Yippie!
"Dani's Shorts 4" FLEW past the 100 free downloads mark yesterday (well, I say 'flew', I mean 10+ downloads in one day). Now maybe someone will read it and leave a review? Who knows? Sometimes these things happen...
Working on short stories for anthologies at the moment, but those 2 novel ideas are STILL knawing at my fingers, waiting, wondering when they'll come to light. I like it when I get an idea and DO it, not sit on it forever, then have to reread it again and again, trying to find where I got, how far I need to go. What is even more frustrating is that I lost about 4000 words of one somewhere...
Anyway...free ebooks...:-) Take 'em, read 'em, review 'em :-)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/2766
Monday, April 13, 2015
Sunday, April 12, 2015
FREE ebooks...really! No catch!
Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice is also on Amazon now (http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Spice-Everything-Nice-Collaboration-ebook/dp/B00VXP4M64)...it'll be ready in paperback very soon, though it's
on Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/533910), so why use Amazon, that big bully...
Dani's Shorts 4 is so close to 100
FREE
downloads now... (https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/2766)
FREE
on Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/533910), so why use Amazon, that big bully...
Dani's Shorts 4 is so close to 100
FREE
downloads now... (https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/2766)
Saturday, April 11, 2015
And into the Final!
I am now in my...3rd or 4th Iron Writer Open final :-) Finally the judges liked my story enough for me to get through...but it was close.
My effort was called "How the Mighty"...
...and I have already written my entry for the Open Final, ready for Thursday. Who knows? I might get through to the Annual Final!
The elements : Artemis, A Dilettante, Jello Wrestling, A Moon Rock
How the Mighty
Zeus, her father, was at his easel trying to capture the right shade of cloud passing by his window in the Heavenly Deities Nursing Home. His was a large room, comparative with his once-held status as ruler of all Greek Gods and raper of any woman he took a fancy to, including her mother, Leto. She tip-toed over and tapped him on the shoulder.
“Oh, hell, Artemis! You startled me! You could’ve given me a heart attack. If I had a heart, that is.” Zeus put his paint brush down and hugged his daughter. “What brings you here to my humble abode in this retched place?”
“Can’t a daughter visit her father when she wishes?” She sat on the edge of his bed, testing its softness, and then jumped up and down on it to test the springs.
“I guess you can.” Zeus went back to his painting. “Mmm, I’m still not quite happy with the depth of my stratocumulus…”
“Painting again, father?” She patted the small package in her pocket making sure it was still there after jumping.
“Oh, you know. Being kicked off Mount Olympus doesn’t really make your immortality. When you’ve been a god, and a top god at that, where do you go? After a millennia of depression I’ve tried everything. Music, sculpture, painting, dancing, even tiddlywinks, but it seems I’m just an old dilettante, dabbling in a million things but getting nowhere, that initial interest dies…” Zeus put his brush down once more and turned to his daughter. “Hang on. I don’t understand. Why aren’t you shouting your head off at me, or pleading me to help you in some way? Where’s the ‘deus ex machina’, Artemis?”
She giggled and ran over to him, placing the small wrapped package into his hands.
“Happy Birthday, father,” she smiled, as his face beamed in happiness, brightening the room.
“You remembered?” He sat there for a moment in surprise and joy, the light around him
dimming only when his smiled had left. “I didn’t. No one else did, either.”
“But I did. I got you this.”
Zeus struggled with the wrapping until it fell to the floor in pieces.
“It’s a rock.”
“Yes!”
“Does it…does it symbolise anything? Am I a ‘rock’ in your life?”
She shook her head.
“It’s a special rock, father. It comes from the Moon.”
“Oh, thank you.” He threw it up a few times feeling its weight, then placed it on his easel. “I’ll put it with the other three thousand or so I got from Selene and Hecate earlier.”
“Well, to tell the truth, all the shops were closed and seeing as I was passing by the place…”
“Ah, the truth comes out…”
“But I remembered, father. At the last moment, yes, but I remembered!”
“Thank you. So, it’s my birthday! I think I’ll open up Youtube and watch something sleazy…jello wrestling, yes! It reminds me of the good old days, you know, with all those goddesses and mortal women…”
“Father! Please!”
My effort was called "How the Mighty"...
...and I have already written my entry for the Open Final, ready for Thursday. Who knows? I might get through to the Annual Final!
The elements : Artemis, A Dilettante, Jello Wrestling, A Moon Rock
How the Mighty
Zeus, her father, was at his easel trying to capture the right shade of cloud passing by his window in the Heavenly Deities Nursing Home. His was a large room, comparative with his once-held status as ruler of all Greek Gods and raper of any woman he took a fancy to, including her mother, Leto. She tip-toed over and tapped him on the shoulder.
“Oh, hell, Artemis! You startled me! You could’ve given me a heart attack. If I had a heart, that is.” Zeus put his paint brush down and hugged his daughter. “What brings you here to my humble abode in this retched place?”
“Can’t a daughter visit her father when she wishes?” She sat on the edge of his bed, testing its softness, and then jumped up and down on it to test the springs.
