As part of an bi-monthly interview series, President and Editor-in-Chief of Tales From the Year Between Chris Vandyke sits down with Jim Royce to talk about writing, how he decided he had stories that needed to be told, and the joy of discovering new words.

Jim's short stories appear in both "Pray, Love, Remember," appears in our weird-fiction anthology, Loathsome Voyages

You can follow Jim on Twitter as @authorJLRoyce.
 
Some of his upcoming fiction includes:

• Coming up soon on Creepy (https://www.creepypod.com/episodes) will be 'I Shall Hire a Weeping Woman' - a professional pretender comes to a messy end.
• This Summer, Little Demon Digest Volume 3 (https://littledemonbooks.wordpress.com/) includes his SF story, 'The Coffee Shop Crowd'. Think you know how the surveillance state will work? Think again.
• This September, Inklings Press (http://www.inklingspress.com/anthologies.html) will be releasing Tales From Alternate Earths Volume 3, including Jim's SF/noir romp, 'Not My Monkey'. If you like your detectives with long, hairy arms, meet Will Shakespeare: panhuman private eye. 

If you want to read Jim's work, you can find it in a number of anthologies, including Loathsome Voyages, which you can get (along with the rest of Skullgate's books) directly from our website, http://www.skullgatemedia.com, as well as Amazon or wherever books are sold. If you're interested in being part of the next volume of Tales From the Year Between, check out the details at http://www.yearbetween.com. Make sure to subscribe to our channel and follow us on twitter--@skullgatemedia