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Thoughts on a cover and blurb

I’m hoping to get an ebook out in a couple of weeks. Here’s my take on the cover I’ve made and my blurb for it.

Hopefully in the not too distant future, humans will return to the moon. We will build bases and colonies, create farms and factories, and live and love and learn. “A Cabin Under a Cloudy Sea and other stories” contains six stories set upon the moon and give the tiniest glimpse of the possibilities awaiting us.

I got a box of books yesterday

So why did I receive ten copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Did What? (which will go on sale next month)?

Grab my Kindle story “Lonely Phoenix” for free!

This weekend, Friday the 18th through Sunday the 20th, you’ll be able to download my scifi story “Lonely Phoenix” for free. The story is set onboard an interstellar colony ship in its centuries long voyage to a new star. And it involves a … vampire? Well, not like any vampire you know about, that’s just the closest word we have for what he is.

To find out more, you’ll have to download, which you can do all for the price of a click.

A Man of Few Words for only $0.99!

A Man of Few Words was my first anthology I self-published four years ago. Here is the blurb for it:

A Man of Few Words is a collection of 50 flash fiction stories by Stephen L. Thompson. How does a teenager work up the courage to call a girl? What would happen if a “T-Rex on steroids” attacked a city? Why do science fiction writers make the best lovers? How does a company get to Second Base with VIPs? These questions and more are explored by Stephen using less than 1000 words and in various g...

Ebook free promo

To mark Valentine’s Day, I figured I should have free promo for one of my Kindle ebooks. But which one? Well, after looking at what I’ve published, the closest to a romantic story I have would be “The Only Certainty:”

On The Day, for reasons still unknown, people began changing. They went to sleep as their old selves and woke in their beds in different bodies: bodies that had belonged to other people. And each time they fall asleep, they wake as someone new. Set months later, “The Only Certain...

Relaunching my Weekly Stories

During the summer of 2006, there was an event that was big news for two days. Late on the second day, I came up with a story idea that tied into it. I thought it was just my luck that I would come up with a good story idea on a current event, but that it would be several months (at best) before I could get it published, by which time nobody would remember what I was talking about. So I decided to start publishing a story every week, that way people would know what I was talking about with sto...

Ebook sale!

On December 25th and 26th, ten of my ebooks will be FREE to download to the Kindles that Santa brought you. Together, they contain 144 short stories and 10 essays that can all be yours for the price of a click. To learn more about each one, check out my Amazon Author Page.

Happy Holidays.

Check out my Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales!

If you are buying a Kindle for someone this holiday season – or just buying one for yourself – wouldn’t it be a good idea to have some preloaded ebooks on it? Instead of putting out more money to buy these ebooks, you can find some that are free to download. For example, on Black Friday, you’ll be able to download these ebooks of mine:

They are, A Man of Few Words, Political Pies, Brain for Rent and other stories, The All-You-Can-Read Buffet, and Lonely Phoenix.

On Cyber Monday, these ebooks of...

Check out my story serials

I’m trying something new over on my Bubblews account, serial stories. These are stories I try to post one or two sections to each week. One reason for doing this is it forces me to write these stories. These were stories I had started, but just never did much with. But if I want to post something every week, I need to write. Also, it’s a cheap way for me to get people to keep coming back to my Bubblews profile.

The first story is Rediscovery. I had been thinking of doing a serial story, but...

The Future is Coming

As a science fiction writer, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how technology will change the way we live. As such, I’ve come up with ten short essays about science fictional elements that will – almost certainly – one day become science fact as a way for people to start coming to terms with them. Because I’ve spent time thinking about clones and AIs, I feel I’ll be okay when they do finally show up whereas most people will probably freak out. I hope these essays will get people to star...