CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Finders Keepers is the second short story to be found in An Anthology of Worlds . It is also available as a stand-alone short story. A single gold coin shines on the pavement, but no one except me seems to have noticed it. I watch it, hoping someone will take it and claim it as their own. Needing someone to take it. Please take it. Finders Keepers is available as part of AnAnthology of Worlds , and also as a stand-alone title at Smashwords , Kobo , Kindle , iTunes , and Nook. First Page: Finders -Keepers The two-dollar coin lay on the pavement, shining. Its golden surface gleamed beneath the sun, casting a knife-edged wedge of shadow where it touched the concrete. I sat on a bench at the bus stop and watched the coin shine. I watched the different shoes walking past it and hoped someone would take it. No one had, yet. A mother wheeling a pram paused, the front of the pram casting enough shadow to block the sun from the coin. I wondered if anyone else saw how...

Finders-Keepers is about a gate between worlds and an unwilling traveller. It is the second short story in the fourth Simpson Anthology- An Anthology of Worlds , and it begins like this: The two-dollar coin lay on the pavement, shining. Its golden surface gleamed beneath the sun, casting a knife-edged wedge of shadow where it touched the concrete.   can be found in   An Anthology of Worlds was released mid-September 2012 and is available via Amazon (in print and e-book) and Smashwords .

Current Projects This week I made the following progress on my current project. DarkFantasy2A: added 6,000 words, and am now working on the last chapter. Almost done :-) . Publishing Tasks This week I completed the following tasks related to independent publishing:   Updated LinkedIn, GoodReads, Shelfari with details for Finders-Keepers ; Uploaded artwork for An Anthology of Worlds and the individual titles associated with it to Pinterest; Updated On a Ship Called Mythicus and Finders-Keepers covers on Kindle and Smashwords; Updated blog twice; and   Filed publication records for the past six weeks. Projects on the Back Burner This week I didn’t work on any back-burner projects. New Arrivals The following projects and project ideas arrived and joined the work queue. Perhaps I shouldn’t have picked up that magazine and randomly open it to an article, at least not while remembering an old challenge of finding a story in a randomly chosen piece of re...

So, it's been bothering me for a while - the art for the latest anthology. I liked the composition, but somehow it didn't quite gel for me, even when I thought I had found the version I was most happy with, so today, when I was updating my Pinterest boards , and I noticed I made a mistake in my first set of covers, I took the time to change the covers to something that I like even better. Note to all: This is not something you want to do if you can possibly avoid it. Anyway, here are the new covers: