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An audio version of one of my stories is now available at The Deepening.

www.thedeepening.com/world-of-fiction/2009/05/15/audio-short-story-2/

It's always kind of weird, yet fun, to hear your stories read by someone else.  The story is from "Tales of a Texas Boy," a set of twenty related stories narrated by a boy growing up in West Texas in the ( Read more... )

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Tales of a Texas Boy received a nice review from Al Past, author of the Distant Cousins science fiction series. Thanks, Al!

Just for the young? Not necessarily!, January 28, 2009
By  Al Past (Beeville, TX USA) - See all my reviews

Tales of a Texas Boy is a collection of 21 reminiscences of rural life in the Texas panhandle during the Depression, told ( Read more... )

 
I last reported hopeful on a story submission.  It has been accepted by Stories for Children for a January publication.

The review for my Tales of a Texas Boy is also getting out and about.  It was posted by the reviewer on Barnes & Noble, but Amazon is lagging as they check whether the review has bad words in it.  It does not.

So, to expedite ( Read more... )

First place draw was for Lorrie Struif.  She chose a large print edition of "Tales of a Texas Boy."

Lorrie Unites-Struiff lives in West Mifflin, near Pittsburgh PA. She has published short stories in various genres, but her favorite is humor. Lorrie is now working on a paranormal novella titled "Gypsy Crystal."

Second place draw was for Ruby Blotzer. ( Read more... )

One of the stories from Tales of a Texas Boy is up at YA Lit Review in living sound!  The reader did a great job, and the music is cool, too.

Take a few minutes to listen at YA Lit Review - Out of the Chicken Coop

Those of you with books on Amazon know the ranking rollercoaster.  Still, it gives me a little boost when one of my books get ranked well enough to make a category list.

Today's milestone is that two of my Tales of a Texas Boy editions made a list ranking.

Surpisingly, Tales ended up as #1 on the Books/Large Print/Poetry & Short Stories list.  Whoa ( Read more... )

I'm a junkie of TitleZ since I'm got a few of my books, and some friends' selling on Amazon.  You can track the rise and fall of sales and fret over it as much as you have angst available for it.

My best selling book is a Large Print edition.  I've been somewhat puzzled about the phenomenon until I noticed that my book is compared to some well-known ( Read more... )

I mentioned before that I kindlized (kindled?) my book "Tales of a Texas Boy."  It duly appeared on Amazon, complete with the cover art.  Cool.

I tagged it on TitleZ, along with my print copies, books in which I am featured, and books by friends. I like to keep an eye on sales.  By the way, if you do have a book up on Amazon, TitleZ is a handy way ( Read more... )