On Being A Published Author

What a feeling!

A short story of mine, "When The Music Stops", has been published by Ether Books in their award-nominated iPhone app!

"Ether Books publishes the very best short stories and essays from today’s literary stars and up and coming writers directly to your own phone."

I first heard about the opportunity through Bubble Cow and felt that this particular story fitted the bill. Ether Books operate like a literary book agency in that they sift through work carefully and choose only the best material to be published. I was contacted fairly quickly but, after the initial correspondence, things fell quiet. Until yesterday.

I had been feeling a little down - decorating our new house has been taking up a lot of time and energy and, with no time off work, is starting to take its toll as we reach our anticipated "officially move-in" date. We also haven't been able to locate the Christmas tree we had set our hearts on, so the thought of having to wait another whole year to get it was making me a little sad. Ether Books must have known because they sent me an email notifying me that my short story had been published! Yippee!

You can download the Ether Books app here. My story costs just 59p and there's a little head-shot of me and various pages such as my author page, the blurb, the first page and the book cover. How exciting!

Unfortunately, I don't have an iPhone so I can't gleefully purchase my own story! However, rumour has it that Ether Books are looking into apps for other devices so, with any luck, I'll be able to acquire this fantastic app sometime in the future on my Android!

We're hoping to move into our home next week and, once the dust has settled, I am truly looking forward to getting back to my writing and script reading with gusto! Keep an eye out - I'll certainly be submitting more stories!