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Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned from Incredibly Dodgy Spam (So You Don’t Have To)No. 3
Your Book Has Been Selected for Our Book Club! (Please Send Money.) I’m opening the bombs so you don’t have to. Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned (we can learn) from Incredibly Dodgy Spam. The Incredibly Dodgy Email There are few things an author would rather hear than that a group of enthusiastic readers has chosen…
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A Beautiful Sight in Monrovia
This morning, I came across this wonderful display of American flags in Monrovia, honoring our veterans. And I just loved it. The flags waving in the sunshine, the beautiful old trees, and that big, cheerful THANK YOU VETERANS sign. I found myself unexpectedly moved. There’s something extraordinary about people who are willing to sacrifice so much for…
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Phooey
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Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned from Incredibly Dodgy Spam (So You Don’t Have To)No. 2
Is Amazon Hiding Your Book? No. But Can Readers Find It? I’m opening the bombs so you don’t have to. Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned (we can learn) from Incredibly Dodgy Spam. The Incredibly Dodgy Email Apparently, Amazon has a secret department devoted to finding problems with my books, and its employees are terribly concerned…
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Watching
watching, intransitive verb We’re watching when we’re spying we’re watching when we’re afraid we’re watching the twisting train wreck we just can’t look away we’re watching for the sun to push down the moon we’re searching for a pleasant thought to push away the gloom we’re watching for the stranger looking us in the eye…
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Current Words Publishing and Old Scratch Press Congratulate 2026 Best of the Net Nominees
by Robert Fleming Best of the Net 2026 Nominees Visual Art selections by Robert Fleming and Alan Bern Andy Gordon, Car Side View Mirrors Joseph Barbella, Horse Power Robert Fleming, Frozen Sanctuary Creative Non-Fiction selections by Nadja Maril Tamara-Lee Brereton-Karabetsos, From Cage to Street Patty Perreault Bennett, Our Christmas Surprise Fiction / Flash Fiction selections by…
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Loneliness: One of Life’s Strangest Contradictions
We spend much of our lives searching for connection. Friendships. Family. Romance. Community. We want to know that someone sees us, understands us, and is glad we’re here. Yet after enough disappointment or heartbreak, something curious can happen. Solitude begins to feel safer than closeness, and the walls we built to protect ourselves become increasingly…
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Vicissitude
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Pumpkin Spice? I Don’t Think So.
So what scares you? That’s really the question. Maybe you want something Gothic and atmospheric. Maybe you prefer monsters. Maybe you like your horror funny. Maybe blood doesn’t bother you, but the suggestion that there is something standing just outside the bedroom doorabsolutely does. Maybe what frightens you isn’t supernatural at all. That’s the beauty of…
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Surprisingly Useful Things I Learned from Incredibly Dodgy Spam (So You Don’t Have To)
#1: Readers Aren’t Searching Your Book Title. Why I’m Opening the Bombs…. I get a lot of spam. Some of it is ordinary spam. Some of it is publishing spam, which is its own peculiar species. These emails tend to begin with flattering observations about a book, an author, or my company and end, eventually,…
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Why Is Current Words Publishing on TikTok?
When most people think of TikTok, they think of dance videos, recipes, or adorable pets. But over the past few years, it has also become one of the world’s largest communities of readers. That’s why we’re there. Our TikTok channel is another way to introduce readers to the wonderful books our authors have written. You’ll…
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ARC Readers: We Have Something Special for You!
Dr. Bertina M. Hooks has lived more than one life. She’s a physician, healthcare executive, entrepreneur, mother, and disability advocate. In 2022, a life-threatening medical crisis put her on the other side of the physician-patient relationship and resulted in the loss of her right leg below the knee. Now she’s telling the story in From Fire…
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Instant Noodles Volume 6, Issue 2: AL DENTE is live!
The newest issue of Instant Noodles Lit Mag is officially out in the world. AL DENTE brings together poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, photography, and multimedia from writers and artists around the world, all responding in their own wonderfully clever and beguiling ways to a theme that started with two little words: al dente. The result is funny, sharp, surprising,…
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Have a Writing Question? Bring It to the Chat.
One of the reasons we created the Current Words Publishing Subscriber Chat is simple: writers have questions, and those questions don’t always need to wait for the next blog post. Maybe you’re wondering whether you should self-publish or pursue traditional publishing. Perhaps you’re trying to figure out Amazon keywords, book reviews, editing, cover design, ISBNs,…
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What’s New On Substack?
The final installment of our Can I Do That? copyright series is now available. In Part Four, we look at a question every author should understand: How do you protect your own copyright? We’ll cover when copyright begins, why registration matters, when it makes sense to register, and why understanding your rights is an important part of…
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A New Series for Poets at Old Scratch Press
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There Are Days When the World Feels Overwhelming.
What if you could simply sleep through it all? The headlines never seem to stop. Problems pile on top of one another. Work, family, finances, politics, the environment, technology, expectations. Every generation has imagined what it might be like to step away from it all, even if only for a little while. A long vacation.…
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Linger
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You Can Go Home Again. It Just Won’t Be the Same.
There’s an old saying that you can never go home again. Whether or not that’s true depends on what we mean by “home.” Most of us carry two versions of the places where we grew up. One exists in memory, populated by familiar faces, favorite streets, and routines that once felt permanent. The other exists…
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Celebrating the Release of The Valley of the Blue Moon
Today is one of the reasons we love what we do. At Current Words Publishing, every publication day is a celebration—not just of a finished book, but of the months (and often years) of dedication that brought it to life. Today we’re delighted to celebrate the release of C.K. Bougae’s debut novel, The Valley of the Blue Moon.…