ANDREW BISS

The End of the World! Yes, it's getting a little limelight today courtesy of Greg at Ereader News Today . It also has the book trailer up on the site, so if you haven't seen it yet, please head on over there by clicking here and check it out!

Kindle Fire Department: The End of the World: Today's Kindle Book of the D... : Wildly imaginative and breathtakingly surreal, The End of the World from award-winning author Andrew Biss will give you a once-in-a-lifeti...

Good grief, I can't believe how long it's been since I last blogged! The fact is, I've been so busy lately that I've barely had time to catch my breath. Even my extensive newspaper reading ( The Guardian ) has been heavily curtailed, just giving myself enough time to catch up on the eurozone crisis, the atrocities of the pencil-necked Bashar al-Assad, and Baby . But, for the moment at least, I have a little breathing space, and so I'm trying to catch up with everything that got a little sidelined recently. The most exciting news is that the audio version of Schism will soon be available for discriminating shoppers everywhere. It's narrated by the shockingly talented Peter Bishop , and will be available for purchase in the next few weeks at Amazon, Audible.com and iTunes. It may not be 'Listen with Mother' material - a bit too, er...gritty, shall we say? - but quite honestly, that old poster is just as disturbing, if you ask me. It looks like some nigh...

If you don't, you can get one for just 99c (or about 64p ) in the Kindle Store. Yes, that's right, another short story release from the upcoming collection Strange Tales of the Curiously Uncommon is available now. Don't delay! The complete collection should be released before the end of the month, or early February at the latest. Now, one of my New Year's resolutions was not to shill my books so much on my blog, so having gotten that out of the way... Random thoughts: As of the 15th day of this New Year, we've had 22 murders here in the fair city of Philadelphia. We average around the same number of murders as there are days in a calendar year, so we're off to a bad start. To give some kind of comparison, London, with an urban population of around 8.5 million people has an average of 171 murders a year. The urban population of Philadelphia is about 0.5 million. Yes, it's that bad. There's a reason we have acquired the unfortunate nickname of Killadelp...

Yes, it's my first post of 2012 and despite my resolution to shill less often with my posts, I'm starting off the year by doing just that! Well, in this case I sort of have too, as this is a new book release. Yes, A Stunning Confession is finally live in the Kindle Store! It's a quirky, darkly humorous short story taken from my forthcoming collection "Strange Tales of the Curiously Uncommon" . Here's an overview: As Ron and Jan made themselves comfortable on their sofa, they thought they were settling in for just another quiet night in front of the television. But beneath the surface of this seemingly benign evening of domestic routine, each was withholding a guilty secret from the other, and on this particular evening one of them found they could contain themselves no longer. Questionable paternity, a murderous child, artificial insemination - all of this paled in comparison to the evening's final, sensational revelation! I hope to have the complete coll...

Yes, it's that time of the year when otherwise normal-seeming people everywhere cut loose, get wasted and scream like banshees between shots of Jägermeister (or heaves). Thanks to all who follow my blog, visibly or otherwise, and for taking the time to read my posts. Next year I'll continue to update this place with news of my books and current writing projects, but I also plan to have a lot more random posts about anything that interests me (though whether they'll interest you remains to be seen :). 2011 has been a mixed bag for me. On the plus side, I began my ePublishing journey (inspired in no small part by the most lovely Helen Smith), and 9 months since I first went up on Amazon I can tell you I've learned so much. Sometimes the hard way, but sometimes that's the best way. So I enter 2012 with a lot more knowledge than I had at the beginning of the last, and a determination to get my work in front of as many people as I can. The adapting will continue, of cour...

Yes, okay, it's a free download, but trust me, getting big downloads, even for free copies, can be quite a challenge. Yesterday I decided to do a 2-day free promotion of my short story collection The Impressionists to see if I could get it some attention that it had been severely lacking. I consider the stories in that collection some of my best writing, and as proud as I am of them, it pained me to see them drift off into that vast sea of obscurity in Amazon's mega slush pile. So imagine my surprise (not to mention happiness) when I saw that it had reached the #1 spot for short stories (free bestseller list) on Amazon US! I just hope that when those who have downloaded it get around to pulling it out of their (probably massive, with all the free books that are available right now) TBR list, that they enjoy them. Meanwhile, I'm just enjoying having reached this little milestone. Back later with my end of year final post!