I did get the Rattles anthology done and published – if you like flash fiction, check out The Old Sofa at the BrazenSnake Books store – it’s .99 cents until the next anthology comes out. It’s also currently available at Smashwords (link on the BSB store), and it should be trickling onto Amazon and Barnes & Noble sometime this week, and out to Sony, Diesel and the Apple ebook store within a month or so. And of course if any of you writers out there care to give the next flash prompt a go, check out the Rattles site for a very oblong object to write about...

Of course, if you want to download The Old Sofa for free, you could join the Brazen Snake Monthly newsletter. I have it on good authority that this month’s newsletter will include a free code for that particular book in February.

I’ve also been playing with some cover art design this week, as you can see above – for my first flash collection. I think it turned out pretty well for my first attempt. Heart Knocks will include two of the stories I’ve written recently, one I wrote a couple of years ago, and one I wrote for the second Rattles Anthology, At the Water’s Edge:

The Lunch Thief
One More Year
The Franklin Date
Full Circle

Each story is between 800 and 1000 words, which is about 3-4 print pages a piece, and the collection will be permanently priced at .99 cents (25 cents per story). Two of the stories are about love “knocking” with two new opportunities, and two are about second chances after some “hard knocks” in the relationship department. A good selection for Valentine’s Day, if I do say so myself...

Heart Knocks will be available later this week in ebook format – I may eventually make it available in print, but not just yet. And if you sign up for my newsletter, which isn’t even sent out monthly (I’ve been a bit busy), but will be sent out in February, you may just find a free code for this little collection there. Just sayin’.

Finally, if you’re a Trinity Marlow fan, the last novelette in last year’s Working Stiffs series will be out by next weekend as well, and shortly after that, a collection of all five stories.

So lots of formatting/publishing going on in the next couple of weeks, and I hope to be announcing a friend’s next publication in the very near future as well.

That’s pretty much what I’m up to this week – well, and writing more scenes for my serial stories too. I should have a large lot of Smurfs showing up sometime in the next couple of weeks, but I promise not to let it distract me. Much.

Whew! Here’s hoping that where ever you are, you have a better week this week than the last one. That’s really all we can hope for, right?