Sovetskoye Shampanskoye in Smokelong Quartely in late September

My cold war story Sovetskoye Shampanskoye (Soviet Champagne)

will appear in the awesome literary journal Smokelong Quarterly in late September!

Check out the current issue of Smokelong Quarterly and the strong flash stories there.

More stories here. (Scroll down the page)


(Image: Gorky Park in Moscow.)

Print version of The Empty City on the way

The print version of The Empty City is on the way!

I'm just waiting for the proof and approving it, hopefully on Monday or Tuesday.

Thank you so much for all those who have been waiting patiently to read the print version. :)


The ebook version of The Empty City is here.

More stories here (scroll down to see links).

Much love to all,
Berit

The Mind Spy in 7 x 20 anthology 140 and Counting

My twitter story The Mind Spy

will appear in 7 x 20's ebook anthology 140 and Counting cirka December 2011.

More stories here.


(Image: Jeffrey Donovan as hapless ex-spy Michael Westen in Burn Notice)

Preview of The Empty City up on Amazon

The preview of the print version of The Empty City is now up on Amazon.com.

Hopefully the print version will be up in a few days.

The Ascent in Candle in the Attic Window

The table of contents for the Gothic horror anthology Candle in the Attic Window by Innsmouth Free Press is now official:

• Dark Epistle, Jim Blackstone
• Obsessions, Colleen Anderson
• Stone Dogs, Paul Jessup
• The Victorians, James S. Dorr
• Liminal Medicine, Jesse Bullington
• Nightmare, Wenona Napolitano
• The Shredded Tapestry, Ryan Harvey
• Desideratum, Gina Flores
• Seventh Picture, Orrin Grey
• Housebound, Don D’Ammassa
• Elizabeth on the Island, Josh Reynolds
• At the Doorstep, Leanna Renee Hieber
• The Ba-Curse, Ann K. Schwader
• Broken Notes, Maria Mitchell
• I Tarocchi dei d’Este, Martha Hubbard
• The Malcontents, Mary E. Choo
• Frozen Souls, Sarah Hans
• New Archangel, Desmond Warzel
• The Ascent, Berit K.N. Ellingsen
• Nine Nights, Theresa Sanchez Bazelli
• Vodka Attack, Meddy Ligner
• The Forgotten Ones, Mary Cook
• The City of Melted Iron, Bobby Cranestone
• A Fixer-Upper, Amanda C. Davis
• The Snow Man, E. Catherine Tobler
• In His Arms in the Attic, Alexis Brooks de Vita
• Hitomi, Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas

My story, The Ascent, is about men fainting in cold water. Also known as freediving.

The anthology will be released some time in September.

Screenshots

Screenshots from Lord of the Rings Online.

Outside Hobbiton.

Some fantasy covers

Mick van Houten's Illustration to Suldrun's Garden by Jack Vance.