tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58886753531853869362011-07-08T03:39:20.414-07:00Bryon Quertermoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16301477789303587266noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888675353185386936.post-13318708946583376252009-06-12T10:35:00.000-07:002009-06-13T07:57:05.806-07:00My wife and I have one baby and are expecting another in a few months. Next year we'd like to take the whole family to Disney World so my wife has started a little fund that she's been putting change into and other spare cash we get. But then she got a decent sized bonus for her work and dropped that into the fund and I started feeling a bit in adequate as a provider for my family. So I started thinking about ways I could contribute to the Disney fund. I don't get bonuses at work and I don't really have the time or the energy for a second job so that was out. But there was one thing that had brought in a little cash over the last year or so and that was my short stories. <br /><br />Around this same time I read a series of fascinating blog posts from <a href="http://jakonrath.blogspot.com">Joe Konrath </a>detailing his experiments with selling electronic versions of his short stories and novels through PayPal and for the Amazon Kindle E-Reader.<br /><br />Hmmmmmmm.<br /><br />I wasn't comfortable putting up my unsold novels for sale, because I truly believe they are unsold for a reason. And the short stories that have made me some money in the past are still readily available at bookstores in the fine anthologies they were purchased for. Instead, I took three of my favorite stories that had been previously published online or in small circulation magazine but are now almost impossible to find and bundled them together in a collection I'm calling A LOAD OF QUERTERMOUS.<br /><br />Featured in the collection are the following stories:<br /><br /><blockquote><strong>LOAD </strong>- The tale of a sperm back robbery in Detroit gone off the rails<br /><br /><strong>MR. SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL </strong>- A little ditty about a private detective in Flint, MI who spends his daughter's birthday helping his ex-wife's lawyer save his son from jail<br /><br /><strong>ALTER ROAD</strong> - A story that follows a preacher with a violent past who faces the greatest test of faith and grace when his son is murdered by hillbilly meth dealers</blockquote><br />I've also written brand new introductions for all three stories discussing their creation and the inspiration behind them. This collection is available now for the amazing low price of $1.99 and can be had as PDF file for reading on any computer (or for printing to read on the train or in bed or wherever) or as a download for the Amazon Kindle. The Amazon dowload is immediate but the PDF will come once PayPal sends me an email indication a donation has been made and then I'll zip it off to the email address used for the donation.<br /><br />I really don't know what to expect from this little experiment so you all can learn with me. If you aren't able to make a donation, you can still help by spreading the word. I thank you, my kids thank you, and the Disney Empire thanks you.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5888675353185386936-1331870894658337625?l=loadofquertermous.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Bryon Quertermoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16301477789303587266noreply@blogger.com0