My Books FREE until January 1st

this is second day of blogging.

Things to do: I have to find good homes for my hundreds of books before my move to Spain. I will try the library.

What will I miss about Utah? – My birds- I do bird rescue in the summer. One year we rescued 240. Magpies are my favs.

I’m enjoying making images for each of the 44 sections of my novel, Gods & Monsters, which will appear in MetaStellar https://www.metastellar.com/author/ee-king/ in 2024.

BUT – Best of all I have Christmas ( or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Whatever) For you all!

My books are all free from now through January 1st – links below!

One satirical, humorous funny novel – not for the easily offended, or heavily religious.

Two quirky short story collections and one children’s book – links below. Get one, or four and make everyone happy!

Feel free to email me for free audible code for audio copies.

And feel free to email just to say, Hi.

Happy December!

Dirk Quigby’s Guide to The Afterlife (All You Need To know To Choose The Right Heaven) by E E King

Price: $6.49 $0.00 USD. (Free until Jan. 1, 2024!) Words: 57,930. Language: English. Published: September 15, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire

“Impish and delightful—a hilarious Zagat’s Guide to Heaven!”—Ray Bradbury “A fantastical, profound, hilarious and rollicking good ride through the heavens and hells of the afterlife! A wonderful book.”—Margaret Cho “The Guide to the Afterlife is a mixture of fact and fiction, faith and mysticism at its best.” -The New York Review of Books

Pandora’s Card Game by E E King

Price: $3.99 $0.00 USD. (Free until Jan. 1, 2024!) Words: 47,480. Language: English. Published: February 22, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Mashups
 (4.00 from 1 review)

“These tales are marvelously inventive, wildly funny and deeply thought-provoking. I cannot recommend them highly enough.” – Ray Bradbury. Fate, Destiny, Chance and Luck play cards beneath a new October moon. Each card tells a story.

The Truth Of Fiction by E E King

Price: $3.99 $0.00 USD. (Free until Jan. 1, 2024!) Words: 64,350. Language: English. Published: February 22, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Mashups

Like The Illustrated Man and The Canterbury Tales, The Truth of Fiction is a series of connected stories, tied together by the tale of three friends on a quest to capture a magical deer.

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The Adventures of Emily Finfeather

by E E King

“A feather not just for the birds! A magical, humorous tale of good, evil, vengeance, and forgiveness, The Feathernail is a delight for children and adults alike!” — Ray Bradbury The Adventures of Emily Finfeather, Book: I The Feathernail and Other Gifts, is a tale of altruism and magic for mature children and immature adults.

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“A feather not just for the birds! A magical, humorous tale of good, evil, vengeance, and forgiveness, The Feathernail is a delight for children and adults alike!” — Ray Bradbury The Adventures of Emily Finfeather, Book: I The Feathernail and Other Gifts, is a tale of altruism and magic for mature children and immature adults. Emily Finfeather is an orphan who lives with her angry and silent Grandmother in a dark, windy, old house. On a field trip to the zoo, Emily is locked inside the aviary by evil classmates, led by the popular, nasty Dixy Yippet. During her long, lonely night in the cage, she sets free the birds. As a reward, she is given the feathernail, a bird feather where her little fingernail once was. The feather allows her to enter people’s dreams, and change them. Added by three magically gifted friends and a sarcastic talking cat, Emily fights real monsters, school bullies, and evil magicians in her quest to find her parents. Emily was written many, many years ago in the long ago time of 2005 when books were made of paper and ink. The printed version of this book has humorous, illustrated footnotes, the Kindle and audio versions don’t. 

NEW YEAR updates

So – New Year’s resolution – I’m writing updates daily.

What do I have to write about?

1) I’m moving to Spain! Kevan, Max and I will leave for Barcelona at the end of January.

Having lived in Mexico, Max already speaks Spanish

2) My new book, Gods & Monsters will be serialized in MetaStellar https://www.metastellar.com/author/ee-king/

this coming year. I will be narrating every section.

It takes place mostly in San Francisco in the 1980’s during the AIDs crisis.

Every world is a collection of lives. They may seem unrelated but when woven together by the Fates who run an occult bookshop in San Francisco, the pattern becomes clear.

The Fates are not alone. Many ancient Gods and Monsters have followed their believers from the edges of the world to an alternate Bay Area, a place where myth is more potent than history and love is stronger than death.

Ride down the river Styx, into a cool grey city where what’s at stake isn’t just your life, it’s your immortal soul. 

3) GREAT TIP for writers in bad contracts. I was trapped in a horrible book contract by Dan Kalin or Feral Cat Publishing. In addition to breaching many of his contractual obligations, he was listing my book, Electric Detective as being co-authored by him and his Daughter Sarah Kalin.

BUT- many contracts have a clause that says, if after 30 days the publisher doesn’t remedy breaches the rights return to the author.

So, I began contacting the distributors, with proof of his non compliance and they removed it from circulation- and after many threats from Dan, I got my rights back.

Do try this at home, kids! At try it if you’re in a bad contract!

MY BOOKS are FREE on @Smashwords on 12/15th – 1/1st

FREE on @Smashwords on December 15th – January 1st

I’m excited to announce my books, Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife, The Truth of Fiction, and Pandora’s Card Game will be FREE on @Smashwords on December 15th – January 1st

follow me for more updates #SmashwordsEoYSale

To Ukraine, With Love

Thrilled and honored to be included in this absolutely gorgeous anthology to benefit the Ukraine, edited by the fabulous Fran Eisemann.

All stories, poems, and artwork were donated, and 100% of the profits will go to charities for Ukraine.

The stories are just what I have come to expect from Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, heartfelt, deep, emotionally resonant and ultimately uplifting.

