I’ve been secretly-ish working on collecting some of my short stories I’ve had published over the years and waiting for the rights to revert back to me. Now that most of them have (I have a few holdouts which will come out in a second, later volume) I can collect them into one big collection (see what I did there?) and sell them as a whole.

Which brings us to SIDE HUSTLE: VOL. 1, which is available NOW on Amazon in Kindle and Trade Paperback format. You can find it here.

Look at the cover work done by Jamie Ibson. He’s getting really good at this. The scene, for the Cordova aficionados (are there such people?), is from the short story “Hill 142,” published way back in 2014 by Seventh Star Press in the Hero’s Best Friend anthology. To date it’s one of my favorite short stories I’ve ever written, hands down, and was the obvious choice to be the cover image.

Here’s a list of all the stories included within, as well as their genre:

• Hill 142 (Alternate History)
• The Finder’s Keeper (Alternate History/Steampunk)
• A Chosen Moment Before (SF)
• Nightwalker (Weird Wild West)
• The Tree of Death and Life (Weird Wild West)
• The Fallow Fields Part One & Two (Alternate History)
• The Cold (Horror)
• Wake (Horror)
• Providence’s Player (Urban Fantasy)
• A Most Dangerous Game (SF)
• Paint the Sky (MilSF — a Four Horsemen universe story)
• Keep the Home Fires Burning (MilSF — a Four Horsemen universe story)
• Imperfect Mind (MilSF — a Kin Wars story)
• Maelstrom Rising (MilSF — Kin Wars story)
• I, Behemoth (MilSF — Kin Wars story)

Included in the collection are two never-before published stories: “I, Behemoth” which I gave away briefly a few years back, and “The Tree of Death and Life.” The latter story and explanation as to why it never was published is in the book as well. It’s a Dr. Tobias Fox tale, and if that name is vaguely familiar to you, then you’re really going to enjoy this.

It’s a thick paperback, by the way. Over 700 pages of stories, which is wayyy bigger than I thought it would be. So I priced it at $19.99 so people can afford it and not break the bank. Just please don’t throw the book–you might damage the drywall.

The Kindle price is only $4.99, because electrons are free. It’s also up on KU for those of you who belong to the Kindle Unlimited program.