Mother & Child: Three Extremely Short Horror Stories

Available at Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com. Coupon for FREE ebook, this Friday-Sunday only:  Use code MP94F at Smashwords or I’ll cry like a baby… Mother & Child Three Extremely Short Stories of Mothers, Children, and the Uncanny Bonds between Them A boy who wants to rescue his mother from her perfect, imaginary life—at

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Apex Book Salon of Evil Wits: Nick Mamatas – Starve Better

Once in a generation, someone comes along who can made fun of you, totally skewer you, and make you enjoy it. If you’re a writer, Nick Mamatas is that guy.  In Starve Better, the former Clarkesworld editor’s new book out from Apex Book Company, he slams writers, both professional and otherwise, up one side and

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Indypub: Lightning Source and a bitch about ebook distribution

I heard a negative comment about OverDrive yesterday that I won’t pass on because I can’t verify it, but it didn’t sound good.  Still waiting on more info from OverDrive. Lightning Source, to me, is most familiar as a Print on Demand (POD) printer.  I didn’t know until recently that they distribute ebooks, too. Lightning

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Contracts blog.

An awesome blog written by (among other things) a lawyer, “The Passive Voice.” Here’s his latest, on “Don’t Sign Dumb Contracts”: With both publishers and agents, PG recommends a “minimum wage for authors” – a dollar (or Euro, etc.) amount that the author receives every six months or year for a book. If the author

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