{"id":136,"date":"2016-09-23T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sfreader.com\/review\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2018-05-16T08:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T12:53:50","slug":"david-l-felts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/personal-pages\/david-l-felts\/","title":{"rendered":"David L. Felts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings fellow fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a former writer of short stories (and one novel) who&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-L.-Felts\/e\/B00PCBRDBQ\">work is available through Amazon<\/a>. Some of my stories have been previously published and you might recognize them. Other are brand new and have never been seen anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Troder&#8221; was a winner in the Writers of the Future contest way back in 1997; the story appeared in volume 13 of the series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dead Bird&#8221; was the 1999 Chiaroscuro Story Contest Winner.<\/p>\n<p>Other stories of mine have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Vampire Dan&#8217;s Story Emporium, Neverworlds Online, Flesh and Blood, and the anthologies Sages &amp; Swords, Lords of Swords, and A High Shrill Thump: War Stories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromsf.tripod.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/msf_title-250x59.gif\" alt=\"msf_title\" width=\"250\" height=\"59\" \/><\/a>Back in the late 90s I edited and published <a href=\"http:\/\/maelstromsf.tripod.com\/\">Maelstrom SF<\/a>, a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine. I put out 8 issues over 2 years. You can even find some of the back issues floating around Amazon!<\/p>\n<p>I also run this site, <a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/\">SFReader.com<\/a>, one of the Internet&#8217;s oldest speculative fiction (and more!) book review sites. SFReader has been online since 2001. I publish <a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/category\/fiction-feature\/\">fiction features<\/a> and run an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/annual-story-contest\/\">SFReader Short Story Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>My Stories on Amazon<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Heartfire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ronald has to power to take the life energy from others &#8212; their Heartfire &#8212; a power he has used too long in service of one he calls Mother, but who is not who or what\u00a0she pretends to be.<\/p>\n<p>They are running, but from what and for so long that Ronald has no memory of a time before.<\/p>\n<p>What happens when the past finally catches up to them? When Ronald is finally able to decide his own fate?<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heartfire-David-L-Felts-ebook\/dp\/B00PLZ50O0\/\">Get H<em>eartfire\u00a0<\/em>on Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heartfire-David-L-Felts-ebook\/dp\/B00PLZ50O0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1260 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/heartfire-felts-156x250.jpg\" alt=\"heartfire-felts\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/heartfire-felts-156x250.jpg 156w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/heartfire-felts.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>The Rain King<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who knows the power of kings and wizards in their grief, or the depth of their madness?<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Stay away&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Thus is Miri warned when she tells of seeing the Rain King down by the banks of the great river. Yet Miri has a question only the Rain King &#8212; or his ghost &#8212; can answer: Is there a sun?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rain-King-Short-Fantasy-Story-ebook\/dp\/B00PKE1CJY\/\">Get <em>The Rain King\u00a0<\/em>on Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rain-King-Short-Fantasy-Story-ebook\/dp\/B00PKE1CJY\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1262 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/felts-the-rain-king-156x250.jpg\" alt=\"felts-the-rain-king\" width=\"156\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/felts-the-rain-king-156x250.jpg 156w, https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/felts-the-rain-king.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings fellow fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror! I&#8217;m a former writer of short stories (and one novel) who&#8217;s work is available through Amazon. Some of my stories have been previously published and you might recognize them. Other are brand new and have never been seen anywhere. &#8220;Troder&#8221; was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":133,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/5406"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfreader.com\/r\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}