Month: October 2013

Flash Fiction Challenge: Hell Comes to Breakfast

The good-looking guy on my right is Valentin Karmanov. He’s an FSB agent and my best contact in the Russian intelligence community.

Lately, the information he’s gotten for me has turned out to be not so good. Our station chief thinks maybe the Russians are onto him.

I was concerned as well. I should have been more concerned. I did not make the older guy in the shades to my left, but I saw a reflection in Valentin’s sunglasses of the guy making a move for his gun.

The station chief always insists there be no gun play in public venues. Sometimes you don’t get what you want.

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.

Use the comment section below to submit your entry. Entries will be accepted until Tuesday at 5:00 PM Pacific Time. Continue reading “Flash Fiction Challenge: Hell Comes to Breakfast”

Jacqueline Hopkins is This Week’s Flash Fiction Star

Congrats to Jacqueline Hopkins, the readers’ choice in this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.

The winning entry is recognized 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 story:

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Who or What is New Publisher House?

I just love big numbers, don’t you? Especially when they have a dollar sign in front of them. Take this one: $52 billion. A good-sized number, wouldn’t you say? I mean, if you took 52 billion dollar bills and stretched them end-to-end, they would reach…um…a really long way. (Liberal arts major here, okay?)

Why my fixation on this number? A new, and somewhat mysterious, company called New Publisher House featured it prominently it in the executive summary of “State of Independence 2014,” its report on indie publishing: “The self-publishing book market in the US currently represents over $52 billion in untapped revenue. This is twice the size of the established mainstream book publishing market’s total annual sales revenue.” Continue reading “Who or What is New Publisher House?”

Will You Like Booklikes?

Will you like BookLikes? Only you can answer that. We have an introduction to BookLikes by Lynne Cantwell here: https://indiesunlimited.com/2015/02/12/how-is-booklikes-for-authors/.

If you are already using BookLikes and would like to know how to use some of the more advanced features,  you can find an entire page of BookLikes tutorials here (thanks to Rasana Atreya): http://mandym.booklikes.com/post/470414/booklikes-tutorials

Does BookLikes have a certain feature you love? Let us know – drop us a line using the contact form. We’d love to hear from you.