Four B.R. Stateham(Death of a Young Lieutenant , Call Me Smitty ,Laurie Bowler (Across the City, The Depths of Darkness), CQ Scafidi ( Time Couriers, The Commissary), and Thomas White ( Justice Rules) used three a person (a hunter), place (a nursery) and a thing ( Facebook) to make an improvised digital short story. Each author writes in a different genre, with their own style and flare. This experiment is one that is going to be an ongoing series of exercises done by Trestle Press, a progressive full service publisher. Given these three words the authors were able to ,within a span of hours write their pieces and then have them edited, posted onto The Novel Spot & Gelati’s Scoop blogsite, Facebook, and Twitter, then read live on Gelati’s Scoop The G-ZONE blogtalk radio show to create an audio file of it, and finally published.
I am a soon to be a seventy five year old writer of genre fiction. And yes, my portrait was used in 1931 for the original design of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein (well, maybe I'm stretching the truth just an itsy-bitsy bit).
I write hardboiled/noir. And fantasy. And someday . . . someday I plan to make a buck two ninety-five doing it. But I'm not holding my breath.