CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I've just released Volume 2 of my collection of short works from 2014 on Smashwords, in all formats. What's it About? A collection of flash fiction, short stories, poems and essays where science fiction explores future possibilities and tragedies, where hopes and dreams are held and lost, and where cyberware stands alongside shapeshifters and starships. The poems here either explore these futures, or are written as though they were created by someone in those futures. This is the realm of the starborn and starbound, and of futures that might never be. Where can I find Print?   At the moment you can also find the print-on-demand (PoD) at the CreateSpace store in both mass market and large print versions, but it should also be available on Amazon soon, as well.

Well, life got interesting this week has seen me have to deal with a family member developing a spontaneous pneumo-thorax as well as resigning from my day job, so there will be a fortnight's delay to 365 Days of Poetry, while I catch up with things, and make sure I have the time to care for my family. The poetry in this volume comes in a variety of styles and genres, and is arranged in no particular order. I have played with traditional forms such as the cinquain, and worked with free-form and rhyme. I have written about the world around me, and about worlds that probably don’t exist. I have tried to write poetry from the perspective of someone in the distant future writing about a new world, and I have written poetry with fantasy themes. Welcome to the worlds in my head. Scheduled Release Date: November 15, 2014.

This month I finished writing the following 2 collections: 365 Days of Flash Fiction   365 Days of Flash Fiction is scheduled for release October 4, 2014. 365 Days of Poetry   365 Days of Poetry is scheduled for release November 6, 2014.

Look, look, look - it's finished, it's up on one site  with a discount, and it will be up on another shortly. Anyway, for your enjoyment, for the next two weeks (the week before, and the week after release). CROSS-POSTED FROM publishing site : Due for release on 4 October 2014, 365 Days of Flash Fiction is now available in e-book for pre-order from Smashwords , and will shortly be available from Amazon.com. Science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, speculative fiction and a touch of horror, this collection plays with just about every genre C.M. Simpson could lay her hands on. In it, she explores new worlds, new settings and some ideas that just needed to be gotten out of herhead. If short stories are your thing, and the shorter the better, there are a bunch of them to be found in this collection. Go ahead and take a look. TO CELEBRATE: we are offering this collection at SMASHWORDS at a 50% discount until 11 October 2014. Just use the following coupon PRIOR to co...

This week started where last week left off… with studying for an exam. Not a lot of writing—or anything else—happened this week. Overview New words produced: 0 Old words revised: 2,643 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 1 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 234 Tier 4 Tasks TweenNovel1A— Orb Wielder : added 2,643 words Publishing Tasks Created 1 blog posts for this blog; Edited and formatted C.M. Simpson: Short Stories and Poems from 2013—The Year Just Gone New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Cookbooks 2-3

The second volume of my annual collection of short work from the previous year is now available. This year I had enough work for two volumes and it spans the range from speculative to fantasy to science fiction to horror to urban fantasy and paranormal fantasy through a variety of poetry, flash and short fiction. Sometimes, I wonder where it all comes from; mostly, I just enjoy the ride. Last year’s anthology consisted only of the short stories and poems published in 2012. This year’s anthology consists of all the short stories and poems that I created, edited or rewrote in 2013, regardless of whether or not they have been released. The tales are taken from completed anthologies, and anthologies yet to come, from my blog, and from my notebooks. Most are published as stand-alone stories, but some are yet to be published. This year’s anthology is two volumes long. I have divided them up chronologically, according to when the stories were first created and completed. This ...