This past weekend was one of the most enjoyable I’ve ever had as an author.

The promo of “Beacon”, my science fiction short story, blew away my expectations. I was realistic going into this “free run” (as those of us in the biz call a KDP select free promo). A number of odds were stacked against the tale doing well.

It’s a short story, for starters, at only around six thousand words. It had no reviews yet, doesn’t dabble that deep into one of the currently red-hot genres–despite traipsing somewhat into YA territory–and I myself am still a mostly-unknown commodity.
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