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Hi. Glenn Hauman here, itinerant webmaster, hijacking the blog to tell you that Peter David also has a story in the upcoming Crazy 8 Press anthology, Altered States Of The Union, debuting July 15th at Shore Leave and then available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the like shortly thereafter.

We’re taking pre-orders now, and Peter’s in the excellent company of writers like Russ Colchamiro, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Brendan DuBois, Malon Edwards, G.D. Falksen • Michael Jan Friedman, David Gerrold, Robert Greenberger, Alisa Kwitney, Gordon Linzner, Sarah McGill, Meredith Peruzzi, Mackenzie Reide, Aaron Rosenberg, David Silverman & Hildy Silverman, Ian Randal Strock, Ramón Terrell, Anne Toole… and me.

To give you a taste of the book, here’s a snippet of Peter’s story…

In the year 1958, when Alaska was being considered for statehood, Texas governor Price Daniel strenuously objected. His reasoning was quite simple: He did not want there to be a state larger than Texas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower became so tired of Daniel’s protests that he threatened him. He told Daniel that if he did not shut up, he would divide Alaska in half, and there would be two states larger than Texas.

Daniel refused to stop complaining, not taking Eisenhower seriously.

He should have done so.

Eisenhower did exactly that and on January 3, 1959, North Alaska and South Alaska were officially declared states of the Union.

They did not get on well. There was peace between them, but an uneasy peace, and it was certainly not helped by the fact that the majority of the populace wielded guns. A frontier mentality gripped the separated regions and it slowly devolved over time. Since the two states were so far removed from the continental United States, no one really cared.

And then a new governor made it a lot worse, and it descended into war.

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If so, I have written a book that might interest you.

It’s hardly my first. I’ve had over a hundred published, including some NY Times Bestsellers. But this one is different. It’s not SF or fantasy. And I can’t seem to sell it.

Does it have a fantasy element? It might; that’s subjective to the reader.

But apparently that’s confusing to the editors who have read it thus far. SF editors apparently feel it’s not SF enough. Non-SF editors either don’t bother to read it because it’s from Peter David, the SF/fantasy guy. Or they reject it with conflicting responses: one said it was too humorous, a second said it wasn’t humorous enough. Helpful things like that.

I didn’t want to publish it via Crazy 8 Press because I don’t consider it fantasy, but your mileage may vary. If you are interested in reading it, please write to me at padguy@aol.com and I will shoot you a copy. The title is “Spoken Word” and it’s about a comedian whose son never speaks a word…until a very unusual woman enters their lives and changes that.

Here is the first chapter:

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