Fly and be free

The FAA has approved the Terrafugia flying car. For a mere 200K you can "Simply land at the airport, fold up your wings, and drive home."

According to their website, I can get my sport pilot's license with as little as 20 hours of flight time.

The key, of course is not folding up your wings and driving off. It's the ability to unfold your wings and launch yourself over a traffic jam... something I suspect the FAA and the highway patrol would both frown upon.

LAST CALL

Back in my Regency days, my editor invited me to participate in one of Zebra's holiday-theme anthologies. Specifically a Halloween Regency collection, where each story had to feature a kitten. I was a new author but nonetheless had the presence of mind to point out that Halloween wasn't typically celebrated in Regency England, an objection which he brushed aside as an unimportant detail.

And so I wrote the novella Charlotte's Kitten for the collection BEWITCHING KITTENS. And it sold. And sold. It earned out immediately and then they sold foreign rights which kept selling and selling. In fact, the German language editions are still in print and available on Amazon.de

And that was my only venture into the short fiction market. Until today, when I signed a contract for my short story LAST CALL which will be included in the After Hours: Tales from the Ur-Bar anthology. My close relationship to both co-editors was obviously the deciding factor in my decision to join this anthology project.

LAST CALL by Patricia Bray: George Harker hunts demons in eighteenth century Europe, but when he discovers an immortal bartender he finds he has finally met his match.

I'm thrilled with the collection of stories that co-conspirator (and fellow contributor) jpsorrow and I have put together. Expect more announcements to come as the participating authors sign their contracts and step into the limelight. And stay tuned for the book's release in March 2011--with this cast of characters, the signings will be legendary.