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Listen to a Free Audio Story – A Monster Under the Bed

Another free short story for your listening enjoyment.

Sit back, relax, pour yourself a large glass of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda (or the household cleaning productof your choice*) and listen to me reading you a short story.

The reading was recorded “as live” – so it’s as near to a live performance as I can make it. I like doing this rather than over-rehearsing it. I admit that there are some mistakes, but then I probably would make errors if I read it live to you in your front room, whi...

Listen to me Read a Free Short Xmas Horror Story

A free short horror story, written and read by me, just for your listening pleasure.

Please be aware that, like many Christmas stories, this one is a little macabre. I do hope you enjoyit

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/free-xmas-horror-story.mp3
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Podcast – Black Friday – a Horror Story

In honour of Black Friday this year, I’ve written a short horror story, with Black Friday as the title – though this is no ordinary story of sales and special offers.

It’s something altogether darker.

You can either:

Read the story yourself here

Watch me read it aloud hereor just listen to me read it as an mp3 below.

Here’sBlack Friday, and I hope you enjoy it.

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/black_friday_free_horror_story.mp3
Get the MP3

Members of the Awkward Squad (the very coo...

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An Untitled Horror Story for Your Listening Pleasure

Today I’ve recorded a reading of a short horror story that I’ve written just for you guys. You can listen to it from the link below, and it should also be in my podcast feed, so you can subscribe to that too if you like.

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/an-untitled-horror-story-by-Mikey-Campling.mp3
Now, you may be wondering where the text is.

Well, you should’ve been. Pay attention and stop slacking.

The text is reserved for The Awkward Squad (my newsletter subscribers) at the...

NaNoWriMo – An Inspirational PepTalk

Welcome to all intrepid writers embarking on NaNoWriMo. I’ve recorded a vlog which I hope will help you on your way.

Please note – my main hope for this video is that it will make you smile and nudge you in the direction of not taking yourself too seriously.

Anyway, why record a vlog and then write a blog about it?

No reason. I hope that you enjoy the video – please feel free to add your two penn’orth (that means ‘have your say’ where I come from) by leaving a comment.

Good Luck

Video Notes

Well do...

Vlog – Writing Tips That Work For Me

A few more writing tips that have worked for me this week: changing my writing workspace, digital fasting, planning time for social media, and figuring out a word count target for my writing.

The Writing Tips Podcast

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/writing_tips_podcast_19_october_2014.mp3

Mentioned in the show:

Writing Resources from Joanna Penn:Visit The Creative Penn

Write or Die 2 is available at: http://writeordie.com/

Music credit: “Neolith” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...

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Self-Publishing on Smashwords – a vlog

Recently, after putting it off for ages, I’ve finally dived into publishing on smashwords – here’s the vlog on my experiences.

Have you had good or bad experiences on smashwords?

What helped you to get through the process?

Comments are very welcome so give me a shout.

Podcast

Here’s the audio file for all you audiophiles:

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/self-publishing-on-smashwords-podcast.mp3

Links from the show:

The Smashwords Style Guide

Breaking Ground – my Free ebook on smas...

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Resuming Your Writing After a Break – The Vlog

If you’ve read the post, then why not buy the T-shirt, and even watch the vlog.

OK – well forget the T-shirt. Heeeeeere’s Mikey:

I know the video quality isn’t great, but I’ll do better next time.

If you prefer to just listen, here’s the audio version:

http://mikeycampling.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/vlog-1-getting-writing.mp3

Comments welcome – especially if you’ve got some tips of your own to share.

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Is Wool by Hugh Howey a Good Book for Teenagers? The Video

I wrote a brief blog post about this a little while ago and people seem to be visiting it, so here’s a more in-depth video on the subject.

This isn’t a review of Wool – there are plenty of those already. It’s a discussion of the YA phenomenon. Is there such a thing as a YA book? Should we allow the people in marketing departments to tell us how old we have to be read a book?

What’s your view?

Please feel free to join in the discussion via the comments.

Hope you like the video. If you do, you ma...

Pic of the day – Inspiration Can Arrive When You Least Expect It

And also, sometimes, squirrels.

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