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April 24th 2012

DO NOT OPEN is available at Amazon for $0.99, through april 24 and till Saturday 28 it will be free of charge.

 

April 10th 2012

Inheritance is available at Amazon for $0.99, through april 10 and till Saturday 14 it will be free of charge.

 

February 11th 2012

I published my short story Hush Up. It's the fourth completed for my challenge to write 20 short stories in a year time.

As promised, I've made it available for free on Smashword to followers of my website, blog, and twitter for a period of 7 days.

With this coupon code you can get a copy:

Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: ZL36G
Expires: February 18, 2012

I would appreciate it if you left a review on Smashwords, Amazon, or on your own blog.
 

My Short Story Challenge

I've been gone from blogging for weeks... no, months now. I've not done much writing being distracted by another passion of mine, gaming. Computer gaming that is. I've been playing Battlefield 3 for a month now, I spend around seventy hours gaming. I could have finished five short stories instead.

Well despite being slow on the writing, I still managed to write a first draft of two short stories, and I completely finished one today. (revised it 10x) Great as this might be, I'm lagging behind in my challenge. I won't be able to get my twenty short stories written and published by 30th of October 2012. I need to publish fifteen in little more than six months. Is it doable? I think so. Had I more free time I would be sure I could.

Today I published on Amazon the short story I finished.

Description: Professor Charles von Richthoff, an eccentric inventor, left an inheritance behind for his nieces, Carissa, Susanah, Bethanny and his nephew Ian. However, the inheritance is not what the inheritors thought it to be. Their fates are sealed on the paper it was written on.

Unlike as I promised I won't immediately publish it to Smashwords. To get it out to as many people possible I'll from now enroll my short stories to the select program and spend the five free days on the publish day so you can still get it for free. After the three months of select I'll publish it on Smashwords and give it away for a week. (Viva La Coupons)

 

A CHALLENGE

I regularly read Dean Wesley Smith's blog. His blog is great to get a better understanding of the publishing world, it helped me immensely with choosing the path I'm following in my own writing career.

He set a challenge for himself, and here follows a quote from Dean Wesley Smith on his blog about his challenge for 2011

"The challenge I have set for myself is simple: 100 new stories written from titles and put up electronically in one year."

I got thinking about this challenge and thought that maybe I should have one of my own. I think it's a great idea to push yourself to test your own limits, and writing a lot and making more bookcovers will only add to my experience and consequently the quality of my work. So I'm going to set a challenge for myself. I'm not going to do 100 new stories for 2012 but I'll do a 1000... nah that's more than I can handle and so is 100. Mine will be 20 short-stories/novelettes for 2011/2012, starting today 30 October 2011 and the finish line will be 30 October 2012. (I chose the 30th of October as starting date because it's my wife's birthday and I hope to successfully finish this challenge in honor of her.)

Upon finishing a story and publishing it, I'll announce it on twitter and I'll put an excerpt of the story here with a coupon for a free copy at Smashwords valid for a week after publishing.

I'll be selling the short stories for $0.99 and the novelettes for $1.99 on Amazon and Smashwords.

 

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