Celebrating Independent Authors
Today we’re pleased to announce Dick Waters as the winner of the Indies Unlimited weekly Flash Fiction competition.
The winning entry is rewarded with a special feature here today and a place in our collection of winners which will be published as an e-book at year end.
Congratulations to Dick, and thanks to everyone who participated – excellent entries! Now, without further ado, here’s the winning entry: Continue reading “Flash Fiction Winner: Dick C. Waters”
Yes, I totally stole this post title from a Counting Crows album. I’m an old guy, so sue me. No wait, please don’t.
All last month, my Ed’s Casual Friday column here at IU consisted of a four-part look at one-star reviews on a hundred novels regarded as the “best” literature has to offer. The astute among you may have noticed that doing those four articles allowed me to write a full month of posts all at once, and then basically not show up for the rest of July. My lack of presence was not exclusive to IU, but to all the “social media outlets” around which us writerly types tend to congregate. Facebook pages, boards, groups, sites, lists, on and on, ad nauseum. I largely stayed off line for all of July, and I didn’t really do any writing, either. After finishing the fourth book in a series and releasing it at the end of June, before launching into book five I took a couple Mental Health days that turned into a week, and then the full month. Continue reading “Ed’s Casual Friday: August and Everything After…”
M.K. Graff is pleased to announce the release of her new mystery novel: The Green Remains.
American writer Nora Tierney is living at Ramsey Lodge in England’s Lake District, anticipating two life-changing events: the publication of her first children’s book and the birth of her first child. Choosing a name and checking proof pages with her illustrator, Simon Ramsey, fill her days—until a lakeside stroll leads her to discover the corpse of the heir to Clarendon Hall.
When Simon is implicated in the murder, Nora dives headfirst into the investigation to discover the real killer. As the body count rises, Nora and her unborn child face perils she never anticipated in this second Nora Tierney mystery.
The Green Remains was published by Bridle Path Press in April 2012. It is available in print from Amazon.com.
There was a time when all I wanted out of writing was to get the madness in my mind out. There are too many thoughts in there. A lot of them are not pleasant. So, I write and it somehow drains the bad ones out a little bit. Now, I write for lots of reasons, including money. But that brain drain is still important.
Someone who cares a lot about me questioned the logic of writing “dark” stories the other day. I love this person and respect their opinion. The argument was that, since I dabble in depression anyway, writing dark, bleak, sad, and sometimes depressing stories must be a bad idea. Continue reading “The Beautiful Darkness”
