{"id":17,"date":"2020-01-28T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-10-09T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T14:58:21","slug":"delinquent-intergalactic-starfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/28\/delinquent-intergalactic-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Delinquent, intergalactic starfish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nA new story for a new decade<\/h2>\n

\nI’ve a new story out but a slight delay on my blogging about this as, in a fit of anger over having my European citizenship removed at the end of this month, I went to Rome at the weekend instead. Where my wife was photographed crocheting inside the Coliseum by a passing tourist, if you want to know what interests your modern traveller more; ancient, gigantic ruins or some nice crafting.<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, it was lovely, very glad to have been, blimey some of that stuff is old. Now, to this story of mine.<\/p>\n

\nTentacles!<\/h3>\n
\nYes, the very lovely (if you ignore some of their terrible jokes) people at Shoreline Of Infinity in Edinburgh have published a story of mine in their latest issue, 17. The one with this glorious cover:<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\nIt is a wee SF story about how aliens deal with their disaffected youth and their rubbish. It may be a touch silly.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nFor those interested in where ideas come from, this was inspired by a tweet I saw by the editor of Shoreline. Just them indicating the sort of thing they like which triggered my brain. Off I went to write up the idea and, to my great surprise, on submitting it through their standard process, they liked it and picked up. <\/div>\n
\nSo, following markets on social media is well worth your time. All part of finding out what they want.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n You can find it here<\/a> to purchase in both electronic and gloriously tactile physical format which looks like this:<\/div>\n
\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Also, while I’m here, before Christmas a friend of mine who works for the NHS down in Englandshire told me of a Hospital Radio show that was looking for stories to be read out. So I recorded a version of Unexpected Visitors<\/a>, sent it over and I’m pleased to say they played it. How nifty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new story for a new decade I’ve a new story out but a slight delay on my blogging about this as, in a fit of anger over having my European citizenship removed at the end of this month, I went to Rome at the weekend instead. Where my wife was photographed crocheting inside the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goals","category-hurrah","category-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.munchkinstein.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}