Debris & Detritus
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A short-arse who wears denim and tweed without regard to fashion or sense, she sometimes lives in Texas.
This is the first story published under her real name.
Seriously.
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Beth Teliho is an award-winning author and artist who lives in Texas with her husband, two adventurous sons, and a veritable menagerie of pets. Restless in the mundane, she writes about the abnormal, paranormal, and otherwise fantastical because that’s what quickens her heartbeat. She loves spicy food and margaritas more than just about anything and aspires to one day live in a tree house with a cat. Or ten.
Ms. Teliho’s debut novel, Order of Seven, won the Independent Publishers of New England Book Award for Young Adult and Book of the Year and was a Readers’ Favorite International Book Award for Fiction - Supernatural
She will love you forever if you take the time to write a review!
All ways to connect with Beth Teliho are found on her website.
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Weyodi doesn’t like to brag, but she once knocked Ernest Hemingway unconscious in a bare-knuckle fistfight. She has also been banned from the state of Indiana. Over the years, she has developed a finely honed ability to trigger a burglar alarm with a fast food taco thrown at high speed from a moving vehicle.
She writes primarily poetry and speculative fiction. Her prose often revolves around our species’ primary motivations: sex, food and power. Indigenous people figure prominently in her work, but few if any are mystical sages or tragic noble savages. She has written screenplays for independent film and for documentary and three volumes of poetry, two of which are out of print. She has an erotic feminist steampunk romp called Monster Bride. In 2017, her trilogy The Glicksberg Chronicles: Stealing the Morning Star, The Burning Lie, and Bees Made Honey in the Rich Man’s Skull will be released in addition to the comic book The Life and Times of Pocomodo and the short story “One Erotic Misadventure Furnished in Early Hominid.” She is currently at work on a sequel to Monster Bride tentatively titled Polycorpus Among the Serpentine.
About the Editor
Patricia Burroughs
Pooks (a.k.a. Patricia Burroughs) is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and a fifth-generation Texan. (You get to guess which of the above she considers her highest honor.)
She loves Pratchett, Aaronovitch, Dunnett, and Heyer and never wants to tell the same kind of story twice, thus her scattershooting approach to her career and this anthology.
A lifelong Anglophile, she cherishes her trips to the British Isles researching The Fury Triad, the epic YA romantic fantasy that has taken over her life and heart. She and her high school sweetheart husband (a.k.a. The Resident Storm Chaser) are living happily ever after in Dallas.
She would love you to sign up for her newsletter or visit her on social media, or even (gasp!) buy her books.
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About the Cover
Toni McGee Causey
Every once in a while, someone I adore is in need of a cover and describes what they’re trying to find or hire to be done, and they’re frustrated because it’s missing the mark. And for a small percentage of those times, an idea, clear as the sun, pops into my head.
Pooks had a seriously difficult challenge for this cover: find a way to convey the Greek God type of connection for the stories without anchoring the cover in any particular era or genre, so that every story felt included. When we were talking about what she’d love to have, she kept referencing works by several artists that seemed to have a theme: Art Deco/iconic imagery.
Immediately, I could “see” the column, the golden colors bleeding down over a landscape, almost like the river Styx, and then dropping sharply off the cliff, falling into pieces, indicating the “debris” and “detritus” and the powers running amok. In my mind’s eye, there were textures, indicating (subtly) the layers and textures of the different stories, and the (very subtle) “Amok” littering the clouds, raining down. I do a lot of photography, but I also like to play with Photoshop for design ideas, and this was a perfect fun-for-me challenge. Happily, Pooks was brave enough to let me have a run at it and trusted me enough with those first drafts (before she could fully see the effects I was going to create) to believe that it might turn out okay.
Sometimes, things turn out better than you hope, and you have a ball doing it. That was the case here. I hope you like it.
About Story Spring Publishing
We hope you’ve enjoyed Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok. Anthologies are always fun to publish; each story is a miniature novel in and of itself, with different voices, needs, and tones. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed working on this anthology and can’t wait for the next one!
A quick note about our editing decisions: One of the things we value and respect most is authorial voice. While we look to The Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition) for our basic editorial standard, different stories and authors sometimes require variation. Our British authors, for example, use commas very differently from our American authors. We strive to honor the essential “Britishness” of their stories while ensuring that the text is accessible to all readers. Some stories are told in a formal style, while others are conversational, with the kinds of sentence flexibility used in everyday speech. As a result, each story has its own style sheet, and we work to ensure internal consistency of style and voice.
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Story Spring Publishing is an indie publisher based in central Illinois. We publish both fiction and nonfiction books across a variety of genres and topics. Our novels and fiction anthologies feature diverse, well-developed characters and worlds, while our nonfiction books feature interesting, innovative ideas about fascinating topics. Each of us at Story Spring is committed to our mission of providing an enjoyable, high-quality reading experience, regardless of whether the reader is holding a book or reading a screen.
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