How I Became the Curator of The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle by Lisa Mason (@LisaSMason)
How I Became the
Curator of The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle
by
Lisa Mason
A
writer-acquaintance who was acting as the Curator of a Storybundle earlier this
year invited me to participate in his bundle.
I
gladly did, having heard about Storybundle.com and all the good things the
website does for readers and authors alike.
I
love the Storybundle website, how they’ve set things up and their commitment to
all things writing. Storybundle is a major player in the new independent
publishing revolution and works well with readers’ passion for ebooks.
After
the first bundle was done, and performed well, I began communicating with
Storybundle, letting them know that I have an ebook backlist of previously
published books and stories and that I’d been asked to serve as a judge for the 2016 The Philip K Dick Award.
Storybundle,
ever alert for new bundle opportunities, was curious about my role as a judge.
We’re slowly working out the details of how I may curate a 2016 Philip K Dick Award Storybundle next year. There are some
logistical publishing hurdles to overcome, so stay tuned.
In
the meantime, as a PKD Award judge, I
had access to the master list of Finalists
and Winners going back to 1983, when
the award was inaugurated. I became excited that a great high-concept for a
bundle would be a Philip K Dick Award Storybundle comprised
of Finalists and Winners.
Storybundle
said yes! There were logistical publishing hurdles to overcome with this
bundle, too. I’ve worked very hard as a Curator to make The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle happen.
So
there you have it, my friends! The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes
Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
(PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth
Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by
Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera
by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts
of Conscience by William Barton (PKD
Special Citation), Maximum Ice by
Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel
(PKD Finalist).
The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward
and enjoy world-class, award-winning
reading right now and into the holidays.
Thank you, Lisa, for sharing your story about how this came to be. Thank you for all your hard work.
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