Fast Fiction

Today’s smell is fresh books. (I wasn’t in the office today, so we’ll have to take a smell from home.)

Today my books came from my publisher!

I have two pieces in The Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2004. Edited by D. L. Lepidus and published by Smith & Kraus. I’m quite honored, I’m in great company with David Rabe, Israel Horowitz, John Patrick Shanley, Anna Deavere Smith, David Lindsay-Abaire and Richard Dresser.

I also have a scene from The Redeemer in The Best Stage Scenes Of 2004. Also edited by D. L. Lepidus and published by Smith & Kraus this one has pieces from Christopher Shinn, Wendy MacLeod, Adam Rapp, Naomi Wallace and Donald Marguiles.

Unfortunately, the way it works with these anthologies I only get a flat fee instead of royalties. But I’m grateful for the exposure and the company. I’m looking forward to seeing them in bookstores, too! That’d be probably the coolest thing ever, to go into one of those big chains and be able to find myself in the stacks.