Kristine Rusch has done a better job than most of making a success of self-publishing science fiction and fantasy. She blogs regularly about the business of writing and publishing. She is prolific and knows how to market to a niche audience. The series that began with Diving the Wreck has kept me engaged for over a decade. The key to self-publishing short stories is to give them more than one life. Magazines are not what they were a few decades ago, but anthologies still sell. Short stories and novellas can be ganged into series and published electronically. Stomping Mad moved from Return of the Dinosaurs, a 1997 Mike Resnick-Martin H. Greenberg anthology, to buck-a-throw electronic versions. Spade is a computer nerd who solves crimes, this one a head-stomping at a science fiction convention with a dinosaur theme. Stories like this are worthy loss-leaders for Rusch’s longer works. Give it four stars because it achieves its modest goals. ( )