Month: June 2014

Fathers Day Reads

Bill Cosby FatherhoodIn celebration of Fathers Day next weekend, let’s salute good old Dad in a literary fashion.

In the comments below, please tell us about your favorite book with a “dad” main character, or just books you think would be a perfect gift for Dad.  Please do it as follows:

Title: Fatherhood
Author: Bill Cosby
Link: www.amazon.com/Fatherhood-Bill-Cosby/dp/0425097722/
Why: Um, seriously? Because who doesn’t like pudding?!

If you wrote a book about a dad, please don’t list yourself. Do the honorable thing and pay a friend to do it. (Remember, IU is a PG13 and Safe-for-Work site.)

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Yvonne Hertzberger Wins Flash Fiction Challenge

Congratulations to Yvonne, whose entry won this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.

The voter-selected story is recognized with a special feature here today and wins a place in our 2014 Flash Fiction Anthology, which will be published as an e-book when this year’s challenges are completed.

Without further ado, here’s the winning story:

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Book Brief: SwanSong

SwanSongSwanSong
by Lynne Cantwell
Genre: YA Fantasy
Word count: 88,533

Rhyn, a widowed Wolleni, depressed over the death in childbirth of his beloved half-Tslyddi wife, is ordered by the king to marry his dead wife’s sister. But the new wife becomes jealous of Rhyn’s children — two sets of twins, a girl and three boys — and plots to turn them into swans. The spell goes awry, and the children are only partially transformed. Worse, they must spent 900 years in their new shapes, in ever more wild and isolated places — and they have no guarantee that they will ever be normal again. But least they can still sing.

Based on the Irish tale of “The Fate of the Children of Lír,” SwanSong is the story of how Neeve, Kennet, Corwin and Kyl cope with their transformed bodies in a land where magic is dying.

This book is available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble. Continue reading “Book Brief: SwanSong”

NewsBites: LogoMania!

NewsBitesWelcome to NewsBites. You probably know we earned our reputation when one of our tankers, the Indies Unlimited Valdez, carrying a load of snark-enhanced truth, sprang a leak and coated random penguins with ugly, sticky facts. Or maybe that was just a dream I had.

Regardless, it is our job to drill deep down into the inky recesses of the internet and pump out delicious and nutritious truth. Then we strip out all the boring stuff. You’re welcome. Continue reading “NewsBites: LogoMania!”