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Three New Short Stories for Nook and Kindle

There are three stories in a .99 cent pack now available for your reading pleasure on Kindle and Nook.



The stories collected are:



A Simpler Time

Respiratory Alert

The Reckless Abandon of Youth



All three are mostly true stories from my childhood.



I hope you enjoy them!



A Simpler Time: Three Stories by Bryan Young - For Kindle and for Nook.

A Message from Marcus about my Books

Marcus, whom you might remember from Last Comic Standing, really enjoyed my books and filmed this little spot for me to share.

http://youtu.be/hrPECt3gj_I?hd=1

I would say take his advice.

A Message from Marcus about My Books

The redoubtable comedian, Marcus, saw fit to grace me and my books with a hilarious video. You can obviously buy my books from these links: Lost at the Con and Man Against the Future.



You can pay Marcus a visit on Facebook and Twitter.

Project Update

I met with my editor today about the next book I'm publishing and as much as we talked about the editorial direction the book needed to take, we talked just as much about the marketing strategy we'd need to embark on to make it successful.



The next book I'm publishing is tonally different than any of the other books or stories I've ever published.  It's not comedic fiction like Lost at the Con, nor does it resemble the science fiction collected in Man Against the Future in any way.  It's te...

A New Beginning

For those of you who have been following me over the years (since 2005!) this space has been devoted to providing you a free short story every month.  It's kept me sharp with my writing skills and you guys have been instrumental in helping me become the writer I am today.



A couple of weeks ago, I released my first book and my first collection of short stories into print.



The book, Lost at the Con, tells the tale of Michael Cobb, a scotch-soaked political journalist who has given up on life...

'Lost at the Con'

I've slowed down a bit on my short story writing because I've been preparing two books for publication.  One is a collection of all of my science fiction short stories (more on that in a week or two) and the other is my brand new novel.



(I will be posting a new short story next week.)



You can read the write up from Big Shiny Robot! below, but it is now available for pre-order.  It will be released on June 17th.





From Big Shiny Robot!:



Bryan Young, the editor of Big Shiny Robot! has a n...

The Way It Is

I'm sorry it's been a while.  I skipped Februrary, but that was in large part due to the fact that I was swamped at work and finishing up my second novel.  The rough draft is done now and my work load is normalizing, so I'll be sure to catch up here as soon as I can.





There's a couple of changes since last time but the biggest is the "Donate" button over on the top right hand side of the page.  Be sure to drop some money in there if you enjoy these stories.



If you like this stuff, please...

The Whiskey Doctor

This is the first short story of 2011.  Welcome back everybody.  I've got no shortage of ideas and the new novel is nearing completion of the first draft.  There's also another Kindle collection coming soon.



If you like this stuff, please be sure to buy and/or rate my short stories that are available at Amazon for the Kindle.







            "You," he called out to me from across the bar.            I tried my hardest to just shut him out and take another drink.  I couldn't tell who was...

A Peculiar Constitutional

Here it is, my twelfth short story of 2010.  I'll be back soon with another.  I'm almost done with my second novel, so hopefully you'll start hearing about that in the near future, too.





If you like this stuff, please be sure to buy and rate my short stories that are available at Amazon for the Kindle.





Enjoy this one, it was quite fun to write:



            My wife and I often take a constitutional with our feline companion, Chester, most evenings after I arrive home from work.  This...

Hatchet

I'm sorry it's been a while.  I've been swamped at work and working on the new novel.  This was written and ready to go in November but I never had a chance to type it up until tonight.  December's is already written, too.  I'm hoping to type it up tomorrow so it's up in 2010.  I've already got an idea for January, so this might be a great couple of weeks for short story reading.





I don't even know how to feel about it at the end.  I was having very weird dreams that led to writing this.  

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