Celebrating Independent Authors
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The time has come to choose this week’s winner in the Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge. On behalf of the IU staff, we want to thank the entrants for doing such a great job with the writing prompt and the merciless constraints of the exercise.
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by Donna Huston Murray
Going independent–lots of authors are doing it, and now I have, too.
It was not an easy decision, complicated by the lucky fact that my track record–seven cozy mysteries put out by a major NY publisher–still garnered interest from agents and editors. But since my series character is pretty much a smarter, braver me, when my contracts were fulfilled, I welcomed the chance to live in somebody else’s head for a while. Shunning the “Write what you know” advice teachers hand out with your first yellow pencil, I chose the less-heard and infinitely trickier “Write what you fear” route. I wanted a heroic woman this time, and to my mind nobody is more heroic than a person who has endured cancer. Let’s make her a cop before she got sick so she has skills, even if she doesn’t expect to need them again. Now remove her resources one by one for no apparent reason, and the plot for CURED is in motion. I just didn’t figure on Lauren Beck’s second major life challenge taking up so much of mine. Yet we both toughed it out, and I’m happy to report that CURED is finally finished. Continue reading “Declaring My Independence”
Author Rich Meyer is pleased to announce his new release, the Trivia Quiz Book Volume 5.
Once again, here are 500 easily-navigated questions and answers in the latest volume of the Trivia Quiz Book e-book series by “award-winning #1 best-selling author” Rich Meyer. These are all family-friendly questions suitable for all ages and most everyone find the smile of a good memory on their lips while trying to remember an answer. The subjects for this book are Cult Films, Board Games, the radio show Lum and Abner, Bugs Bunny, the television show The Twilight Zone, Advertising Slogans, the comic book super-team the Avengers, Fictional Detectives, and Big Bands.
The Trivia Quiz Book Volume 5 was self-published by Rich Meyer in July 2012. It is available from Amazon and Amazon UK. Learn more about author Rich Meyer at his Amazon author page.
