As of May 1, 2024, you can get a copy of “Thiside of Anywhere” in Kindle (currently available for pre-order), paperback, or hardcover on Amazon!
Some of you may have gotten to read the first draft as the stories were being written in November when Thiside was still a writing challenge project. The full release versions have been updated, edited, and also include an appendix with a glossary and bestiary in the back. (Note: it’s highly recommended that you read those, too, because there’s more story there.)
“Thiside of Anywhere” is a 30-story cycle that describes the daily lives of a wide variety of cryptids, including some mothfolk, chupacabras, ghosts, shadow people, merfolk, sasquatch, rougarou, and many more. The stories are palindromic in that the first story is resolved in the last story, the second story in the second-to-last story, and so on, but the narratives are all related and revisited throughout.
And, just for a little trivia, I painted the cover in 2014. I think I’ll just paint all my covers from now on because, honestly, I love it. (I’ll let the professionals update the cover if it gets really popular.)