Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Some kind words

Futuredaze hits the streets today and as a nice little release present I stumbled across this review at Tangent.


Reviewer Barbara Melville had some nice things to say about the anthology and my story The Cleansing.

“The Cleansing” by Mark Smith-Briggs is proof you can have YA fiction with deeper themes. Our narrator is waiting for his grandfather to die – not from natural causes – but thanks to a worldwide lottery designed to reduce the population. We're shown how both death and population crises can creep up on us, echoed when the grandfather’s execution is moved forward for no apparent reason. A sharp and heart-wrenching story."

Monday, February 11, 2013

Futuredaze released

Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction will be released on February 12.


The anthology features my short story The Cleansing.

It is available for pre-order at Amazon.

For more news, go to my website at http://www.freewebs.com/marksmithbriggs