There's an interesting essay about short stories over at the Bookview Cafe by Nancy Jane Moore. http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/10/14/reading-for-fun-short-stories/ She made an interesting observation that, for her, short mystery stories don't work as well as sci-fi and horror in the short form because they need too much detail in order to play fair with readers.
John Scalzi has posted his opinion and observations about the new Amazon "Kindle Singles" program. http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/10/14/shorts-and-singles/
Sometime today the next five stories in A Twist of Noir's 600 - 700 stories series will be posted. There's some pretty great crime flash going up on the site this month, so be sure to drop on over and have a read. http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com
The Fall issue of Pine Tree Mysteries has hit the virtual streets. http://www.pinetreemysteries.com/
The DF-Underground zine has revamped their site and wow! does it look great. http://www.df-underground.com
And yesterday was the second anniversary of My Little Corner. This blog has gone way beyond anything I ever anticipated when I first started. There are over 700 posts and in an average day over 100 page views (yes, I just discovered that I have stats!). When I started this blog, I never in my wildest dreams imagined that anyone would even know it existed. So, thank you, to all my followers and readers, you've made this blogger very happy!
7 comments:
Congratulations on your blogiversary, and thank you for all the work you do to aid the short story form.
I guess I lucked into a niche that needed to be filled, Naomi. I love short stories and just wanted to scream it from the rooftops! Or at least from this blog :)
I'll definitely check out the link about the Kindle singles. Thanks.
Some interesting thoughts there, Charles, which extend into the comments.
Congratulations!
Sandra, your anniversary is great news for all crime writers. Congrats!
Thanks, Al, it's a pleasure to know that so many people enjoy the site.
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