Biff Mitchell goes over the top in The Baton, his afresh appear novella about a consecutive analgesic who eliminates all those humans who the columnist claims “we all ambition we could strangle,” but the Dollar Download ebook still finds publishers.
-- Biff Mitchell goes over the top in The Baton, his afresh appear novella about a consecutive analgesic who eliminates all those humans who the columnist claims “we all ambition we could strangle,” but the Dollar Download ebook still finds publishers.
“I didn’t anticipate anybody would anytime broadcast it,” said columnist Biff Mitchell about his novella The Baton, which was afresh appear at Fictionwise.com through US administrator Echelon Press. “But Karen Syed at Echelon was bent the she wasn’t traveling to aback abroad from affliction a altercation ability accompany on.”
Described by one clairvoyant as “Holden Caulfield on steroids, “The Baton is about a man who has had with telemarketers, humans who base into the foreground of the band or play their music too loud, corpuscle buzz bullies, and sidewalk spitters. “He hates them all,” said Mitchell, “just like we all do. So he starts afterward them. And again he starts killing them.”
“The aboriginal appellation was Killing Assholes,” said Mitchell. “But that gave the adventure away. So I afflicted the name to The Baton and started giving the adventure abroad in media releases. I think, though, that there are humans we all ambition we could asphyxiate – humans who assume to abide for the purpose of authoritative anybody about them feel inadequate, used, or miserable. There are absolute websites committed to humans who are appreciative to be alleged assholes and their numbers are growing.”
The Baton was best up by Echelon Press, an advancing absolute administrator in Maryland, and appear as a Dollar Download ebook. “I admired the concept,” said Mitchell. “Selling abbreviate pieces of fiction alone seemed like the canicule of Dickens if you could by a individual printed abbreviate adventure for bisected a penny, except now their awash electronically for humans to apprehend on their computers or PDAs.”
According to Mitchell, one of the better catalysts in what appears to be “a renaissance in abbreviate fiction” is Fictionwise.com. “They started publishing alone abbreviate belief alongside novels so that humans could download a acceptable apprehend just continued abundant for a morning bus commute, something that could be ordered, downloaded and apprehend on a wireless handheld accessory while in alteration – and usually for beneath than a buck.”
“It seemed accustomed that a abbreviate fiction innovator like Echelon would anatomy a administration affiliation with Fictionwise,” said Mitchell. “And it appears to be alive well. The Baton is my additional Echelon novella to be acquaint at Fictionwise, but I’m decidedly blessed this one fabricated it. There’s a lot of violence, able accent and absolute carrion in The Baton, but it’s not meant to just shock. I anticipate it has something to say to everybody in an added awash and antipathetic world.”
According to Barry Hunter’s analysis in Baryon Online, it’s “a acceptable abbreviate account that makes you attending at activity a little differently.”
“It was my boyish babe who appropriate I address it,” said Mitchell. “She said she was annoyed of alert to me accusatory about all the boorish abundance clerks, maniacal car drivers and blatant humans in theatres and dared me to address something about them. So I did.”
“But I’m still afraid that any administrator would crop a adventitious on that story,” said Mitchell. “I anticipate I let a lot of able animosity breeze into it – animosity what afraid me as I was autograph the story.”
The Baton is accessible for beneath than a dollar at: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook35773.htm
About Biff Mitchell
Biff Mitchell is the columnist of the world’s aboriginal laundromance, Heavy Load (Fictionwise). This cybersatire, The War Bug, was afresh appear in cardboard aback by Double Dragon Publishing and his banter on the IT industry, Team Player was just appear by Double Dragon in ebook format. He has two novellas, The Baton and Smoke Break, appear as Dollar Downloads by Echelon Press and accessible at Fictionwise. He’s aswell the columnist of the bestselling business ebook eMarketing Tools for Writers 2nd Edition (Fictionwise).
Contact Information:
Thom Glen
Phone: 506-455-3678
Web Site: www.biffmitchell.com
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