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My Brain is Untied…and Yours Could Be, Too!

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(Two posts in two days?  Whoa, he’s a juggernaut!)

One of my favorite feelings is to open up the mailbox and find a book inside.  Yum.  Even better is when said book is a contributor’s copy with my own story inside!  I got this feeling a couple days ago when the Untied Shoelaces of the Mind Anthology arrived.

Wow, there are a lot of stories in this book.  I counted 52, one for every week of the year (not how they were assembled, just works out that way).  It’s a touch overwhelming.  Most stories are fairly short, most under six pages.  Worth $7.99 for this trade paperback?  Probably.  Worth $1.99 for the electronic version?  Heck yeah.

My story “Not Rats” is a bonus that never appeared in the USotM ezine, so it ended up in the back third with the other bonuses.  It’s classified in the table of contents as a horror story (which is probably how I subbed it) but it’s really humor.  Fun stuff.

Buy book, read story.  You have your orders.  Dismissed.

 

A Drizzle in a Drought

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My zombie fairy tale story “Not Rats” just sol to the Untied Shoelaces of the Mind anthology.  Yay.

This was a 750-word flash that the editor asked to have rewritten, which lead to a growth spurt to 1300 words.  Very short story, semi-pro pay…my tax bracket isn’t changing, but it’s nice to have a sale.  I’m looking forward to the contributor’s copy more than the check.  (Not that I would never turn my nose up at a check.)

My story production has slowed waaaaayy down of late.  Summer should allow me to bring things back up, but a big chunk of that will be novel work.  I need to redouble my efforts to get my current stable of stories out into circulation.  Stories don’t sell from the hard drive.