Short Stories & Flash Fiction

Having seen one of my interviewees Rosanne Dingli say on a LinkedIn thread: “someone should write a blog soon about all the wonderful indie books available by very capable writers”, I challenged them to give me a <15-word synopsis for their book(s)… they are accepting the challenge and their books are appearing here.

What I’m after is:

• your name (listed within each section alphabetically by first name)
• your website / blog address
• book title
• book links (where we can buy it, the more the merrier e.g. Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk etc and specific links not just the website’s home page)
• genre
• and summary in no more than 15 words (a test of your editing skills :)).

You can email me these details for up to 5 of your books (please don’t paste them into this page’s comments section). My free and $0.99-$2.99 eBooks are detailed on the Books – mine page.

Fiction – prose (short stories & flash fiction)

• you could have your short stories listed here
• Alan Place: Chronicles of Mark Johnson (fantasy/horror) – the story of a photographer-turned-demon hunter trying to fight his demons. This book can be read as individual short stories or novel chapters. 🙂
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Alana Woods: Tapestries and short stories (romance, crime, humour, travel) – a collection of published, award-winning, and previously unpublished short fiction to occupy an hour.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Anne R. Allen and 24 other Women Writers: Indie Chicks (anthology) – a collection of personal stories and a sneak peak into each of their featured novels.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Ashlyn Cooper: A Harvest Moon & other stories (stories and poems). Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. A collection of short stories with two poems; heart-warming, easy reading that will bring a smile to your face or a tear to your eye.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Beryl Belsky (compiler and editor): A Certain Kind of Freedom: Stories and Poems from The Writer’s Drawer – a multicultural anthology of outstanding stories and poems from the literary website The Writer’s Drawer. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and CreateSpace.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Bob Frey: Catawampus Tales (eclectic short stories) – runs the gambit from sci-fi to satire, horror, and everything in between.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Cris Freddi: Pork (short stories / fiction) – a powerful – and unusual – collection of animal stories for adults.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• D Reeder: End of Times, The Court Marshall of Kiddo Slacks, The Gift, The Leper’s Bible, The Night of the Mothers, The Night Watchman. All @ $0.99 on Smashwords.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Ethan Jones: Carved in Memory (suspense short story) – when Justin Hall, a Canadian Intelligence Service agent, is captured by terrorists in Libya during a rescue operation, he is left with only his mind games to escape certain death.
• The Last Confession (crime short story) – Justice comes for a bedridden New York mobster during his last confession.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Evan Shaw: Collection of Poetry and Prose: from Young Mystic (historical fiction) – an eclectic spread of narrative poems, what truths are in myths? Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Graham Smith: Eleven the Hardest Way (crime fiction short stories) – Eleven hard boiled crime stories which will shock and entertain.
• Gutshots: Ten Blows to the Abdomen (crime fiction short stories) – Ten new stories and five bonus tales in this eclectic hard-boiled collection.
• Harry Charters Chronicles (crime fiction short stories) – Join a gumshoe detective as he drunkenly dispenses his own idea of justice.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Jane Hertenstein: Freeze Frame: How to Write Flash Memoir (flash, memoir) – this how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, freeze-framing a moment.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Jeannie van Rompaey: free and $0.99 short pieces on Smashwords.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Jenny Worstall: Lemon and Lace (short stories) – a bittersweet collection of three short stories about love and choice. Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• Infant Barbarian (short stories) – pair of short stories dealing with everyday family situations and their sometimes surprising resolutions. Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• Jubilee Violin (short stories) – be careful what you wish for; a sweet song, a balanced life, or murder. Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Jessica Caudill: The Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2012 (anthology of fiction and nonfiction) – this 2012 edition includes selected stories from The Writing Disorder, from new and established writers.
• Jessica Caudill: Shifts: An Anthology of Women’s Growth Through Change (anthology of short stories, essays and poems) – stories, essays, and poems of 35 women’s personal experiences of struggle and growth through change.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• JJ Alleson: The Doll Before the Last One (mystery/thriller) – a suicidal detective is forced to review his opinions when faced with a serial killer. Available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Jodie Pierce (weebly / blogspot): Tales of the Vampire: From A-Z (paranormal/romance) – an anthology of vampire tales sorted by female character names. Available from Amazon and Smashwords.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Joy V Smith: Hot Yellow Planet (science-fiction ebook short) – in this Pretty Pink Planet sequel, Lori and Chiing continue their adventures.
• Pretty Pink Planet (science-fiction ebook short) – Lori, an agent of SOESFOL, visits Prism to track down planet pirates and rescue aliens.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Julia Kavan: Dreaming, Not Sleeping (erotic horror short story) – some nightmares are too good to resist.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Katherine L. Holmes: Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories (short stories) – past solutions tempt Midwestern characters as they consider contemporary choices in these short story dilemmas.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• K. S. Brooks: Odd and Odder (humour / suspense / general fiction / poetry) – a collection of sensuality, satire and suspense.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Lauren Grimley: Unforeseen (urban fantasy) – returning to teaching, Alex never expected a student to teach her who her enemies really are. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Marc Nash: 52FF (flash fiction) – anthology of flash fiction stories, one for each week of the year. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• Long Stories Short (short stories) – the whole gamut of human emotions, relationships and idiosyncrasies. Available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Morgen Bailey: Story A Day May 2011 (31 stories) – an author’s challenge to write 31 stories. 🙂 Available from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Smashwords etc.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Nancy Adams: Saint Nick and the Fir Tree (Christmas short story) – Saint Nick takes his new Tree friend on a magical post-Christmas holiday.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Neal James: Short Stories – Volume One (various genres) – a perfectly balanced anthology of romance, horror, science fiction, crime and humour. Suitable for everyone.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Rosalind Minett: Me-Time Tales: Tea-breaks for mature women and curious men (fiction short stories) – all kinds of women unlocked in these ironic short stories with a dark edge. Available from ypdbooks.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.
  
