{"id":5663,"date":"2013-02-26T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2013-02-26T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:30:38","slug":"change-is-only-ever-a-breath-away-csfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/change-is-only-ever-a-breath-away-csfg\/","title":{"rendered":"Change is only ever a breath away #CSFG"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3075\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QScan10042011_1440001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3075\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3075\" alt=\"Cover art by Shauna O'Meara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QScan10042011_1440001-212x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QScan10042011_1440001-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/QScan10042011_1440001.jpg 354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover art by Shauna O&#8217;Meara<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Winds of Change<\/em> is an anthology of short stories published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and it&#8217;s awesome \u2013 and not just because it&#8217;s got one of my sci-fi stories in it!!<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since its publication in 2011, it&#8217;s now available online (in most formats from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/272835\">Smashwords<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Winds-of-Change\/book-4RFbM2eChkeYGgZ9Bq4XBw\/page1.html\">Kobo Books<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/book\/winds-of-change\/id599013583?mt=11\">iTunes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/winds-of-change-elizabeth-fitzgerald\/1114373901?ean=2940044270589\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>). At the bargain price of US$4.99, it&#8217;s easy to purchase and offers you a superb opportunity to support both writers and small press publishers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth it too! I&#8217;ve read many short story anthologies over the last few years and, so far, this has been my favourite. I love short stories that chronicle change, whether it\u2019s personal change or shifts in global or galactic balance. Starting with the lyrical writing of Jason Nahrung in his restless story &#8220;Wraiths&#8221;, <em>Winds of Change<\/em> took me on a journey through time and space to visit diverse worlds, experience the universe through very different eyes, and shudder at the changes these twenty-four amazing authors envisaged.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite stories were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Time Capsule&#8221; by Tsana Dolichva, about an historian with nothing to loose<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Babel&#8221; by Robin Shortt, which hummed a unspoken truth to me<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Time Spent&#8221; by David Coleman, whose incarcerated utility android has one last card to play<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Children of the Ashes&#8221; by Greg Mellor, whose love story reached supernova proportions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that readers will enjoy reading &#8220;Trigger&#8221; too, on page 39, written by me&#8230; One captain\u2019s love obsession leads to intergalactic changes that endanger more than just his reputation\u2026 if only he knew what he was doing. Ooooo!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re just a few clicks away of discovering these twenty-four incredible tales: start <a title=\"CSFG\" href=\"http:\/\/csfg.wordpress.com\/publications\/winds-of-change\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winds of Change is an anthology of short stories published by the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild and it&#8217;s awesome \u2013 and not just because it&#8217;s got one of my sci-fi stories in it!! For the first time since its publication in 2011, it&#8217;s now available online (in most formats from\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/change-is-only-ever-a-breath-away-csfg\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[24,29,45,100,103,104,116,140,143,151,184,254,267,298,302,306,372,375,413,437,448,529,672,679,701],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-authors","category-personal-news","tag-adam-tucker","tag-alan-baxter","tag-annelise-roberts","tag-canberra-speculative-fiction-guild","tag-carol-ryles","tag-cat-sheely","tag-chris-andrews","tag-crisetta-macleod","tag-csfg","tag-david-coleman","tag-donna-maree-hanson","tag-greg-mellor","tag-helen-stubbs","tag-james-goodrum","tag-jane-virgo","tag-jason-nahrung","tag-leife-shallcross","tag-lesley-boland","tag-maxine-mcarthur","tag-naomi-mondello","tag-nicole-murphy","tag-robin-shortt","tag-tsana-dolichva","tag-valerie-y-l-toh","tag-winds-of-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenashapter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}