Out of the Mist now published

Our Out of the Mist anthology of Atlantic Canadian Ghost stories that I mentioned in my previous post is now up on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and Createspace.com.  Links are as follows:http://www.amazon.com/Out-Mist-Atlantic.../dp/0993833802
http://www.amazon.ca/Out-Mist-Atlantic.../dp/0993833802
and http://www.createspace.com/4800090

I have two stories in this anthology.  The first concerns a real neighbourhood cat but with an ending that involves the ghost of said cat.  The second concerns a man who is asked to tell a ghost story by his granddaughter and her little friends.  He makes up a story, but learns later that there are eerie parallels to a real story from years ago that he knew nothing about and some actual events that were occurring at the time he was telling the story.   Could these have been coincidental or was some other force influencing the development of his story?

Ten colleagues in a local writing group produced the other stories.  Many of them are more traditional 'ghost stories' with haunted houses and skeletons in graveyards.

Cover for anthology of ghost stories

My photo on cover of 'Out of the Mist', anthology of short stories by Evergreen Writers Group

I've been a member of the Evergreen Writers Group in the Halifax area for a couple of years.  The group has been working on an anthology of ghost stories for more than a year.  The stories have been finished for some time and over the past few months several of us have spent a lot of time getting the volume finalized.  One of my contributions has been the photo for the cover, and input to the cover design.

Book should be available for sale as an ebook on Smashwords and Amazon shortly and the paper version at Amazon and Createspace.  We will be trying to sell copies of the paperback in the Halifax area.  Information will be posted on a facebook page.  https://www.facebook.com/EvergreenWritersGhostAnthology

Hello all, the paper version of the No Regrets anthology is now available at Createspace.  The link ishttp://www.createspace.com/4722855.  It will also available on Amazon in a few days.

No Regrets anthology with my story (see posts below for details) is now available as e-books on Smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/view/421428 and on Amazon www.amazon.com/No ... /dp/B00J5SE68A/ref=sr_1_8 ...    Paper copies should be available soon.  I won't make any money if anyone buys this book, but it would be nice to know if people read my story and have comments.

Link to interview about my latest story.
Hello all,  as mentioned in post immediately below, I have a story being published by Silly Tree Anthologies.  They have been doing interviews with all the authors.  My interview appears today on the Silly Tree blog.  Link is www.sillytreeanthologies.blogspot.com

Another short story of mine, ‘Benjamin Franklin Ford and his quest for a new world’, will be appearing in No Regrets: It’s time to move on… a soon to be published collection of short stories and poems by Silly Tree Anthologies.  The book will be available from Silly Tree in both electronic and softcover formats.

The theme for submissions to this volume was ‘As one year closes and another begins, you realize that some things need to be left in the past for the next year to be truly new’.  My story is set in a post-apocalyptic future after environmental disaster and military strife have reduced civilization to a pre-industrial society that shuns all the modern technologies deemed responsible for the chaos.  My hero, Benji Ford, decides on the last days of the twenty-first century to abandon his efforts to convince people that their problems stem from human misuse of technology, not the technology itself.  He ventures forth to establish a technology-embracing community that will demonstrate the validity of his arguments.

My story ends as he sets off into the unknown alone in a cart drawn by two oxen.  I am currently working on a longer work that will describe Benji’s trials and tribulations as he attempts to establish a community that embraces technology.

A fateful Encounter is my first published story.  It was submitted to the Sixth National Short Story Contest conducted by Polar Expressions Publishing, a small publisher in Maple Ridge, British Columbia.  My story didn't win any awards but was chosen as one of the limited number (less than one third of the total entries) published in The Sun Shall Rise: A New Collection of Canadian Short Stories, edited by Rachelle McCallum.  It was published in November, 2013.
The 750 word story was inspired by a real event, my observation of an obese man and a woman in a wheel chair in the check-out queue of a grocery store.  The description of the two people and the story I developed, however, are entirely imaginary.