• I have four stories in various states of ‘done’: “Teller” (obviously) is running through next week on the site, then “Disconnect” comes up the following Wednesday. “Two Hands” and “The Receivers” are nearly edited down. I’ve gone through the red pen stage on those and I’m really happy with how they’ve come out ( Read more... )

I'm about six weeks from the official launch of my short story website on June 3rd, but there's weekly content at this point going up with today's post being about the Twitter hooraw. Feel free to check it out ( Read more... )

So I'm working out the things that I think are pretty important for the success of Jason Arnett dot com: licensing of the stories and the schedule of release.

I think this license is the one I'm going with, as it allows the purchaser/reader to copy and redistribute the story as long as they attribute it to me and they can't remix or alter the work ( Read more... )

Discovered the Manifesto of the Cult of Done this week (via John Rogers) and, while not all of it is immediately applicable, I certainly appreciate the sentiments of it. With that in mind, before I lose my mind, I'm going to make one last editing pass at Teller, Disconnect and Don't Take Me Alive before I call them done with an eye toward making ( Read more... )

So I'm getting feedback on the short stories, very good and constructive feedback. Now I'm beginning to think very hard about the delivery method through the new website. Should I go with a PayPal/email the file setup or should I use Lulu.com and the buyer gets an instant download ( Read more... )

All right, I own www.jasonarnett.com now. It's really just a placeholder for the time being, but it'll launch in June with the first short story in a line of about twelve (at least that's the plan) and a new short story every month ( Read more... )