 |
RIDE: Short Fiction about
Bicycles Edited by Keith Snyder Contains the poem SPOKE. |
|
RIDE is: (in story order) -SPOKE Stephen D. Rogers is the author of A Dictionary Of Made-Up Languages, co-author of A Miscellany Of Murder, and the award-winning writer of more than 700 shorter pieces. All of which pales in comparison to the times he had on his yellow Roadrunner with the split handlebars and the banana seat. -I’M BOB DEERMAN Paul Guyot is an award-winning television writer who turns to prose when he’s sick and tired of INT.’s and EXT.’s, which is happening more and more frequently. He climbs badly on a Trek Madone 6.5 in the Santa Monica mountains during the spring and over the hills of Missouri in the fall. -THE CYCLIST Simon Wood is an ex-racecar driver, a licensed pilot, an occasional private investigator and a mad keen road cyclist. He’s the Anthony Award winning author of a dozen books and his latest title is Did Not Finish, which heralds a new series set in the world of motorsport. Most of his plotlines are conjured up on century rides on his trusty Cannondale CAAD9. -THE HISTORY OF THE BI-CYCLE David A.V. Elver is a screenwriter, writer and amateur ichthyologist who lives with 97 parakeets in a great big city by the sea (no, not that one; the other one). He rides a 21-speed Specialized Allez Sport, which has as many years as it does gears. David is convinced that symmetry will give him a lock on the Planche des Belles Filles stage of next year’s Tour. -ANGEL LUST Christopher Ryan lives, writes and rides in the bicycle wonderland of Helsinki, Finland, where studded tires are a birthright. -MIDNIGHT IN BARCELONA Teresa Peipins spent many years in Barcelona though she recently returned to Western New York. Her second chapbook, A Remedy of Touch will be out this spring. Her bike is a Kalamar which is suggestive of a sea creature but it has brought her freedom and pleasure in equal measures. -BOB’S BIKE SHOP Kent Peterson lives a car-free life with his wife Christine in Issaquah, Washington. When he’s not riding his bike or working on bikes he’s probably reading, writing, posting on Twitter as @kentsbike or blogging about bikes. -IN THE MANNER OF MEN Keith Snyder detoured into indie film and parenthood, but he’s back to climbing his fifth novel. If you see a guy on an orange Trek or silver Xootr riding through slush in the Tri-State area when the weather’s too lousy for everybody else, it’s probably him. -RED DOT Barbara Jaye Wilson, artist, writer, author of the Agatha-nominated Brenda Midnight mystery series. The last time she rode a bike…well, that’s another story. Then again, maybe it isn’t. -And resident artist… The cover and interior art are by Taliah Lempert, whose paintings of well-worn and well-loved bicycles appear at bicyclepaintings.com. |
|
| Buy Ride for the Kindle | |
| What people
are saying:
This one of those books that was put together for love, outside of the mainstream publishing scene. Before I ever read anything in Ride, I liked the idea of it: a book of short stories, all of which have cycling as part of the story.
[...] That said, even on its own I would have enjoyed this book. There are nine stories to be exact. Each of the stories are as different from one another as the people who wrote them, but there is a nice flow that transcends through the entire book making it a seamless journey from start to finish. |
|
|
