Monthly Archives: September 2014

Short Story preview: ‘The Ignored’, free download when you subscribe

UPDATE: You can get a free copy of this story and two others by downloading the free Voice of the Mute Tales, Volume 1 for Kindle or EPUB readers. You can also get a free copy of The Ignored when you subscribe to my mail list. To stoke your interest, I include an excerpt below. […]

September 13, 2014 – 5:30 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in Short Stories | Comments Off on Short Story preview: ‘The Ignored’, free download when you subscribe

Mommy, where do beliefs come from?

How or why do we believe? How do some of us, all apparently reasonable people, some even raised in the same household, come to hold diametrically or otherwise incompatible beliefs? These two questions get at the difficulty with an assumption that many take for granted. We come to believe that which makes sense, that which […]

September 11, 2014 – 6:06 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in Essays | Tagged , | Comments Off on Mommy, where do beliefs come from?

Why I love the Novelsode format

Recently I came across a new term @KairaLansing coined as a hashstag: #NOVELSODE. I ran across it right around the time I was finishing up my first 2 episodes of the Tracking Jane series. The find excited me because I saw other authors out there like Kaira Lansing using this shorter format to harness the […]

September 9, 2014 – 6:16 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News, Novels | Tagged | Comments Off on Why I love the Novelsode format

Amazon Kindle Pre-orders without Preview not so great for Indie Authors

Who will pre-order a book, from an Indie author, no less, if they can’t take a peek inside the text? Would you? Would I? Some Indie authors received the news that Amazon now allows pre-orders on Kindle ebooks with optimism. Without previews, though, the pre-order capability rings hollow. I decided to try out the pre-order […]

September 8, 2014 – 9:07 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News | Comments (1)

Vote: Should I release the first 2 episodes of Tracking Jane together?

If you’ve been following me around lately, you will know that I’ve been working toward the September 16 release of Shadow-7, the first episode of the Tracking Jane Series. Here’s my quandary: Rover, the second episode, is also almost ready! Together, episodes 1 and 2 comprise a full novel length story — with more to […]

September 5, 2014 – 6:01 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News, Novels | Tagged | Comments Off on Vote: Should I release the first 2 episodes of Tracking Jane together?

Hipstopia: a Fast-moving Story with Promises for more to Come

Hipstopia by R.A. Desilets tells the tale of a group of disaffected youngsters who under the leadership of a cult-like leader rebelled against the structure of modernity and carved out Los Angeles as their refuge from the world they disdain. There they must “quiet” dissenters who are themselves rising against the order that Murphy, Hipstopia’s […]

September 4, 2014 – 6:05 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in My Book Reviews | Comments Off on Hipstopia: a Fast-moving Story with Promises for more to Come

About Mangos, avocados, and literal vs. literary gardens

What does growing mango and avocado trees from seeds have to do with writing? I read somewhere that an author must tend to his or her garden of stories, those published and those soon to come out. Without too much over-thinking or dropping into sappy cliches, I see some merit in that word picture. Recently […]

September 2, 2014 – 6:19 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in Essays | Comments (2)