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What’s Wrong With Daredevil?

From JimHeskett.com: Continuing my loose series about storytelling lessons from TV shows: Netflix’s Marvel Superhero show Daredevil does a lot of things right. The set design and art direction are...

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Self Published Books Are Crap?

From JimHeskett.com: Self published books are crap? I do not think that means what you think it means. There has been an influx of articles recently reigniting the traditional versus indie debate,...

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Announcing Stories to Read While Driving!

From JimHeskett.com: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, I bring you great tidings of joy. I’m pleased to announce the release of STORIES TO READ WHILE DRIVING: KILL THE KING AND OTHER TALES A collection...

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Anouncing Against the Infinity!

From JimHeskett.com: Dearest of friends, In these times of strife, we need healing. We need answers. We can no longer tolerate hanging threads and unfinished stories. In short, we need the Five Suns...

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Goodreads Dos and Don’ts: A Guide for Authors

From JimHeskett.com: Dear authors: please, for the love of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, stop spamming readers on Goodreads. Goodreads is a social network specifically for readers, but it’s not the...

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How Amazon Can Fix KDP Select

From JimHeskett.com: Look, Amazon. I’m here to Fix KDP Select. It’s hella broken. So Ima be straight with you. A couple months ago, I wrote a post explaining how you could improve KDP. My suggestions...

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Kindle Unlimited and #ReleaseTheRate

From JimHeskett.com: This week, Amazon implemented their new terms for authors who publish in their Kindle Unlimited program through KDP Select. The tl;dr version is that instead of paying authors each...

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On Epigraphs and Copyright

From JimHeskett.com: On this, the release day for the Five Suns Saga Omnibus Edition, I wanted to share a little story about epigraphs. Those are those quotes you see at the beginnings of books, quite...

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10 Books That Make You Think

From JimHeskett.com: This post + tag made the rounds of Facebook a while back, so I thought I’d take a chance to expand (expound?) on my list and explain why each of these books affected me, and why...

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Why I Don’t #NaNoWriMo

From JimHeskett.com: When national novel writing month rolls around every year, my social media streams flood with posts about writing sprints, last minute-scrambles, how fast fingers are flying on...

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On a Thousand Days of Effort

From JimHeskett.com: I use an app on my phone called Goal Streaks, in which I can set a goal and track daily progress toward it, using the Seinfeld productivity method of “Don’t break the chain.”...

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Announcing Nailgun Messiah!

From JimHeskett.com: It’s that time again, folks. Time to bust a rhyme? Nope. Close, though. After releasing Micah’s Reed’s first adventure, Airbag Scars, in December of 2015, he’s back for more. This...

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Announcing Micah Reed – Sallow City

From JimHeskett.com: Do you read books? Because I write them. Maybe you want to read a new one I’ve written? I mean, no pressure or anything. Just sayin. Ladies and gentleman, I’m here to announce the...

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Announcing Blood Thief!

From JimHeskett.com: Hey-o party people! I’ve got a new book coming out next month, and I wanted to tell you all about it. But first, a public service announcement: I’m going to be winding down...

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Announcing Dalton and the Bear

From JimHeskett.com: Ladies and gentlemen, it is my distinct pleasure to bring you my latest batch of locally-sourced, hand-crafted, artisanal short fiction… If you finished my novel Reagan’s Ashes and...

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6 Questions with Author Pandora Spocks

From JimHeskett.com: Tell us about your current book/project I’m working on editing the third book of my Rannigan’s Redemption series. Rannigan’s Redemption is a contemporary erotic romance that...

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6 Questions with Author Patient Lee

From JimHeskett.com:   Tell us about your current book/project. As usual, I’m working on three ideas at once—a non-erotic Valentine’s Day story for the Literotica.com Valentine’s Day contest, a gay...

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6 Questions With Author Stephanie Collins

From JimHeskett.com: Tell us about your current book/project: Finding myself suffocating in my dreadfully dull and uninspired day to day routine, I recently jumped at the opportunity when a friend...

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Give it away, now

From JimHeskett.com: Youse guys may or may not know that I give away stuff over at my giveaway page, located at www.jimheskett.com/contest, like, all the time. For this month, I’m running a bunch of...

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I found the Snitch!

From JimHeskett.com: Find out how Micah Reed became Micah Reed…   Before Micah Reed was Micah Reed… Mike is not what you’d call a good guy. He works for drug dealers. He does things he’s not proud of...

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