… which was why I was so excited to send some of my work to this very cool new service AnthologyBuilder.com: they let you build your own anthology from their quickly growing archive of science fiction, fantasy, romance, and other short stories, and pick your own cover, too, and deliver it to you in snazzy trade paperback form. And I just found out this morning that 10 of my pieces have been accepted (I will be sending more, too.)
See my covers on AnthologyBuilder
This is what I alluded to on an earlier post (that would be after the submitting, before the “yes”) and it feels like a bit of redemption of a past mistake. You see, when I was a younger artist, and more prone to thinking I was the exception to the standard rules, I met an art director at Norwescon, who very much liked In My Sights and said if I could make a lot more like that, he could use them on the new imprint they were launching.
So I went home and (yes, I know some of you are shaking your heads disapprovingly out there already) and lost a great deal of sleep creating about 30 covers. On spec. And sent them to said A.D. and heard … nothing. After several months of not being a pushy artist, I sent another polite reminder, and heard nothing. Some of them, in hindsight, were crap — I don’t normally work that fast and some of them show it. But many of them weren’t. (No, I’m not saying who it was.) However, while sometimes the work I intend as a fine art print also looks like something that would make a good book cover, the reverse is not always true. So they’ve just been sitting there, idling, on my hard drive for ages (hence my rediscovery of Natural Woman 2050, which was in the parent folder). So this feels like a small redemption. (And will feel more like one when people use enough of them on their anthologies that I get a check. 
And one more thing. AnthologyBuilder is now running a “match that artwork’ short story contest. If you use one of my works as your inspiration and make the finals, I will give you your choice of any of my limited or open edition prints.
