Is It Worth Publishing a Kindle Single?

If you have a manuscript from 5,000 to 30,000 words, Kindle has a platform where you can send in a new or already published manuscript. Kindle Singles are submitted to Amazon where they are considered for publication.

If you are considered for publication for a Kindle Single, congratulations! It is quite an honor, especially if you have been rejected time and time again for publication with other agents and publishing companies. Only the best ( in some opinions) are selected for publication which means it is a really big deal.

Should you consider publishing your manuscript as a Kindle Single? Why not? Many indie writers are getting discovered in a big way here. It also looks wonderful on a resume as you seek other options in your writing career.

I've had one manuscript for consideration, but alas, I was turned down. I won't stop trying though. I would recommend that you submit your very best, making sure that it has been edited for errors and clarity.

Good Luck!

The Curious Case Of Father Time

Working on a new project called, "The Curious Case of Father Time"

It's a science fiction/supernatural thriller about an often forgotten but curious character, Father Time.

We all are familiar with Father Time as he represents an old year coming to a close and passing on time to the New Year's baby.

Well what would happen if Father Time didn't pass time along? What would happen to the New Year? Would there be a New Year or would time cease to exist all together?

This book attempts to answer that question as I bring to you the subject of the Timekeepers. Here is an excerpt of the story....



He was a direct descendant of Adam and Eve, although his name was forever lost to history. His name was Hem and he lived for an astounding ten thousand years. He was brought into this world for one purpose: to keep track of time.

Every moment of his life was dedicated to tracking and measuring time. Because of his position, he was very important to mankind. He took many wives and bore many children. They became a clan known as the Timekeepers. They mostly lived away from civilization. Because of their rumored special powers, many would not dare cross them, for they had the ability to make time stop.

Some of the Keepers used this ability to their advantage and became very prosperous as a result of it. Others used their powers for the greater good.

Hem could have lived another ten thousand years, but it simply was his time to go.

He wrote the first records of history and kept track of how many times the sun rose and sat in the sky. When God created the greater light to rule the day and the lesser night to rule the night, Time was born.

It was he that first used time as an instrument to teach the others. He became the time keeper who lived for ten thousand years. His work was too important. There had to be others to continue his life’s mission.

Keep track of time.

As he closed his eyes for the last time, the Others gathered around him. They vowed to continue this important work, no matter what the cost. They were mostly nomadic in nature. They assisted in the creation of the Sumerian and Mayan calendars, the sundial, clocks, and other timepieces. The Timekeepers have had their hands in measuring time since the beginning.

They roamed the Old World for the Chosen One year after year. They lived all over the world, assisting Father Time in his mission to find the New Child or the Chosen One to bring in the New Year. Without this annual event, time would cease to exist.

They lived as a cult might, never revealing their identities to Outsiders, for it was too dangerous. Inside the Cult, there was the Family and in that family there could only be one Father Time. At the end of his reign he would pass it on to a male child within the Family. That child would go on to become Father Time for the next Generation to come.

It was to be this way for thousands of years.

Getting Stuck

Ugh....

Writer's block sucks. You have this great outline that details your story from beginning to end and then Bam! You're stuck. What do you do?

With me, it's more self doubt.

This plot isn't plausible. I'm going to lose all credibility with this scene. No one is going to believe this. It's just too out there. My reader is going to throw their Kindle against the wall and then send me the bill for it.

My thing? Continue to write the story. Stopping is Death. Write until the end and then do the rewrite. Find the flaws and pull them apart. Don't stop writing. Don't stop giving up.
 

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An Excerpt from "The Teacher's Pet"

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 I am pleased to share an excerpt of my latest book, "The Teacher's Pet".  The book will be available soon. I ask that you read it with an open mind and reserve judgment. 

The whole thing still seemed so surreal. I walked down the hallway that afternoon accompanied by detectives of the Chicago Police Department. My secret was now out and the rumors that spread rapidly that morning were now confirmed.

I felt safe with the detectives that surrounded me as we waded through dozens of stunned and confused students. I couldn’t bear to look them in the eyes as they rushed off to find the closest person that they knew.

“See I told you so!! It’s true! He did get arrested !!!” I heard one student whisper.

I felt relieved that the detectives were protecting me. I wished that I could have hidden or made myself invisible, but the truth was now out. The thing that scared me the most was what would happen to me when the police left?

The bell rang as students scattered off to class. I wasn’t sure where Coach Jackson was at that moment, but at that point, I didn’t care. My future was much to hard for me to comprehend.

This too shall pass, rang over and over again in my mind.

“Can you show us where it happened?” the detective asked, snapping me out of my daydream. I nodded that I could and showed him the stairwell near the gym office. I choked back tears, as the detectives looked the area over. It was the first time I had seen the place since Friday afternoon...after the final incident. The only comforting feeling that I had was that I was never going to that place again. It was finally over.

The detectives asked me a few more questions before we walked down the now empty halls. The school was under strict supervision by the police. I was informed that the media had descended upon the school desperate for sound bites and more information.

One detective turned to me.

“How are your grades?”

“I’m an honor roll student. I’m practically involved in every school club and extracurricular activity here.” That answer seemed to shock him. He leaned down and got in my face.

“You’d better be telling me the truth Sonya.” I was taken aback. It was the first time that anyone had questioned my story since everything came out.

“Sir, if you don’t believe me, my name is on a bulletin board downstairs by the main office. I’m on the A/B Honor Roll. You can check the yearbook to see all the clubs I’m in as well. They’ll tell you everything you want to know.”

That detective looked at me for a moment before turning away. We continued down the hallway without another word being uttered. I’m sure when he left that day, he checked that bulletin board to see if I was telling the truth.

In the next few days I would learn that he wasn’t the only one that had openly expressed doubts. I don’t blame them though. The story was so crazy, I wouldn’t have believed me either.

That was the day that I officially lost my name. I was no longer Sonya Dickerson. Sonya had died a long time ago. I was forced to take on a new identity now, one that would follow me until this day. At the ten and twenty year high school reunions or whenever one would open up a yearbook to reminisce; my new identity became, “The Girl That Cried Raped”.

The Teacher's Pet

http://www.amazon.com/The-Teachers-Pet-ebook/dp/B00A11XGYK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1351943613&sr=8-5&keywords=sonya+dickerson

It's ready to download today! Please purchase your copy now!!!. Thank you for all your support. IT was one of the hardest things that I've ever had to write in my life. I ask that you keep your judgments to the side for now and just read my words and hear the truth.

Thank you.

The Teacher's Pet (Coming Soon)

It has been the hardest thing I've ever had to write. 

This book details the experience of being sexually assaulted as a teenager.

In May of 1996, I was sexually assaulted by a teacher in my high school. 

So much has happened over the years to ensure that I remain silent.

Not anymore. 

I apologize if I'm bringing up "ancient history"
I'm sorry that I can't just "let it go"
I'm sorry if what I'm getting ready to say makes you uncomfortable
Why now? If not, then when?

I won't be shamed.
I won't feel fear anymore.

It's time for the truth.
 

Coming Soon November 2012