Yesterday, I received word from David Backer, editor of FictionDaily, letting me know that The Toll Collectors is to be their featured genre story this coming Monday.
FictionDaily is an aggregator site for online fiction, featuring three stories a day they feel deserve a wider audience. They post a blurb of selected stories, and link directly to the magazines they appeared in -- which, in the case of The Toll Collectors, is the always-fantastic Beat to a Pulp. It's a cool model that not only provides a boost to the author, but to the publication as well, and I couldn't be happier to be selected.
So thanks to Davids Backer and Cranmer, the former for selecting The Toll Collectors for FictionDaily, and the latter for publishing it in the first place. 'Tis much appreciated on both counts.
UPDATE: "The Toll Collectors" actually wound up appearing on FictionDaily Wednesday, May 26. You know, just in case you're keeping score.
6 comments:
Good on you. It's a cracking story. Stand up very, very well to re reads.
Thanks, Paul! That's very kind of you. "The Toll Collectors" is close to my heart, because it's the first short I ever wrote, and it had a tumultuous path to publication to say the least (most notably, a publication folding -- and its editor disappearing without so much as an email -- just as my issue was to come out.) But I think it ended up where it was supposed to, because it was through that story that David Cranmer and I discovered we have a similar fiction sensibility, and it's led to future collaborations. That the folks at FictionDaily thought it was worth highlighting is simply icing on the cake...
Intriguing how things work out.
I just re-read "The Toll Collectors" and it has staying power. It should definitely be included in THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHRIS F. HOLM (2020)
2020? I'm not, like, gonna die or something, am I?
And thanks, David.
I'm really laughing big time on this end. Ha. You're right that sounds like the end.
sweeeeet
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