Hello, all.
A few months ago, I took down all of my short stories from Amazon. It didn’t seem that people were interested in buying them individually (though there were always a few who were glad to take them when I gave them away…), and I figured that people weren’t willing to shell out a buck for such a short story, not least because they were short enough that the 10% sample viewable on Amazon was essentially the title page. I took them down on the theory of putting them back up later in anthologies.
I’ve received some feedback recently, however, that tells me that there are people who are interested in buying my short stories after all. Given that, and also keeping in mind that it’s better in terms of publicity to keep producing work regularly, I’m going to republish the short stories I have saved at Amazon and Smashwords, then start putting up new ones.
This isn’t going to happen right away. I figure one story a week, starting next week, should be enough. But beware: once I put a story up for sale, I’m going to take it down here. The exception will be stories like Dreams of the Boardwalk, which were posted as drafts, and the version for sale will be at least somewhat different.
And there will still be anthologies, sooner or later. Keep your eye out for those. I’ll let you know when.