Before I start, have some free Sci Fi and Fantasy.

Dapper Men is a collection of stories that were all inspired by a single photo, which I can’t reprint here because I don’t own the copyright. But I can link to a New York Times Article I read about the picture in question because at the time my spouse, also in the collection of stories, was sending me hilarious Louvre heist videos. One such video, said there really needed to be story written about the dapper man in the photo. Thus my idea to gather my writer friends and challenge them to produce something in a week.

Writing a short story collection about the internet craze of the week is not the best idea because writing takes time and by the time you’re ready to publish everyone has moved on. In fact, they are even making arrests in the Louvre case as I write this. But even if you are reading this the day I published or even months or years from now, the stories are fun and we had a blast to see what we could produce in a week.

Despite dating the material by writing about a topic that will be forgotten in the next round of media frenzy, I felt that the stories here had a timeless quality to them. The Louvre heist may have been the inspiration but the stories that were created in the wake of the tragic incident were fun, very different from each other, and went in some very unexpected ways.

Mine is what long-time readers would expect from me, conspiracy rooted in ancient traditions that spoofs a Dan Brown novel. My spouse, Felicia wrote a slice of life story in a romance novel adjacent category, which is only a prelude to her entire romance adjacent novel series that she has been working on for the last few years. Finally, M.A. Gardner, who wrote a classic noir with cats steering the ship that is just too fun and weird to miss.

There were other writers invited into the collection, but as writers tend to be they didn’t like what they wrote and elected not to be involved. But I have my eye on them for future projects should I decide to invent a hairbrained story collection idea with a really tight turn around time.

To give you an idea of about how long books take from conception to publication, it’s about a year, and that’s real quick turn around by industry standards. So, a short story collection in a week is wild, but it was fun. We also just decided to lock up the inner critic and see what came out, and that is Dapper Men. 3 tales about a dashing crime scene investigator, which of course the real man in the photo was not connected to the Louvre heist at all, but the internet wanted him to be. So, I’m happy to be one of the people to help make that happen.

Dapper Men is a light, quick read, and intended to be nothing but fun. But if for some inexplicable reason, we do inadvertently solve the Louvre heist case, our services as psychic writing detectives are available at a low fee! We’ll happily take all your case information and write a fictious narrative story! It will innovate policing as we know it!

But seriously, if you are looking for a quick, fun read this week. Check out Dapper Men.

Thanks for being here.

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