Wednesday, May 24, 2023

SMFS Members Published in Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings


Several SMFS list members have short stories in the new anthology, Weren't Another Other Way to Be: Outlaw Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Waylon Jennings. Edited by SMFS list member Alec Cizak and published by Gutter Books, this anthology is the latest read in their in Gutter Books Rock Anthology Series. The SMFS list members that reported their presence in the book are:

 

Michael Bracken with "When Sin Ends."

 

John M. Floyd with “The Devil’s Right Hand.”

 

Joseph S. Walker with "Wrong Road to Nashville."

 

Amazon Description:

As he observed the commercialized and soulless country music scene, Waylon Jennings famously sang, “Where do we take it from here?” He answered that question by leaving Nashville and heading home to Texas, to help create what came to be known as outlaw country.

Today, looking at the crime fiction world, we find ourselves asking the same question. The grittiest, harshest, most disturbing fiction form is being cut off from its roots, sanitized, made “safe.”

In this volume, like Waylon did with the country genre in those bygone days, we’re looking to rock the boat. We asked for stories that aren't contorted to conform to commercial, or political, agendas.

We asked for outlaw fiction.

And we got it.

 

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