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Should Writers Self Publish Short Stories?

Should you self publish short stories? I wish I had a definitive answer for you, but sadly as always, the answer is maybe. Since I just put up my stories The Long Tour and Night Record on Kindle and Smashwords, it would be hypocritical of me to say no…but there are some traps and pitfalls [...]

Do You Need To Write Short Stories?

The short answer on this, is no. You don’t have to write short stories in order to have a career as a novelist.  But it helps.  I first heard the advice about short stories in Stephen King’s excellent book On Writing. Inside, King suggests that budding novelists strive to get short fiction published to give [...]

How Things Change

This post could have also been labeled “aieee!” but I would have worried that it would have given the wrong message. Things are actually pretty darn good. For one thing, I’m getting married. I got engaged to my girlfriend DJ, who’s put up with me for coming up on eight years now, last weekend. We’re [...]

Shorts!

I’ve finally got the short stories page up and running righthere. If you like stories, and you like them short, then this could be the place for you. The story that’s on there at the moment, Jack’s Echo (nothing to do with my last name, it just happens to be the main characters first name), [...]

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