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Vintage Worlds Kickstarter
Sep. 15th, 2020 10:09 pm
Just a fast update -- we've got nine days left on the Kickstarter for Vintage Worlds 2 and 3, and while we're most of the way there, "most of the way" isn't home free. I'd like to encourage all my readers who enjoy good old-fashioned science fiction to consider kicking in a little, or a lot, to help get this project into orbit. Here's the link to the Kickstarter, and here's the link to the post here on my Dreamwidth journal that gives all the details. Thank you for your help with this!***9/16/20 update: Founders House Publishing has decided to sweeten the deal to encourage people to contribute to the Kickstarter. Everyone who kicks something in -- including those who have already signed up -- will also receive a copy of my first novel, The Fires of Shalsha -- a SF adventure set on a colony planet, which one of its reviewers described as resembling Seven Samurai as rewritten by Ursula K. Le Guin. Here are some details on the book...and you may want to have a copy, if you don't have one already, because the sequel -- Journey Star -- is finished in draft and in the middle of final revisions. Stay tuned for another announcement!***
I'm delighted to announce that Founders House Publishers has just launched its Kickstarter campaign for Vintage Worlds 2 and 3, two new volumes of original short stories about the Old Solar System -- that is to say, outer space as it should have been, with swordsmen dueling along the banks of the Grand Canal on Mars, strange creatures slithering through the steaming jungles of Venus, and all the other details of the greatest shared fictional cosmos ever created by the human imagination. Both volumes are edited by Zendexor, the amiable host of 
I've noticed that my readership includes a lot of very talented people, in a lot of different forms of art and craft. That was what came to mind when the publisher of my tentacle novels, Shaun Kilgore of Founders House Publishing, came to me with a quandary. The cover artist who illustrated most of my Haliverse novels, Matt Forsyth, got a job doing art for a video game company (with the book covers as part of the portfolio that landed him there); the artist who illustrated the last two novels in the Haliverse, Melrose Dowdy, is booked for months ahead at this point -- and Shaun is gearing up to publish the next two volumes of the Vintage Worlds series, and needs a cover artist. 
This is a paying gig, but that also means it calls for a serious work ethic and some good solid artistic skills. If you're up for that, though, this could be a serious break for the right person. Please take a good hard look at old-fashioned pulp and paperback science fiction covers, since that's the period of the genre that inspires the stories in the Vintage Worlds series; take an extra close look at the work of great classic SF painters like the inimitable 
If you're interested, please contact Shaun Kilgore via the Founder's House Publishing contact page, which you can find 
I'm delighted to announce that several fiction projects in which I've been involved to one degree or another are now available. First of all, Vintage Worlds -- an anthology of SF tales edited by me and the indefatigable Zendexor, set in the Old Solar System, the wholly imaginary but utterly entrancing realm of classic science fiction -- is now available in both print and e-book formats. 
This collection includes seventeen stories, including my "Out of the Chattering Planet," and amounts to 120,000 words of interplanetary adventure. You can pick up your copy 
Those of you who haven't been following this end of my writing may want to know that, while these novels use the tentacle-ridden horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft as raw material, they're not horror fiction. Lovecraft was a brilliant fantasist as well as a capable horror writer, and I've long felt that the fantastic end of his work has been neglected for far too long; the worlds of his imagination are also just too tempting a venue for fantasy for me to pass up.
