Apex, the home of Geoff’s first professionally published short story, turned five years old on March 16th. A hearty congrats to Jason and the whole team who’ve turned out such great books and stories. In five years they’ve grown from a semi-pro print zine to a book publisher and online prozine. One of their stories is even nominated for a Nebula Award this year!

To help celebrate, Jason is offering $5 off any purchase at Apex. Why not use this great discount to buy a copy of Descended from Darkness, which includes Geoff’s story “Shaded Streams Run Clearest“?

Fads come and go, as we all know (yes, even you prehistoric humans seem to grasp this one), yet your culture seems to think the publishing industry is about to do a back-flip thanks to the advent of wide-spread digital book readers. I won’t tell how you how this little adventure resolves itself, other than to say that competing with neural shunts is always a bad idea, but for those of you who have indulged in a an ebook reader or Kindle*, Descended from Darkness, which included Geoff’s “Shaded Streams Run Clearest“, can now be downloaded to your reader of choice.

Those of you who prefer paper can always got to this link to buy a hard copy (with the proceeds going to Geoff Cole).

*An interesting note: while Kindle and other ebook readers are quite smart little devices, there is one task they’ll never be able to perform as well as a good, old-fashioned dead-tree reader, and that is to serve as kindling. I’m not advocating burning books, far from it, but if your single-engine plane happens to stall over the Himalayas and you survive the crash, what would you rather have in your pocket? The DaVinci Code, with its readily burnable pages, or the collected works of medieval English literature on your deceptively-named Kindle?