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More Fun and Games with Ebook Formatting

It has been brought to my attention that the ePub version of my novella, The Death of Patsy McCoy, does not render correctly in Adobe Digital Editions. Please be assured that it is fine in (as far as I know) all other ePub readers, that the Kindle version is fine, and that I’m working on

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“The Death of Patsy McCoy” Now Available in ePub and Kindle Versions

After many false starts (and more than a few errors by a certain caveman-fingered writer ) I am pleased to announce that my novella,

The Death of Patsy McCoy, is now available as an ebook!

“When you cross the boundaries of society, you are outside society. When you reject rules, you become unruled.

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Yes, An Old Dog CAN Learn New Tricks

Here’s a funny thing:

The people emailing me to tell me how wrong I was when I decided to remove my works from Smashwords (and even the occasional person who has chosen to tell me in a public forum) outnumber the people who ever downloaded my novellas from Smashwords by nearly two to one. If

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Arguments Against Self-Publishing, Round N

There’s been another surge in the argument about self-publishing, and whether or not it is something that is worth pursuing. It seems to me that most of the arguments against self-publishing begin at the wrong place and proceed in the wrong direction.

It has become extremely commonplace to hear people say that you just have to

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Is 80,000 Words Really a Short Story?

What do you call a short story, a novella, or a novel?

I had an interesting discussion some time back with another self-publisher. Not a fiction author, to the best of my knowledge; he was writing cookbooks, but that doesn’t really change anything. I told him I had written nine novellas, and that I liked the

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The Dinosaur and the Dragon Lady – a novella

My first Smashwords upload is ready, and I have no idea what it looks like!
I need your help.

I have uploaded my first Smashwords book, a novella titled The Dinosaur and the Dragon Lady. This is entirely new for me, and I need to see how well the conversion turned out. If you have

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A Second Novella Added to the eStore – The Bumbler’s Apprentice

 


The Bumbler’s Apprentice
What is there that is ignoble in the fulfillment of destiny?

Streep thought he had it all figured out. He was apprenticed by mistake to a know-nothing old buffoon, Basil the Buffoon, who refused to teach him anything because Basil had no Gift except the curse of jealousy. Streep was destined to

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The Dinosaur and the Dragon Lady – a Novella by Levi Montgomery

I’ve decided to make all of my novellas available as PDF downloads, and eventually as Kindle editions.

First up is The Dinosaur and the Dragon Lady. This short (only 16,000 word) novella proves that coming of age can happen at any time.

Only 99 cents! Hurry, pricing is subject to change.
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