Month: April 2014

Time to Vote!

Vote!It’s time once again to make your choice for the flash fiction challenge. Who will win? You get to decide! No pressure or anything, but the winning entries will all be included in the next edition of the IU Flash Fiction Anthology.

Go ahead and take a look at this week’s entries here. Make your decision, then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word.

Voting polls close Thursday at 5 PM Pacific time.

Who wrote the story that was just right for the flash fiction challenge?

  • S.A. Molteni (80%, 33 Votes)
  • Jon Jefferson (15%, 6 Votes)
  • Little White Bear (Cikala Ska Matho) (5%, 2 Votes)
  • Mira Prabhu (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Venkatesh Iyer (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 41

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NOTE: Entrants whose submissions exceed the 250 word limit are eliminated from the poll.

More New Releases for April

Got your tax refund? Why not spend it on some new indie releases?

The Picture of Cool 120x177The Picture of Cool by Laurie Boris

A television producer’s cool façade hides his lonely heart, until he meets a handsome man whose secret could turn their lives upside down.

The Picture of Cool is available through Amazon.com and Amazon UK.

Science Fiction Trivia 120x177Science Fiction Trivia Quiz Book by Rich Meyer

From Arthur C. Clarke to the X-Files, the Science Fiction Trivia Quiz Book covers all things sci-fi with 500 family-friendly questions!

Science Fiction Trivia Quiz Book is available on Amazon.com  and Amazon UK.

Undertow 120x177Undertow by Lynne Cantwell

Navy Lt. Darrell Warren must infiltrate a terrorist plot to blow up the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel — and there’s a hurricane on the way.

Undertow: Land, Sea, Sky Book 2,  is available from Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Amazon UK.

Reboot Your Life 120x177Reboot Your Life by Paul Gibbons

Reboot Your Life is a 12 day process for getting what you want from life – creating a vision and goals, and learning the latest productivity techniques.

Reboot Your Life is available at Amazon.com and Amazon UK.
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Saving Gracie 120x177Saving Gracie by Nancy DeMarco

A dead man sends text messages, a missing person is duct taped to a toilet, and a ghost forces Gracie to “follow the beagle” to save a life.

Saving Gracie is available through Amazon.com, Smashwords, and Amazon UK.

Goodreads Spring-fest

This past Monday, Melinda Clayton showed us how to advertise with Goodreads. So how about we stir things up with a Goodreads like-fest?

Today you can share your author page and find new friends. For your profile, grab that URL which should look like this: https://www.goodreads.com/KSBrooks and paste it in the comments below.  (Not sure where to find your fancy URL? See the image below and look for the aqua arrow.) goodreads like buttonNow everyone can “Like” your author page.  The “Like” button is found about 1/3 of the way down the page on the same side as the author photo. Clicking on that will show that you like that author’s page on your Facebook wall. There’s also a Google+ button there, so if you have a Google+ account and you’re feeling generous, go ahead and click on that, too. Still not sure where the “like” button is? Click on this thumbnail to enlarge it and look for the magenta arrow.

[Don’t forget, if you right-click the links, you can choose to have them open in a separate tab so you don’t have to worry about navigating back and forth to pages.]

PLEASE be sure to reciprocate by liking those who like you. This is give and take. If everyone plays by the golden rule, we all benefit.

Serving the Story – Part 2

Sycamore tree by Melissa BowersockIn an earlier post, I talked about how the ending — indeed, every part — must serve the story. It may not be obvious, but we writers may actually have several forces tugging at us, and they often don’t agree in either intent or methodology. We have the story, of course. The story is what drives us; it’s what inhabits us until we get it down. In most cases, I would say that the story is outside of us, even though it’s inside of us. What I mean is that it’s not ours — it doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to the characters; it belongs to the theme. All we are doing is writing it down. Continue reading “Serving the Story – Part 2”