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|  | | eMarketing Tools for Writers, 2nd Edition
This is a guerrilla marketing guide to some of the valuable tools available on the Internet for writers to promote their web sites, their books and their other works. The tools discussed in this guide range from free to inexpensive. The biggest investment will be your time and your commitment to getting the word out about your books.
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| |  | | Gawdawful College Poems (1970 - 1974)
These poems were written many years ago when I was, first, a model college student, then a dazed acid-freak who rarely went to class, then an honors lit student with a serious drinking problem. And, oh yes, often (quite often), hopelessly in love. So if some of these poems seem stupidly romantic, obscure, pretentious, or just plain dumb…welcome to the world I grew out of. Damn it.
the snowflake
when school was out
we ran home
across the ice
laughing and screaming
five furry shapes plunging into the snow
rolling and wrestling in the white we sank
we sank away from the other three, and
eyes gleaming bold fear
I gave her something
then back to the run, leap-frogging
to catch the others and join the bustle
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She was like the snowflake I gave her
fresh and pure
and already melting
| |  | | Gawdawful Poems
Poems written during and after college.
This is a free ebook download from biffmitchell.com. | |  | | Heavy Load (a laundromance)
A hamper of drama and comedy, spin dried and folded inside the coolest laundromat in town. Now available in ebook format from Fictionwise and in paperback format from lulu.com.
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Saturday morning in the Washing Green Laundromat, and three people come together in a triangle of interest …
So far, so routine. But in Heavy Load the characters' only interaction is through glances, gestures, covert stares, never exchanging a word – and it's the laundromat itself that narrates the story, going into the characters' bodies, living through turning points in each character's life in never-ending cycles.
By the end of the story the characters' lives have touched enough to give each a chance at a new beginning, and the laundromat has told a few of its own humorous | |  | | Smoke Break
Kyle has been arguing about what it means to be human with just about the most terrifying creature he can imagine. The main question is: will there be enlightenment, or will there be lunch?
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A twig? Too small. A branch? No. A thick, black spine, leading to what looked like a joint, and then tapering to another joint, and tapering into a smaller spine. No, not a branch, not wood, but something definitely familiar. Where had he seen that shape before?
He bent forward cautiously. The long black spine moved slowly back and forth. Gotta be something caught in there, moving with the exhaust. And then another one appeared from the left side of the hole, exactly like the first, long and shiny black, three spines tapering down through two joints. And they both st | |  | | Surfing In Catal Hyuk
What if Death were to forget about you? What if your Muse were a metaphysical ball-buster? What would you do if your family and friends were swallowed by a big red box? The stories in Surfing in Catal Hyuk explore these questions and more. And they might even spew out an answer or two.
Of all these stories, my favorite has always been “The Nickel”. The idea came to me on a bus ride across Canada in 1981. We passed a crossroads in the middle of nowhere in Saskatchewan. There was a pole on the shoulder where the roads intersected. The pole had some form of box. For the rest of the trip, all the way to Vancouver, I couldn’t stop thinking about that box and wondering what it was for and why the hell it was on that pole out there in the middle of nowhere. It nagged at the back of my head until a year later, back in Fredericton, I made some notes about it and started writing a sto | |  | | Team Player
A hilarious look at the seamier side of the IT industry and the absurdity of work in the 21st Century. Now available in ebook format from Double Dragon Publishing and Fictionwise and in paperback format from lulu.com.
In a future too close for comfort, the world is run by homicidal marketing managers who kill for love, company and the almighty promotion. Everything is turned upside down and nobody is safe.
Set in the world’s tallest building, which has been created in the image of the Leaning Tower of Pisa - lean and all - TEAM PLAYER takes you through a hair-raising maze of intrigue, murder, mass suicide, hillbilly brain cells, rampaging neutrinos, angry Italian ghosts, Bolshevik computers, and thirty naked pagan women who save the universe … with a little help from a man who thinks he’s a tree. | |  | | The Baton
What happens when a fairly normal guy decides it's time to make things right--no matter what he has to do? From one unsuspecting "annoyance" to the next, this "good Samaritan" is on a mission to rid the world of its less desirable aspects. Is it really murder if they deserve it?
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I'm not a bad person. Not really. I pay my bills on time. Like, I'm a goddamn fanatic when it comes to paying bills. I mean, I'm not one of those dickheads who runs up a tab and then says "screw it, I got better things to do with my time and money than pay for something I already used". I don't do that shit. I pay my bills. My parents did. I do. It runs in the family, like almost a genetic thing…you owe money, you pay it off. And I'm a considerate driver. I mean, I don't take any shit when I'm driving. I mean, some asswipe cuts me off, I give him the finger. It's | |  | | The War Bug
A cybersatire set 200 years in a future that's starting now.
They have his family. He has their secret. Their world is collapsing. He has just hours before he looses everything. He has only one friend and ally. The computer virus that started the whole thing in the first place. | |  | | Twisted Tails, Edited by J. Richard Jacobs
Writing short stories is not easy. The reason it isn't easy is because they are short. The writer is still charged with producing living characters who have personalities: good, bad, or milksop. Add to that a dynamic narrative that gives you, the reader, an opportunity to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste what the folks who inhabit those little stories do, and the authors have a demanding job on their hands. Short stories are a great deal more than sitting on an old apple crate and hammering away at the QWERTY. What's that you say? Well, of course it's a word. Look it up. Anyway, we decided to provide something antiquotidian for your--Huh? Will you please stop interrupting? Antiquotidian--something out of the ordinary; a work that is not commonplace. Is that better? Anyway, where were we? Oh, yeah, we decided to assemble an anthology that departs from the same old, same old. It has a theme, but it is not designed around a specific holiday, a particular genre, or any of the other time-battered ideas. This one has as its shaky foundation something that is even more difficult for authors to pull off with grace. It is for that reason that the lineup of writers in this anthology were chosen. They not only write good stories, but they are able to do what many can't. They are going to lead you through the rose garden and up that little hill--see it there?--and when you've reached the crest of that knoll, they are going to gleefully toss you off the cliff. Yeah, you heard it right. They're going to give you a little jolt that you were not expecting, and, at the same instant, give you reason to pause. To think. What? Why, sure you can. Some of these stories will cause you to think for a long time, and some of them will have you kicking your mental butt because you didn't see it coming. Don't you just love it? Oh, sorry about that. We should have told you that in the beginning, huh? The name of this anthology is: TWISTED TAILS. And don't come up with any smart remarks, we've heard them all.
- J. Richard Jacobs, editior
The Authors of Twisted Tails
Eugen M. Bacon, Msc, studied at the University of Greenwich, UK, and graduated with distinction. A Computer Science graduate mentally re-engineered into creative writing, Eugen is now resident in Australia. She is the author of several publications, and is enthralled to be part of this anthology of skewed vision from equally warped authors.
Jeremy Davies is a practising academic (hoping to one day get it right) and a Ph.D. candidate at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia; as well as being a father, husband, man and (chiefly) human. He like |
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