what I would like to offer to the StoryBundle. (In other words, I know I have the rights to place this in StoryBundle.)

*Blazing Uncanny Trails*

Lizard Men, Thunder Birds, Ghosts, Gods, and Monsters live in the Wild West.

May God have mercy on those poor souls unlucky enough to run into them.

9 Weird Western short stories by Sam Knight, including one co-authored with Rhye Manhattan and two new, never-before published stories!

Includes:
Old Snorter
Moshito Masquine
Working the Salt Mine
Uncle Benjamin’s Triple ‘T’ Tonic
Tracking Old Mose
Running from the Thunder
From Out of the Storm
The Offspring
The Dead Moon

If you guys are interested, I can be more easily reached through FB IM https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSamKni...
or my website email, sam@samknight.com

Either way, I am excited you are putting together a Weird Western StoryBundle, and you can expect at least one person to be getting the bundle!

I think I tried to email Storybundle about my book once before and they basically ignored me so I'm down to see if things could work out this time. Do A Demon in the Desert or Demon Haunted.

Has this started yet?

We're still gathering stuff for curating. Weirdly, it's been difficult to get enough material together. If we're going to curate it, we have to have time to read it. If you want to submit something, let me know and message me so I can give you the emails to send it to. Thanks!

There's no option to send you a message. I'm still interested in getting in on this, though I suspect my first book probably won't be up to Cat's standards.

Hey Everyone,
This reminds me of an idea I just recently came up with for the group so I thought I'd post it here. I know this group isn't exactly as active as it once was which got me thinking of a way to not only make it active again but a way that will benefit us all.

My idea is what if we all wrote a weird western short story or novella and then put them all together into an anthology box set to sell on Amazon? Pretty cool, right?
You could include a link to your email list or one of your books at the end of your story.

Another idea is to create a webpage where we all list one of our books for people to buy or download for free in exchange for their email address. We then email, tweet and promote each other's works.

We could sort the details of cover, editing, formatting, royalties and all that amongst ourselves if we decided to do it.

I thought it would be a great way to not only get the group active again but to also finally capitalize on reaching the weird western audience.

I'd love for us to do this and I know it sounds like a big idea but the outcome could be great for all of us.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Justin

I think either idea sounds good. I don't know much about making websites, but I would be down for partaking in the short story/novella idea.

I can proofread, not write, because I'm not a native English speaker
(I wrote two and a half Weird Westerns , in Ukrainian.)

Thanks Andy I'm hoping we can get a few more people interested.

Thanks Sam, hopefully if this happens we'll consider your offer.