Ebook-Week at Smashwords - Prices Slash

Smashwords are doing an Ebook Promotion in March!

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 At one minute past midnight Pacific time on March 4, a special Read an Ebook Week promotion catalog will appear on the Smashwords home page. Readers can browse the catalog and search by coupon code levels and categories. At the stroke of midnight Pacific time on March 10, the catalog disappears.

The coupon codes only work at Smashwords for the moment, not at associated retailers.
 HOWEVER!!
My books at Smashwords, now all three of the Everran Series, plus the book of SF essays, are  50% off for the sale's duration.
You need the coupon code, REW50, to purchase at this price.

For the quick fix, begin with my Smashwords Author Page, where all the books are listed.
Have fun!

Actually, Beyond Grimm: the Bluebeard story again

The antho where the Bluebeard story will appear - the one mentioned in the post Where I've Been II.- now has  a changed title. Beyond Grimm: Tales Newly Twisted. In final proofing now, and due out in mid-March from   Book View Cafe.

The story's actual name is "Sister Anne" - not only for the famous line from the original fairytale, but because one motive for writing it was that I've always felt considerable sympathy for said "sister Anne." The undifferentiated sibling (was she older, younger, kind, resentful, pretty, ugly, what?) of the curious wife in Bluebeard, who only gets mentioned when said wife is in peril of her life up in the tower room, where presumably the sister has been dragged with her. The woman deserves better, I thought, and apparently the creative crew agree, because she is not just the pov but one of the main players in the recycled story.
Haven't seen an illustration for the antho cover yet, but doubtless it will come.

So, the Latest Latest

Now have to change the "Latest" board, which as of early last week has read:

My latest writing work: a flash fiction for an online competition. 100 words story, or about a moment, inspired by something on YouTube. No lo credo, but instantly thought of the beautiful Orkney lament "The Heroes of Longhope" about 8 guys from the tiny village of Longhope who were drowned in a lifeboat capsize in the late '60s. The village was literally decimated. One woman lost a husband and two sons. And 20 minutes later, flash fiction we have.

Now am truly amazed and also thrilled Friday morning to have received a post from the convener - organiser? instigator? of the anthology, saying the Heroes of Longhope story wd. be included in the published 100. Wow! That has to be the fastest written, submitted and accepted of anything I ever wrote - not to mention the smallest, so far as publication goes!

The 100 writers to go in the antho are listed here

I only know one other person in the list, but congrats to everyone on it, and congrats to everyone who entered a story. Flash-fiction is flipping hard!

Title is still to be decided, but the entire antho sales proceeds will go to One in Four, a UK charity, and I think it's kinda neat that a tune about a great loss shd. be included in an anthology raising funds for those who have also suffered losses, of a different kind. I like to think Ronnie Aim, the composer, and maybe the Heroes themselves would like this follow-on.