Announcing The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume II
We have news to share with you this week! But first, I need to pause and acknowledge that the news outside the book world is spectacularly crappy right now, between the new wave of BLM protests and the ongoing pandemic. If you’re feeling the same, we send solidarity your way. Our own news is more cheerful (we hope). Just to remind you, this year is our tenth anniversary here at TDP. (We can’t believe it either!) To celebrate, we’re releasing a new anthology…with a couple of twists. Way back in 2013, we released The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume I. It featured, as usual, one piece from each of us (a poem by Erin Zarro and three stories by the rest of us). We voted on our favourites of all the short pieces that we had posted monthly on our website since our launch in 2010. It was lovely to pull out the works we had liked the most and give them another chance to shine. So for our tenth anniversary, we decided it was high time to do it again. For The Best of Turtleduck Press, Volume II, we’re doing doubles. First we read through our old stories from the past seven years (everything after Volume I was eligible, except for serials that aren’t finished yet) and reminisce about them all. Then we each voted on our favourites of each other’s works…AND we each picked a favourite from our own pieces. So this anthology will feature eight stories, of…