{"id":988,"date":"2013-11-20T12:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2013-11-20T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T02:16:02","slug":"cars-cards-carbines-a-new-multi-genre-fiction-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travisheermann.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/cars-cards-carbines-a-new-multi-genre-fiction-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars, Cards & Carbines – A New Multi-Genre Fiction Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"campaign<\/a>Pardon me while I sweep away the dust and dead crickets….<\/p>\n

OK, now to business!<\/p>\n

I went to a workshop on writing for and editing anthologies last spring, and since then I\u2019ve had the bug to try my hand at editing. I spent a few months percolating ideas of various kinds, how I would go about putting such a book together, who I would try to get, etc.<\/p>\n

The idea for Cars, Cards & Carbines<\/em> grew out of brainstorming things that I think are a lot of fun, and then I thought of the alliteration, and then this wild idea of Mad Max meets Maverick and The Wild, Wild West (the TV show, not the awful movie). And since I’m a fan of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, let’s throw them in there, too!<\/p>\n

I ran into an editor friend, John Helfers, whom I’ve worked with on three projects to-date, at DragonCon this year, told him about my idea, and a couple of beers later, we had a plan.<\/p>\n

One cool thing about putting together this kind of anthology (aside from the sheer talent we’ve already assembled) is the way the three elements of the theme can be stretched. “Cars” can mean a lot of things: hot rods, getaway cars, train cars, mine cars, horse-drawn carriages. While originating from a Poker theme, “Cards” can be expanded into things like credit cards, tarot cards, programming cards, green cards, and more. And of course “Carbine” literally means a short-barreled rifle generally used by cavalry, but could easily reach into all sorts of firearms across almost any milieu.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund this project. The list of authors we\u2019ve put together are a Who\u2019s Who of genre fiction, and we\u2019re excited to have them.<\/p>\n