CHIRAL MAD wins 2013 Int’l Book Award for fiction anthologies

CHIRAL MAD, now available at Amazon.com.

USA Book News has announced that CHIRAL MAD, featuring my short story, “Mirror Moments”, has won the 2013 International Book Award for best fiction anthology.

Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of USA Book News, said this year’s contest yielded over 1000 entries from authors and publishers around the world, which were then narrowed down to the final results.

Keen says of the awards: “The 2013 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the world.”

Edited by Michael Bailey with a foreword by Tom Monteleone, CHIRAL MAD features the following short stories:

“White Pills” by Ian Shoebridge
“Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers” by Gord Rollo
“The Perfection of Symmetry” by Andrew Hook
“Some Pictures in an Album” by Gary McMahon
“Five Adjectives” by Monica J. O’Rourke
“Enchanted Combustion” by Amanda Ottino
“There are Embers” by Chris Hertz
“Brighter Her Aura Grows” by David Hearn
“Underwater” by Barry Jay Kaplan
“Inevitable” by Meghan Arcuri
“Experiments in an Isolation Tank” by Eric J. Guignard
“Need” by Gary Braunbeck
“Not the Child” by Julie Stipes
“The White Quetzal” by Gene O’Neill
“Send Your End” by Patrick Lacey
“Mirror Moments” by Christian A. Larsen
“Alderway” by Patrick O’Neill
“Sigil” by P. Gardner Goldsmith
“The Persistence of Vision” by Jon Michael Kelley
“The Bad Season” by A.A. Garrison
“Storm of Lightning” by Aaron J. French
“Cubicle Farm” by R.B. Payne
“A Flawed Fantasy” by Jeff Strand
“The Apologies” by Erik T. Johnson
“The Shoe Tree” by Pat. R. Steiner
“Gaia Ungaia” by John Palisano
“Amid the Walking Wounded” by Jack Ketchum
“Underwater Ferris Wheel” by Michael Bailey

Published by Written Backwards, CHIRAL MAD is a charity anthology that has raised thousands of dollars for the Down Syndrome Information Alliance. Buy your copy here and be sure to leave a review.

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