Friday, January 29, 2016

Now Available for Pre-Order: "The Moon-Haunted Heart"



So, yes, regular visitors to this site have been hearing me go on about The Moon-Haunted Heart for months now. I've shared several of the stories (see * below), revealed the first draft of the cover, and made regular updates to the Books By TAS page.

Now, I am at last delighted to announce, the wait is almost over. The Moon-Haunted Heart will be released across all platforms on February 12, 2016. It is now available for pre-order at AmazonBarnes & Noble, and at Smashwords (where it will be downloadable on ANY electronic reading device) and will soon be available from several other major retailers. A trade paperback edition will be available on launch day as well.

If you order through Smashwords, enter the coupon code MH48F at check-out and receive 50 percent off the list price of $4.99. This code is good through March 1, 2016.


The Moon-Haunted Heart


Sometimes, the truest stories are about what ‘almost’ happened; not what was, but what just as easily might have been. The would’ves, the should’ves, the could’ves, the haunting maybes and the melancholy might-haves are the fertile soil in which the most powerful and affecting fiction takes root. Then too, sometimes, the most intriguing stories leave a bit of mystery beyond the margins—small enigmas for the reader to ponder hours and days after the book has been closed. Sometimes, the shortest stories are the ones that stay with us the longest.

The fifty very-short pieces in this collection of mature literary fiction range from as many as 4,000 to as few as 50 words. The purpose of these stories is not necessarily to arouse, but rather to explore various aspects of the human condition through the lens of the erotic in a way that is both enlightening and entertaining.

There are brief vignettes—entire worlds conjured up within the space of an eye-blink—alongside more conventionally expansive narratives. There are a number of stories about the erotic dimensions of ‘disability,’ particularly visual impairment. There are pan-sexual celebrations—the hetero- and homoerotic along with the intentionally ambivalent. There are richly atmospheric scene-settings, effusive literary evocations, and casual pop-culture-inspired dialogues; orneriness and ecstasy, contemporary vulgarity and timeless transcendence standing cheek by jowl, low comedy, erotic horror and lambent exultation comfortably sharing the same space, breathing the same air, seeking the same truth.


Here are fifty stories from that secret place where love and madness meet. 

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(*) 
Stories from The Moon-Haunted Heart
first appearing on Erotica for the Big Brain
(with links)
(note that these stories were all subsequently edited)







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