Author: Kevin Fraleigh
Sock Monkey, Crucified
It’s Halloween and I couldn’t let my favorite holiday go by without a post. Nothing eerie, nothing scary, just a little odd. Think about this. Chester Hendricks was not a superstitious man by any standard definition of the word. He wasn’t scared of black cats and he cared nothing about…
On The Road Again
Yes, literally, on the road again. No flying this time. Another business trip, but this time it’s a road trip to South Carolina. The weather has been superb and I am with same team that accompanied me to Idaho. We are in a hotel at night (complete with free breakfast…
It’s Great To Be Back Home!
Very late last night I came dragging in after a number of delightful hours squeezed into spaces barely fit for human habitation, much less flight. About the only good thing I can say for the experience is that Coke and peanuts are still complimentary and my car was still sitting…
My Private Idaho
No, this has nothing at all to do with the movie, which by the way I have never seen. I just like the title. And it is appropriate because that’s where I am tonight, Idaho. I’m here on business and I must admit it is different from Florida. They have…
What Stories Influence You?
Whether you’re a writer or a reader, what you read becomes an element of the psychological sum of your parts. Consciously or subconsciously all the words, images, and emotions associated with what you read become part of you. They find a niche somewhere inside your mind and wait there, quietly…
Managing Social Media and More!
It is a wet, awful day here in Central Florida. But it is the perfect day to get caught up on my blog and the other social media I use to talk about my books and stories. To tell the truth, I haven’t been very good at exploiting social media…
Here We Go Again!
Update on Any Tomorrow: The Calling : This evening I submitted revised versions of Any Tomorrow: The Calling to Amazon and Smashwords. There were just a couple of minor corrections, but I needed to update the product descriptions to include some reader comments anyway. Update on Any Tomorrow: The Curse…
Repeat after me: Revise, Revise, Revise!
The latest on publication: As I wrote in my last post, my short story, ‘Christmas’, was rejected by eFiction Magazine, but with good reason. Following the rejection, I submitted the story to the eFiction Workshop and received some very helpful criticism. The criticism identified a number of technical errors and…
Rejected again, but maybe not…
Okay, so I posted a little prematurely that I would have a short story included in the October edition of eFiction Magazine. Yesterday I got the following email from Doug Lance, the Editor: Hey Kevin! The editorial staff feels that your latest submission “Christmas” could use a bit more polish…
It could be any of us
In his 1962 dystopian novella, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess coined the term “ultra-violence” to characterize the sociopathic ravagings of a young man named Alex and his “Droogs”. Stanley Kubrick brought it to theatres in 1972. Exceptionally controversial for the time, I remember seeing it at the Strand Theatre in…
