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YoS January Collection and Single Stories in the Kindle Store

I’ve been writing like a madman over the past several weeks, and really stocking up the backlogs on my various projects, including the Year of Stories. So I figured, if I have the stories ready this far in advance, why not make them available for purchase this much sooner, too?

To that end, I’ve assembled the first Year of Stories monthly collection and posted it to the Kindle Store and the TScom Store for only $2.99. Buying all of the five stories separately, you’d pay almost $5, so with this collection you’re basically getting 40% off!

The month of January contains five Mondays, so the January collection has five stories. They are Discovery TwoDiana and the Animal, Burns Mar the Sun-Grasper’s Hands, A Kingdom of White, and Memoirs of the Model Agent: How I Rescued Mr. Dimbles. Click through to the product pages to read synopses and get more information about each one.

A lot of people like to buy their ebooks from Amazon, through the Kindle Store. It’s a great platform: you have all the convenience of buying through Amazon, and you can read on your Kindle or on any smartphone, tablet, or even computer, through their free apps. Plus they store everything in the Cloud. The future is pretty neat.

I want my stories to be as conveniently available to those people as possible, so from now on I’m going to be releasing my stories for Kindle at the same time that I put them in my own Store. I’m playing catch-up right now, for the individual stories: here are Discovery Two, Diana and the Animal, and Burns Mar the Sun-Grasper’s Hands.

Living and Dying – Release Details and Special Offers

Original photo by Rachel Davies, used under a Creative Commons license.This Wednesday is the release date for Living and Dying. As long as the Kindle Store approval process goes smoothly, the collection should be available for pay-what-you-want download from this site around the same time as it becomes available for purchase from the Kindle Store for $0.99.

In order to allow for pay-what-you-want purchasing, I’m launching a TimSevenhuysen.com Store today. There won’t be any fancy shopping carts or download systems or anything; just download links and PayPal buttons so you can read my writing and pay me either a set price, or whatever you think it’s worth.

As promised, I have a couple of special offers available for anyone who’s interested.

Offer 1) Early Bird Bonuses: Buy Living and Dying through PayPal on or prior to release day and you’ll get early access to my next short fiction collection and (if you pay at least $0.90) a free digital copy of Fifty-Word Stories: Volume One.

Anyone who pays for a PDF/ePub copy of Living and Dying from this site (as opposed to the Kindle Store) before midnight PST on June 1 will receive my next short fiction collection a week before it becomes publicly available. You can still get in on this offer if you buy the collection from the Kindle Store, but you’ll have to pay me at least 1 cent through PayPal, so that I have proof that you’ve bought it. (The Kindle Store doesn’t give me any information about who’s bought my products, so I can’t verify purchases from there.)

Not going to be around on June 1? No problem! You can “preorder” Living and Dying right now by going to the product page and clicking the Buy Now button. I’ll email you the .zip file as soon as the collection goes live!

Offer 2) Reviewer Bonuses: Review Living and Dying on Amazon and you’ll get on the early-access list for my next collection and will also get the opportunity to provide me with the name of a superhero to write into a story that I will include in my next collection.

Anyone who reviews Living and Dying on Amazon.com and sends a link to their review to tsevenhuysen@gmail.com will have the opportunity to contribute a superhero name to a story that I’ll be including in my next short fiction collection. Want to have a character of your own creation mentioned in my story? All you have to do is write a review, good or bad, positive or negative, one star or five stars.

In addition, you’ll also get your name on the early-access list for my next collection and receive a copy by email a week before it becomes publicly available.

 

So… Who’s excited? ME! I AM!