Sarah Baethge's Blog, page 9

Right Now, FREE: KDP select

I'm using my short story, Right Now, to try my luck with the KDP select program. For people signed up foe Amazon Prime it is free to download.
For those of us who haven't signed up for Amazon Prime, its only $0.99.
Now, of course, with KDP Select every 90 days you can slate 5 days where the writing is free to everyone. So you can get my book free here: http://www.amazon.com/Right-Now-ebook... on March 5, 7, 9, 10, and 17(just had to do that, March 17 is my Birthday :P)

The Speed off Darkness, FREE: Smashwords promo

It seems, Smashwords is having a promo event from March 4 until March 10. This is your chance to get my short sci-fi book, The Speed of Darkness free!
Just go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/..., click add to cart, and enter: RE100 as your coupon code, click update and your price should be at $0.00. Now just click checkout, and the book is yours for nothing!

I guess the only hitch you may have, is that they do require that you have an account to buy something; but such a thing can also come to your advantage. Forever more, from -ANYWHERE-, you will be able to download any ebook you've bought on Smashwords, in just about any different file type. They also send you very little mail. Other than notifying you when purchases are made by your account, or asking for reviews of what you've recently purchased, they are virtually silent.

My Growing Story

My book, The Speed of Darkness has no official page count because as of now it only exists within computer files. (Yes I'm still sure that someday it'll become popular enough that someone else will pay to print it. I can dream can't I?)
Before today or at least until recently Amazon estimated its length to be around 117 pages. That may have seemed a little short to me, but hey I wrote it; I realize that I'll probably see it as bigger and more important than anyone else. Hell, MSWord only has it as 104 pages; I just thought that the average book page was quite a bit shorter than the average document page.
117 and 104 seemed a bit too close to me, but maybe my whole page-length idea was just wrong. Whatever... Except when I was getting its Amazon page today, for some reason they've recalculated the book-length to 143.
Where did that come from? Were they miscalculating in the first place and so advertising my story as less than it is? Have they stuffed the back end with adds that they aren't paying me for? Either way, that just doesn't sit well with me.

Nothing to do with Amazon, The story actually IS growing. Right now I've started putting some notes together and rereading The Speed of Darkness to collect the elements I need to make a prequel. Right now I think it would be somewhat funny if I could fix it to be exactly 9,999 words because most of the short story publishing submission guidelines ask for a story of less than 10,000 words, but my length is not essential. If I build up a good story that gets messed up when I try to tweak the length, that idea can easily be abandoned. Mainly, I want a story that would easily stand alone but would also happily lead into the existing story. With my lack of advertising budget, this could be a great way to have others notice my writing. Even if it isn't, I had a ton of fun making The Speed of Darkness, and even if nothing comes of the prequel being an ad idea, it could eventually lead to my reediting of the original to offer in some sort of combo edition.

I've been interviewed today

Today I had a nice interview by Author Marcia Carrington.
Marcia's Book Talk

Now this was a fun little surprise.

I check my email/facebook and see that my book now stands within The Book-Junkies Library: http://www.book-junkies-library.com/S...

Now, I might have tried to put it there myself, but I truly don't remember this one. Nice little surprise.

Now this probably curses it, but....

I've gotten a pretty good sized set of notes together for a story I'd like to write. I still haven't decided on a perfect ending for it, but I have enough that I don't think I will be able to just give up on it. Even if I plan nothing new I'm gonna give up this planning in a couple of days and simply get to writing. If I get to a point where I can't write any more, I think that this story, now called 'Panoptemitry' will get finished; or at least join the other 2-3 I'm working on with parts on my Kindle.
So those of you who ask if I'm currently working on anything, the answer now is yes. I WILL start writing that first chapter tomorrow whether or not I decide on the ending today. If I get stuck I'll start back on the one I'm calling 'Meant to Be.' Even if that doesn't work I can always switch back to 'The Link' that I started in Galveston...
Yeah, I'm gonna keep up reading and reviewing new books; but with any luck, I will produce 1 (if not 2 or 3) full length books this year that will easily outshine 'The Speed of Darkness.'

Happy with the 1 star review

Say what? Perhaps it's just too early in the morning, but I like the review I got today: http://heatherslibraryworld.blogspot....
1/5 score, but not because my story stinks or I'm a crappy writer, but because I didn't spend enough time finessing my words and writing into the best that they could be; apparently I left a few rather glaring mistakes. So why does this earn my enjoyment? Because of the time and effort I'm taking with my current writing.
a happy reminder that resisting the urge to rush, may be be beneficial.
And hey, if you don't get too worried about the technical aspects of writing, you can read a novel that, according to Heather, has 'a promising storyline' by an author described with 'great ideas are in her head.'

Joey Pinkney interviewed me

I've been interviewed about my book: http://joeypinkney.com/amazoncom/5-mi...

Virtual-Muser ebook review

I got a new *** review of The Speed of Darkness here: http://vm-ebookreview.blogspot.com/20...

It may be a tie with my lowest review, but it supports a story concept I've been playing around with in my head for a couple of days. This might be the motivation I need to get to writing again!

Here's an Interview of Me

Writing blog Author Morgen Bailey has posted an interview of me here: http://morgenbailey.wordpress.com/201... for my book The Speed of Darkness.