Dale’s Comments (group member since Sep 15, 2017)

Dale’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

I'm going to suggest something based on the review I wrote:

Detective Trackneathan, Track for short, is a good cop who can't keep his mouth shut. As a result, he's been suspended just for doing his job. But stranger things swirl around him. Remnants, survivors of a biological outbreak stigmatized as a drain on the public coffers, are vanishing. Track is being followed and his apartment is ransacked. Investigations are being shut down for no good reason. Worse, he's receiving cryptic messages from someone he knows to be dead.

Hampered by an injury, Track isn't sure he can trust his own thoughts. Are his prescription drugs messing with his mind, or is something truly sinister afoot? He only knows one thing: suspension won't stop him from getting to the bottom of it. The truth turns out to be far more twisted than he could ever have imagined.

Thanks Erica.

I'm working on my next one, Amy . . . and have another agent waiting in the wings. ;-)

Anna: Yes, I know, I'm nowhere in the lead on this. I'm trying to be more persistent with this one, so I can at least paper a guest room with rejections. ;-)

Thanks Judy & Carmel!

Got my third agent rejection on "Space Operatic" today. Sent it off to the next one on my list. This is practice for me in not getting discouraged and giving up. In the past I haven't been very good at submitting a single piece to the whole world. Four might be a record for me. :-P

Thanks Carole and Erica! And I clapped for Erica's, too.

Here's another flash fiction story. It's an October story, so a bit out of season, but I hope you enjoy it: The Old Place. Thanks!

Caught up on clapping for everyone (I think).

Ben: I haven't seen anything that puts any limits on either reading or clapping for paying members. Non-paying members can only read 3 and clap for 3 stories per month, but I don't think there is any limit to the number of claps they can give those 3 stories.

I've put a second one out there today, an old blog post of mine that I happened to rediscover about a cat I had who passed away just about three years ago: Goodbye, Daniel.

I hope two a day isn't too much. ;-)

Justin wrote: "Interesting story Dale!"

Thank you!

Christine wrote: "Hi everyone! As most of you know, I've been a member of Medium for awhile, but hadn't written any stories.

Well, I just posted my first one. Here is the link: https://medium.com/@artsmithcris/hey-..."

Excellent debut!

My next Medium post is a flash fiction story that never made it into the IU contest: One Chicago Night. Please enjoy and clap if you like it and share if possible. Thanks!

Oh, sure you do. :-)

Ah . . . well, if you don't earn anything from it, there doesn't seem to be much point.

By the by, has anyone ever created a series? I was looking at the series editor, but the thing kind of confused me. I thought you'd link articles together, but they have these "cards" . . . which I think are just for individual articles in the series. It seems a weird way of doing things, though.

I've added another flash fiction story to my Medium offerings: An Incident at the Mall. I hope you enjoy it.

I'll try to catch up on everyone else's latest tomorrow, although it's shaping up to be a busy day, so maybe Wednesday...

My new review and author interview is with Stevie Turner and her novel Mind Games. Please enjoy and share!

Saw this in a GR book ad that was served to me:

"A brilliantly told tale of drug addiction: it's cause, it's consequences & it's cure."

Brilliantly told, maybe, but not so brilliantly spelled. Ouch . . .

A new post, this one a short story: A Perfect Crime. I posted this in the "Something Good Happened" thread, too, but am putting it here just for Medium doneness . . .

It probably counts as something good when a short story idea occurs to me these days. I used to write a lot of them, but not so much any more. Anyway, I got the idea on the way to work this morning, and now it's on Medium: A Perfect Crime. Please enjoy and share!

Judy wrote: "Dale wrote: "I've posted a new one: An Encounter. It's a real-life story. I don't tell those too often because, like Isaac Asimov once said, nothing has ever happened to me. ;-) Anyway, I hope you ..."

Thank you. I was expecting a bit more attention for that one, but curiously not so far. Hmm.