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Yay
I get a yay today. This week in Amazon's Kindle "Ghost" category, 5 of the top 25 stories were mine. In erotic horror, 11 of the top 100 were mine (a combo of ebook shorts, ebook novellas and paperback novels.)

Listener Question
My friend Celia (http://celiathepoet.blogspot.com) asked:
What do you do when your piece switches on you? Your novel is a novelette after all; or maybe it's a memoir! How sure are you of your form when you begin?

It's a precarious balance. Sometimes trying to force a story into a form will kill it, and sometimes it'll make that story stronger. If your story isn't under contract to be a certain way, I guess you have some room to play around and explore!

Can you Spare a Star?
Packing Heat hardly has any ratings on iTunes. Do me a solid and gimme some stars!

Your Assignment
Think about a story that's not working for you, and try to imagine it in various forms: longer, shorter, as a comic, as a poem, as a series. What are the story's strengths? Do the lend themselves to the form you're trying to cram that story into, or would you be better off switching?