Zombie Short Stories!

Author and anthology editor Mitzi Szereto is looking for original short stories for her new anthology, Love, Lust and Zombies.

Prizes: Payment from $50-$70 plus two copies of anthology, to be published in the fall of 2013.

Entry fee: none

Deadline is Sunday, February 10, 2013. For more information, please visit her website.

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Sneak Peek: Under the Desert Moon

under the desert moonToday we have a sneak peek from author Emma Meade’s new paranormal novel: Under the Desert Moon.

Seventeen-year-old Erin Harris spends her time daydreaming, hoping to escape her small town life in Copperfield, Arizona. When a movie crew arrives unexpectedly to shoot a vampire film over the summer, Erin’s small town world changes forever. Erin is positive she has seen the star, James Linkin before in a thirty year old TV show. He hasn’t aged a day. How is this possible? Erin is determined to find out, but how will James handle the scrutiny of an all too intelligent teenage girl?

Under the Desert Moon is available from Amazon US, Amazon UK, and Barnes and Noble.

And now, an excerpt from Under the Desert Moon: Continue reading “Sneak Peek: Under the Desert Moon”

Setting the Hook

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how to craft a news release. If you missed it, you can find it here. And Kat wrote a post about distributing your release, which you can find here.

But writing the release and distributing it are only part of the battle; what you want is to hook an actual reporter, so that he or she actually reads the thing and writes a news story about it. We’ve had a few posts about hooking the media on your story idea – in fact, here’s one. But while theory is nice, I thought it might be helpful to watch hook-setting in action. Continue reading “Setting the Hook”

Dick Waters Wins Flash Fiction Challenge

Dick Waters is the winner of our weekly Flash Fiction competition. Congratulations to Dick, and thanks to everyone who participated – excellent entries!

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: Continue reading “Dick Waters Wins Flash Fiction Challenge”