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Have You Read This Yet? (Part 2)
Again in a hurry, I copied and pasted this from my email subcription service. Thus the funky block formations. The whole thing actually froze up the first time, so let’s see if this works this time…
Aaannddd…. it looks like the links don’t work. Shit.
It’s 11pm now, so I’m not fixing them. How many of you are actually reading this right now anyway? At least you know they exist. You can find these books with a few extra clicks. Sorry, but my circuits are blown at this point. Been doing computer work all day, just drove through a blizzard to get home, and it’s time for bed…
Enjoy what I did get the cyber gremlins to cooperate on below. 🙂
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Have You Read This Yet? (Part 1)
Okay, I’m going to blog this the lazy way. Sorry, but it’s 9pm on Friday night and I have more things to get done — “miles to go before I sleep” and all that.
Simple enough, right?
Good night!
Kiss Unpublished
I just unpublished this short story, which I had posted as free everywhere April last year.
I decided it just wasn’t the first foot forward I wanted readers to discover.
Not that there’s anything wrong with the story, but it’s really the first chapter of a novel that doesn’t exist yet, and won’t anytime soon. (I just have too many other books to write first.) So as it stood, it was kind of a cool shark story that opened a door to more… with absolutely nothing on the other side of that door. Which probably isn’t that compelling to prospective readers…
Right now I’m thinking that, eventually, I will republish it with 2 other short stories in it, all of which could relate to that title: Kiss of the Maiden. In the other two cases, though, that kiss is from a deadly, supernatural woman. In the case of this story, it was a “maiden shark” on a distant planet.
Those other two stories are waiting to come back to me right now. One will be published in the next issue of Weirdbook Magazine, hopefully in May. The other is at the Writers of the Future Contest, which should have results any day now.
So it’ll be back. But for now, as it is… It just isn’t suited for the job I want it to do.
But, damn, do I like that cover!
Switching Websites AGAIN?!
Maybe…
I hate all this cyber-stuff. I’m not good at it. And let’s face it, WordPress is not the easiest thing in the world to work with. Especially for a tech-fearing, luddite barbarian like me.
I feel like that evil scientist woman in Superman III getting assimilated….
I discovered a new author website system put out by a now-millionaire guru I’ve subscribed to, and it is an awesome website builder specifically designed for authors, but… It cost $60 a month to use it! Holy greenbacks, Superman! It’s nice, but that’s plain silly! I can get a premium set-up from another provider for a third of that.
Which is probably what I’m going to do, although I really hate starting over again. In 2015 (I think) I started this website, abandoning my Blogspot site and several years of blogging there, and it was a bear to restart then. I hate to have to manually rebuild everything from scratch. But if I can get one of those nice “drag and drop” systems… That’s easy. And I can build it over time.
Besides, if I’m going to start paying for it, I might as well be paying for something easy to use with the bells and whistles I want.
So stand by.
I hope all you nice subscriber folks will follow me over to my new site, if/when that happens. It’ll probably still be “Brinks Chaos Theory” since I’ve purchased that domain, but I doubt I can migrate my follows over.
I’ll let you know if/when the move happens. I’m on spring break this week, in between quarters at the nursing college where I teach. So aside from a lot of more painful tasks to be done (like my taxes!) I’m hoping to get some infrastructure stuff done for the ol’ writing biz. Actually updated a handful of book cover designs this morning, and they look good! Best one is this:
Way better, if I do say so myself. 🙂
Okay, watch for developments. I’m fending off the urge to write new material so I can get more of the publishing side of things handled. Not easy for me–neither the fending off writing nor the publishing/admin tasking.
I have this new collection about ready to come out, too, but need to establish the infrastructure stuff first. I also made this cover myself. (Not too shabby, eh?)
Okay, work to do.
Or sleeping to do. It is after 11pm now.
Or maybe video games to do…?
Decisions, decisions…
Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Out Now!
Cirsova is a great up and coming magazine of speculative fiction — it’s even been nominated for a Hugo award!
They’ve just launched issue one of their new run. Check them out at the link below:
via Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Out Now!
Pi Day Reading: Free Sci-Fi Books!
Happy Pi Day!
To be honest, I’d never heard of Pi Day, but apparently it’s a real thing.
How do I know? Because there’s a big sci-fi/fantasy book giveaway celebrating it, of course!
There are 31 books featuring smart heroes (or smart sidekicks and mentors, at least) to celebrate the occasion. The catch? In exchange for your free book, you sign up for the authors’ newsletters. Which means you’ll get great info on more books of that line (which is good news, assuming you enjoyed it), probably more freebies at some point, and can make some new nerdy SFF friends!
My book Hungry Gods is up for download, along with 30 other books featuring smart (or smart-ass, in Spitball’s case) heroes.
