Velvet Rope-A-Dope

We recently conducted a poll of indie authors, asking about their general impressions regarding three areas of policy change at Amazon.

Coincidental with the recent sock-puppet scandal, Amazon began quietly marching a number of reviews off the site and into the darkness. Their stated reason for these actions are to assure the integrity of blah-blah, something or other, customer confidence, and something else. Continue reading “Velvet Rope-A-Dope”

Video Trailer: The Mr. Pish Educational Series

The Mr. Pish Educational SeriesMr. Pish the traveling terrier wants to make sure that you know his five educational books and his 13-month personal planner/calendar are available this holiday season!

All Mr. Pish products are Mr. Pish Approved and contain full color photographs and engaging commentary geared to promote outdoor learning and literacy for all ages.

All Mr. Pish products are by K. S. Brooks, and are available from Amazon.comAmazon UK, and all Amazon.com stores.

NaNoWriMo Triple Double-Dog-Dare Challenge

Mr. Pish Typing
I’d better find someone to help me type. I’m going to have very tired fingers.

Well, my observance of National NO Writing Month ended one day into November. I was planning a steadfast boycott of writing this month, per my post here. My plan, however, was foiled by the one thing I can’t say no to: a double-dog-dare.

Yes, that’s right. I was double-dog-dared to write not one, not two, but three books during the month of November. Because, really, everyone else is writing ONE book. Who cares? Let’s make this a real challenge and up that ante. Three books – written, edited, formatted, and published. You think I can do it? Continue reading “NaNoWriMo Triple Double-Dog-Dare Challenge”

Flash Fiction Entry of the Week

Time for IU readers to decide who will be this week’s winner in the Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.

You can check out this week’s entries here. The entrants did a great job with the writing prompt and the merciless constraints of the exercise.  Vote for your fave and then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word that the vote is on.

Your choice for flash fiction entry of the week:

  • Dick C Waters (43%, 31 Votes)
  • Jacqueline Hopkins (39%, 28 Votes)
  • Analee (7%, 5 Votes)
  • Rich Meyer (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Timothy Hurley (3%, 2 Votes)
  • Kender (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Melody Stiles (1%, 1 Votes)
  • dave48 (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Mandy White (1%, 1 Votes)
  • Sherri Springle (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 72

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