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 Amazon, Barnes & 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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