“I guess you can.” Zeus went back to his painting. “Mmm, I’m still not quite happy with the depth of my stratocumulus…”
“Painting again, father?” She patted the small package in her pocket making sure it was still there after jumping.
“Oh, you know. Being kicked off Mount Olympus doesn’t really make your immortality. When you’ve been a god, and a top god at that, where do you go? After a millennia of depression I’ve tried everything. Music, sculpture, painting, dancing, even tiddlywinks, but it seems I’m just an old dilettante, dabbling in a million things but getting nowhere, that initial interest dies…” Zeus put his brush down once more and turned to his daughter. “Hang on. I don’t understand. Why aren’t you shouting your head off at me, or pleading me to help you in some way? Where’s the ‘deus ex machina’, Artemis?”
She giggled and ran over to him, placing the small wrapped package into his hands.
“Happy Birthday, father,” she smiled, as his face beamed in happiness, brightening the room.
“You remembered?” He sat there for a moment in surprise and joy, the light around him
dimming only when his smiled had left. “I didn’t. No one else did, either.”
“But I did. I got you this.”
Zeus struggled with the wrapping until it fell to the floor in pieces.
“It’s a rock.”
“Yes!”
“Does it…does it symbolise anything? Am I a ‘rock’ in your life?”
She shook her head.
“It’s a special rock, father. It comes from the Moon.”
“Oh, thank you.” He threw it up a few times feeling its weight, then placed it on his easel. “I’ll put it with the other three thousand or so I got from Selene and Hecate earlier.”
“Well, to tell the truth, all the shops were closed and seeing as I was passing by the place…”
“Ah, the truth comes out…”
“But I remembered, father. At the last moment, yes, but I remembered!”
“Thank you. So, it’s my birthday! I think I’ll open up Youtube and watch something sleazy…jello wrestling, yes! It reminds me of the good old days, you know, with all those goddesses and mortal women…”
“Father! Please!”
Friday, April 3, 2015
April the 8th! "Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice"
I'm in the TIW Open Round again, the 7th time...but there are no names on the stories...vote if you dare!
http://theironwriter.com/2015-spring-equinox-open-the-jack-kerouac-bracket/
I also have a few things in a children's compilation with The Indie Collaboration, a poem (Reflections) and a story (Tommy Tentacles and Mr Fox...adapted from a story by the late Nanny Shorey and including reference to the new Indiana's "Religious Freedom" Law).
The Indie Collaboration bring out regular compilations to promote their writing. I don't know who has contributed but I'll know soon.
The book will come out on the 8th of April (2015), on Smashwords (free? I think so).
I don't usually do exclusively children stuff, but I thought 'why not'...
I'll post when it's available.
Here's the cover! (the purple might be changed to blue)
http://theironwriter.com/2015-spring-equinox-open-the-jack-kerouac-bracket/
I also have a few things in a children's compilation with The Indie Collaboration, a poem (Reflections) and a story (Tommy Tentacles and Mr Fox...adapted from a story by the late Nanny Shorey and including reference to the new Indiana's "Religious Freedom" Law).
The Indie Collaboration bring out regular compilations to promote their writing. I don't know who has contributed but I'll know soon.
The book will come out on the 8th of April (2015), on Smashwords (free? I think so).
I don't usually do exclusively children stuff, but I thought 'why not'...
I'll post when it's available.
Here's the cover! (the purple might be changed to blue)
7th Amazon.com review! Yay!
Yes, there are people out there reading my NEW book (other than "Dani's Shorts 4" on Smashwords).
Just picked up my 7th great review on Amazon.com (my 9th or 10th I think so far, including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com.au and Goodreads).
Here's a link to the book, "How to Build a Castle in Seven Easy Steps", and below is the review...
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Castle-Seven-Easy-Steps-ebook/dp/B00SOZYR6G
Just picked up my 7th great review on Amazon.com (my 9th or 10th I think so far, including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com.au and Goodreads).
Here's a link to the book, "How to Build a Castle in Seven Easy Steps", and below is the review...
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Castle-Seven-Easy-Steps-ebook/dp/B00SOZYR6G
on April 3, 2015
Format: Paperback
Dani Caile effortlessly conjures for his readers a mayhem-filled Medieval landscape dotted with semi-lucid hags,
farty princesses, crooked officials... Sounds a coin-flip between fiction and NON fiction, doesn't it? As a rule,
fantasy books are abundant in imagery and not much else (too often, characters laugh for no reason because
some author THINKS he's told a joke but can't quite get his pen around the funny). HOW TO BUILD A CASTLE
IN SEVEN EASY STEPS is different in the best possible way. It is the first book in [my] recallable memory in
which the characters talk and relate to one another without the interplay between them feeling forced.
If you've not yet read it, please do. You won't be sorry.
farty princesses, crooked officials... Sounds a coin-flip between fiction and NON fiction, doesn't it? As a rule,
fantasy books are abundant in imagery and not much else (too often, characters laugh for no reason because
some author THINKS he's told a joke but can't quite get his pen around the funny). HOW TO BUILD A CASTLE
IN SEVEN EASY STEPS is different in the best possible way. It is the first book in [my] recallable memory in
which the characters talk and relate to one another without the interplay between them feeling forced.
