Stephen L. Thompson's Blog, page 54
August 20, 2012
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...
August 12, 2012
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.
August 1, 2012
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...
July 6, 2012
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...
June 30, 2012
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...
June 29, 2012
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...
June 22, 2012
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...
June 21, 2012
Weight Off My Shoulders
For those of you who didn’t already know, I’m working on my third story anthology. Here is the initial cover idea:
Yes, I’m taking advantage of the brouhaha over the 2012 Election by hoping to release a collection of political stories. 
Anyway, at some point I counted up all the stories I had written (most of which had already been published) and the ones I hoped to finish and had about forty. So I figured it would be a collection of forty stories. So far, so good. But as I worked on it, I cam...
June 15, 2012
My first two books are on Kindle
My first two story collections – ninety stories in all – are now available on Kindle for only $2.99 each.
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...
June 13, 2012
That’s good to know
This is from whatdoestheinternetthink.net, and I’m happy to see that in the week when A Man of Few Words makes it to Kindle, the internet is “absolutely positive” about it.
