We're only 2 days away from the official release of
"Quests, Curses, & Vengeance."
As part of promoting this anthology, two lucky people on the Martinus
Publishing newsletter email list have been selected (completely at random) to
receive a free print copy. And the
winners are (cue drum-roll):
Jeffery Scott Sims
Raelene Purtill
Congratulations to our winners! This is only the first giveaway of its kind,
and I'm hoping to offer other such freebies to newsletter subscribers. To get on the mailing list, go to the
Martinus Publishing homepage and click the black bar on the left side of the
page. Put in your name and email
address, and you're all set. You'll
receive the newsletter once a month, and be automatically entered into future
drawing.
Now, onto the final "Two for Tuesday"
paragraphs. First off, we have the
opening to "Curses May Not Be Returned, Refunded, or Exchanged," by
Lauren A. Forry:
It’s totally weird when you step
into a room and literally everyone stops what they’re doing and starts clapping
for you. Especially when a moment ago you were driving your car down
Honeysuckle Street, the “room” is actually a cave engulfed in flames, and most
of the people clapping look like extras from a community theater production of The Crucible.
An old woman who could be my
Grandma’s roommate in hospice hobbles over and shakes my hand with these crusty
yellow fingernails.
And lastly, we have the first two paragraphs of "Revenge,
Inc." by Nye Joell Hardy:
Ed Wong had never intended to be in
the business of revenge. But what had
started as a high school website of gag advice to deter bullies had unwittingly
tapped a hidden treasure and was now, thirty years later, a multinational
corporation.
“Revenge,” Ed said to the client
sitting in front of his Brazilian rosewood desk, “is a natural, basic human
reflex. If you think about it, bunnies
don’t plot revenge against foxes—they just avoid them. But our big human brains always want to make
sure that the potential for future threats is nullified.”
There you have some excellent intros. Now, get yourself a copy of "Quests,Curses, & Vengeance."
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