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Should you join the digital revolution? This guy’s got the answers.

Here it is. One stop shopping for answers to the quaetions you’ve been asking yourself.

*insert hauntingly mystical soundtrack here*

 

Links to posts by David Gaughran, found on his blog: Let’s Get Digital.…

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the complete list of linda’s electronic shorts

Apologies to the folks who had difficulty finding the list.

all links are here…. download and be reading within seconds.

CLICK THE CAPITAL LETTERS FOR A LINK TO AMAZON/KINDLE

click the lower case words for a link to all e-readers, including phones, computers and high tech stuff yet to reach the USA

                  1. LEGAL THRILLER

         based on a true crime in 1970′s Philadelphia

2. ADULT THEMED FAIRY TALES IN SNIPPETS 

             ever wonder what someone is thinking?

3. LIKE YOUR

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Just messing around. Another way to avoid the page.

I frequently post on two other blogs that I maintain, and another that I guest on… it’s trite stuff.

like this

CLICK HERE AND BE ENTERTAINED…

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They said it would never happen.

They said it would never happen.

publishing trends: change is coming

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New books become films before they are printed as books?

Hollywood can make a full feature film is less time than Simon and Schuster can print a book. What’s wrong with picture– or, How to kill off readers, in your sloth.

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Load up your Kindle- for cheap

Yep. I’m cheap. It’s true.

I don’t have a hair stylist, or manicurist, or trainer or advisor. I hate fancy stores – and paying retail.

I don’t even like to dine out very often. ( Have you seen Kitchen Nightmares?)

So, in honor of my frugal nature, you can buy a piece of me for 99 cents.

Check it Out.

Award Winning Short Stories by Linda Sands

Driving Toward a Broken Heart

One out of 17 Calls Might be Wrong

The Sack They Left Behind

What They Want, Part 1

ALSO the novel, Simple Intent

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E-Gads, it’s e-shorts, in book form!

Short stories …. the way YOU want to read them. Wherever you can.

Try this one on for size.  The Sack they Left Behind

Similar to techniques used in popular literary novels, in this short by Linda Sands, the banal verbiage from a California State Fish and Game brochure serves as the backdrop for an emotionally untraditional love story.

 

Like sports? Try this one.

 

Like people and secrets? Read this one.

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Electronic Short Stories now on Smashwords

short stories on smashwords…reading on the run

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New way to promote your unpublished work, via Penguin Group

Could online critiques of your work in progress from potential book buyers lead to publication?

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I heard the word literary, followed by gimmick. Of course I had to read it.

This is taken directly from an article

by Caryn James

Caryn James

In a world of sinking sales, gimmicks have become the literary writer’s life raft, and maybe something more.

Is the fiction any good? Here’s a look at several serious yet gimmicky novels, all worth reading for one reason or another. Whether those reasons have anything to do with their high-profile stunts is a more intriguing question.

Book Cover - 13 Rue Therese13, Rue Thérèse
By Elena Mauli Shapiro

Mesh gloves, a rosary, a pencil-holder made from shells of German guns—these are some of the real-life objects that inspired this World War I-era novel, with photos …

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