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Living and Dying – Release Details and Special Offers

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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!

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“Living and Dying”: A Short Fiction Collection

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On June 1, I’m going to be releasing a short fiction collection called Living and Dying. It will contain eight stories, totaling approximately 5,000 words.

The centrepiece of the collection is a short story called Saucer that I originally wrote back in 2004 (give or take a year; it was a long time ago!). Since I originally wrote it, I’ve edited and rewritten portions of it several times, but this time it’s finally complete, and I am satisfied that it conveys what I want it to convey. Saucer is a sci-fi story about a man who has been imprisoned for dissension against the government, and I’m really proud of it. I think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever written.

I’m also including the first example of a new format I’ve created called the 555, where I take a story title and write three different stories for it, one that’s only 5 words, one that’s 50 words, and one that’s 500 words. In Trust No Gun, the three stories aren’t directly related to one another, but in the future I’m hoping to experiment with using the three stories to support or expand on one another in interesting ways.

The rest of the stories are edited and expanded versions of things I’ve posted to SixMinuteStory.com and TypeTrigger.com over the past month or two. These two websites have really kick-started my creativity, and they’re the reason I decided to finally get out there and start releasing some of my non-fifty-word-story writing. Check the sites out and see what comes through your keyboard!

I hope some of you are as excited to read my stories as I have been to write them and prepare them for release. It’s a fun experience!

I’m going to have a special offer or two available either upon release, or shortly prior to it. There will be opportunities both for you to get free stuff, and to help me out with spreading the word, so stay tuned for that.