Yesterday I mentioned that I shelved a story I had been struggling with for the past month and picked up something I shelved last summer. I pushed my way through the story and now I have a first draft. The title is “Espantalho,” which is Portuguese for Scarecrow. It’s a… Continue reading
This is the second day since I trunked two dozen short stories in an effort to kickstart my productivity. I thought since I had no trouble creating eBooks for the 21st-Century Author that I would have momentum on my side when I returned to fiction. That seems not to be… Continue reading
After some reflection of where my writing career is going, I’ve made some decisions that involve a difficult choice. I just went through my spreadsheet of short stories that are currently in the market and I culled sub-par material. That was a difficult process because some of these stories have… Continue reading
I’ve been preparing to start moving my short stories into the Kindle store, starting with the “How to…” series. For Kindle, I placed all three stories into one volume. That will also be available on my own web site soon. As part of Amazon’s agreement, I cannot sell anything available… Continue reading
While I am still in the middle of debugging how to create ebooks out of my published short fiction, I have made quite a bit of progress. I thought I would share some of the resources that I’ve uncovered and get them into one place. In the long run, I’ll… Continue reading
I made a little more progress on ebooks today. Looks like the Kindle version of How to Thwart a Dictator is mostly working, though I’m struggling to figure out a couple of irritating little nuances. For epub format, I’m still having trouble, but I did find a new tutorial online. … Continue reading
The near-future anthology “2020 Visions” that I am editing got some life pumped into it this morning. I can’t spill the details yet, but I received two submissions that I am very excited about, written by authors with whom the rest of the contributors will be very pleased to share… Continue reading
I spent a good part of the morning today converting my story How to Thwart a Dictator into new and exciting ebook formats. The story has been posted in PDF format on my website for free download the past two months. (You can find it here.) I made some decent… Continue reading
It’s been a busy last couple of evenings. I spent the better part of the evening hours on the 31st and 1st getting a bunch of stories that had been collecting digital dust on my hard drive back out into the market. It has been a great while since I… Continue reading
I learned today that I won my 10th honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. It’s very frustrating on the one hand, because I have never placed into the semi-finals. But they say that of the thousands of entries, honorable mentions go to the top 10%. I always… Continue reading
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