Introducing Book Smugglers Publishing’s summer 2016 season of superhero short stories! BOOK SMUGGLERS PUBLISHING PROUDLY PRESENTS Five Short Stories (and a brand new series) for the SuperReader First, there was the season of Subversive Fairy Tales. Second, there were Tales of First Contact and the pulpy, hard-boiled Spindle City Mysteries. This year, we Book Smugglers are proud to bring you THE YEAR OF THE SUPERHERO! This season’s Origin Story started when our Intrepid Editors Ana Grilo and Thea James embraced their long standing love for Superheroes (practically speaking, this season’s short story theme was as inevitable as a full-blown X-Men retcon and as inescapable as a Batman-Superman crossover movie). When we put up the Bat Signal (e.g. opened up the submissions call), we could not have predicted the amount of sheer awesomeness that landed in our inbox. Trying to decide which short stories to publish was excruciating–harder, even, than choosing sides between Iron Man and Captain America. After weeks of agonizing over the submissions, we selected five short stories–and one new series. One short story is Urban Fantasy Noir, starring a superhero mantis who keeps the peace over a pine tree. Another story takes an imaginative twist on basically every […]