Thirty-One Days, Thirty-One Stories: A Flash Fiction Journey, by A. Catherine Noon
Happy Solstice, Dear Reader! For Summer Solstice this year, I decided to collect 31 stories that I wrote during a challenge one March. It was bonkers and creative and insane and FUN, and I figured you’d enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it.
You can visit our bookshop to check it out. It’s available from your favorite retailers, but I wanted to talk a minute about that. We are working with Curios, and I wanted to share a little bit about why.
First, what is Curios?
Curios is a direct to fan distribution platform for digital content. On Curios, the creator keeps 100% of any revenue earned, they can access their fans contact information, and they maintain the ownership and IP of their work at all times.
We’ve met the founder and chief technology guy, and they are super nice and committed to the artist and author communities. They started originally to help musicians keep more of their income. Did you know, for example, that an artist could post a song on Spotify, get thousands of downloads, and literally make less than a dollar? That’s criminal. So they set out to do something about it. They feel the same way about the indie author space, and that’s why we decided to work with them. Every time you purchase one of our books from them, we keep more of the money you spend and it doesn’t go to some faceless conglomerate or, worse, some billionaire who, frankly, doesn’t need your money.
We also use Mooberry Book Manager, a woman-owned small company that works directly with indie authors to build, you guessed it, bookshops on their websites. When we started with Curios we didn’t see an option to add them as a vendor and the owner of Mooberry worked with me directly, person-to-person, to make that available. What’s more, we were able to connect her with Greg at Curios, expanding the indie author universe. You can check out Mooberry here.
Okay, now to the important part of the announcement, the BOOK! (Right?)
Thirty-One Days, Thirty-One Stories!
It’s LIVE, y’all! I’m stoked.
See, here’s what happened. Clear back in 2008, the Absolute Write forums had a challenge – they’d issue a prompt in the morning, and you had to write a flash fiction story by the end of the day and post it on your blog.
So me? I decided to do it!
Thirty-one days, y’all.
Only one problem. I had no idea how to write flash fiction.
What is flash fiction, you say?
Good question.
Most writers agree that flash fiction is a short story, under say 1,500 words or so, with a beginning, middle, and end.
Being writers, we argue the details. But in general, that’s what it is.
For the challenge, the limit was no more than 1,000 words.
Have you MET me? I can’t tweet to save my life, and I am a friggin’ novelist, y’all.
But they say that the best way to learn is to do, so I do’d. (Rhymes with dude, see what I did there?) And the stories were posted on my blog.
For those of you playing the home game, 2008 is 18 years ago. Y’all, if my stories were a people, they could VOTE.
Wut.
So when people ask me, “What do you write?” and I’m all, “Check out my blog,” they are reasonably going to look at me with deer-in-the-headlights and say, “Um, Noony? WHERE on the blog?”
So I made a book.
Because that’s what writers do.
Want the link? Go forth and click it!
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Rachel and I have a short story in the forthcoming anthology, All in on Love! This is a fun one. It’s the meet-cute moment between Caden and Mads, but from Mads‘ point of view!
Why is this fun?
Mads is a contract killer who lost his parents in a tornado when he was five. Trapped in the basement for three days before he was rescued, poor guy has trauma with a capital T.
He is also a crow shifter. And since shifters don’t get their animal form until puberty, his CROW is perfectly well-adjusted – and he has opinions, y’all. Their interactions are a stitch and a half.
Take a peek:
His crow wasn’t even listening. No, he was locked on the guy like he was a magnet.
Pretty! Pretty! Pretty!
He’s a fucking student!
Pretty One is like us.
No point arguing with his crow when he got like this.
See what I mean?
Well, if you want to see more, AND see some amazing stories by fantastic authors including our dear friend Tina Holland, then please visit and click on “Notify me on launch.” You’ll help our algorithm and you’ll get to read some amazing stories. Win-win!
That’s all for now, my little Wildlings. Remember: eat your vegetables, move your body, and for the love of Pete, READ SOMETHING FANATASTIC!
~hugs~