{"id":1183,"date":"2013-02-07T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2013-02-07T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:21:04","slug":"new-story-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-story-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"New Story: CHALLENGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1183\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-story-challenger%2F&amp;text=New%20Story%3A%20CHALLENGER&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-story-challenger%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/new-story-challenger\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Oh, hi! Here&#8217;s a new short story, CHALLENGER. It&#8217;s 18 pages long, it features Miles LaPine, a character from my collection <em>The Book of Right and Wrong<\/em>, and it&#8217;s probably not appropriate for younger readers. You can either purchase it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Challenger-ebook\/dp\/B00BCA1QB4\/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1360246084&amp;sr=1-4&amp;keywords=matt+debenham\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nice, official Kindle format on Amazon here<\/span><\/a>, or you can <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/downloads\/2013\/02\/DEBENHAM-CHALLENGER.pdf\">download a PDF of it here<\/a><\/span>, for free.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen to release CHALLENGER, much like THE ADVOCATE, in the self-published electronic format. It&#8217;s possible both stories might&#8217;ve found homes in literary publications the way several of the <em>Book of Right and Wrong<\/em> stories did. But both stories are also a bit longer than the average lit-mag story, and I know it&#8217;d be a tough sell for many of those publications. At the same time, that length does make each story feel to me like a true, standalone piece, something I wouldn&#8217;t feel bad selling for 99 cents. (More on that 99-cent thing in a second.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also come to believe that while there are many literary magazines doing amazing work, I may not be the best fit for them. For instance, there&#8217;s no magazine called Matt Debenham Stories. Is that so much to ask?<\/p>\n<p>About the 99-cent thing: I had all the plans in the world to put both stories up on Amazon for free. Believe me, what I want most is a readership. However, Amazon&#8217;s tightened their pricing rules to the point where independent publishers are <em>prohibited<\/em> from selling Kindle items for less than 99 cents. In order to get it <em>that<\/em> low, by the way, I had to agree to a royalty rate of 35%, a smidge under 35 cents per download. But again, you can get the story, along with THE ADVOCATE and BEARD OF BEES for free on my Downloads page.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the dates of the two Kindle stories I&#8217;ve done so far, you can see they&#8217;re a year apart, nearly to the day. I&#8217;ve been working on other, longer things over the past year, but I can tell you that it will not be a year until the next Kindle release from me. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton1183\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-story-challenger%2F&amp;text=New%20Story%3A%20CHALLENGER&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-story-challenger%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>Available now on Amazon, or click through for a free PDF download!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[65,54,51,68,67,66],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing","tag-challenger","tag-debenham","tag-literary","tag-literary-magazine","tag-short-story","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}