HUSH UP

Melvin Armstrong in his first year working as a journalist for the Metropolitan News Agency, uncovers a secret that may become the story of the year and propel his career sky-high. However it won't be that easy as he thought it would be. Secrets exist to stay hidden and certain people will go to great lengths to keep it that way.

What will the price be to get this story out and is Melvin willing to pay it. Will they stop him? Or will he get the story out and claim his moment of grandeur?

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I published my short story Hush Up. It's the fourth completed for my challenge to write 20 short stories in a years' time.

As promised, I've made it available for free on Smashword to followers of my website, blog, and twitter for a period of 7 days.

With this coupon code you can get a copy:

Promotional price: $0.00
Coupon Code: ZL36G
Expires: February 18, 2012

I would appreciate it if you left a review on Smashwords, Amazon, or on your own blog.

A CHALLENGE

I regularly read Dean Wesley Smith's blog. His blog is great to get a better understanding of the publishing world, it helped me immensely with choosing the path I'm following in my own writing career.

He set a challenge for himself, and here follows a quote from Dean Wesley Smith on his blog about his challenge for 2011

"The challenge I have set for myself is simple: 100 new stories written from titles and put up electronically in one year."

I got thinking about this challenge and thought that maybe I should have one of my own. I think it's a great idea to push yourself to test your own limits, and writing a lot and making more bookcovers will only add to my experience and consequently the quality of my work. So I'm going to set a challenge for myself. I'm not going to do 100 new stories for 2012 but I'll do a 1000... nah that's more than I can handle and so is 100. Mine will be 20 short-stories/novelettes for 2011/2012, starting today 30 October 2011 and the finish line will be 30 October 2012. (I chose the 30th of October as starting date because it's my wife's birthday and I hope to successfully finish this challenge in honor of her.)

Upon finishing a story and publishing it, I'll announce it on twitter and I'll put the story on my website and keep it there for a few days for my blog and twitter followers to read freely.

I'll be selling the short stories for $0.99 and the novelettes for $1.99 on Amazon and Smashwords.