If you've not yet read it, please do. You won't be sorry.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
The Amazon.com BULLY...closing my account???
I published "Dani's Shorts 4" on Amazon Kindle for 99c (it's available on Smashwords for FREE https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/529075) about a week ago. No one buys a copy from there, but whatever.
In the past week, I have received 4 emails from Amazon KDP telling me that they suspect "Dani's Shorts 4" is not my work (???!!). They say that if I believe it IS, then I should click the button agreeing so...I did that 3 times.
This last email, however, seemed more serious. Actually, it was the same as the last 3 but maybe I realised the implications of what they were saying. If THEY believe it is NOT my work (and they haven't once shown me any evidence of this), they will block this book. They will then block all of my other books on Amazon Kindle, and close my Amazon account.
On their side, there are a few 'collaborations' in "Dani's Shorts 4" with Mathew W. Weaver
(http://ramblingsandraving.blogspot.hu), Christopher A Liccardi (http://www.caliccardi.com) with
Jordan Bell (http://jbfiction.blogspot.hu/). They are, however, a tiny fraction of the whole, perhaps 5 or 6 of the 150+ pieces (if you want to count them, download it from Smashwords) and they have already given me consent to publish them. When they get an Amazon account, I will add their names to the book.
In fact, as of yesterday, they have ALREADY blocked "Dani's Shorts 4" on Amazon Kindle and are threatening to block the rest, including my first 4 novels and the other 3 collections of "Dani's Shorts" which I do actually sell...about 1 copy a month but hey!, I wrote those, I slaved over my computer and poured out words, killed my brain, destroyed my posture...
I wrote them a 'human' email, but all I got back was the same email yet again, warning me of what will happen.
Do I resubmit "Dani's Shorts 4" in the hope that they see sense or a different view?
Do I sit back and watch my whole cumulation of work disappear from Amazon Kindle, regardless of any evidence given/taken, without trial or judgement (other than theirs)?
Do I let the Amazon.com Bully tell me that I didn't write my own work?
Wasn't it me who wrote all that stuff? Well, they're trying to tell me I didn't...I'm confused...
What do you think?
In the past week, I have received 4 emails from Amazon KDP telling me that they suspect "Dani's Shorts 4" is not my work (???!!). They say that if I believe it IS, then I should click the button agreeing so...I did that 3 times.
This last email, however, seemed more serious. Actually, it was the same as the last 3 but maybe I realised the implications of what they were saying. If THEY believe it is NOT my work (and they haven't once shown me any evidence of this), they will block this book. They will then block all of my other books on Amazon Kindle, and close my Amazon account.
On their side, there are a few 'collaborations' in "Dani's Shorts 4" with Mathew W. Weaver
(http://ramblingsandraving.blogspot.hu), Christopher A Liccardi (http://www.caliccardi.com) with
Jordan Bell (http://jbfiction.blogspot.hu/). They are, however, a tiny fraction of the whole, perhaps 5 or 6 of the 150+ pieces (if you want to count them, download it from Smashwords) and they have already given me consent to publish them. When they get an Amazon account, I will add their names to the book.
In fact, as of yesterday, they have ALREADY blocked "Dani's Shorts 4" on Amazon Kindle and are threatening to block the rest, including my first 4 novels and the other 3 collections of "Dani's Shorts" which I do actually sell...about 1 copy a month but hey!, I wrote those, I slaved over my computer and poured out words, killed my brain, destroyed my posture...
I wrote them a 'human' email, but all I got back was the same email yet again, warning me of what will happen.
Do I resubmit "Dani's Shorts 4" in the hope that they see sense or a different view?
Do I sit back and watch my whole cumulation of work disappear from Amazon Kindle, regardless of any evidence given/taken, without trial or judgement (other than theirs)?
Do I let the Amazon.com Bully tell me that I didn't write my own work?
Wasn't it me who wrote all that stuff? Well, they're trying to tell me I didn't...I'm confused...
What do you think?
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Dani's Shorts 4 FREE!
'Dani's Shorts 4' is now available on Smashwords! For FREE, of course.
If you'd like a paperback, it's on Amazon but then you have to pay...Amazon Kindle is giving me some crap about it being free elsewhere...yep...lol
The last 6 months of my takes on TIW challenges, plus a few pieces from Scallywag and Spanky Strawberry Slokovich...plus a few other TIW writers :-)
You should go check it out, there are some gems in there, hidden messages, hamburgers, and maybe even some fries!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/529075
If you'd like a paperback, it's on Amazon but then you have to pay...Amazon Kindle is giving me some crap about it being free elsewhere...yep...lol
The last 6 months of my takes on TIW challenges, plus a few pieces from Scallywag and Spanky Strawberry Slokovich...plus a few other TIW writers :-)
You should go check it out, there are some gems in there, hidden messages, hamburgers, and maybe even some fries!
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/529075
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)