Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Do you want to play a game?

Today marks the launch of the Orbit Short Fiction Program, through which they will be bringing you delicious nuggets of juicy fiction goodness from Orbit authors. Including, naturally, one miss Mira Grant.

In fact, they have a new Mira Grant story available right now.

"Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box" is a heartwarming story about high school friends who still see each other every week to play a game that they love very much. Namely, the Apocalypse Game, wherein they end the world with gleeful abandon. But sadly, someone may be taking the game a little more seriously than was originally intended...

"Apocalypse Scenario," and all other stories in the Orbit Short Fiction Program, are available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Diesel Ebooks, and Booksonboard.com. Follow the link to either the landing page for the program or the story itself to get the links.

Enjoy the end of the world.
Tags: good things, mira grant, pandemic time, short fiction, so the marilyn
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Re: :(

seanan_mcguire

April 18 2011, 16:33:38 UTC 6 years ago

Unfortunately, it's genuinely not as simple as all that. Since this is a US program, it may or may not be affiliated with Orbit UK at all, so it's unclear whether they even have sales licenses for non-US regions. I get the frustration, and share it for UK- and Australia-specific things that I want, but it's not the publisher's fault in every case. Not unless they wanted to delay release six months to a year while they sorted every possible license, and then it's no longer profitable, so it no longer happens.

Re: :(

mrs_norris_mous

April 18 2011, 16:52:34 UTC 6 years ago

I understand that it's not simple, however publishers need to understand that such restrictions really encourage people to pirate the content. If people can't pay then they are more likely to get the content via other means ( I am not saying it's right just that it will encourage it to happen ).

Did you sell the rights for e-books world wide or just America could you sell it in theory ?

Re: :(

seanan_mcguire

April 19 2011, 14:56:06 UTC 6 years ago

Quite honestly, they DO understand, but they CAN'T make things happen much faster than they do. Not if things are going to happen at all.

I sold this story to them as an exclusive for a set period of time. And honestly, e-book fans are so picky about format that I wouldn't try to sell it myself if I could. It would end in tears.