Space Pirates Now Available in Online Bookstores (Shameless Self-Promotion)

[pameladlloyd]

The story "Ship's Daughter" by Pamela D. Lloyd and Karl Grotegut is just one of the fifteen stories to be found in Space Pirates, edited by David Lee Summers.



The anthology is now available on Amazon (Space Pirates) and Barnes&Noble: (Space Pirates).

This was my first collaboration on a story with my husband and we were very pleased to have the story selected for the anthology.

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

That's great news. You should have said over the weekend - we could have virtually toasted you!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I guess I'm not so good at the shameless self-promotion thing yet, although I'm working on it.

This is my second published story. The first, "In a Tower High," was published in Realms of Fantasy magazine back in April 2004. I've been a bit slow about getting things out, but recently my story output has been up, so I have hopes this will turn around soon.

I just finished updating my bio page, too, to make the publication of Space Pirates more prominent.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Are you sure yu're not Australian-in-disguise? Most of us find it *so* difficult to say "Look what I've done" and there's always a posse somewhere watching out to cut those who do down to size.

The first few publications are the special ones, though, and really deserve the celebration.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

lol -- Check out my bio; I think that will make it clear I'm not Australian-in-disguise. Kinda wish I were, though. You were all so much fun to hang out with. My husband's been quite amused all weekend by the way I've been burbling about the minicon.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

We think we're fun, too :).

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I sure wish my budget would let me get down to Conflux. Maybe by the time you guys host WorldCon (I think you've got a bid for 2010?) I'll have my financial act together and will be able to make it down. Or, should I have said Down Under?

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Sown South (very far south). Melbourne is in Mexico, BTW. That's what Sydneysiders often say. It's South of the Border, you see. Canberra is hundreds of miles away, but I am going to get to worldcon, somehow, even if I have to rearrange my work year around it.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

(I find LJ very stimulating of the urge to write--and very supportive of that urge, too...)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[satimaflavell.livejournal.com]

Woo-hoo Pema! May this be the first of a flood!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Satima. I've been very bad about sending my stuff out into the world, but recently I've been doing a lot of writing and have a few that I think are almost polished enough to send off.

I've also become much more aware of online markets, in large part because of following the journals of writers and others who're interested in the written word here on LiveJournal. I feel like were in a new Golden Age, compared to where we were when I first started thinking about writing professionally. Back then, the idea of publishing online was practically unheard of, and now there are just so many possibilities.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Helen. I really appreciated your mention of me in your own journal, as well.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yaaay! This means my copy should be shipping soon :-) Can't wait!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm not sure what the exact publication date is, or was, but I think you should get your copy soon. I hope you enjoy it.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Janni.

It feels really good to finally have a second story out and really special to have been able to collaborate with Karl on this one. We were both suffering from the flu in the weeks prior to the deadline, so the story is much rougher than we would have preferred, but overall we were very happy with it. And David liked it, so that's what counts, yes?