The other day, when I was talking about writing long and short stories and how what that meant had evolved a lot, I also mentioned that I had been indulging myself with writing a bunch of short and flash fiction, and that it would start appearing soon. The first of those short stories, And We Danced All […]
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Bring on the Novel! I’ve had a back-and-forth tussle with myself and with readers for over a year now, about short versus long stories. It’s not at all cut-and-dried, these days. When traditional publishing was the only game in town, everyone wrote novels. Period. More, they were very long novels–especially in this century, when paper costs
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It’s the second last day of the month, which is the start of the four day SRP monthly sale, where you can get 20% off absolutely anything in the SRP store. That includes boxed sets, pre-orders, even books already on sale. It also includes every author at SRP, not just me. So if you like
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Uncover Buried Treasure If you have hundreds of books on your reader, but can’t find anything to read, then read on for nine tips to clearing out the clutter and catching up with all the great reads you forgot you had… Pick an ebook format as your “primary” format. Thanks to smartphones, tablets and the
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We’re two weeks out from release of The Ancient Girl in the Autopod, so it’s time for the first chapter. And this time, you do get the whole first chapter, as this is the first full novel in the series. Excerpt EXCERPT FROM THE ANCIENT GIRL IN THE AUTOPODCOPYRIGHT © CAMERON COOPER 2022ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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This time, it’s a novel. 🙂 Yes, I caught all those hints and sighs in the reviews, and in your emails to me. 😁 There have been three Ptolemy Lane Tales to date, all of them novelette length. Tale #4 is a novel. Serials can’t feel emotions as humans do. Or so Ptolemy Jovan Lane
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I read with interest a post on Medium by Stories Rule Press author Tracy Cooper-Posey, talking about the world’s first AI created magazine cover, by Cosmopolitan. As a science fiction writer, I’m always interested in computer advances and AI is developing at the speed of sound, these days. We already have AI Narrated audiobooks popping
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Has it been a while since you were really bitten, hog-tied and spell-bound by a book? Do most books you read these days seem okay, but not super-duper fantastic the way they used to be even five years ago? I can help you change that. We’re Too Busy These days. I grew up in Australia,
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My publisher, Stories Rule Press, started their monthly 20% off Everything sale this morning. As usual, the discount applies to anything available on Stories Rule press, which includes boxed series sets, pre-orders, and books already on sale. You can use the coupon as often as you want before the expiry date, and pass it on
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Prompted from one of my journal entries around the time that Star Forge was released. — C. —– Particularly in traditional publishing, it’s a custom for writers to write the first book of what they suspect could well be a series, and sell it as a standalone book. The traditional publishers also market the book as
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