Stories Up For Consideration by BJ Neblett

Hello again. Just a quick note and request for your help. Two of my most popular stories, Seven Seconds and Rain At The Intersection Of Tomorrow are up for big time consideration. But I do need your help. Please take a minute to click the two links below and 'like' my stories. I'm not a big fan of this sort of thing, to me it is nothing more than a popularity contest...see how many votes a story gets before we look at it...but it is the first step, and an important one. It's quick, easy and painless. So, thanks ahead of time for your help. I'll keep you posted!
BJ

https://theprose.com/post/158567/seven-seconds

https://theprose.com/post/158564/rain-at-the-intersection-of-tomorrow

Book Signing And Book Reading by BJ Neblett

For those of you in the Great Pacific Northwest, this Thursady I will be signing copies of the fiction anthology Beyond The Hedge: The Light And The Dark and reading selections from my story Rain At The Intersection Of Tomorrow. It will be held at Queen Anne Bookstore at 1811 Queen Anne Ave N in Seattle, at 7 PM on Thursday, August 11. Several other of the contributing authors including Alissa Berger and Piper Lewis will be there to read and sign your copies. Beyond The Hedge is a great fiction anthology series, published twice a year by Matthew Buscemi through Fuzzy Hedgehog Press.I hope to see you there. For more information you may click the links or call Queen Anne Books at 206-284-2427. That's Thursday evening, 7 PM!
For those of you not close by, as well as those who are, one of my most popular stories Seven Seconds is being read on Youtube by a very talented guy, Brady Boothe in connection with the Evil Idol contest. It is a competition for scary stories which are spoken and given the actor's own particular twist. Brady has done a great job interpreting my story and I know you will enjoy it. Please click or copy the link  www.youtube.com/watch?v=VteM5BE8M2U and give Brady a thumbs up vote to help him move on to the final round. Be sure to leave a comment while you are there as well. Thanks.
Finally a quick update. My new novel Planet Alt-Sete-Nine is finished and getting a final edit. We are shooting for publication sometime in early 2017. In the meantime, my memoir, Ice Cream Camelot should be in paperback and on the book shelves in October.
Peace,
BJ

 

Anniversary and Housekeeping and Bragging

Anniversary and Housekeeping and Bragging

By BJ Neblett

Hello again. I hope 2014 is starting off great for all of you! It looks like this year will be a great one for writing in general, and for this humble wordsmith. My first novel Elysian Dreams continues to do well and my best selling historical memoir Ice Cream Camelot, released as an e book last year will be available in paperback this spring/summer!

February 4 marks the two year anniversary for this blog. Some 72 posts later and it seems like just yesterday. But there is a reason why it has been two years, and why 72 posts, and why both books are selling so well and why I’ve had a dozen short stories accepted and/or published just this past year. The reason is YOU! And I can’t thank each and every one of you enough!

According to Alexa Traffic Ratings, a nifty little APP for keeping track of blog traffic, in two years this blog site has moved from 4 million plus to a rating of 463,814! Those numbers translates into a ranking somewhere in the top 18% of all sites on the web. Not just writer’s sites, or blogs, but a readership and hit rate in the top 18% to 21% of ALL web sites! YIKES! Last month alone my author blog received some 2,000 page views. And this during the holiday season when most people surely had better things to do.

And that’s not all! The good folks over at Short Story Me who have been publishing several of my stories report that Seven Seconds, my chilling tale of suicide, received almost 25,000 reads since it first appeared on November 10! Yikes again!

And there’s more: Satan’s Blood, a nifty little horror story about a night in a federal prison, appeared in eFiction Magazine recently. The on line literary magazine available through Amazon, B&N and other E Book distributors now ranks in the top 5% of Amazon’s Kindle magazine sales! Nice company to be among.

And, once again, it is all because of YOU! THANK YOU!

Recently I have seen a huge increase in readership from France, Belgium, Brazil and the Ukraine and other countries. Not sure where that may have come from, but thank you and welcome to the fold! Everyone can continue to count on finding only the best in Fantastic Literature on every visit.

Again, thanks to all. Let’s keep the ink flowing, the ball rolling and the love growing! Below you will find an updated list of some of the sites where you can find my humble scribbling. Just click on the link! And in a couple of weeks we’ll be right back to format with another short story to make you go hummm…. As always please feel free to comment. I’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas for stories, and anything else you’d care to share.

Peace,

BJ

My Poetry Blog

Short Story Me

eFiction & Romance Magazine

Amazon Books & Magazines

Northern Liberties Review Magazine

Short Story & Poem Just Published!

Hi again, and a very big thank you to everyone who has been enjoying and commenting on my blog here and my poetry blog Here For A Season. I have a new short story up and ready for posting as a serial over the next few weeks so please stay tuned. But today I am pleased to announced that I have a short story and a poem published in the April edition of Northern Liberties Review Magazine! I have posted the link below. Click on it and enjoy all of the great writing there. And be sure to let the editors know what you think, and of course, that you heard about their site from me. Also, I believe you can vote for your favorite story and poem, so... thanks in advance!
Enjoy and see you next week with a new story!
BJ

Northern Liberties Review