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Extra day = Special sale on books!

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For Leap Day, I’m running a 12-hour sale on the Kindle version of three of my books.

Starting at 8 am EST, they will be on sale at a 61% discount. As the day progresses, the price will increase in increments, returning to the regular list price at 8 pm EST.

cayman cover finalThe books included in this special offer are:

Don’t hesitate. This offer is as fleeting as a Leap Day and won’t come around again before the next one.

If you already own all three of these books, thank you. Why don’t you pass this along to a friend or two who might be able to take advantage of this limited time offer?

Heart Blog

On a totally unrelated note, I’ve posted three blogs to my website from my weekly column in the local paper about my open heart surgery and the recovery from quintuple bypasses. I’ll be doing this throughout my recovery process to help my friends and readers learn from my experiences, hopefully avoid what I’m going through, or at least be prepared for what’s to come.

You can read them all on my website at Heart Blog

Capturing Memories: Recording Oral Histories

oral histories book webOn an even more unrelated note, check out my new “How To” book on recording oral histories. The book covers: Research, Interviewing, Getting Releases, Recording the Interview, Telling a Story and Editing. It also includes a foreword on the importance of collecting oral histories by the Editor of Goldenseal and West Virginia State Folklife Director Stan Bumgardner.

Capturing Memories: Recording Oral Histories will guide you through the process from choosing your goals, writing advance questions and making the recording using your smartphone, a recorder or your computer. It is available in softcover through all major online retailers for $9.99 and in Kindle format through Amazon for $5.99.

Oral History book teaches step-by-step

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oral histories book webJust about a week ago I had heart bypass surgery. It came completely out of the blue. If you want to read my most recent newspaper column, written from my hospital bed, I invite you to do so. It is titled Don’t Make the Same Mistake I Did. If you think you are feeling “funny” or there might be something wrong, stop denying it and get to your doctor. The life you save…

This situation was ironic for me because one of my pet projects is recording oral histories and literally days before this odyssey started, I published a short “How To” book to teach anyone how to record oral histories with their families. If I had died while shoveling snow I would not have been able to tell you about the book. Or have my own story recorded. That is double irony.

Oral histories are recordings from everyday people about life. They are the day-to-day events that don’t fill up our history books, but are just as important. I’ve recorded nearly 100 oral histories myself and I don’t know how many times I have had families thank me for doing it so they have a lasting recording of a story, an event, or just a loved one’s voice.

The book Capturing Memories: Recording Oral Histories is now available in softcover and on Kindle. It will guide you through the process from choosing your goals, writing out some advance questions and making the recording using your smartphone, a recorder or your computer.

 

Advent Ghosts 2015 Flash Fiction

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The days are getting shorter and colder. The nights are getting longer and more depressing. A perfect time for ghost stories! Haven’t you ever wondered about the song line “scary ghost stories of Christmases long, long ago”? People used to sit around the fire and share stories to pass the long night.

For the last few years, my writing friend Loren Eaton, through his I Saw Lightning Fall blog has organized a call for writers to contribute flash fiction ghost stories set around Advent, Christmas and the winter solstice. This is the modern equivalent of gathering around the fireplace. It’s not a contest. There is no judging and there are no prizes. It’s just a chance for writers to play and stretch their legs a bit. The catch is, the stories have a maximum limit of 100 words. No more. No less.

I don’t normally write in the genre, so I look forward to trying out something new and seeing what I can do with it. This is my fourth year participating.

Here are the links to 2014, 2013 and 2012 respectively.

When you’re done with my stories, check out the rest of the 2015 Advent Ghosts submissions. It’s amazing the stories you can tell using only 100 words!

And without further ado, here are my 2015 to the 2015 Advent Ghosts collection!

 

KrampusI saw mommy kissing…

Christmas eve. It’s midnight. Santa should be here. I have to see him. I hear something downstairs. Something’s going on. I just know it’s him.

I creep down the steps, straining to step past the third one. It creaks. As soon as I can, I peak. I see mom. But who is that with her? And what is he doing to her? I see blood on her lips and nose.

“Mom! What’s going on?”

“Run, child, run!” she yells.

I don’t listen. “Who are you? Are you Santa?”

“Santa isn’t coming here this year. I come for the naughty children!”

 

What if?

Knock. Knock. Knock.

“I’m so tired of these people. When are they going to understand I don’t have any rooms!” the old man grumbled. “What do you want?”

“Sir, my wife is with child and we need a place to stay. Can you help us? We’ll take anything.”

“There is nothing. Try someplace else.”

“We’ve tried everywhere. No one has any rooms. Please sir. We can stay in your barn.”

“I have nothing left. Even my barn is completely full. The man who arrived just before you brought his entire herd to town. You’ll have to sleep on the street.”

Lyin’ Fish giveaway: ScubaRadio and Ocean Divers

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ScubaRadio giving away book vouchers2015-11-04 15.50.08At the recent DEMA Show in Orlando, Florida, we organized a joint promotion for the book Lyin’ Fish between ScubaRadio and Ocean Divers in Key Largo. Every morning Greg Holt and ScubaRadio gave away 20 vouchers for free copies of the Withrow Key novella Lyin’ Fish. To get their free copy of the book, fans picked them up at the Ocean Divers booth. It worked out great for everyone, especially the people who got free copies of the book. I signed copies in the ScubaRadio booth as well.

Listen to my recent appearance on ScubaRadio talking about the promotion and the DEMA Show in general.

Withrow Key series now available on Nook, iBook and Kindle!

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lyin fish cover webThe entire Withrow Key series, including the newly released Lyin’ Fish, is now available in multiple ebook formats. You can read them on Kindle, Nook and iBook and in multiple formats through Smashwords.

Smashwords

You can read a short interview/profile with me on Smashwords and download all of the Withrow Key stories along with the FREE Mike Scott adventure Land Sharks and the children’s collection Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories.

Barnes and Noble

You can see all of the Withrow Key short stories here.

Or download the FREE Mike Scott Adventure Land Sharks here.

You can also find the children’s collection Sea Turtle Rescue and Other Stories in softcover and Nook here.

Ibooks

You can find all of those same books on iBooks here.

(Just for the record, the book Leadership Equation is from another Eric Douglas. I didn’t write that.)

For now, the Mike Scott thriller novels will remain exclusive to Kindle, but if the Withrow Key stories do well, Mike Scott could follow suit.

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