David Leo Rice's Drifter: Stories

I don't know David Leo Rice. I mean, sure, we follow each other on Twitter... maybe have done some liking of each other's posts. But, we don't really know each other. 

I guess what I want to emphasize here is the randomness of Twitter. How all of your engagement, posting, experimenting with different tweets, etc can pay off. What I look for in folks... humble and real. I like when they don't seem like they just finished reading, How to Act Like Every Other Writer in the #WritingCommunity

Truthfully, this isn't a huge payoff for David. My blog gets minimal traffic. I started it last year around this time, and it has had over 11k visits.

I don't know if that's good or bad (and you don't need to tell me in the comments!)

You know, they say that posting links to your own book is about useless on Twitter for generating sales. I would say equally useless is posting stupid questions (for which you don't want the answers, but just "engagement"... whatever the hell that is), bemoaning some aspect of your writing life (to get sympathy likes/comments) doing the EVER STUPID #Writerlifts or #writerslift or whatever it is (which I have shamefully tried... and failed)

I'm starting to believe the best thing you can do on Twitter is send out some good karma. Just do another writer a solid and talk about their book (so they don't have to!)

Ok... enough of that because this post is about David and his new collection of stories, Drifter.

This is not a review because I haven't read the book yet (though I was offered a review copy just recently... at least a PDF... and though I'm backlogged on my reading and can't take that on right now, that's just a touch of the goodwill karma coming back to me).

This is simply an informational post about David's book, and I feel confident to do this because it's coming out from 11:11 Press... a small press I trust very much.

In fact, I reviewed another of their books: here

So, here's some info on David's new book. Take a chance on it. Support a small press author. Support a small press. Send some good karma out into the world with a random purchase.

Here's a link to order (preorder) directly from the press (which is best financially for the press and the author): here

David is doing the work and is already featured on a podcast about him and the book. Check it out:

here

Here's a link to his website to learn more about him, his writing, and his other books: here

And if Amazon is your thing (and I wish it weren't) you can also preorder: here

Jeff "Van" Vande Zande is an English professor at Delta College in Michigan. In 2022, Montag Press will publish his dystopian novel, Falling Sky. His latest collection, The Neighborhood Division: Stories, is now out through Whistling Shade Press and available: here.