I used to be a submitting machine ... but now I'm tired.

If a writer wants to be traditionally published, they must submit. Their short stories, novels, non-fiction books, must go out to those publications that accept un-agented submissions, or they must go through literary agents for the other publications. (Independent publishing is a different ( Read more... )

From July 1s until July 31st we're once again participating in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale!
Because it's summer up here and winter down under, you see. I'd imagine it made sense at the time. And let's face it: For most people, July is either too hot or too cold to go out anyway, so you might as well read a good book.

Since Coming Attractions ( Read more... )

Four of our books are finally up as audiobooks! Do you hear me ( Read more... )

An interesting thing about the publishing industry is that it takes great pains to make sure an author never knows how many books he's selling.Meanwhile, at certain points in the process, that's the only thing authors want to know ( Read more... )

 Okay, so check this out: As I'm sure all of you remember, back in 2021 I had a short story, "Everybody Knows Your Name", published in East Of the Web, an online fiction magazine. The original short story is here:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/EverKnow1183.shtml


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 I promised some time ago (or was it a threat?) that I'd share more info about our kinda-sorta new short story collection, Storm Squalls.

Formerly known as Storm Chaser Shorts, that title will now be used only when I'm dressing for a tornado watch. It's still a prequel/sequel/epilogue to our Storm Chaser series, something that arose organically ( Read more... )

(I have to keep reminding people--I want them to get that free book!)

In case you missed it, from now until July 31st we'll be participating in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale!
Because it's summer up here and winter down under, you see. I'm sure it made sense to them at the time. And let's face it: For most people, July is either too hot or ( Read more... )

There's a new interview of me up on a website called Canvas Rebel:
canvasrebel.com/meet-mark-r-hunter/

It's basically an online magazine covering business, arts, and various creative types. Their main page is at https://canvasrebel.com/where you can check out all the people who make me look like a slacker ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I'm struggling a bit with my new writing project is that I usually start with a plot, then find characters to fit into the story. This has drawbacks, the biggest being that as I create my characters, they sometimes become so real to me that they start saying things I don't want to hear:

"Yeah, I know you plan for this to happen, ( Read more... )

Like many writers, I like it when people read my stuff. I like it even more when they buy my stuff, because that gets me one step closer to retiring to the life of Gentleman Author ( Read more... )