Writing

National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 24

2017/04/23 — 7 Comments

My day 24 poem for National Poetry Writing Month sort of uses the prompt on Napowrimo.net—to write an ekphrastic poem about the stuff found in the margins of medieval manuscripts. I made a couple of attempts, but quickly got bored. So, this is what I ended up doing: Continue reading

National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 21

2017/04/21 — 2 Comments

My day 21 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a poem that ‘incorporates overheard speech.’ I actually have written several such poems lately—including my Day 20 poem (which used my dropbox list of recent files as the source for the title), my Day 18 poem (which incorporated an invented word from 1989 or 1990), and another poem written three days ago that ends with a quote from Pulp Fiction. My title for this poem came from a post I saw on tumblr… Continue reading

E-book sale: Ten days left!

2017/04/20 — Leave a comment

April 20th. The month is quickly disappearing.

My tax-relief sale (because I just paid my taxes, and need some relief!) on my Smashwords catalogue of e-books now has just 10 days to go. Through April 30th, all titles are available for $1.99, in your choice of ePub or Kindle formats. No coupon codes to enter—just click on the Buy with coupon button.

My new book, This Is Not the Book That Will Save Your Life, goes on sale on Smashwords (and, presumably, iTunes and Barnes and Noble’s Nook store) tomorrow, April 21st—one week ahead of the paperback and Amazon Kindle editions. On Smashwords, it will be part of the aforementioned tax-relief sale Here is the link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/717550

For the full list of available titles, click on this link (you may have to scroll down a bit): https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/kevinjoconner.

Thanks, and happy reading!

(20 April 2017)