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Monday, August 31, 2015

"Manna-X" IS free :-)

And it has been for a few days :-)
It's creeping up the "Humor" ratings, it started out on #80 and is now at #57.
Go and help it climb higher, PLEASE!!! If it gets in the TOP 10, someone might NOTICE it!!
http://www.amazon.com/Manna-X-Dani-J-Caile-ebook/dp/B00D94CWF0
(It's available on all Amazon sites)

My story is still up in the Iron Writer Challenge 125, so if you feel like voting for your favourite story, please click in the box over here...
http://theironwriter.com/the-iron-writer-challenge-125/

And, of course, I did WQ130 on the Iron Writer...
http://theironwriter.com/the-iron-writer-challenge-weekend-quickie-130/
But here it is, anyway, all nice and big for ya :-)

Weekend Quickie 130 – image of crazed/frightened dirty face of a woman/beast, frog gigging, hysteria. 250 words


I heard the splashing of water and cracking of branches to my left along the lake's side. It was late, or early, 2:00am. Someone was running towards me in the darkness, at least, I hoped it was 'someone'. I put down my fishing rod and fumbled for my torch. The batteries were dead. 3 meters out I saw a dark silhouette of a girl, desperately fighting through the tree roots and mud. She broke into the small clearing and fell into my arms.
"Run! Run! It's coming!"
I looked behind her and saw only trees.
"Calm down, there's nothing there." Her face and hands were coated in dirt, her t-shirt ragged, ripped. But that was nothing. Her eyes showed fear, bordering on hysteria. There was a snap out in the forest and she jumped.
"It's coming!" She almost wrestled herself from my grip.
"Hey, hey! What happened? Shhh. Calm down."
"Me...me and Alice, we...we were out frog gigging, we...we'd reached the record, Dani's record of 129 frogs and...and..." She hid her face into my chest. "It appeared!"
"What appeared?"
"It! It was normal to start with, talking about frogs and gigs, but... then came the first snide, derogatory remark, and then...then..."
"What? What happened?"
"It attacked Alice! I ran! I couldn't save her!" She cried, blowing her nose on my jacket. There was a louder noise, closer now. The girl screamed. And then I saw it.

"No, no, it can't be...it's, it's..."

Friday, August 28, 2015

"Manna-X" is free?

I think "Manna-X", one of masterpieces, is FREE today. I can't remember setting it up...
the best thing to do is go there and find out!
http://www.amazon.com/Manna-X-Dani-J-Caile-ebook/dp/B00D94CWF0
...I'm always looking for your opinions and perhaps a review, so please, download it if you can!

AND the Iron Writer Challenge 125 is up and running...please find some time to go and read and vote!
http://theironwriter.com/the-iron-writer-challenge-125/
I'd like to win this one and get a story in the 3rd anthology...:-)
Please!

Thursday, August 27, 2015

A sale, a deadline, a play AND C125

Looks like I got a sale of "How to" today, Yay! It moved into the top 1 million ranking...
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Castle-Seven-Easy-Steps-ebook/dp/B00SOZYR6G
I also completed an important proofreading task before the deadline...
...and I finished writing up / murdering "Twelfth Night"....

Oh, and  the Iron Writer Challenge 125 is up!
Vote for me! Dani J Caile! Yes, me! You know, me?
Thanks!
...OK, well, you can vote for the others, too, if you wish...they're all good stories, take your pick :-)
http://theironwriter.com/the-iron-writer-challenge-125/

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

50,000 hits on my blog! plus 4th Shakespearean play to murder...

Yes, my blog just passed the 50,000 hits mark! Now that is something. I'm sure that at least 1% of those are real people somewhere...okay, maybe 5% :-)
Writing up my 4th Shakespearean play for the 6th Graders (English as a 2nd language), my easy to understand version. After tampering with Hamlet (too depressing and deep) and As You Like It (way too messy) , I chose Twelfth Night.
Here's my first attempt at the beginning...yes, it is juvenile, but it's meant to be, it's for 12 year olds with English as a 2nd language.
What d'ya think? Good so far?

Scene 0
EACH CHARACTER HOLDS A NAME AND DESCRIPTION OF ROLE BEFORE AUDIENCE, STANDS IN THEIR ‘PLACE’ OF AUTHORITY

Scene 1
THUNDER SOUNDS, SHIP PICTURE (ON A SHIP), ACTORS ROCKING IN SEA
VIOLA: Sebastian my brother! My twin! Where are you? I’m afraid! SEBASTIAN ENTERS
SEBASTIAN: Viola my sister! My sweet twin! Do not be afraid, I am here!  HOLDS HER SHOULDER. CAPTAIN ENTERS
CAPTAIN: Abandon ship! We are doomed, I tell ya, doomed! CAPTAIN LEAVES
MORE THUNDER, SCREAMS. ALL LEAVE. PICTURE OF THE BEACH. SOUNDS OF THE SEASIDE, SEAGULLS. VIOLA AND CAPTAIN LYING ON FLOOR.
VIOLA: Where… where am I?
CAPTAIN: On a beach.?
VIOLA: But where?
CAPTAIN: In the sand?
VIOLA: Sebastian. Where is my brother and twin Sebastian?
CAPTAIN: Drowned?
VIOLA: No! It cannot be!
CAPTAIN: Okay, then. Not drowned?
VIOLA: Where are we?
CAPTAIN: I think you have already…SIGN SHOWING THE WORD “ILLYRIA”….Oh, Illyria, madam.
VIOLA: Syria?! Looks like no one is home.
CAPTAIN: No, Illyria. The Duke Oreos governs this land.
VIOLA: I like Oreos.
CAPTAIN: You haven’t met him yet! Come, we must seek food and shelter.
VIOLA AND CAPTAIN LEAVE. SEBASTIAN APPEARS, CONFUSED, WALKS AWAY.

