Do you have an atrocious novel sitting on your hard drive? Do you have an awesome short story collection you want to expose hard and fast like the town pervert? Well, step right up…
Monday, June 7 will be “Published For a Day” day on Word Riot. We will post an entry with links to downloadable PDFs of novels and book length short story collections (at least 25k words) that will be available for one day and one day only: 12 a.m. -11:59 p.m. on Monday, June 7.
Rules, Regulations, Bull Shit
1. This is open to writers who have been previously published in Word Riot or any of the following sites (in no apparent order – let me know of any I should have included in the comments):
3:AM Magazine, Anderbo, Collagist, decomP, Dogplotz, Electric Lit, Eyeshot, Hobart, Identity Theory, JMWW, Keyhole, Laminantion Colony, Necessary Fiction, No Colony, NOÖ, NYTyrant, Pank, Pindeldyboz, Monkeybicycle, mudlucious, Opium
2. Upload the PDF to your server. If you don’t have a server, email us the PDF and we will upload it to Word Riot. Email information in the format below to jcorley AT gmail DOT com by 10 p.m. on Sunday, June 6:
Subject: Published For a Day
Novel Title by Author Name
File Link:
Previous Publications: [Must have at least one publication credit from list above]
Summary: [Under 250 words. Make it sexy. You want people to download you.]
3. Any PDFs uploaded to Word Riot will be deleted on June 8. The links will die on June 8, as well.
Readers: Download all you like on June 7. There are no other rules for you.
Participating Writers: TBA
That is a cool idea! Can’t wait to read yours. Happy b-day!
Read about this and can’t wait to read some of the hidden talent out there! I have a book blog and love reading about new authors! Hope there’s lots of participation! This will be fun!
Jackie,
What a good idea! (I’m sending an entry.) Speaking of the town pervert, this poem of mine appeared in the March issue of Evergreen Review:
FLASH POETRY
He lurks in the station
of imagination,
dark, dank, skanky,
waiting for the trainful
of readers to appear.
He stands at the ready,
then whips open
his trench coat (dirty)
to display
the trenchant figure,
the erect iamb
and oratund spondees,
mega-meta-physical conceit,
the vehicle of metaphor.
Then, he whirls around,
lifting coattails to show
the flaccid, bumpy field,
the saggy butt end, the O,
that constitute the tenor.
“That should get a rise out of
those sleepy tabloid-suckers!”
Down the platform rush
the Keystone Prose Cops,
brandishing their critical nightsticks.
Coat still open, he turns to meet them,
smiling, unabashed, erect.
Jackie: A fresh, funny and good idea. I don’t have anything but I want to tune in on Monday.
Will have to stay up to midnight just to get those downloadable PDFs. This is so exciting. Thanks, Suzanne, for telling us about it on your blog.
What about nthposition? Also, does a forthcoming publication in any of the listed count?
dang, jackie, i received this notice too late! yeah, i’ve got an outrageous short story collection but i’ve missed your deadline. and many other books as well including my big new March Street Press release, “barely breathing.”
spiel. http://www.thepoetspiel.name