William L. Domme's Blog, page 7
September 16, 2013
Ten in the Post.
It was a few weeks of high anticipation wondering who of the more than 900 entrants would win their copies of Eight and The Rejected Works. Also, in that time a local bookstore, The Raven, agreed to stock The Rejected Works. So, on a Saturday morning under the cloudless sky I took ten individually addressed books to the biggest post office in town whose claim to fame, it is rumored, is that bullet holes from a notorious gangster of the early 20th century are still visible within its cathedral-ish walls. It took some time for the nicest clerk in the world to apply the correct postage and customs labeling. She saved the most distant, to Great Britain, for last. As soon as she picked up that Albion bound package Imagine came on the radio. The clerk, me, and John Lennon went about this business in the colossal chamber of this classically designed post office where I would expect great philosophical studies to be afoot, not utilitarian postal duties.
September 13, 2013
And The Winners Are…
Five copies of Eight and five copies of The Rejected Works Vol. I were listed for giveaways on goodreads.com and the results are in.
Eight
Winners: Nicole Gallo, Rae Holland, Vikki Sanderson, Alexandria Matson, and Shirley Oflynn. Congratulations!
The Rejected Works of William L. Domme Vol. I
Winners: Joyce Yanney, Dawn Smith, Joycedale Chapman, Sissy Gadd, and Denise Cosme. Congratulations!
Thanks also to the more than 900 people who entered these giveaways and are willing to take a chance on books they would like to discover. Stay tuned. More giveaways will likely be underway in the coming months. It is a rather enjoyable excercise.
Sincerely,
William L. Domme
September 3, 2013
September 2, 2013
Kindle Giveaway
There will be three short stories free on September 3rd. You can download them for your Kindle app. Look for them here: Domme
August 22, 2013
Giving Out 5 Paperbacks.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
The Rejected Works of William L. Domme
by William L. Domme
Giveaway ends September 13, 2013.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
August 21, 2013
Achtung! Short Story Giveaway on August 22.
On August 22, 2013 selected short stories will be free on Amazon. If you like the free ones, buy the other complete collections. Get them here: William L. Domme
August 19, 2013
June 28, 2013
The Rejected Works Volume I. PAPERBACK now available at Barnes and Noble online.
The Rejected Works of William L. Domme Volume I. i
s in paperback and is now sold at Barnes and Noble online.
May 16, 2013
A FREE SAMPLE OF A FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE IN THE BOOKSHOP.
The phone is loud, the kids are screaming at each other, and the throbbing in my head must be the first step on a short trip to an aneurysm. My eyes are trying to escape my head because they can’t convince the lids to close and the fingers trying to button the bottom button on my shirt play some weird game of tag that keeps me from getting on with the day.
The car shakes so bad when I put the brakes on at every stop that the steering wheel rocks side to side and almost rips itself out of my hands. It’s hard to concentrate on the road with this and the kids playing as we go to Fannie’s, their sitter, before I have to work.
The streets are already hot and ugly at ten in the morning. No clouds. No shade. Even the trees seem to be packing up for a different climate. Shelby’s in the backseat trying to fog over the window with her breath and even though there’s no fog, pulls her finger across the glass, “What are you drawing baby?”
“That dog on the side of the road.”
“Where?”
“Back there.”
“That dog was dead,” Hank Jr. says.
“No he wasn’t,” Shelby slaps at him and misses, “Mommy, can we get a puppy?”
“We’ll see.”
The surface of everything looks bad, the whole town, single story buildings put up through a dozen decades, with their different styles and fashions, look like empty shells painted over, starting to blister and crack, ready to flake away and float into the wind like the soft white bulbs from the cottonwood trees that drift along; making it look like snow in the heart of the summer. A moment of dreaming makes me think the window of my door is liquefying and running down on itself.
It’s back to work, for me, for a half shift at Harold’s Steak & Brew. The past week was the disaster of my life and the months leading up to it, the years really, screamed at the impending doom. I don’t throw that word out there lightly. There would be death, prison, and failure but seriously, how was I to know? I have three kids to raise and had a husband to baby-sit. There was no time to look at the signs.
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Our trailer vibrates with a rattle, again. I just want to read the new Harlequin book. It was the Harlequin/NASCAR series of books I’d found at Wal-Mart last winter when we were looking for a heavy winter coat for Hank to wear to work. That was when he was working for the garbage company. He lost that job because of a urine test. Shit.
The neighbor’s stereo is blaring and the bass is shaking every house in the neighborhood. I’ve told Carl James about this before but I guess he doesn’t know that I’m home today. Hank’s collection of beer cans dances on the shelf above the plasma TV. They’re empty so they get to moving pretty good.
GET THE WHOLE STORY HERE: The Dogshit Summer
April 16, 2013
The Rejected Works of William L. Domme Volume 1
Due to an outstanding performance in the slush piles of over 100 literary journals and magazines around the world, I regret to inform you that my work is not what they’re looking for at this time.
Their rejection is my acceptance. So, without further delay: The paperback via Lulu.com The Rejected Works of William L. Domme Vol. 1 or the eBook via Amazon
The Rejected Works of William L. Domme Volume 1
