Month: May 2012

The American Short(er) Fiction Prize

The American Short(er) Fiction Prize is now open! Got something great that’s right around 1,000 words? Or under? They’d like to see it.

First prize receives $500 and publication. Second prize receives $250 and publication. You may enter as many times as you like. Each separate entry requires its own entry fee of $15.

Deadline: May 15, 2012. Submissions are accepted online via the ASF Submission Manager.

For more information, please visit their website.

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Don’t Ask…with JD Mader.

Let me share my wisdom.

I am about to admit something that I have never really told anyone. My wife did not know until yesterday. None of my friends know. My family doesn’t know. If you’ve read my stuff before, you know that I am kind of an open book, but there is one thing I have always held back. And now I am going to tell you. And you may look at me differently. I am prepared to accept that. You may hate me or pity me – I understand. I accept the ramifications of this announcement. I am no longer afraid. I am coming out of my closet of shame.  Are you ready?

Continue reading “Don’t Ask…with JD Mader.”

Sneak Peek: Beyond Guilty by Richard Brawer

Today we have a sneak peek from author Richard Brawer’s suspense/thriller, Beyond Guilty:

Beyond GuiltyAt fifteen, Eileen Robinson lives in an ideal, middle class African-American family in Houston, Texas. When her father is murdered, an innocent victim in a drive by shooting, her sheltered life spirals downward into gloom. Her once stay-at-home mother is forced to go to work cleaning offices at night. Instead of enjoying her carefree teenage years hanging with her friends, Eileen is relegated to babysitting her two younger sisters. One night she sneaks out on them. Trying to cook something, they die in a fire. Tormented and wanting to kill herself, Eileen runs away from home. Befriended by a drug dealer, she moves in with him. At twenty-one she is a single mother of two, falsely convicted of killing a state senator’s son. At thirty-two she is executed. Or is she?

Beyond Guilty is available in print and for Kindle at Amazon.com, and in print and for Nook at Barnes & Noble. Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Beyond Guilty by Richard Brawer”

Amazon.com and the Anti-Trust Suit by Arline Chase

I have seen many, many, many articles accusing Amazon.com of “ruining” the publishing industry and implying that the Justice Department is after them in an anti-trust lawsuit that is making on-going news.

Recently the NY TIMES (who should know better) posted yet another such inaccurate article. Someone with actual knowledge of the e-book industry dissected it and if you want to see what they said, click here: http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/the-worst-article-about-the-ebooks-anti-trust-suit/

For those who want to know the facts:

1. Nobody is suing Amazon.com! Anti-trust means the company is cheating their customers.

2. The Justice Department filed the price-fixing anti-trust lawsuit against the Big 6 paper publishers and the Apple computer corporation, not against Amazon.com.

3. Amazon sets prices on the books that they sell. This is Big News? Every retailer in the country sets prices on the goods they sell. Some offer discounts. Customers like discounts. Continue reading “Amazon.com and the Anti-Trust Suit by Arline Chase”