CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s short story takes us from the science fiction novella of love and duty on a planet at war to the magically real urban fantasy tale of farming, family, inheritance and flying pigs. Welcome to Pigs Might Fly. All her life Lily has prepared herself for taking over the family farm. The property talks to her, the animals and plants thrive under her care, and even the old tractor bends to her will. Her brothers have other careers planned, and help Lily position herself to take over when they are gone, but her father has other ideas. He wants to pass the farm on to one of his sons. He says pigs might fly before a girl would be any good at running a farm. How is Lily going to convince him that farming is the only thing she has ever wanted to do, and that she is the best of his offspring to take over when he is gone? And what do her dreams and hopes have to do with flying pigs? Pigs Might Fly is available as a stand-alone short story at the following links: ...

Not as much completed this week as I would have liked, but understandably so, with sickness and a death in the family. Overview New words produced: 1,868 Old words revised: 5,735 Works completed: 0 Covers created: 1 (2 variations) Works published: 1 (3 release platforms) Tier 3 Tasks ChapBook6A— Spit : edited, formatted, created cover, and uploaded. This project was completed 56 days ahead of schedule Publishing Tasks The following publishing tasks were completed this week: Expanded the distribution on one CreateSpace title; Purchased photography and created the cover for Spit ; Formatted Spit for CreateSpace PoD, Amazon Kindle and Smashwords; Released Spit via the CreateSpace store, Amazon Kindle and Smashwords; Updated Facebook with life event for Spit ; Updated Pinterest with covers for Spit ; Added 4 blog entries to this blog; Added 3 blog entries to the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog; Updated the Carlie Simonsen page on this blog; Updated ...

Pigs Might Fly is now available for sale. All her life Lily has prepared herself for taking over the family farm. The property talks to her, the animals and plants thrive under her care, and even the old tractor bends to her will. Her brothers have other careers planned, and help Lily position herself to take over when they are gone, but her father has other ideas. He wants to pass the farm on to one of his sons. He says pigs might fly before a girl would be any good at running a farm. How is Lily going to convince him that farming is the only thing she has ever wanted to do, and that she is the best of his offspring to take over when he is gone? And what do her dreams and hopes have to do with flying pigs? Pigs Might Fly is a story of magic realism, where the world we see is only nearly as it seems to be. Pigs Might Fly is currently available as a stand-alone title at Smashwords , and will soon be available via Kobo, Kindle, iTunes and Nook, but will one day be incor...