{"id":27,"date":"2011-05-02T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T10:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2024-03-11T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T21:35:30","slug":"short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0had four\u00a0short stories and a novella published, all as the result of direct commissions. I really enjoyed writing them and would love to do more, but I find that ideas for short stories\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0drop into my head unbidden. I&#8217;m unlikely to spontaneously sit down to write one and need the spur of a\u00a0commission\u00a0and a brief.<\/p>\n<h2>Sniper Elite V2: Target Hitler (2012)<\/h2>\n<p>A novella released as an ebook to tie-in with the launch of the computer game <em>Sniper Elite V2<\/em>\u00a0on which I was the lead writer. It&#8217;s available from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/KHf1fG\">Amazon <\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/KepIZL\">Kobo <\/a>&amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/sniper-elite-scott-k-andrews\/1111895562\">Nook<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Grit (2012)<\/h2>\n<p>A weird wild west tale set in a shared universe created by Jared Shurin and Anne Perrry\u00a0and nine hugely talented co-conspirators, this tale appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jurassic-london.com\/a-town-called-pandemonium.html\"><em>A Town called Pandemonium<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>A Private Viewing (2011)<\/h2>\n<p>The first outright horror tale I wrote, this appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13021395-pandemonium\">Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s now completely out of print.<\/p>\n<h2>The Anchorite\u2019s Echo (2005)<\/h2>\n<p>A story featuring the seventh Doctor and Ace. This story appeared in the Doctor Who anthology <a title=\"Short Trips: A History of Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/History-Christmas-Short-Anthology-Doctor\/dp\/1844351491\/\">Short Trips: A History of Christmas<\/a> (Big Finish, 2005), which was edited by Simon Guerrier. This book is now out of print, but you can <a href=\"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/doctor-who-the-anchorites-echo\/\">read the story on this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have\u00a0had four\u00a0short stories and a novella published, all as the result of direct commissions. I really enjoyed writing them and would love to do more, but I find that ideas for short stories\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0drop into my head unbidden. I&#8217;m unlikely to spontaneously sit down to write one and need the spur of a\u00a0commission\u00a0and a brief. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottkandrews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}