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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...

Should I be concerned?

I don’t know how often I’ve heard people discussing how dark scifi is these days. Some complain that older scifi was more often a fun adventure with fascinating technology on strange worlds, whereas nowadays everything is dystopian. As I said, I’ve been hearing this for some time and I figured writing a fun adventure tale with fascinating technology on strange worlds would be a good move. So last night (really this morning) when I was trying to fall asleep, I came up with an interesting premi...

Heavy handed muse

I recently found Oglaf Comics, which are of an adult nature with language, nudity, and sex. Mixed in are some strange, but very amusing comics. Two of these concern a muse. I’ll link to them if you are interested, but I will warn you that they contain language and cartoon nudity: The Blank Page and Muse.

Stephen L. Thompson’s July 2012 Newsletter

Howdy,

Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering July 2012.

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My publication news for the past month:

Publication of my short story “Lucas Witnesses” on my Ficly profile.

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This month I wrote 4,226 words, giving me a yearly total so far of 57,704.

Because I was traveling and didn’t have that much time to be on a computer, there were nine days in July where I did not write. That means I only have five free, no-writing days left this year. That means I’ll basically have to write every day...

Thoughts on free ebook promotion

Over the last two weekends, people were able to download the Kindle versions of my first two anthologies, A Man of Few Words and The All-You-Can-Read Buffet, for free. In two weekends, I gave away far more copies of the electronic version of my books than I have been able to sell of the print version in over two years. I’m sure you can understand how that left me feeling a tad confused. I’m happy that many more people now have copies of my books. However, there is a high probability that thes...

Stephen L. Thompson’s June 2012 Newsletter

Howdy,

Welcome to my electronic newsletter, covering June 2012.

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My publication news for the past month:

Publication of my short story “Check Brain” on my Ficly profile.

Also, my first two books – A Man of Few Words and The All-You-Can-Read Buffet – are now available to download to Kindle.

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This month I wrote 7,845 words, giving me a yearly total so far of 53,478, meaning, that at the halfway point in the year I’m well over halfway point to my goal of 80,000 words this year.

There were thre...

Free Kindle download of The All-You-Can-Read Buffet

This weekend (June 30 and July 1) I’ll be promoting my second short story anthology, The All-You-Can-Read Buffet, by letting you download the Kindle version for free! Here’s is the book’s description:

The All-You-Can-Read Buffet is a collection of forty stories covering various genres and themes ranging from six to over 4,200 words in length. They also cover a wide time range. Some of these stories I began writing a decade ago, while others were written especially for this collection. All toge...

Free Kindle download of A Man of Few Words

This weekend (June 23 and 24) I’ll be promoting my first short story anthology, A Man of Few Words, by letting you download the Kindle version for free! Here is the book’s description:

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 qu...