Pick up a copy or three- or maybe five – today.

It’s richly illustrated and soon to be available in audio! I was lucky enough to read many of these stories for the audio version- and listeners are in for a treat!

Perhaps ask your library to carry it. It’s a beautiful book, destine to be a classic, with a wonderful mission.

Guest Blog – By B. Zelkovich

Read her work in the anthology Saltwater Sorrows– edited by Rhonda Parrish (Tyche Books)

You won’t make it far in writing circles without hearing the question come up: Do you write with music? Sound? Silence? The answers are as varied as the writers giving them. I can only speak with authority about the process that’s worked for me over the last decade of writing – your mileage may vary.

Building a playlist for my project is the first step of my writing process. Once I have a story idea I want to pursue, be it a novel or a short story, I sit at my computer, open Spotify, and start searching for songs.

I start broad, either with a handful of songs I already know fit the tone/vibe of the story, or by using search terms related to the project. For “Human, Still,” in the forthcoming Tyche Books anthology Saltwater Sorrows, I might search “drowning,” “ocean,” or even “bottom of the sea”. Just to see what I’ll get.

(Some favorites I ended up with for that story were “From a Shell” by Lisa Germano and “Can You Feel the Sun – Stripped” by MISSIO. Listen to the playlist here.)

Once I’ve collected a handful of songs, Spotify will suggest others based on the ones I’ve already added to my new playlist. This is where I can really explore and find artists and tracks I don’t already know. The idea is to find a mix of songs that fit the story idea, either tonally, thematically, or lyrically.

I know a lot of authors who only listen to instrumental music, or prefer ambient noise, or simply  require silence. But my playlists don’t play by many rules – if a track fits the story, it’s fair game for a playlist. For my story “The Lament of Kivu Lacus” I listened to a loop of folk music, string quartets, and humpback whale songs. Another of my stories, “Bell Biv Derailed,” had a playlist made exclusively of 90s R&B.

Building the perfect story playlist serves a couple different purposes for me. First, it’s pre-writing. Collecting songs that evoke the themes and tone of the story I want to write helps the story congeal, molding it into something solid enough that I can actually find words to put down on paper.

Second, it’s a little bit of Classical Conditioning. Or a brain hack, if you prefer not to be likened to a drooling dog. Each time I sit down to write (or edit, or world-build, or, or, or) I listen to that project’s playlist. And the more I do that, the easier it is for my neuro-atypical brain to enter a flow state.

Eventually the playlist becomes a key to the front door of my story, welcoming me home to write every time I hear those songs.

So, why not build some playlists of your own, and start opening doors?

B. Zelkovich writes Speculative Fiction, anything from dragon hunting and space whales to demon-dealing and ghost tales. She likes to explore human emotions in very inhuman situations. When she isn’t escaping through her imagination, she escapes into the wonders of the Pacific Northwest with her spouse and their four-legged son, Simon.

Her fiction is in the forthcoming anthology Saltwater Sorrows (Tyche Books, Summer 2023) as well as Life Beyond Us, LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor, and Tree and Stone Magazine. Connect with her on twitter @BZelwen and online at bzelkovich.com

Saltwater Sorrows

Today is the day!

Saltwater Sorrows  hit the shelves today!

Yay!

I am posting this message from our marvelous editor, Rhonda Parrish

“I hope that you are doing something really fun to celebrate our release. It’s so easy to forget that release days aren’t just meant to be marketing and promotion days but actually fun days where we get to celebrate all the work that went into the book and how amazing the final product is.”

I AM SHARING BECAUSE it’s so easy to forget to celebrate!!!!!

“This weekend we will be doing the physical launch at WWC. I will share some pictures and updates about that on social media. I’d like to say my goal is to sell all of the stock Tyche brings, but I don’t actually know how much she is bringing so… that could be a challenge LOL

Ah, what the heck. My goal is to sell out at WWC. Aim high, right? 🙂 

We’ve also got a series of blogs going out over the next few weeks to help raise awareness of the book. Without detailing all the marketing and promotion stuff in this email — because that is work and today is not a day to talk about work, today is a day for celebrating — I feel good about where we’re going and I will work hard to bring your stories to the biggest audience I can.

This anthology is amazing, and that is because of you. 

Because of your awesome stories which each came at the theme from a slightly different angle and then came together as though they were long lost friends. 

Because of the beautiful artwork by Kayla Kowalyk and the top-notch typography by Indigo Chick Designs. 

And because of all the work that our publisher, Margaret of Tyche Books, put into making the book itself a thing of beauty. It’s fantastic. 

I can. not. wait. to get a physical copy in my hands. 

So thank you so very much for everything you’ve done to make this anthology special.

You’ll hear more from me over the next days and weeks as I share promo/marketing stuff with you, but for now let’s celebrate this thing we made together.

Best,

Rhonda”

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http://www.rhondaparrish.com

https://www.patreon.com/RhondaParrish

It’s been years

I have been remiss. A reader noted it’s been 2021 since I blogged.

So here I am blogging. I have been writing and painting and planting coral and rescuing birds. I will share a few images below. Forgive my delay.

Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize

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Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize

Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize June 18, 2021 Longshot Island 0 Comments These authors and stories are nominated this year for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to all!   Eric J. Guignard – Footprints Fading in the Desert E.E. King – Hotel Quetzalcoatl Jason V Brock – Verlassen …

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Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize

Nominations for the 2021 Pushcart Prize June 18, 2021 Longshot Island 0 Comments These authors and stories are nominated this year for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. Congratulations to all!   Eric J. Guignard – Footprints Fading in the Desert E.E. King – Hotel Quetzalcoatl Jason V Brock – Verlassen …

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