My very short and very well received book (26 all 5-star reviews and counting, hooray!), The Texas Medical Jurisprudence Exam: A Concise Review, is now available on iTunes/iBooks and Kobo in addition to Amazon. Additional ebook formats and the print version are forthcoming.

While I personally use Amazon for just about everything, I know some people prefer to use other ebook vendors or non-Kindle readers. While the book was part of the KDP Select program (Kindle Unlimited etc), it was exclusive to Amazon. I’ve decided to not renew that program membership (more on that later), which allows me to open up the book to other markets for those so inclined.

For the time being, Kobo is offering a $5 credit for your first ebook purchase, which means that if you’ve never gotten an ebook from them before, my book would be half price.1Kobo books are platform agnostic and can basically work on any device.

I’m going to leave this right here:

Goes to show that you too can have a bestseller on Amazon if you publish in a low-volume niche category (and check routinely, because rankings are based on very short term sales trends).

Still, kinda fun.

My very short story “Turkey on Wheat” is back online, republished in The Story Shack with accompanying art by Hong Rui Choo.

Microliterature (“the most popular publication for acclaimed works between 1-1000 words”) has published another entry in my extremely slowly growing collection of Craigslist fiction: “1938 ‘Yosemite Landscape’ Oil Painting,” up on the front page for the next week and at the link above indefinitely.

Microliterature has been around for just over four years, and while the design has changed a bit over time, it has remained pitch perfect venue for very very short stories throughout. Back in 2012, their fine editorial team also published my story, “Did you hear about Lauren?“

The Story Shack has republished my story “You read about local politics and hate the sox” with an accompanying illustration by artist Mike Young. I love this site, and I consistently love seeing what the artists do with their assigned stories. It’s such fresh, inspiring stuff.

Six Questions For… is an interesting site: an ever-growing compilation of interviews with editors of flash fiction publications. Each interview is composed of exactly—wait for it—six questions.

Today’s six questions are with me. About Nanoism. You can read them here.

My flash piece “Memories of Life” was originally published in the now defunct BURST magazine back in 2009. Such is the circle of internet literary magazine life.

Not only has it been republished, courtesy of The Story Shack, but it’s been upgraded with a piece of artwork by Hong Rui Choo that was inspired by the story. You can find them both here.

The Story Shack is I think essentially unique in that their daily-published stories all have commissioned artwork published alongside. And not just any art—art that was crafted specifically for and because of the writing. Seeing the art was a such a thrill, and the site is full of some really amazing companion pieces. I think Rui did an awesome job with it.

I don’t write as much these days as I’d like. And until I began writing some non-fiction pieces about my experiences in medicine last year, I probably hadn’t written a personal narrative in over three years. The process is somewhat disquieting. Accuracy and authenticity and honesty and feeling can be shifting features on a zero-sum scale.

One of these pieces is called “Florence,” and it appears today in Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine, a site dedicated to creative nonfiction and poetry about health care. I get their stories in my email every week, and I actually read them, unlike the way I mean to read other stories that arrive in my mailbox but do not.

You can read it here.