Monday, January 27, 2025

An experimentation in short stories

I've mentioned elsewhere that with age and health difficulties, writing isn't as easy for me as it used to be. Because of this, I've been focusing of late upon writing shorter works, novellas and short stories.

So, recently I published on Amazon a couple of short stories, "The Prison of His Tyranny" and "A More Sudden Revenge." Normally I don't publish short stories straight to the online world. Usually I'll shop my shorts around to different publications, but this time I wanted to try something different, an experiment of sorts to see how well some of my short stories will sell straight to the market.

If anyone is interested, this stories will only be available at Amazon and will be part of Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, so you can purchase the e-book versions of these stories straight out for 99 cents or you can read them if you have a Kindle Unlimited account. Occasionally these e-book stories will even be available for free as Amazon allows. Also, there are print and audio versions of these tales available at Amazon.

Will more stories come? Probably. I'll see how I feel and how many more ideas come to me.

I will admit it's a bit strange working on shorter tales, because I've focused upon writing novels for the longest time. As most writers could tell you, writing shorts and writing longer works requires different talents, different tasks, and a different way of thinking. I'm feeling a bit rusty writing short stories at the moment, but I can feel the old wheels getting greased, so hopefully things will get better in those regards.

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