Bringing the Shadow to Life
What’s news?
Not too much to report at this point. Still playing around with some freelance work, and I’ve posted the second part of my piece at Suite101. Writing a Good Bad Guy, Pt. 2: Bringing the Shadow to Life (click here). It’s more for people who are just starting out in their writing, but maybe some good advice if you are struggling with your antagonist.
And I finally had success with getting Amazon to knock the price for my Free Five Flash Fiction down to actually be free. Funny thing is that before they did it, I actually had a few sales at the 99 price point. To see Free Five, click here (also available at B&N and Smashwords). It’s the same stories I have here under “FREE FICTION” but I’ve added afterwords to go with each story explaining where the idea came from (some of them almost as long as the flash itself 
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What does the future hold?
Next Friday, I’ll be giving a recap of the World Horror Convention. Should be pretty entertaining.
But without further ado…
[Note: This one deals primarily with blogging and writing issues, but if you’re just an avid reader, I want to know your opinion on this, too. Also, please forgive the spartan nature of this post. I have a handful of other things I need to be doing for WHC, and something had to get the ax. Turns out it was finding images to go along with the post.]
There was a recent mildly volcanic “discussion” thread at a group of which I am a part.
Here’s the story (and if you’re in this group, it isn’t a big secret whom I’m referring to):
Just as I do (as well as most bloggers), a book reviewer posted his recent blog post at this group. The rub was that he was posting a one-star, very curt review of a book. Continue reading
