I’m not doing much blogging, am I?

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to my blogs.  It’s not that I don’t have ideas, it’s just that there are these other sites where you can post articles and earn money.  While part of the reason I started blogging was so people would learn of my existence and maybe buy my books, I can do the say with these sites and earn money while doing it.  So that’s where most of my article writing energies have gone in the past few months.  But I do have some ideas for my regular blogs, so I’ll still be here. 

 
And if you’re wondering, these other sites you can find me on are: Bubblews, Daily Two Cents, Writedge, Elite Visitors, Persona Paper, and Post Any Article.  Just in case you were curious about what I write there.  :D

Let the mayhem begin

Earlier this morning I posted my story "Cleansing Fire" on my Patreon profile.  This is the first story of my Solar System Stories where I plan to write twelve stories set at various locations around the solar system.  This story is set nearish the sun and is about a guy who does dangerous stunts.  To read the story, you either have to become a patron at the low, low price of a $1 a story, or you can wait over a year until I collect them all into an ebook which will probably sell for $2.99.

Download Political Pies for free!

What’s scarier than all the ghosts and goblins at your door?  There’s an election next week.

To try to blunt the horror of the season, I’m offering my anthology of forty, short, political stories Political Pies for free!  You’ll be able to download it to your Kindle from Saturday November 1, through Wednesday November 5.  Download it early, and you can read it while waiting in line to vote on Tuesday. 

If “free” isn’t enough to entice you, check out the cover and blurb:

Everybody complains about politics, but does anyone do anything about it? Stephen L. Thompson’s attempt to do something about it is to collect forty of his short stories with a political element into his Political Pies anthology. His stories are either politically neutral or equally condemning of the national parties. Instead of trying to sway you to one ideology or another, his goal is to just get people thinking about politics in the hopes a rose might grow out of all the political manure.

So what are you waiting for?  Download your copy now, you won’t get another chance until next year.

Jumping into Patreon

So several months ago I heard of this Patreon site where creators of videos, comics, stories, or whatever can raise funds with the help of patrons.  I thought it was a great idea, but I wasn’t too sure how well it would work for someone like me.  But after thinking about, I decided to join.

My first project I’ll be working on is to write twelve, short science fiction stories of a few thousand words at least.  These stories will be set in twelve “locations” in the solar system, the sun (well, near the sun), Mercury, Venus, Earth/moon, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud.  My plan is to write a story a month, and at the end of the year I’ll polish up the stories and publish them as a Kindle ebook.  Anyone who finds this interesting, and especially those who’d like to help out financially, should check out my Patreon Profile. 

My original plan was to write the first story or two, and then start posting them in January.  But recently I’ve been trying to force myself to write more, so I decided to start a few months early.  The first story, set near the sun with the working title “Cleansing Fire,” should (I’ll say 95% likelihood) be up sometime in November.  Right now I’d say it’s about a third done, but I hope by giving myself a deadline I’ll get around to finishing it.  We’ll just have to see.