Constance, don't make me come over there.
It's a brilliant story, one of our best. It's selling as well as the ones who've been flogging theirs all over the web for weeks, and it sold from Mobipocket, which implies to me that the purchasers were strangers (note: purchasers), since otherwise they'd know they could buy it off our website for cheaper.
Also? Not just an e-pub. We are print and electronic publishers of quality transformative fiction celebrating myths, legends, and fairy tales. Yours will be printed in the bump-in-the-night anthology, which will be planned for print as soon as we have enough good bump-in-the-night stories to go in it.
The store's only been working since noon and we've already had several sales. It's pretty cool.
You'd have had another sale if I could figure out how to make Mobipocket work on my machine. See above, re: hatred of technology. Think I'll go look at your main page.
I really should start writing again. I miss it.
Sorry Zen. The PDFs are prettier though. They let me do cool things with the formatting. You can pretend it's a stylistic choice!
It's selling as well as the ones who've been flogging theirs all over the web for weeks, and it sold from Mobipocket, which implies to me that the purchasers were strangers (note: purchasers), since otherwise they'd know they could buy it off our website for cheaper.
bleeble. Ur?
I glanced at the Mobi page again (yes, I've been doing that) and saw "People who have bought this have also bought" and went "Wait. That means--"
t cue delayed self-aggrandizing yeehaw moment
I am a fucking published author. People pay for my words. Check one more thing off the Life To Do list. Hah.
t / self-aggrandizing yeehaw moment
We now return you to your regularly scheduled "Nice people keep their pre-adolescent urges to themselves" programming.
By the way, does anyone know any good Appalachian folk tales that involve land spirits? I'm mulling a story that ties into the crumbling of thte land back home from the longwall coal mining, with streams and springs running dry and hills falling apart.
Totally a yeehaw moment, connie! Yeehaw! You deserve it.
Connie, you might also go back to the roots of the people who settled the Appalachians--Welsh, perhaps? I don't recall off hand, though I'm sure there were others.
Since I'm looking at my own ancestry in the area, it'll be a lot of Scots-Irish. Also, traditions of protective magic in re: mining, because I think I remember stories of very early mines having protective shrines.
Ah, research. It suddenly occurred to me that the deaths of miners could be seen as a sacrifice to the earth in return for taking the coal and gold etc.
I did a quick google and there are a million sites on appalachian folktales. I'd help, but I just remembered I can't.
An excerpt of your story is up on the site now. I forgot to put up excerpts.
