AC Cooper Writes

Fiction author

Category: Writing process

  • My First Sale…Sort of

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    First sale on The Calling yesterday…sort of. By “sort of” I mean that the story was part of Smashword’s Promotion this week so it was…FREE. (grin) Now granted, my other stories are free and have gotten a lot of downloads, but what I love the most…what means the most to me is that someone actually took the time…

  • The Rot…Update

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      Still working on this story, have no real idea how long it’s going to take me to find the ending, but the journey is fun. The characters I’ve got so far include Joe and his wife Beth and their twins Rachel and Ben. She’s just discovered he’s cheating on her and is seeking her…

  • Smashwords Promotion

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        My book titled The Calling is part of the Smashwords Ebook Promotion for this week only, starting Midnight tonight Pacific time. There will be deep discounts on ebooks, with coupon code levels for 25%-off, 50%-off, 75%-off and FREE until March 12th! Here’s the link to my books: AC Cooper Here’s the link with a coupon…

  • Newly Published Stories

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    Just a quick update for my millions of followers. lol I’ve uploaded stories that have been sitting around not pulling their weight – lol – to both Smashwords and Amazon.

  • Weird Tales

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    Prepare to be weirded out…or at least to scratch your head and wonder, “what in the heck is she talking about”. I’m putting together a collection of weird flash fiction stories – 8 of them, actually – with a couple of longer short stories. Plan to publish it this weekend and will update when it’s…

  • I’m no longer a publishing virgin

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      Yeah! Uploaded my short story titled Murder in Blue Lake to both Smashwords and Amazon. I was scared that the “MeatGrinder” would be a problem, but it wasn’t. Easy, Peasy… Except, Smashwords did something weird. They added a short table of contents with link. Short stories really don’t need a TOC, so ??? Anyway, I…

  • The Rot

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    Finished up the mystery short story I mentioned in my last post and came up with a title. Not particularly inventive, but it works. “Murder in Crab Lake”. [Note: My wise hubby thought “Crab Lake” wasn’t a good choice. After consideration I agreed, and changed it to Murder in Blue Lake. I like this much…

  • Works in progress

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      Right now I’m working on a mystery. Don’t have a working title for it…yet…but since I “write in the dark” (ala Dean Wesley Smith), that’s okay. I came across an anthology which was supposed to start with the phrase, “No shit, there I was”. It could be any type of story, but it had…

  • Repentance

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      A quick thesaurus search for the word repentance yields two definitions that stand out to me: self-reproach and remorse. I especially like “self-reproach” because it implies that it is the individual’s responsibility to align themselves with what is right instead of what the crazy society of today insists is everyone else’s fault. Before repentance…

  • Surviving in a post-Christian world

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    Be sober [watchful], be vigilant [actively cautious], because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. – 1 Peter 5:8 KJV A quick word study of this verse leaves us with some interesting ideas. The Greek word  for “roaring” is ōryomai  pronounced ō-rü’-o-mī can mean the roaring of an animal, but…