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Flashing Lights Volume 1 Now Available
Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 1 is now available on Amazon in eBook and on Kindle Unlimited. The paperback and audiobook are coming in the next few weeks. Flashing Lights: Short and Weird Volume 1 is a collection of sixteen flash fiction and short stories in...
AI Assisted Writing: Who is the Villain in this Story?
In my AI Pledge, I mention content creators to whom I’ve attributed the notorious moneygrabber label. In the pledge I accept that content creators are welcome to do whatever their desires direct, their skills and budget afford them, and their readers want. And they...
Special Announcement: Monthly Story Releases for Newsletter Subscribers
Special Announcement: Monthly Story Releases for Newsletter Subscribers For you, dear readers, I am releasing special eBooks and audiobooks of my short fiction regularly and exclusively for my newsletter subscribers. I’m attempting monthly releases, and have so far...
Where to Get Public Domain Works for Free
A Tip and Story Share As you may have noticed by the novels, short stories, resource materials, and authors I have shared in previous newsletters, I often read historical fiction and nonfiction. In this case, by “historical,” I mean published in the past. My primary...
Sci-Fi Genre Trope: Powered Exoskeleton
Sci-Fi Genre Trope: Powered Armor/Exoskeleton I’ve shared some of my favorite sci-fi books in recent months and realized a common trope to several of them, what I call powered armor. A powered exoskeleton, also known as power armor, powered armor, powered...
Dragon Fiction to Share
This month I’m sharing what might loosely be considered a subgenre of fantasy fiction, Dragon Fiction. So, please enjoy a brief history of dragons in literature and some current dragon fiction to share. Dragons in Fiction Dragons have been central characters in myths...
Short and Flash Science Fiction to Share
This month, rather than sharing a genre, I’m sharing a writing form, Short Fiction, especially Flash Fiction. Short vs Flash Fiction Flash fiction is a classification of short fiction. Generally, stories with less than 7500 words (about 10 pages) are considered short...
Science Fiction Comedy to Share
This month’s genre to share, Science Fiction Comedy, what I prefer to call Sci-Fi Humor, is not a highly populated one, but may be as old as 1785. No joke. No time machine involved. (At least, as far as I know). From here on, I’ll refer to the genre as “comedy” since...
Supernatural Fiction to Share
This month’s genre to share, supernatural fiction, rose from the traditional ghost story, and in its broad sense (which is how I have considered it here) overlaps with weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, and occult detective fiction. Sharing Great...
Military Science Fiction to Share
This month’s genre to share, military science fiction, has a heritage in a few earlier works, mostly short stories, by the likes of H. G. Wells and a few others. However, it really didn’t establish itself as a subgenre of science fiction until the 1950s. You don’t...
Dragonbound: Fireborne
If you have come here looking for more about the Dragonbound series, we’ll have more for you soon. In the meanwhile, please join the newsletter to get the latest information.
You can check out the series on Kindle Vella. The first 3 episodes are free.
