Tag: short story

• Free Christmas Short Story: If Love is a Crime

  On Christmas Eve 1852, a runaway slave slips unnoticed through a meadow and happens upon a small, rustic cabin in the woods, occupied by a boisterous old woman named Beatrice. As a winter storm blows in and the sheriff comes inquiring, all that stands between the frightened girl and the arm of the law is […]

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  December 15, 2017

  Promotion

  Christmas, free Christmas stories, historical fiction, short story

• A FREE New Christmas Story: “Christmas in the Trenches, 1914”

  Merry Christmas, everyone! To celebrate I’ve published a brand new Christmas story to add to your Christmas reading list: “Christmas in the Trenches, 1914.” It’s completely FREE on Smashwords. In addition, I’ve added a couple short Christmas dramatic readings to it as well, plus some other goodies. Please pick yourself up a copy and I […]

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  December 11, 2016

  Indie Author

  1914, Christmas story, free Christmas stories, holiday, short story, World War I

• Excerpt: “If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story”

  

  Here’s an excerpt from the opening scene of my new Christmas Story, where Beatrice finds an unexpected visitor shivering in the cold in front of her cabin. The full story can be purchased exclusively on Kindle for only $0.99 cents HERE! EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: She pulled at the nearly finished shawl hanging off the side of the […]

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  December 16, 2014

  Indie Author, Writing Excerpt

  christmas stories, historical fiction, holiday stories, short story, stories of love and compassion, underground railroad, writing excerpt

• Full Circle in One Week. The Story of my New Christmas Story.

  Just a week ago I was sitting in a pool thinking, as I often do before I start writing. As I previously mentioned, I was planning out 2015 and had decided to turn my one short play, “If Love is a Crime, String Me Up” into a Christmas story to publish in November of 2015. […]

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  December 8, 2014

  Indie Author

  99 cent books, Christmas stories 2014, Christmas story, holiday stories, kindle, new release, short story

• Blitz Publishing – My First Christmas Story Soon!

  It’s November 30th. I’m sitting in the pool at the Hard Rock Hotel just thinking as I usually do. Rehashing plot lines and pondering random story ideas. My mind happened upon one of the short plays I had written and produced a short while ago called “If Love is a Crime, String Me Up.” It’s […]

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  December 1, 2014

  Indie Author

  Christmas story, independent publishing, indie authors, kindle, new Christmas story, new Christmas story 2014, publishing, quick publishing, short story

• A Clipping of my story in The Butler Eagle

  My friend back received his local paper on Christmas Eve and low and behold – a Christmas story I wrote was on the front page. Here is part one of it.

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  January 6, 2014

  Writing Excerpt

  Butler Co PA, Butler Eagle, Christmas story, short story

• Original Christmas Short Story: The Angel on the Courthouse

  My hometown paper, The Butler Eagle, asked me to write a very short, 450 word story for Christmas this year. I was honored to do so and doubly honored to have the finished result published on the front page of the newspaper on Christmas Eve. Besides the length requirement, they also asked that it reference […]

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  December 26, 2013

  Writing Excerpt

  Angel on the Courthouse, Butler County Authors, Christmas story, Daddy’s Littlest Angel, original Christmas story, short story, The Butler Eagle