Hitting the Lights But Lighting a Candle

Things will go dim for a little bit on this here site while I finish up my acceptable e-book for suitable consumption and destruction by Mr. Of Good Speech. Speaking of e-books, Mike Duran has a recent post (about a recent post) which touched upon the growing hordes of free or low-cost e-books invading amazon. I don’t have an e-reader so I’m not predisposed towards checking them out but chances are if you’re a first-time fiction novel writer without an editor to reign in your silliness, your first book will be ghastly. Maybe even adequate, like I’m making mine to be.

Either way, I’m running through very short stories and tightening the screws, and writing a few more stories to round things out.

I will also be churning out a story for Power Line Prize contest, which is accepting entries that dramatize the current economic issue in the U.S.. There’s a $100k prize that I won’t win — I have it in the back of my head a story won’t evoke the level of emotion that, say, a short film would do. I think that contests would favor the more emotional, but who knows. I’ve barely read Power Line in the past (it seems too right-statist for my tastes), but after having read End the Fed the issue interests me a little more.

Stay tuned.