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BECHTEL’S BUCKSHOT BLOG: A Funny Thing Happened On Halloween …

By On November 16, 2012 · 2 Comments

I have a really cool story to share here, but for the life of me I can’t come up with a good intro, so I’m just gonna dive right in —

In a typical month, our Flash Fiction Contest will receive somewhere around thirty submissions (light months may be around twenty, heavier months around forty).  [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Our Time Of Year

By On July 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So Necon is exactly one week away as of this writing.  Seven days from now I’ll probably be either: A) On my way to the airport to pick someone up; B) Unloading the art show panels off the U-Haul; C) On my way to the doctor with a hernia from unloading the art show panels [...]

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Tiny Kingdoms by Janet Joyce Holden

By On May 16, 2012 · 4 Comments

This is all out war, and instinctively you hide among friends. Your strategy is insignificance, until the big push when you reach out and raise your arms in greater numbers, hoping to be acknowledged and given strength by a more benevolent force. It is a gesture that becomes your undoing, for now you are too [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Getting Stoked

By On April 20, 2012 · 5 Comments

You never forget your first.  As such, this article is dedicated to two tremendously talented writers, each of whom we’re honored to say, were “firsts” for your friendly neighborhood e-book company.

The premiere title in our first library of books, Necon Classic Horror #1, was Rick Hautala’s Winter Wake.  In fact, Rick participated on the [...]

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Bechtel’s Buckshot Blog: Having a Not-So-Blue Christmas

By On December 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Greetings again, one and all, and I apologize right off the bat if I’ve just put an Elvis Christmas carol into your heads.

This is our first new blog in over a month, and that’s not by accident or laziness or a lack of material — we decided to leave Bob’s last article up longer [...]

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Bob’s Table at Café Necon: On Les Daniels

By On November 16, 2011 · 2 Comments

Hi . . . Have a seat . . . Here’s your glass . . . What? Oh yes, it’s Maker’s Mark.

I propose a toast . . . To our missing friends . . . Here’s to Charlie, Don, Alan, and Les.

What? You hadn’t heard? Yes, Les left us sometime the first week [...]

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Out of the Cauldron, Onto the Page by Janet Joyce Holden

By On October 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m not on the NYT Bestseller list (yet). I don’t get asked about agents, or whether my bank account is overflowing. But I do get asked about ideas, and more particularly – how I transform an idea into the written word.

Ideas are born of raw materials – words, images, people, places, music, memories – [...]

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