Scene 2
PICTURE: THE DUKE OREO’S PALACE. DUKE OREOS, CURIO ON ONE SIDE…OLIVIA (BLACK VEIL), MALVOLIO, MARIA ON THE OTHER. FUNERAL OF OLIVIA’S FATHER AND BROTHER.
OLIVIA: My father! My brother! CRIES
DUKE OREOS: Seven years?!
CURIO: Yes, sir. Olivia will not look at another man for seven years.
DUKE OREOS: But seven years?!
CURIO: Tie a knot in it, sir.
DUKE OREOS: For seven years?!
CURIO: Tie two knots.
DUKE OREOS: I love her. I want her now!
CURIO: Make that three.
COFFINS ARE PUSHED AWAY. OLIVIA, MALVOLIO, MARIA LEAVE ONE SIDE.
DUKE OREOS: Seven years?! Think of something, Curio!
CURIO: Yes, sir.
VIOLA AND CAPTAIN HIDE AT THE SIDE
VIOLA: Who is this delicious man?
CAPTAIN: This is Duke Oreos.
VIOLA: I like Oreos.
CAPTAIN: I think you have already….Oh! You like Duke Oreos.
VIOLA: That too.
CURIO: Sir! I have an idea.
DUKE OREOS: Spit it out.
CURIO: But I’m not chewing gum.
DUKE OREOS: Tell  me your idea.
CURIO: Oh. Send a servant to tell Olivia that you love her.
DUKE OREOS: But I don’t have a servant.
CURIO: Oh…
VIOLA: Captain! I have an idea! Dress me as a man!
CAPTAIN: Well, hello sailor.
VIOLA: No, not that! Dress me as a man and then I can be a servant to the Duke!
CAPTAIN. Oh, right. Of course.
PUT A MOUSTACHE ON HER (LIKE SEBASTIAN’S)
VIOLA: That’s it?
CAPTAIN: We were shipwrecked. What more do you want?
VIOLA GREETS DUKE OREOS.
VIOLA: Greetings, kind sir. I am looking for a position as ‘servant’.
CURIO: Yes! Saved!
DUKE OREOS IS ATTRACTED TO VIOLA BUT ALSO DISGUSTED (THE MOUSTACHE).
DUKE OREOS: Greetings, young…’man’. Yes, I am in need of a servant. LOOKS HER OVER. Yes, congratulations, you have the job!
VIOLA: Thank you, sir!
DUKE OREOS: Now, go to Olivia and tell her how much I love…LOOKS AT VIOLA (ATTRACTED/DISGUSTED) ….her.
VIOLA: Sorry? HEARTBROKEN
DUKE OREOS: Go on, now! Tell her!
VIOLA: Yes, sir.

VIOLA BOWS AND LEAVES. ALL LEAVE. SEBASTIAN ENTERS, CONFUSED, LEAVES.


Monday, August 24, 2015

"How to" is almost PRICELESS!

I had a look at Amazon to see if any reviews were put on my latest, "How to Build a Castle in Seven Easy Steps" and I was SURPRISED to find that some people have put HUGE PRICES on some copies...


 And then there was an even MORE expensive one...



 Unbelievable!!!!


You can get a 'real' copy here, at a not-so-extortionate price :-)
http://www.amazon.com/Build-Castle-Seven-Easy-Steps/dp/1940938430


Sunday, August 23, 2015

If you keep trying...

...something's gotta happen...
I've just become the editor of the "Firefly & Wisp" monthly magazine! I'm on a trial period but this small publisher is on the way up :-)
I've also picked up a large editing job from my friend Jasper :-)
AND I'm starting to write up the story of Graham Reader and how he became the 'soul collector', or Grim Reaper. Hopefully I can put a 'serial' story in the forementioned magazine :-)

Iron Writer Challenge 125 is coming up at the end of the week...and guess who's in it! Me. Yes. So I'll need your vote...later...if you feel my story is worthy...
...a picture from a month or two ago...the closest I'll get to Shakespeare...!



Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Update August 2015...All For Love...

Back to planet Earth, with many ideas running through my brain but nothing substantial...
..still waiting on "All For Love" to come out...

...and "Alice on the Outside-In" (including the Esperanto version) went over 150 free downloads...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/563002

PLUS "Baby Shoes" will have a 1/2 price day soon...
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Shoes-100-Stories-Authors-ebook/dp/B0110ZA0RG



"Rage" got a FREE advert on Desert Bookshelf (Friends With Books) :-)
 http://www.desertbookshelf.com/bookfeature.php?select=i&item=413
(I have a paperback copy in my hand...if you ask nicely, I'll send you it...signed...yes, I know it puts its value down but hey...)
An advert all thanks to James Paddock, a writer and believer in the Indie market!
He has MANY books of his own, which you can see here...
http://www.desertbookshelf.com/store.php