Inner Peace Is For Losers

A new Variant Frequencies story is now live, titled "Spired" by Jonathan C. Gillespie and narrated by John Cmar (aka Cmaaaaarrrrr). As usual, produced by the wizard of GarageBand, Rick Stringer, whose sound effects and music add to the tension and danger.

What it's about:

Obsession is close kin to determination. For one man, an alien peak seems just another obstacle capable of being conquered with the right set of tools. But any climber will tell you — you don’t want to look back the way you came.

Also, go have a look at Apex Online, January issue. That's matt_wallace, who I may have mentioned a time or two, as the featured writer for January. There's a highly entertaining interview and a story by Matt. Go have a look, then say something nice to him about it, because he's very needy.

A friend sent me this link. It's a review of Murky Depths #1. The review is written by Jason Sizemore, managing editor and publisher of Apex Digest.

Mr. Sizemore said really nice things about the magazine, and about my story in particular. I was delighted to see this, because I'd been secretly harboring this fear that reviewers would be saying stuff like nice magazine...good stories, except for Anne Stringer's. So to have somebody like this say "Naught But Ash" was the best story in the issue was quite a thrill.