"Battles and other stories" is free today on Amazon for Kindle.

My short story collection Battles and other stories is free today on Amazon.com. It's under R. Patrick Hughes and the title of the book. Please feel free to download.

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Well, I finally did it. I've self-published Only The Lonely on Amazon.com. Now I have two books available: OTL and Battles and other stories. I'm offering them for free: Battles will be available on March 8th and Only The Lonely will be available on March 9th.

Unfortunately I had a formatting problem with OTL. It's certainly readable as is, but most paragraphs are not indented. I attempted to fix the problem, but I don't think it worked. I believe the problem lies in my Word program. Somehow in trying to set my book up for Smashwords awhile back, I set my program default to Normal, which seems to be causing problems on Amazon. I've been unable to unset it from Normal. If anyone can tell me how to fix the problem, I would be grateful.

BTW, I'm published under the penname R Patrick Hughes. See my slideshow for links to Amazon.com. Thank you.

I hope you download each book and give them a read and let me know what you think. A review (good or bad) on Amazon would be appreciated.

I hope to have a third book out by this summer.

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My book Battles and other stories has been available on Kindle and Smashwords for about three months now. I've sold 6 copies altogether. I've done very little promotion. Primarily, I've set up pages on Facebook and mentioned the book on my home page on Facebook once, I think, and I've mentioned it a few times on my blog. Oh, yes, I've mentioned it two or three times on AgentQueryConnect, in which I received some helpful feedback from RC Lewis, who downloaded the book to her devices and gave me tips. That's about it. I'm very happy with the results in the sense that I got my book out there, and I've learned quite a bit in preparation for self-publishing my novel later this year. I have a clear understanding of my weaknesses in self-publishing, although I don't have a clear understanding of how to fix the problems. I have much to learn. But I feel that it's do-able. I've had some good feedback on the stories themselves, primarily from Tanya Reimer. I was a guest recently on her blog, in which she interviewed me and said very nice things about the book. I feel that I'm now a published writer, though I'm not kidding myself that I've achieved anything great or spectacular. In fact, I've accomplished very little. I'm virtually an unknown, and that's as it should be at this point. I've now got to up my game, so to speak. When I publish the novel, I want to be much farther along in the self-publishing process.

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My book of short stories is now available on Amazon.com as an ebook. It's titled Battles and other stories. The author's name is listed as Richard Hughes. This is not what I meant it to be. I wanted it to be R Patrick Hughes, so I obviously did something wrong. I'll leave it the way it is for now. I priced it at $2.99. I'm now trying to figure out how to link it to my blog. And there is much more to learn. I may eventually make it a POD book as well. But it's kind of short, at about eighty-five pages. I plan on adding to it as time goes on. If any of you read the book, please give me your feed-back, even if you don't like it. That's one of the ways for me to learn and improve.