I’ve recently begun to process of revising all of the science fiction short stories I published in as an eBook entitled Stardust and Ash years ago and moving them to Letterpile.com. I’ve removed the eBook from Amazon and Smashwords in preparation of the move, and now I’m working on revising each story before republishing them online. I feel like my old writing can be greatly improved, especially works that I published before I finished my bachelor degree in creative writing, so I want to revise a lot of it before re-releasing it to the public.
I feel like short stories might work better as freely available web content than as eBooks anyway. I know short stories, poetry, etc doesn’t bring in a whole lot of search traffic, but my stories will be more easily accessible this way. They will also be available to read for free, while also allowing me to earn a little bit of revenue through ads.
In addition to the stories, I published all of the poetry that originally appeared in Stardust and Ash on Letterpile: Outer Space Poems: A Selection of Science Fiction Poetry. These are sci-fi themed poems that appeared in between each story of Stardust and Ash. I originally wrote most of them specifically for the book. I wrote the original version of Civil War in high school, however.
I also just posted a revision of my short story Abduction to Letterpile.
I’m also in the very, very early planning stages of a new novel that I hope to publish eventually. I hope to get most of the planning and outlining done by November, and write the first 50,000 words of the first draft during NaNoWriMo. Needless to say, publication for this book will still be a long way off.