Author Archives: Eduardo Suastegui

Waiting for Shadow, a new episode/prequel in work

Now that I’m more or less done with the first two episodes of the Tracking Jane series and have quarantined the first draft of the third episode before I start editing it with fresh eyes, I got the inkling that some of the backstory in Jane McMurtry’s recovery needs to come out. I am currently […]

September 19, 2014 – 5:55 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News, Novels | Comments Off on Waiting for Shadow, a new episode/prequel in work

More thoughts on word count quotas

You would think that after I posted my polemic about not counting words but making words count, that would settle the matter (yes, that’s a joke). Yet, a couple of days ago I ran across yet another blog posting about the need for word count quotas. We’re all different, and I’ll avoid the fallacy that […]

September 18, 2014 – 6:15 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in Essays | Tagged , | Comments Off on More thoughts on word count quotas

Review: ‘The Minus Faction’ by Rick Wayne, flaws don’t diminish a compelling story

Rick Wayne writes with such skill and unassuming ease, his prose is worth the reading if nothing else for the clarity and spark of it. But for two bothersome flaws, the Minus Faction would earn my full five stars. I was first drawn to Wayne’s story, The Minus Faction, wanting to see how he wrote […]

September 17, 2014 – 6:15 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in My Book Reviews | Comments Off on Review: ‘The Minus Faction’ by Rick Wayne, flaws don’t diminish a compelling story

Tracking Jane, episode 1 out, episode 2 preview ready

I am pleased to announce Shadow-7 is now released for Kindle. Working in this story and the episodes that follow has taken me along a terrific creative journey. Writing Shadow-7 and subsequent episodes has allowed me to meet great characters (one in particular) and to struggle alongside them as they make sense of life and […]

September 16, 2014 – 5:51 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News, Novels | Comments Off on Tracking Jane, episode 1 out, episode 2 preview ready

Voice of The Mute Tales gets new covers

A cool benefit of being an indie author comes through the avability to try new covers at will and see if that helps you connect with new readers. After all, though we like to think the book’s content rules, we do have to acknowledge that an eBook, especially, does get judged by its cover. Lately […]

September 15, 2014 – 6:35 am | By Eduardo Suastegui | Posted in News, Short Stories | Comments Off on Voice of The Mute Tales gets new covers

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?