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Stephen L. Thompson's Blog, page 48
April 4, 2013
Cover question
I’m working on finishing up a short story that I plan on publishing on Kindle in the next week or two. But I need a cover for it. So I played around and came up with the following. I’m just wondering what people think of it.
April 2, 2013
Wednesday Writing Prompt
You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.
Quick, compose a sentence using the words “walk” and “why.” Leave it as a comment.
Short stories for April
For the first three months of this year, I promoted my three short story anthologies. But since I’ve run out of them, this month I’ll be promoting four of my short stories.
Like most people, Jason Fisher wanted to make the world a better place. But he doubted he would ever have the chance to make much of a mark. Then a “woman” came to him, asking his help to save humanity by threatening it.
“An Ounce of Prevention” is available on Nook for $0.99.
“The Price to Pay” is a flash fiction story deali...
March 31, 2013
Stephen L. Thompson’s March 2013 Newsletter
Howdy,
Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering March 2013.
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My publication news for the past month:
Publication of my minianthology “The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” for Kindle.
Publication of my short story “Fighting Dirty” on my Ficly profile.
Publication of the stories “The Color of Possibilities” and “Rest in Peace” on my Figment profile.
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This month I wrote 9,111 words giving me a yearly total so far of 30,755. My goal this year is to write 120,000 words, so...
March 29, 2013
30,000 words!
For the last few weeks I’ve been feeling kinda blah and haven’t gotten much writing done. Also, I finished the first draft of the story I’d been working on for a couple months, and I haven’t found another story to work on. I have several projects, but none of them have fully grabbed me yet. In this state I’ve even forgotten to do some things, like this week’s Wednesday Writing Prompt. Sorry. As some of you know, my goal this year is to write 120,000 words. There were several times this month...
March 22, 2013
“The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” promo
This weekend, March 23rd and 24th, my latest five, scifi story minianthology “The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” will be free to download for Kindle.
I think that pretty much sums everything up.
March 20, 2013
Wednesday Writing Prompt
You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.
Quick, compose a sentence using the words “afternoon” and “prompt.” Leave it as a comment.
March 12, 2013
Wednesday Writing Prompt
You can read all you want about writing, but the real test is to actually write something. Hence, a short exercise for those of you wanting to hone your craft.
Quick, compose a sentence using the words “truck” and “wall.” Leave it as a comment.
“The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” is now out!
One can assume that the cardinals chose today to start their conclave so that they can sit quietly and enjoy the latest ebook from Stephen L. Thompson. One can assume that, but the more likely reason they started their work on finding the next Pope today is because they didn’t want to start on a Monday.
Anyway, here is the link to “The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” as well as the blurb for it. Enjoy.
“The Most Powerful Man in the World and other stories” is a collection of f...
March 9, 2013
Oh
This weekend I’m having a free promotion for the Kindle version of my third short story anthology Political Pies. When I woke up, I checked on it and was happy to see that it was #17 in the list of their free political books. So I sent out a tweet about it being #17 and all. Afterwards, I decided I should check out the competition, which is when I saw this:
The books on the left are the paid political Kindle books, while the seventeen on the right are the free ones. At least I made the list. 
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