Kevin Shamel's Blog, page 3

I'm back from Bootcamp!

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I'm actually still recovering from the amazing, enlightening, absolutely perfect experience of Bizarro Bootcamp.

I wrote a book in four days! It's nearly twice the length of Rotten Little Animals. That's some whirlwind writing. My shoulders will tell you so. My brain, too.

There will be a detailed report on the unique and mind-blowing time I spent in Portland with the Eraserhead Press crew. But for now I need to relax and let it all soak in. I learned more about writing, and specifically MY...

Adventure!

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I leave tomorrow for ten days. While I'm gone, will someone please feed the cat? And watch the dog's dishes, too. Thank you! Zane will take care of the plants. (If you could just wrench the watering can out of his little hands now and then…)

I'll have plenty to tell you about my adventures at the first ever Bizarro Bootcamp when I'm back, you can bet on it. Please don't bet on it, though, because I'm telling you now that I'm going to do it, so betting against that would just be throwing your m...

Fruits

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I have been very, very busy lately. I've been working at promoting my book, and writing smaller bits when I have a chance. I've had a few things published in the past couple of months, and I thought I'd make up a list for those of you who like reading the things I write–in case I've not talked enough about them already.  [image error]

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In March, published my story, What Name Do I Give Her?, a semi-autobiographical flash fiction experimental bit about crystal meth and a stripper I once...

Win a Rotten Little Coloring Book About Bizarro Bootcamp!

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Bizarro Bootcamp? Yes. It starts on May 27th. I've already shaved my head.

There's a lot of questions out there about Bizarro Bootcamp. I have TONS of questions about it myself. Every new recruit does, when faced with bootcamp. All they know of it is what they've heard from those who've gone before them. And since everyone's experience is different, that's not a lot to go by. The thing about this Bizarro Bootcamp is, I'll be the first to go through it. I don't even have stories of other...

Standings

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It's been one hell of a month. We started this sucker with Rotten Little Animals Day, and I just ended it with quite a personal victory. Let me tell you, I've learned a few lifetimes worth of lessons this April. And I've got a lot of YOU to thank for the lessons about asking for help, about sharing gifts and imaginations, and about the love and support of people who can never be strangers to me again. I've had a great time this month, giving and receiving. I'm happy to say that April of...

What a Day!

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Rotten Little Animals Day was a HUGE success! Thank you, everyone, for taking the time, money, and effort out of your day to help me out. I will always remember RLA Day as a huge showing of the support I have from all of you. I really, REALLY appreciate it. Thank YOU.

I don't have an exact number on my sales yesterday, but I DO know that my sales rank reached an all-time low number. Out of the millions of books that Amazon carries, Rotten Little Animals reached 4200 in popularity. THAT is...

Rotten Little Animals Day is HERE!

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It's RLA Day! Look how happy that makes animals!

It's the day to go to Amazon and get a copy of Rotten Little Animals! It's the day that we appreciate all of our rotten little animals. Give them love, give them a treat, read them a book! Read them MY book! What better way to celebrate the day?

The serious goal of this day can be found in the previous entry.

I'm trying to shake up some algorithmic love for my book. I'm trying to skyrocket into super-fame. I'm trying to get a BOOK DEAL!

Please...

Rotten Little Animals Day–Important Information!

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Hi! The following note is long. I understand that you may not want to read it all right away. So here's the gist of it:

Everything is great with Rotten Little Animals
I'm halfway to my goal
I need your help
Thank you!

 

Dear Friends,

It's been almost 6 months since the launch of my first book, ROTTEN LITTLE ANIMALS.  Most likely, if you are reading this, you have been a friend or a fan in some way, so THANK YOU. I greatly appreciate all the support, help, reviews, sales, and all the amazing...

Flashing Fiction

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Even when you write fiction, you can't help but put some fact into your stories.

I've got a couple pieces of flash published online right now. Each of them has some truth to it.

The latest to hit the interwebz is, It's at Every Day Fiction today. That's the reason for that book cover up there about rock and roll gals. My story has one. It's an experimental bit (I like to do that with flash) as far as style goes. See if you can tell what I mean. It's got a lot of me in ...

Video Review of Rotten Little Animals!

Christy Leigh Stewart, who is amazingly creative, hilarious, and all around awesome, made a video review of Rotten Little Animals today. I LOVE it. It's hilarious. You should check this out. It's pretty much a TRAILER for it as well as a review. Thank you, Christy!!

 

This is so awesome.