6 Fantasy Stories (15 page)

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What happens next? Find out in
Earthshaker
, now
on sale
!

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About the Author

Robert T. Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose fiction, comics, essays, articles, and podcasts have been published around the world. According to superstar fantasy and science fiction writer Mike Resnick, Robert "sees the world like no one else sees it, and makes incredibly witty, incisive stories out of that skewed worldview." DC Comics, Simon & Schuster, and DAW have published his work. Robert was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for his story, "Fear of Rain." His young adult urban fantasy novel,
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
, is due in 2011 from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Visit Robert T. Jeschonek online at
The Fictioneer
website. You can also find him on Facebook and LiveJournal. Follow him as @TheFictioneer on Twitter. For news on his latest online projects, visit the Tsetse Press website at
www.tsetsepress.com
.

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Also by Robert T. Jeschonek

6 Short Stories

Fantasy

Blazing Bodices

Day 9 – a novel

Earthshaker – a novel

Groupie Everlasting

Rose Head

The Genie's Secret

The Return of Alice

The Walking Bomb

Tiki's Vision

Horror

Bloodliner – a novel

Daddy's Little Girl

Diary of a Maggot

Dionysus Dying

Mister Flood

Road Rage

Humor (Adults Only)

Dicks
– a novel

Mystery

Polkacide
– a novel

The First Detect-Eve

Who Unkilled Johnny Murder?

Science Fiction

6 Scifi Stories

Give the Hippo What He Wants

My Cannibal Lover

Off the Face of the Earth

One Awake in All the World

Playing Doctor

Serial Killer vs. E-Merica

Something Borrowed, Something Doomed

Teacher of the Century

The Greatest Serial Killer in the Universe

The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake

The Memory of You Lingers

Universal Language
– a novel

Superheroes

A Matter of Size (mature readers)

Forced Retirement

The Masked Family
– a novel

Trek Trilogy

Trek Fail!

Trek Off!

Trek This!

Young Readers

Dolphin Knight
– a novel

Lump

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Coming Soon from Robert T. Jeschonek

A Young Adult Fantasy Novel That Really Rocks!

My Favorite Band Does Not Exist

Being trapped in a book can be a nightmare—just ask Idea Deity. He’s convinced that he exists only in the pages of a novel written by a malevolent author . . . and that he will die in Chapter 64. Meanwhile, Reacher Mirage, lead singer of the secret rock band Youforia, can’t figure out who’s posting information about him and his band online that only
he
should know. Someone seems to be pulling the strings of both teens’ lives . . . and they’re not too happy about it. With Youforia about to be exposed in a national magazine and Chapter 64 bearing down like a speeding freight train, time is running out. Will Idea and Reacher be able to join forces and take control of their own lives before it’s too late?

School of Rock
meets
Alice in Wonderland
in this fast-paced, completely unpredictable novel of alternate realities, time travel, and rock ‘n’ roll. If your favorite band does not exist . . . do
you?

"Overall,
My Favorite Band Does Not Exist
is a wacky and enjoyable trip...full of intriguing, imaginative concepts that keep a reader hooked." –Thom Dunn,
The Daily Genoshan

Coming July 11, 2011 from Clarion Books!

Pre-order from your favorite bookseller today!

6 FANTASY STORIES

Copyright © 2011 by Robert T. Jeschonek

www.thefictioneer.com

Cover Art Copyright © 2011 by Ben Baldwin

www.benbaldwin.co.uk

and © 2010 by David Kendall

Published in November 2011 by Tsetse Press by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.

"Forced Retirement" originally appeared in
A Thousand Faces, The Quarterly Journal of Superhuman Literature
, November 2009.

"
Blazing Bodices
" originally appeared
appeared online as part of
The Chain Story
, 2010.
Reginald Asteroth-Phipps is copyright © 2010 Nathan Long, used with permission. For more work by the author, visit
http://sabrepunk.com/
. Doctor Yarrow is copyright © 2010 Robert E. Vardeman, used with permission. For more work by the author, visit
http://www.cenotaphroad.com/
. Jack Ravensthorpe is copyright © 2010 Michael A. Stackpole, used with permission. For more work by the author, visit
http://www.stormwolf.com/store/

"Mr. Flood" originally appeared as "Fear of Rain" in
Postscripts
#8, PS Publishing, 2006.

"The Genie's Secret" originally appeared as "The Wish of a Wish" in
Crime Spells
, DAW Books, 2009.

"Rose Head" originally appeared as "Why the Cop with a Rose for a Head Wears a Rose-Head Mask" in
Helix Speculative Fiction Quarterly
, 2008.

"The Duck Lover" originally appeared in
Loyalhanna Review
,
2004.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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