publishing

Deception Fault is free for only 3 more days (including today)

I have decided to conclude my experiment with using Amazon as an exclusive publisher. Thus, after July 21st, Deception Fault (Comp-Sci-Fi book 1) will be available on all the markets, not just Amazon. Then the entire Comp-Sci-Fi series will be available on five major ebook retailers, including Oyster.…

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New Release: Cold as Water

New short story is out. This is an introduction to Sumerian themes and settings of which you’ll be seeing a lot more from me soon.

There’s a lot gColdAsWater_thumboing in in 5,000 words. A strong scribe, one of the few literati, who doesn’t care what others think about her.…

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Free at last

Good morning. A quick note to observe that Ritchie Boss: Private Investigator Manager, my award-winning, Creative Commons-licensed, fiction chapter from an academic textbook is now on the free lists at Amazon. The best thing you could do to help is to write an honest review.…

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Clearing tabs

Sometimes I come across useful, interesting, our just plain cool pages, and these tend to accumulate in open tabs in my browser. Here’s hoping that writing about them is enough of a digestive process to close some out.

Get My FBI file which sounds interesting, but does asking for one put you on a list?…

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“Served” now live on Every Day Fiction

My flash fiction story Served is now live at Every Day Fiction. Go forth and enjoy!

Technical note: the URL for this story has an unusual character in it, a Unicode bullet U+2022, encoded as %E2%80%A2. I haven’t seen this on other stories on the EDF website, so I assume it’s a minor oversight.…

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Micah Joel

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