Month: June 2013

Flash Fiction Challenge: When I Grow Up

Photo by K.S. Brooks

I wonder what kind of dog I’ll be when I grow up. Maybe I’ll be an athlete and join the ball and Frisbee crowd at the park.

Maybe I’ll be a sportsman, trailing dangerous game through the fields and forests.

Oh! I know what I’ll be…

In 250 words or less, tell us a story incorporating the elements in the picture. The 250 word limit will be strictly enforced.

Please keep language and subject matter to a PG-13 level.

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LynneQuisition: David Gaughran

My LynneQuisition victim – er, guest – this month is David Gaughran. David probably needs no introduction to this crowd. He’s the author of a couple of novels and a short story collection, as well as the bestselling Let’s Get Digital about the nuts and bolts of indie publishing (which, as it happens, is 99 cents at Amazon this weekend). His new book, Let’s Get Visible, is all about marketing, which the gods know I need help with.

Buy Let’s Get Digital from Amazon US or Amazon UK. Buy Let’s get Visible from Amazon US or Amazon UK.

So David, thanks very much for writing this. Nearly all of the “how to” books about making money at Amazon are from the P.A.C. (Pre-Algorithm Change) era. I get the sense that you still think Select is worthwhile — at least for some authors, or for authors in some genres.

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Rich Meyer Doubles

For the second week in a row Rich Meyer’s entry was chosen by readers as the favorite in the Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.

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.

Without further ado, here’s the winning entry:

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Sneak Peek: Please, no eyes

Today we have a sneak peek from author JD Mader’s collection of literary fiction short stories: Please, no eyes.

Please, no eyes. is a collection of short stories written over the span of a decade. Many of them are set in San Francisco. They are glimpses into lives. Ugly, beautiful, and often both, these stories evoke deep empathy through deeper character development. All are steeped in Mader’s raw, gritty style. Music, mayhem, and sometimes love…they bloom in the strangest places. These are fictional stories, but they are really about all of us. Mader and his characters have at least one thing in common: they want only to live in fiction, as water flows through trembling hands.

Please, no eyes is available from Amazon and Amazon UK.

And now, an excerpt from Please, no eyes….

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