Thin Slices - Launch Day!
Happy Launch Day to my debut collection - Thin Slices: A Collection of Horror Flash Fiction
It is not available in e-book, paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited (for the next 3 months)!
Description:
Welcome to Thin Slices, the debut collection from Melody E. McIntyre, writer of short, dark fiction. With over 90 stories, all less than 1000 words apiece, this little book is bursting with scares. Melody drew her inspiration from history, mythology, science fiction, monsters, ghosts, and secret places only accessible by night.
These stories may be tiny, but the terrors they invoke are anything but.
I am so proud of this collection. The 92 stories in here were written over a period of four years and published with a variety of small publishers. Previous blog posts about my self-publishing journey as well as sample stories can be found here. Some of these stories are personal, some are inspired by mythology and other interests, some were written for specific projects. And all of them are dark.
I have dreamed of being an author since I was a little girl. I had other dreams and goals as well that I focused on throughout my life, but writing was the only constant, and I was always writing secretly in the background. I spent too long being afraid to share my work publicly, but have pushed past all the self-doubt and imposter syndrome to get here. I can't find the words to really say how it feels to see my book in print for the first time (some writer, eh? lol). But let's just go with "excited, happy, delirious".
Publishing this first book is like earning my first black belt. I spent many years believing it would never happen for me, but I kept working hard at it. And then "never" turned into "maybe someday" and then that turned into "Oh my God, it happened." This book has felt a lot like that. As well, as my Sensei always reminds us - a black belt is not the end, it is only the beginning. Now the real training can begin. There are people out there who think that you write a book, publish it, and then ta-da! You're done. Well, not by a long stretch.
This is only the beginning.
Like always, thank you for joining me on this journey. I hope you check out my book and enjoy it. And if you do, please leave a review. If you can't spend the money right now, but want to read it - message me.
Thanks for reading!
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