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Photo Fridays – Bookmarks

Over the years, I’ve gathered a large selection of bookmarks (and this isn’t even my whole collection) but I only use a few at a time. Of course, when does a bookmark become too frayed or too worn to act as a bookmark? They’re almost indestructible.

Photo Friday – writing books

I was trying to think of something I could take a photo of for today, and I just happened to glance over at my books shelf where I have numerous books on writing. I have read a few of them, but I do feel I should read the rest of them. I don’t know when I’ll have the time for it.

Upcoming free Kindle promotions

This week I’ll be having a free promotion for the Kindle versions of my story collections. You’ll be able to download A Man of Few Words for free on Tuesday the 16th, The All-You-Can-Read Buffet on Wednesday the 17th, and Political Pies on Thursday the 18th. Also, I only have three small issues with Brain for Rent and other stories, which is a minianthology of five short, scifi stories. My hope is to have that resolved in the next day or two, and then publish it on Kindle. If that all works o...

Introducing Photo Fridays

Last night at the writing group I go to, we had a guest speaker, Sadie from All Natural Me, who gave a talk on blogging. One of the things she talked about on successful blogging, was posting regularly, which is something I need to work on. She also said that a great way to get people to keep coming back, and possibly spreading the word on your blog, was to have photos, especially if you have cute captions for them. I could do that, I thought. Well, I could probably do that. We’ll see. But I’...

My new book, Political Pies, is out!

I’ve just self-published my third short story collection, Political Pies. It is a collection of forty of my stories with a political theme, but don’t worry, I’m not trying to sway you to one ideology or another. The stories are just to make you chuckle and – maybe – to give you something to think about. Here is the description for it:

Everybody complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? Stephen L. Thompson’s attempt to do something about it is to collect forty of his short...

Stephen L. Thompson’s September 2012 Newsletter

Howdy,

Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering September 2012.

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My publication news for the past month:

Publication of my third short story collection, Political Pies. The link is to my page set up with all the places you can find it.

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This month I wrote 7,699 words, giving me a yearly total so far of 72,488. If I keep at the rate I’ve been going, I’ll reach my 80,000 word goal in October.

I wrote every day of September, so I still have five free, no-writing days left this year.

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400 stories!

If my bookkeeping is correct (I’m betting that it is close enough because I don’t feel like going back to verify all of this) then the publication of Political Pies also marks the 400th story that I have self-published! On to 500, which I could conceivable hit late next year.

Fresh pie, coming soon

I just finished the final polish for my third short story collection, Political Pies. I’ll need about a day to go through all the formatting issues and to upload it, and then there will be a week or so while I wait for the proof copy, but – baring some unforeseen problem – it should be out by the end of the month.

Stephen L. Thompson’s August 2012 Newsletter

Howdy,

Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering August 2012.

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My publication news for the past month:

Publication of my short story “Loaner” on my Ficly profile.

Publication of my short story “Do You Remember Me Now?” on my Wattpad profile.

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This month I wrote 7,085 words, giving me a yearly total so far of 64,789.

I wrote every day of August, so I still have five free, no-writing days left this year.

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Around the end of September, I should either have published my third story collec...

Preliminary info for Political Pies

Here is the preliminary cover and description for my next short story anthology, Political Pies, which I hope to have out in early October. Let me know what you think.

Everybody complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? Stephen L. Thompson’s attempt to do something about it is to collect forty of his short stories with a political element into his Political Pies anthology. His stories are either politically neutral or equally condemning of the national parties. Instead of...