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August 31, 2014
30 Stories in 30 Days
Just moments after midnight, I’ll be starting my 2014 30 Stories in 30 Days Challenge. In case you can’t figure it out, that’s where I try to write thirty short – sometimes very short – stories in as many days. In previous years I have posted the stories on my website or here on this blog, but this year I’ll be posting them on my Bubblews page. To get a little more information, check out this post which should answer any questions.
Wish me luck.
August 19, 2014
A Cabin Under a Cloudy Sea and other stories
A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea of putting out minianthologies – collections of five to ten stories – on Kindle as a way to use up some of my stories and to let people know I exist. Well, I have just put out my latest minianthology – “A Cabin Under a Cloudy Sea and other stories.” It contains five stories set upon the moon. The blurb I have for it is as follows:
Hopefully, in the not too distant future humans will return to the moon. We will build bases and colonies, create far...
The Dog Did What?
Today’s the day. Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Did What? is out today. As you can see by the picture above, you can find my story “The Reluctant Host” on page 293. And while it would be nice if you read mine first, I won’t mind if you take your time and read all 101.
I hope you’ll check it out, and I hope you enjoy.
August 3, 2014
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.
July 22, 2014
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)?
July 17, 2014
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.
May 1, 2014
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...
February 13, 2014
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...
January 1, 2014
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...
December 23, 2013
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.
