The Armoire Pirate - ebook on Smashwords and Amazon

Oh, Hi

Also, I forgot to mention that The Armoire Pirate - the first in a series of middle-grade chapter books - is available as an ebook at Smashwords-dot-com and Amazon

Aargh!

Kenny

"The Eye Fish" Published by Diagram

Hi There!
"The Eye Fish" has been published by Diagram.
Click on the link to the right to check it out!

Peace
Kenny

"Barefoot Woman Comes to Fire Town" published in Permafrost

Hello!

"Barefoot Woman Comes to Fire Town" has been published by Permafrost in their Summer 2014 on-line issue.  Select the link under "Short Stories" (to the right) to check out the issue.  "Barefoot Woman" starts on Page 30, but the whole issue is worth a look.

You can check out more of Permafrost's output here >>>  Permafrost

Cheers!

Outlining a New Book - AAARGH!

I've started working on a new project - working title: "The Omega Notebook Project" - and so far I'm following my usual approach...

1. I have a germ of an idea, share it with my family, and they say "Meh."
2. I write down the germ, still convinced it has promise.  I assume I just wasn't able to communicate how cool the idea was to my family.  Plus, they are notoriously hard to impress.
3. I leave the written-down germ in a notebook for an indefinite period of time (in this case, about a year).
4. I get inspired one day to write the first page (more on this below).
5. I file the first page away for an indefinite period of time (in this case, about six months).
6. I find the first page while I'm looking for something else and decide it's really worth working up.
7. I start outlining, get halfway through and say "Meh."

Which is where I am now with this project.  I think it sounds like a really fun story, but the outline makes it seem boring and predictable.  On the other hand, if I just start from the first page and go freestyle, who knows if I'll end up where I need to at the end?!?

About the first page thing...
The way it works is I get and idea for a story and an environment and characters and whatnot, and then, all of a sudden, one day I'll get a flash and write an introductory page that sets the voice and tone and character for the whole piece.  It actually works pretty well - I've got four or five sitting around now, just waiting for me to grit my teeth and finish an outline...

More to come, 
Cheers!

Red Raiders available at Amazon.com

"The Book" is now available on Amazon through their self-publishing service.  It's $0.99 because that was the minimum.  I couldn't figure out how to make it free.  Maybe I'm dumb or maybe Amazon doesn't want to give away free stuff for free.  Likely both...

I just discovered the "Post Title" window up there!  I'm such a cool, professional like blogger and web presence and stuff!  It only took a few weeks for me to figure out I could put a title on my blog posts!  I can't wait to see how it looks...

Red Raiders has passed review at Smashwords and will soon be available via most major ebook retailers!  I will have to figure out Amazon separately, however...

For the time being, the book will remain available for free, because, really, what have I got to lose?

Peace

I'm waiting patiently for Red Raiders to pass review at Smashwords, at which point they will begin distributing it to other retailers, and at which point I will unleash the full furor of my marketing powers. 

Actually, what you see here is about the extent of my marketing power...we shall see...

In the meantime, as is my wont, I am juggling a bunch of ideas trying to decide what project to work on next.  I tend to have many things cooking, but focus on just a couple at a time.  The next self-publishing venture will be The Armoire Pirate, a middle-grade chapter book about middle-grad kids and pirates.  It's currently with an illustrator, and when it comes back, BANG!  On to Smashwords it goes!

But as far as writing goes, I want to focus on one thing for kids and one for adults over the winter.  I've outlined a sequel to Red Raiders, and would like to have that done by next summer.  For grownups, I'm not sure...  I just finished a short story and am working on submitting it to literary quarterlies.  I can't share it here, because any on-line exposure invalidates the 'unpublished' criterion.  But if you're interested in that side of my writing, I recently published a story in The Bitter Oleander (Vol. 18, #1).  You can check out the magazine here > www.bitteroleander.com  I don't think you can see my story from their site, but I'll try to figure out a way to get it posted somewhere.

Stand by...