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Hey all!
Well, St. Patrick’s Day has passed, but even more of us than before are now trapped inside to avoid the Coronavirus.
So you all can have something to do until we can all go out again, my novella The Truth of Rock and Roll is now available for free download on Amazon. And remember, my entire library is always available for free reading on Kindle Unlimited.
Stay healthy! Or get well soon. Whichever applies to you.
Shadows walk in the autumn mist.
It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.
Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren’t found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.
There’s something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start…changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
Hey all! In conjunction with the Bookbub promotion starting tomorrow, I have dropped the price of Hometown to 99 cents! The promotion lasts 11/16 through 11/23, but you get the lowered price NOW. See how I take care of my fans? Of course, it was always free on Kindle Unlimited. And if you like it, consider checking out the rest of the library.
So it turns out that even when you unpublish a story from Kindle, you’re required to keep it exclusive to Kindle Select until the enrollment period ends. That means one or two short stories are going up this week, but the rest are going to have to go up a bit at a time, and some are going to take as long as April. Stay tuned.
Hey All. Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. The holidays went pretty well. Visited family all over Central New York and the Southern Tier.
So I recently spoke to a friend of mine who has some experience in media marketing, and she pointed out something that I perhaps should have been able to figure out from my own experience over the past few years: very few people are willing to pay even 99 cents to download short stories from an unknown. I’d hoped that enrolling the stories in Kindle Unlimited might help – after all, once they’ve paid their subscription fee, they can read whatever they like for free, so why not my stuff? – but it didn’t work out that way.
My friend’s advice was to take my short stories down from Amazon and distribute them as far and wide as possible in the hopes of getting my name out, and I’ve decided to give it a try. Starting this week, I’m going to be taking my short stories down from Amazon and creating an archive both here and at my old blog where you can read them for free! I will also be looking for archives and journals that accept stories that have been previously published. If you have any suggestions in that regard, please let me know.
I’ll also be making a few other renovations based on my friend’s advice, so be on the lookout for – among other things – a rapid increase in the Reviews and Essays being transferred from my old blog. Interesting things happening!
Is media sharing working?
Hello, all. And Welcome to matthewkeville.com. I know it looks a little plain right now, but we’re working on it. There’s a solid foundation, a roof and four walls. The furniture will come in due time.
In addition to announcements about releases and promotions, this blog will feature reviews, discussions of writing theory, short stories, and the occasional autobiographical moment. Ideally, there’ll be a new post out every Thursday morning, but we’ll see what life has to say about that.
For those of you who know me from my old blog, Dreams of the Shining Horizon, you’re going to see some reprints at first, but I could hardly let all of that good old material go to waste, could I? You’re also going to see a certain shift in focus – more of the literary, less of the personal and political. Stick around anyway, I promise it’ll be worth the ride.