Self-Promotion Alert: Read My (Very Short!) Fiction

Friday, July 13, 2012

This site is supposed to be me talking about the law and technology, but I have some shameless self promotion to do, so I’m deviating from the usual subject matter this week.

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I recently started a new Tumblr called, creatively, Fiction by Joe Ross. I’m posting flash fiction there, because I love to write it and it’s the best I can do length-wise until I finish my JD in December (a semester early, if you’re counting, which I am … pats self on back). It’s going to be mostly but not all science fiction, so if you’re into that sort of thing, please check it out and tell me what you think.

I have been writing fiction since, probably, ever. My first short story was a survival tale about a man’s struggle in the wilderness. Alas, I can’t find it, but I wrote it in high school and I remember being super proud of it. Survival? Wilderness? Sold!

Anyway, I wrote another story in college, call Three Days, which you can get for free in eBook format at Leanpub. Did I mention that it’s free? Go get it. It has an epidemic, love, psychiatry, and time travel.

I know, genius.

Oh, and it’s okay to tell me you don’t like stuff. You get extra points for being as polite about it as Scott, my first commenter, was, but what I really want is to know why you didn’t like it. Of course, it won’t kill me to hear from you even if you did like it, but constructive criticism is wonderful.

Nowadays, I’m one of those obnoxious people who doesn’t mind telling you I’m in law school, and working full time, and kind of a big deal because of all that. The bottom line is, though, that I never have much time to write, the little time I do have I use mostly to write about tech news and law stuff, and I have no time at all to edit. So I’ve been hoarding all these little scenes of mine, sometimes for years. That hoarding, for better or worse, has come to an end.

As of the publication of this post, I’ve already put up two scenes, Carnival Time and The Deaths of Dolly Dignan. I bet you’ll like at least one of them, at least a little bit.

And, even if you don’t, and I become a famous author one day, you’ll be one of the cool kids who read my stuff long before I was on the bestsellers list. People make fun of people like that but admit it, the truth is that we all love having the chance to be one of them.

Well, it’s that very chance that I’m offering you today, for the future. Or something. So here’s the link, one more time.

Okay, I’m done.

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