Chuck Heintzelman's Blog

I’ve been quiet here for a while because I’ve been working hard on a new system, BundleRabbit.

BundleRabbit – A DIY Ebook Bundling Service

It’s a new place I plan on submitting my fiction. So now, along with Amazon, Kobo, etc., I’ll upload new stories to BundleRabbit.com.

For authors, it’s a way to find new readers. See, by bundling together with other authors, their fans become your readers. More info…

For readers, it’s a great way to save money. Readers can decide what the bundle is worth...

My short story Wizard Lottery has been published.

Wizard Lottery

When a simple farm boy wins the lottery and becomes the next wizard discovers a big problem.

The previous, dark wizard is in his head, controlling his every action.

Will he be able to regain control and right the wrongs perpetrated by his predecessor?

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My Short Story Freshly Ghost has been published.

Freshly Ghost
A Ghost Boy Reo Story

Being dead was unlike anything Chance Phillips had expected. For one thing, he’s forced to change his name. For another, he discovers he can move through time.

When Chance learns a friend, an alive friend, is in danger will he and his Ghost friend Jeremy be able to save her in time?

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My short story Pact of the Banshee has been published.

When the Banshee returns to the village woods and terrifies the villagers with its nightly screams, the cycle of murders start again.

Young Sean Collins sets out to find and destroy the menace.

But will he succeed when his friends and family turn against him?

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Laravel 5.1 Beauty
Creating Beautiful Web Apps with Laravel 5.1

LEVERAGE THE POWER OF LARARVEL 5 to create a simple, clean and beautiful blogging application and the administration area required to maintain the blog.

The application built is a blog. Check out LaravelCoding.com for an example of the blog in the real world.

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While building the Laravel 5.1 Beauty blog, you’ll learn about:

Installing Laravel 5 Using Homestead Using Elixir Database Migrations Database Seed...

A journey through application design and development using PHP’s hottest new framework.

This book’s been out for over a year, but I wanted to add it because it’s still quite relevant.

LEARN THE FRAMEWORK taking the PHP community by storm. This practical, hands-on guide takes you through application design, building console applications, and developing web applications.

Perfect for the intermediate developer, yet accessible to the beginner, Getting Stuff Done with Laravel 4 makes learning Lar...

So you found this place. Good. Welcome. Enjoy. But just one thing …

Don’t expect much.

Now that I’ve (hopefully) lowered your expectations, let me explain why. See, I’ve had a few blogs over the years and invariably they all follow the same pattern:

I start the blog, excited, and post a lot. A few weeks go by and I realize I haven’t posted for a while. So I renew my commitment to blogging and force myself to make at least a post a week. After another few weeks I realize I’m just forcing mys...

So you found this place. Good. Welcome. Enjoy. But just one thing …

Don’t expect much.

Now that I’ve (hopefully) lowered your expectations, let me explain why. See, I’ve had a few blogs over the years and invariably they all follow the same pattern:

I start the blog, excited, and post a lot. A few weeks go by and I realize I haven’t posted for a while. So I renew my commitment to blogging and force myself to make at least a post a week. After another few weeks I realize I’m just forcing mys...

Hard to believe I went the entire month of June with only a single blog post. Okay, actually it isn’t that hard to believe.

During June I spent my free time developing a side project: StoryToolz.

StoryToolz is a web site that’s 100% free. It contains various utilities I’ve found helpful while writing fiction.

The Generators

StoryToolz has several functions to help generate story ideas.

Story IdeaGenerator- This utility randomly picks a conflict from the list of 7 plots, 20 plots, and 36 plots and...

Strange Perceptions

14 Fantastical Tales

These stories are not the type of fantasy filled with elves and dwarfs. No. Here you will read about the ordinary fantasy that occurs when a normal person encounters the extraordinary.

Available for the Kindle at Amazon.com

(FREE until June 5th)

“Chuck Heintzelman’s stories add new lenses to your view of the world–lenses of suspicion and wonder and fear–that will open your eyes to strange and incredible possibilities.”

~ Sherry D. Ramsey, author of To Unimag...