Playing My Cards Write

tyunglebower ♦ January 31, 2024 ♦ Leave a comment

Another dumb pun for a title. But relevant. For though I would not be so dramatic as to consider this an announcement, I am making a statement as to one of my projects for the year. Going back to my earlier roots or writing short story collections, usually of 10 or 15 stories, with a common theme of some kind. When I do so I enjoy the adventure of representing multiple genres and styles within such collections. (I last did this with Order!

This time around, playing cards will be the theme.

This is not even the first time playing cards have figured into my fiction. Murder. Theatre. Solitaire made use of them as a partial character trait. But then as now I have always enjoyed playing cards. I would not go so far as to call it one of my Autistic special interests, but I do in fact own close to thirty packs of playing cards, so it’s at least a bit of a “thing” with me.

Nothing has been drafted of this collection yet, and I have no publishing date to share with you now, other than “later this year.” So stay tuned to hear more details in the coming weeks and months.

I look forward to exploring the particular challenge that is a themed story collection once again, and I hope you will choose to read it is ready.