De Kenyon

Apologies, I’m writing this ahead of time, because I’m actually at Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference.  April 21-22, my ebooks Beware the Easter Moon and Alien Blue should be free at Amazon only.  Pass the word!

New kids’ fiction now available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble,with other sites to follow (Kobo, Apple, Sony). I’m trying something new… This is actually a two-story pack, with “The Test” and another kids’ story set in a fantasy world, “The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin.”  Both play around with Grimms’ fairy-tale themes. The Test by De Kenyon

Into the heart of deepest Style Guide…the meat of the indie writer's copyediting checklist begins. http://t.co/HgnDNLJA # Powered by Twitter Tools

Goosebumps writer R.L. Stein wrote a short, bug-infested Twitter story in honor of Friday the 13th: Well, it’s Friday the 13th—my national holiday. To celebrate I wrote this story exclusively for you. It’s called THE BRAVE KID. Michael had no fear of Friday the 13th. His house was at 13 Endless Darkness Road. He was 13,

New fiction!  This is another book that’s going up on Kindle Direct Select, which means I’m leaving it up there exclusively for three months (until July 9).  I’ll announce when it’s available on other sites, but for now it’s at Amazon.com. If you buy an Amazon copy but need an additional file format, contact me at

I don't operate by "Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer" theory. # I operate on the "Do something stupid, get sent back to follow the instructions" policy. # I just got listed as a MG book reviewer on Step-by-Step Publishing http://t.co/UBpQGrbK # And THE FIRST requester did not follow the instructions. O waily

When "raising the stakes" is a waste of time: http://t.co/qZ1To3Qg # Copyediting checklist, part one: the technical stuff. http://t.co/SC5s75qI # The stuff that nobody wants to read but everyone needs. Siiiiiiigh. # Think you have problems coming up with book titles? Try naming a TV show… http://t.co/YxoBfSc5 # Will Google will ever get that a

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A while ago, I had one of those days when I was looking for a good kids’ book to review and hadn’t found anything that wasn’t like, “Oh, those wacky kids! How wacky!  Kids are wacky!  Wacky’s the biggest word I can use around kids, you know!  Because they’re not smart enough to understand anything

Results from a KDP Select experiment under my adult title name: http://t.co/LHJdWaKH # The reporter write up on my Ebook 101 talk: http://t.co/FWChcs6E # Powered by Twitter Tools