just out at the cinema to see Jurassic World Rebirth - my son and I both enjoyed it. We had seen all the others except Dominion, and I would say this one is in the top 3 overall. There are lots of water sequences which I particularly enjoyed, and the swimming dinosaurs were well done.

So touched that all of you remember me and thanks for the welcome back.

Bill, thanks for the advice. I love writing flash fiction and it might be a good way for me to start.

I'll certainly keep you posted if I get any sales out of the SW promo or even if I don't.

This was a while ago, but I read a series by forum member C Gockel (Urban Magick and Folklore series, beginning with Snow So White). The premise is that technology has failed and magic has returned to Earth. Fairy tales provide inspiration, but the plotlines are very original. Good mix of action and character development. Some of the characters work well despite (no doubt intentional) incongruities, like a gentle vampire who is also claustrophobic--coffins are just not a good fit!

I'm currently working on Michelle Bardsley's vampire books (the Broken Heart series). Yeah, I know, vampires are maybe used too much, but hers are undoubtedly original. If you don't mind lots of sex, there is at least one good love story in each book and also plenty of intrigue as different vampire factions with competing agendas work to gain dominance--or just wipe everybody else out, depending.

For my Substack book club, I read Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures. One of the viewpoint characters in an octopus who forms a bond with a seventy-year-old woman who cleans the aquarium where he is held captive. (In real life, octopuses are intelligent but not social.) He sees what humans miss and tries to bring together broken people who can mend each other. There is also a lot of that happening outside the confines of the aquarium. But will it happen fast enough? A misunderstanding prevents two people who should have a strong bond from fulling knowing each other. Soon, one will move away, and there will be no chance. But Marcellus the octopus has a plan... Yeah, it is in some ways a silly premise, but the book is so good that you'll want to disregard that.

Don't know if you remember me. I haven't been here in several years because of my health. Haven't written anything in that long, too. Still having trouble typing and dictating. But I'm going to attempt to get back into it by completing the four book series I had only half completed. Just to put my toe in the water, I'm doing a prequel, but I might not even publish it.

I thought I would participate in the Smashwords July sale just to test the viability of my previous work. It's a long shot, but I miss writing so much.

I think I'll look into Substack. It might be a better option for me since I'm much slower now.

It's wonderful to see you again!

Substack has people writing at a lot of different paces, and serials that have posts once or week or less (as long as the pattern is somewhat regular) or short standalones definitely have an audience there. Also, a number of substacks put out prompts intended to generate flash fiction or something like that, and particularly if those are connected to one or more of the genre days, other participants will find and read you.

If you want to draw attention to your previous books, a good teaser works. A short connected to one of your published books works. I have definitely sold books there.

Subscriber growth can be slow (and most of them will be free rather than paid), but the platform remains a good place to reach an audience.

Don't know if you remember me. I haven't been here in several years because of my health. Haven't written anything in that long, too. Still having trouble typing and dictating. But I'm going to attempt to get back into it by completing the four book series I had only half completed. Just to put my toe in the water, I'm doing a prequel, but I might not even publish it.

I thought I would participate in the Smashwords July sale just to test the viability of my previous work. It's a long shot, but I miss writing so much.

I think I'll look into Substack. It might be a better option for me since I'm much slower now.