Celebrating Independent Authors
A hearty congrats to Sara Stark whose entry won this year’s Valentine’s Day prompt in the Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.
The voter-selected story is recognized with a special feature here today and wins a place in our 2015 Flash Fiction Anthology, which will be published as an eBook when this year’s challenges are completed.
Without further ado, here’s the winning story:
I’m a farmer and author. Hubby, however, expressly forbids me to have a milk cow despite the amount of milk we use. What does milk have to do with self-publishing anyway? Metaphorically speaking, a lot. When you milk a cow, that lovely milk hits the bucket and is all stirred up. Think of that milk as the publishing industry. Right now it’s a mixed bucket of Indie and traditionally published authors all out to win your hard-earned dollar. Everyone wants to sell books. And with so many books being published, the market has become diluted. I’ve watched my sales drop off sharply the last few months when they should be increasing due to the holidays. They’ve never done that — not in the five years I’ve been published. Continue reading “Will the Self-Publishing Cream Rise to the Top?”
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This song by Stereophonics is really not my cup of tea, but I found the premise behind the song quite intriguing. It seems (according to Wikipedia) that it “was written in response to a journalist who had toured with the band and had later given them negative reviews.” Just goes to show, if you piss off a writer, you’ll either end up in a book or a song, and not in a good way.
Here is Mr. Writer by Stereophonics.
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