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Rosanne Dingli: The Astronomer’s Pig (short stories – Createspace / Kindle) – seven succulent stories set in Europe, each accompanied by a recipe.
• Counting Churches – The Malta Stories (short stories – Createspace / Kindle) – family anecdotes, folkloric tales, and pure figments of the author’s imagination. Which is which?
• Over and Above (short stories – Createspace / Kindle) – a journey; less travelogue than enthralling ride – into different landscapes peopled by intriguing characters.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Salvatore Buttaci: 200 Shorts (flash fiction) – flash fiction from adventurous to zany and everything in between! p-book & e-book.
• A Family of Sicilians (fiction/non-fiction/poetry) – reviewed as the most authentic book about Sicily and Sicilians.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Sarah England: Mosaic (short stories – Bridge House / Amazon, paperback) – includes Sarah’s stories ‘Adele’ and ‘Different Colours’. Available via Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
• Global Shorts (short stories – globalshortstories.com / Amazon.com, paperback) – a collection by prize-winning authors, including Sarah’s comedy story ‘She wanted to complain’.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Steven Miscandlon: Into the Shadows (dark fiction / short stories)  dark shadows and darker deeds. Ten short stories ranging from crime and horror to sci-fi.
• you could have your short stories listed here
• Vincent Miskell: Time Travel Times 5 (science fiction anthology) – stories about Tom Paine, Beatles music, dogs, and the hypnotist-psychiatrist, Milton Erickson.
• you could have your short stories listed here

So what I’m after is your name (listed above alphabetically by first name), your website / blog address, book title, book link (where we can buy it), genre and summary in no more than 15 words (a test of your editing skills :)). You can email me these details for up to 5 of your books (please don’t paste them into this page’s comments section). My books and free short stories are detailed on the Books – mine page. Please note: the chances are that I’ve not read the books listed on this page (much as I would like to have done) so these are therefore not personal recommendations but are, in the main, by authors who I have chatted to, interviewed or got to know… even just a little bit. 🙂 Kindle Fiction recommends a variety of eBooks and if you’ve read any eBooks you’d like to recommend then you can email suggestions to kindlesrp@gmail.com.

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