60+ three-time immigrant, whose life in Africa, Australia, and America, work with industrial and medical quality & safety, and obsession with mortality data and accidents, results in morbid short stories.
I write fiction #shortstories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). A little bit Poe, a touch of Dahl, and a hint of Gorey.
When I am not writing, I do bare-bow archery, walk a husky, and pick up other people's litter.
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At today's #writers workshop, we wrote to a prompt that included the condition that we write a duplex poem. Duplex is a stepchild of the pantoum, so there is repetition of elements.
We got 15 minutes to write
Here is mine
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I updated cover art on my short story collections on Kobo, in anticipation of publishing volume 9
The new cover art is by Maggie Irons
Maggie is a mixed-media artist based in Pittsburgh. With a background in multimedia design she is passionate about creating art that blends the physical world with digital elements. Her work focuses on imitating life through illustration, collage, and textiles. She is on Instagram @fishbags__
Here is the landing page for the UBL of my latest book
https://books2read.com/u/479GzR
A reader can go read about the book, and pick from a dozen places to buy, if they are interested.
There is no equivalent central page for the paperback edition
I have published eight volumes of short stories, and now that I'm going through Draft2Digital, I have an obvious titling problem.
I called the series "The Screw Turns" and each publication was just the series name and volume number. That worked fine on KDP and Kobo, but in D2D, the reader will see the title repeated twice.
With my novels, this doesn't happen bc each novel in a series has a unique name. E.g "The Book of Joy" in the "Princess of Darkness" series.
So should I name each volume?
Only two more resellers, and the publication cycle of "The Book of Joy" through Draft2Digital is done.
I am told by others in the #writingcommunity that Hoopla can easily take 10 months to publish, so at this point I am no longer checking status every few hours. For those whose library uses Libby/Overdrive, the title is already there under ISBN: 9798233773617
The UBL for the eBook is: https://books2read.com/u/479GzR
Reviews and feedback are welcome :)
Hey #reading and #writingcommunity and #bookstodon people, I have a cover and title question
My fiction work is mainly short story collections. I publish the shorts when the pile of completed work reaches around 50k words, and thus far, have kept the same cover and title, and just incremented the volume counter.
Keeping the cover static saves a ton of cost and time, but in the D2D views, the Title and collection being the same may be hard for #readers to tell them apart.
Any thoughts?
whooaaa ... when did paperback prices go up so much?
I just did the Draft2Digital thing for a paperback version of my eBook novel, and the printing costs are a real cold shower.
It may surprise you to learn that the eBook nets me more royalty than the paperback, even though the paperback is $26.99 and the eBook is $9.95
