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Tom Flanders Writer of odd fiction.

Tom Flanders
Tom Flanders
San Francisco, CA
Member since: Feb, 2008
Last login: 07/11/2010
Last update : 07/22/2010

About Me

  • Tom is a recovering introvert. He's been writing short stories off-and-on for most of his life. The last five years he's gotten serious and learned the glory of rewrites.

    Tom's first collection of short stories, THE SAX HEALER, is available at Amazon.com. Several of the stories in the collection were originally published by on-line literary journals.

    He recently completed the third, hopefully final, draft of his first novel.

tomflanders's Blog

  • Building a Book

    July 22, 2010

    • I'm working on prepping my novella, BROKE DOWN ON THE ROAD TO GLORY, for publication. Much fun. Compiling all the chapters into a single file. Setting all the margins and borders and stuff. Converting a pile of words I've written into a "book." The dreams made real. Now I just have do one last proof read, decide on a cover, update my bio, and send the files off to the ...
  • Self Publishing - How to measure success

    July 7, 2010

    • My first self-published book, a collection of short stories rapidly assembled to serve as a present for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary, sold a whopping 36 copies. I consider that a success.Now I'm preparing to self publish my new novella, BROKE DOWN ON THE ROAD TO GLORY. How will I measure its success? I have set what I think are some realistic goals. I want to sell 100 copies. That's a ...
  • Taking the Fun Out of Writing

    July 5, 2010

    • "Why do you write?" asked character one. "To impress people." answered character two. That little interchange is from THE CASE OF THE GILDED FLY by Edmund Crispin. I'm embarrassed to admit that I could be character two. Much of what I've written over the last few years has been assembled solely to impress people. Who am I trying to impress? Agents and publishers. ...
  • A promotional Experiment

    June 18, 2010

    • In a rare excursion from my shell of introversion, I built a web site to promote my latest novella BROKE DOWN ON THE ROAD TO GLORY, which is still in search of an agent and/or publisher. It's odd, for me at least, to be hyping something that isn't for sale yet. Heck, the car companies do it all the time. I guess it's not so weird. So anyway, the site is  http://brokedownbook.com. It ...
  • Coping With the Day Job

    June 15, 2010

    • "Your files have been published." A simple sentence. A passive sentence. The kind of sentence I email to my fellow employees dozens of times a day. An exclamation of boredom. A cry for help. Save me from the abyss! Do they hear my plea? They do not. Unless there is some hidden meaning to "Thanx Tom" that eludes me. Then there is our director. Every email I send him is ...

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