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My Last Confession

Posted on September 28, 2012 by indie e-books

There’s a new (free) short story available from Michael Brookes: My Last Confession. If you get a chance to read it, please take the time to leave a review and perhaps pick his the novel – The Cult of Me … Continue reading →

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A True Friend

Posted on July 16, 2012 by indie e-books

There’s a new (free) short story available from Karen Aminadra: A True Friend. If you get a chance to read it, please take the time to leave a review and perhaps pick up the larger collection of stories – Life … Continue reading →

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In Memorandum

Posted on June 10, 2012 by indie e-books

You walked me to school, where I discovered my first words. You walked with me to the library, encouraging my love of books. You were the one who told me “I could achieve anything I wanted, all I had to … Continue reading →

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Update: The first batch of stories for 2012 go live on 25th March

Posted on March 18, 2012 by indie e-books

Do already offer a short story for free? Perhaps it’s loosely linked the imaginary world of a full length novel. Perhaps it’s been sitting on a shelf for the last few years. Let’s think outside the box for a moment.  … Continue reading →

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Hearts and Arrows, Anthology by Kindle Users Forum

Posted on February 12, 2012 by indie e-books

Just in time for Valentine’s day… Overall rating: 4 stars Genre: Romance Towards the end of last October I had the pleasure of reading The Halloween Book from KUF; an anthology of Halloween themed short stories.  It was enjoyable, and … Continue reading →

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Promoting indies – what would you like to see?

Posted on November 25, 2011 by indie e-books

I’m currently burying my head in a PHP manual to get the website up and running* so now would be the best time for this… As an author or reader what would you like to see from the indieebooks.co.uk website? Stories … Continue reading →

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The Halloween Book Volume II, by Kindle Users Forum

Posted on November 1, 2011 by indie e-books

Overall rating: 4.5 stars Genre: Horror Ok, so this probably should have been posted a little earlier, but I had too much fun reading this anthology of short stories to get round to writing the review.  Available for free on … Continue reading →

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Genres (Part 2): Writing style

Posted on October 9, 2011 by indie e-books

$Disclaimer$ – The following is not neccessarily my opinion but a collection of thoughts taken from reviews posted openly online. Following on from my previous post on rethinking genres this post covers the more general aspects such as length and … Continue reading →

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Short stories as a marketing tool? (Part 2)

Posted on October 1, 2011 by indie e-books

It’s not just self-publishers who are using short stories as a marketing tool. I came across a good example by Tess Gerritsen (Random House) currently available for free. Freaks by Tess Gerritsen (Randomhouse) Rating: 3.5 stars Genre: Crime A yound girl is found … Continue reading →

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Genres (Part 1): Fantasy

Posted on September 25, 2011 by indie e-books

Part 1: Fantasy What comes to mind when you hear fantasy? Magicians? Elves? Dragons? The underlying theme in most fantasy stories is some magic or supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science fiction or fact and is often, but not necessarily, … Continue reading →

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