I have finally published Western Sunset, available worldwide at Amazon US, and Amazon UK as well as the many other interna

This holiday season, I am publishing a new book, Transfer. And for the first time, my book will be available in most formats and platforms, not exclusively through Amazon. So, whether you read on a Kindle, or a Barnes & Noble Nook, use an iPad or ereaders from Kobo or Sony or others, you should be able to get it, anywhere in the world! So here’s the teaser for Transfer:

If you're on my mailing list, you may already have this information. If not ...

I’m trying something different. Readers of my shorter stories on BCTS have asked for Kindle versions, so I’ve combined two stories in two books. And each is a reduced price! I can't guarantee that Amazon will allow me to keep the original posts here; they may vanish. In any event, those originals were edited, revised, nipped and tucked for these books.

The stories in each book have similar themes:

I wish everyone, regardless of who or where or what you are, happiness and health for you and your families!

Karin

Just a quick question: Those of you who have Kindles, do you use Kindle Unlimited or prefer to buy the books? Pros or cons?
Trying to make sense of the Amazon underworld ...

Karin

They just showed a remake of Dirty Dancing on television and I know some may disagree, but I loved it. I loved the original movie, of course, but there was so much family and social transition going on that fascinated me, besides the question, "Will Baby do the lift?" The new one offered much deeper and different characterizations, including a different ending. So ...

SPOILER ALERT! Do not read any further if you A) Haven't seen the 2017 version or B) Loved the final scene just as it was.

A few days ago, Lilly85 posted about the struggles (we all have) with authentic dialogue for younger characters. I just found a Washington Post article (link below) and while it won't help with directly with writing dialogue, it is a very illuminating look at how a 13-year-old girl lives in the social media world. For those of us who write about characters in their teens, the article (and the linked ones that follow the article) is helpful to add realistic touches of social media ... although the apps and websites used now might be obsolete in six months!

Merry Christmas to you all!
And if you don't celebrate Christmas, have a merry time as well!

...and now the commercial ...

For years the media trots out the 2011 Williams Institute figure of “700,000 transgender people in the U.S.” (2011 Williams Institute LGBT Report). They came up with this number based on two primary sources: a survey in Massachusetts, estimated from data collected in 2007 and 2009—and a 2003 study of California smokers.

Opposites is now available at your local Amazon Kindle store. It's a completely original work, not seen before at BCTS. Here are a couple of links where you can read the synopsis:

Opposites at Amazon US

Two new Kindle ebooks are available at Amazon: Connections and The Pact. Both were originally posted here at BCTS, but have been revised and expanded. Connections has several chapters' worth added, but The Pact is nearly twice as long—over 90,000 words!

I’ve added two Kindle books, one brand-new and one almost-new, and the Amazon worker bees should have then published by this weekend. The ‘almost-new’ is Powerball, which first appeared here on BCTS, but this is an expanded version with over 20,000 more words—that’s over 35% larger!

All the very best health, happiness, and success to the writers and readers and friends of BCTS for the coming year and years!

(And especially those tireless souls who keep it running!)

Karin

Vitamins has a Kindle edition out now. It was posted here on BCTS, but readers asked for an ebook version (along with some other titles of mine) and it's available here:

Shin Eris posted “Selling TG fiction on Amazon” below, and Katie and Tanya posted comments with useful guidelines, but I'd like to bring up Fifty Shades of Grey ... not as literature but as marketing.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, wherever you are, whether you celebrate or not--but be sure to think of others and ways that we can all have better years and lives ahead!

Karin

This concerns revisions and downloads. I just discovered that the copy of Reclamation that was offered in a 5-day free promotion is an older version. I updated all of my books in June of this year; all of the "Look Inside!" previews reflected that--yet the older version was sent out. Amazon is looking into it with me (several emails back and forth), because they're potentially liable if the book downloaded is not the book previewed!

Last week I announced that two of my Kindle eBooks will be available for free downloads; they're available tomorrow, Friday and Saturday! Many of you have been kind and purchased these already, but newcomers may find them a free introduction to my writing, as well as my stories here on BCTS.

Role of a Lifetime is about a middle-school boy who is cast in a TV pilot, where he must play the son of a family on the run, but disguised as a girl. And things happen ...

It will be available for free Friday and Saturday, September 13-14.

Two of my books, I Should Have Known and Breath of Life, are free on Kindle from Friday July 19th (today) through Monday the 22nd.

I’m saddened by how few people know the writing of Zenna Henderson. Her books and stories were a combination of non-technical sci-fi, psychic powers like magic, deep spirituality and strong emotional resonance. Although she did not write TG fiction, she wrote often of what it feels like to be the outsider, to be miserably alone and then to find a community of people like yourself. For that reason she may be of interest to BCTS readers.

Two of my stories previously posted here on BCTS are revised, expanded, and available as Kindle books.