Joyce Sully

Tag: flash fiction

  • “Be Fruitful and Multiply” audio story available

    A new entry in the archive of evidence for why Joyce should not be in charge of their own promotion: I forgot to tell you all about the podcast I got to have a story in. Alone in a Room with Invisible People is a writing craft podcast by Holly Lisle and Rebecca Galardo. Normally, it’s advice on how to write fiction happily and professionally. For Halloween, though, they put together a collection of flash fiction by their listeners with spooky flavors of various sorts.

    I’m in part one, available here, with the story, “Be Fruitful and Multiply.” (It’s got ghost plants, and I love it.) There are a bunch of fun and creepy stories in the episode, so I encourage you to listen to it all. If you want to jump to my story, though, it hits at 36:00.

    I’ve known Holly for years now and been in a number of her writing classes. Having her read my story aloud (a first for me with my original fiction!!!) is one of the greatest professional joys I’ve had to date. I hope you take a listen and enjoy it!

  • It Happened in a Flash

    Book cover art: in the middle of a dry grass field, a green tree is struck by lightning. Cover text: (above) 64 fantastical Flash Stories presented by HOLLY LISLE; (below) It Happened in a Flash

    I’m in an anthology~! And it’s free right now~!

    Solve a mermaid’s problem …
    Step off the edge of a roof …
    Dig up a grave at midnight …
    Take advice from a fortune cookie …
    Visit the last library …
    Meet a bridge troll …
    And more …

    In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person’s life. And like the trace of lighting in the sky, each is unique and interesting.

    These wildly different flash stories delight, astonish, scare, and inspire. Enjoy 64 delightfully eclectic tales. Like your flash fiction intriguing with a twist? Discover the diversity and check out “It Happened in a Flash”.

    (*excited whispering* I’M the mermaid story! First story slot! *flail*)

    This was put together by the writing community to which I belong, so a bunch of my buddies are in here, as well as a lot of people I’ve never read before. (I…need to actually read all the stories that made it in. This has been in the works for a while, and I have forgotten what’s there. :D )

    The ebook version is currently free, and there is a print version available as well.

  • New Book: Robot Daughter

    Holy crap! Yes! Okay, super excited to announce…I’m self-publishing a book for the first time. As in, it will be available for sale and there will be pages with words and numbers and a cover on the front.

    A cover!

    Robot Daughter and Other Stories
    Robot Daughter and Other Stories

    What if you could have the body of your dreams? What if you ended up with the body of someone else’s dreams? What if you had to walk away from everything you knew just to make it to tomorrow?

    In ROBOT DAUGHTER, seven people find ways to make it to that tomorrow in a world where high-tech avatars offer an alternative to human bodies, but there is always a price to pay.

    ROBOT DAUGHTER is a One Afternoon Adventure, running about 3500 words, and consists of flash fiction stories from a single world.

    I am embarrassingly excited about this. It is tentatively scheduled to come out the middle of September, but there is still so much work to do before then, all of it things I’ve never done before. So, uh, I might be overly ambitious with that release date. On the other hand! I might get done sooner than I expect. Look, I can hope, right?

    ETA: I can, indeed, hope! The book releases August 14, 2013. It’s official, you can hold me to it, no kidding. I will throw some kind of live tweet internet party over on Twitter when it happens. Mark your calendar, save the date, get your $0.99 ready.