Freebie, today only!!

Just a quick note... You can get my collection of short stories, Up Pops the Devil, for FREE until midnight tonight (Pacific Standard time).

The collection takes place in North Carolina, Vietnam, and on a subway carriage. In "Up Pops the Devil," pregnant Lara awakes in the middle of the night to find a group of men with guns standing in her bedroom. Her husband Nathan owes them money for cockfighting. On impulse, she flees into the mountains, taking the youngest (a teenage boy) with her. In "The Mood Detectives," a couple becomes obsessed with the depression craze that's hitting the country! In "What's for Dinner?" an insensitive husband wonders why he keeps drawing The Devil tarot card. And in "Viet," a teenage girl visits her mother's homeland of Vietnam and makes a surprising discovery. The characters in this collection confront unfortunate choices, bad luck, and plain old destiny, hoping to make it to the next day.

Just go here:  http://www.amazon.com/Up-Pops-the-Devil-ebook/dp/B00DP77PVC

Up Pops the Devil!

Just wanted to blow my own horn! I've recently released a new collection of eight short stories on Amazon, entitled Up Pops the Devil. I wrote some of them (the longer ones!) when I was working on my M.F.A. thesis, and the shorter ones I wrote later, while working and then taking care of my kids. I figured, they're just sitting on my computer collecting virtual dust, why not publish them?

My friend, author Lisa Logan, and I are also going to be publishing a user guide for publishing ebooks for Kindle. We'll have tons of marketing tips, too, including how to use Twitter to your best advantage, how to set up a blog tour, and lots of links to helpful web tools! I'll keep you posted on when it's coming out -- hopefully, later this month!