CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I was posting up my first chapters, when I remembered that some of my favourite authors regularly put up a story, or a sample of their work on their blogs, so I thought I’d introduce you to their work – you never know, you might like their stories, too! Kristine Kathryn Rusch I first stumbled across Alien Influences when I was in the last year of junior high – and it was one of the first science-fiction pieces I ever read. More recently, I’ve found her Diving series and enjoyed that immensely. This week, she posted Shadows on the Moon, a story that’s nothing like her other two, but thought provoking and both a little bit hopeful and a little bit sombre and more magic realism than urban fantasy. You can find it HERE on her blog. Craig Martelle I only discovered Craig Martelle’s work a couple of months ago, and so far have read the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles , am eagerly waiting the final book in the Darklanding series , and am making my way through the Freetrader series ...

Last year was a pretty hectic one for me, between releasing older work and ceating new short stories and free reads. Here is a collation of the first chapters, first pages and free reads from 2013: And HERE is where you can download the PDF.

Here is my first experiment with uploading files to Blogger. I have collated all the first chapters, first pages, and free reads of work published in 2012 into a PDF file, and connected it below. The links to locations outside the document work fine, but the internal links do not. In order to be able to read the content more comfortably, just click on the little arrow thingy in the top-left corner of the box. This will close the navigation bar, and allow you to read the excerpts and stories more easily. If you centre the slide bar, you should be able to see most of the page width. Please let me know how you find viewing this embedded PDF in the comments boxes below. I was going to write a step-by-step post on this process, but I have found that some excellent posts already exist. On January 6, 2014, I posted a collection of first chapters, first pages and free reads of work published in 2012 as an embedded PDF file. To achieve this, I followed the clear instructions provi...