Entering Kindle Direct Publishing Select

Here we are: new year, new adven­tures, and I’ve just enrolled May 5 & The Assas­sin into Amazon’s Kin­dle Direct Pub­lish­ing Select, or KDP Select if you pre­fer, which I do — cer­tainly catch­ier. Why? What? Who, how and so on..? If you’re

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If It Hadn’t Been For Love

Another Fri­day writ­ing exer­cise, and a Song Shuf­fle Sto­ries one this time out. The idea? Set your tune-player to ran­dom and the first song that comes up, that’s the title of your story. I hap­pened on ‘If It Hadn’t Been For Love’ care

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Dash In: What Sexy Alien Women Want

The fol­low­ing is in reply to Chuck Wendig’s Fri­day Fic­tion Chal­lenge. I chose Lost World/Bodice Rip­per. (M for a wee bit of language) Have fun. —             She came run­ning at me, her hair a brown the

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I’m On Fire

CALM DOWN, it’s okay… breath. I’m not really on fire. I was just being dra­matic for the pur­poses of the post title. The truth is, well we got a Kin­dle Fire from my dear old mother-in-law — and who said in-laws were

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A Distraction Called Skyrim

I took a wan­der, it’s fair to say, and met a friend, the other day… just kid­ding, I’m not going to badly rhyme this entire thing. It’s been a cou­ple of months since I last poked my head from the

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Guilty Blood

Hello my lovelies. Another story writ­ten for Chuck Wendig’s Fri­day Flash thingy­ma­jig. The rules this time: 3 out of 5 words, and includ­ing a vam­pire. Total WC no more than 1k. GO! — Novem­ber 19th, 2011 Dear Kather­ine,             I hope

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Short Story Factory

Whoa, what hap­pened there. I put out a few things, was feel­ing rather busy and then… last week struck. Not sure what the hell was going on, but all of a sud­den stress hit me — noth­ing in par­tic­u­lar, mind

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Make-A-Monster: August McCrea

Chuck Wendig has once again hunted down a new Fri­day Flash for us, and this week it’s about Mon­sters - cre­ate one and write about it in around 1k words. So… Here. We. Go. — Back a hun­dred years or so, my granddaddy,

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October

Hello Octo­ber, it’s been a while… say, a year? Got to be hon­est, I’m not over the moon about see­ing you again as every time you visit, I get wet and the fate of cold nights loom. You’re like a

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6 Things I Learned Writing And The Stars Ran Red

Know­ing where you’re start­ing from, doesn’t mean you know where you’re going. That’s a pretty staunch fact for a writer such as myself, one that, bar a few details, makes every­thing up as they go along. They call us pansters,

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