CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Everything has its Price is the second short story to be found in An Anthology of Dragons . It is also available as a stand-alone short story. When a young squire asks for a place at a merchant caravan's encampment, the price is a story. The tale she tells is one of a blin d bard's encounter with a dragon, but the ending is interrupted by the arrival of the knight she serves. Everything has its Price is available from Smashwords , Kobo , Kindle , Nook and the iTunes bookstores. First Page: Everything has its Price “And what would you offer for a place by our fire?” the merchant-guildsman demanded. I let my eyes travel doubtfully over his portly, dust-covered frame and ignored the knight who had ridden up behind me. “A tale,” I replied. The knight snorted and rode past to make his camp not far from that of the caravan. I caught the gleam of interest that sprang into the guildsman’s eye before he could hide it. “A tale,” he repeated eyeing me with the s...

‘Everything has its Price’ is a short piece of high fantasy. It was written way back in 1996 as my first foray into writing short fantasy fiction. It starts like this: “And what would you offer for a place by our fire?” the merchant-guildsman demanded. I let my eyes travel doubtfully over his portly, dust-covered frame and ignored the knight who had ridden up behind me.   can be  found in An Anthology of Dragons has been uploaded to both Smashwords and Kindle, and is awaiting release.

Okay, I was going to spam you with a release post for each book, but I decided not to. So... An Anthology of Dragons has been released on both Kindle and in all formats on Smashwords. In addition to the anthology, I have released each individual story and poem so that readers who are only interested in one piece do not need to buy the whole anthology. However, if you're interested in all the pieces, then it is much cheaper to buy them in the anthology than separately. The covers of stories included in an anthology take one picture from the anthology cover to indicate the link, and clearly state that the story or poem has been included in an anthology. Happy reading everyone :-)

After much debate, I have decided to individually release all the work included in An Anthology of Dragons . This will increase my visibility at various sale points, as well as give my readers a choice of buying the anthology at $2.99 or each individual piece at $0.99-$1.49, depending on length. The blurb and the cover of each individual piece will clearly state that it can be found in An Anthology of Dragons , and the blurb will let readers know that it is cheaper to purchase the collected pieces as an anthology than to purchase each story or poem individually. I decided not to do a great variety of covers here, but to use one simple cover-type to tie each piece to the Anthology so that readers can see which stories and poems have been grouped together and where. This is what the individual stories look like when grouped together: And this is what the anthology looks like on its own: I will keep you updated as each individual story is released.

Everything has its Price has now been uploaded to Amazon Kindle and is awaiting release.

An Anthology of Dragons has now been uploaded to Amazon Kindle and is awaiting release.