All Articles By: Linda
They said it would never happen.
publishing trends: change is coming
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.
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.
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Award Winning Short Stories by Linda Sands
One out of 17 Calls Might be Wrong
ALSO the novel, Simple Intent…
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.…
Electronic Short Stories now on Smashwords
New way to promote your unpublished work, via Penguin Group
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
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.
13, 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 …
The U.K. Beats America to it Again.
There is something we will always have, that they don’t- great dentists. But, as for the rest, fashion, music, books, entertainment, culture… well, we seem to lagging behind the UK.
LOOK AT THIS NEW EXPANDED BOOK SECTION- of a NEWSPAPER. yep.
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Simon & Schuster are dumping their paperback divisions in favor of a push toward digital
More good news for the independent publisher and more options for us readers who don’t want a LIST to tell us who and what we should be reading!
Though, boy oh boy this book looks good.
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