Category: Writing
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…
A Quick Update
Latest Submissions: I just submitted a short-story for the October issue of eFiction Magazine. The title of the piece is “Christmas”, for lack of a better name and for no other reason than it takes place at Christmas. If it gets accepted, I look forward to your opinions about the…
New Cover Art Sneak Peek!
Here it is. The first sneak peek at the cover art for Any Tomorrow: The Curse, the second eBook in the Any Tomorrow Trilogy. Let me know what you think! © Copyright 2011 by Kevin Fraleigh.
Downriver on the Cat
I’ve said before that inspiration is where you find it. Inspiration can even be found in adventures provided for a nearly four year old. All you have to do is keep your senses open to the world around you. Two Fridays ago, five of us, including my granddaughter, Hannah, boarded…
Revising the Product Description
Thanks to my friends at eFiction Magazine’s Book Marketing Group, I’ve transformed my long, unfocused product description into a more dynamic pitch for my eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling. Advice from eFiction editor Doug Lance and group member Richard Sutton helped me rebuild my product description following some simple general…
The Coming Storm
[Note to the reader: As of post time Tropical Storm Emily is no more. However, since I already had the post written I decided to go with it.] Depending where and when you are when you read this, Tropical Storm Emily may or may not be a big deal. If…
