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      • I Read 30,000 Leagues Undersea: “The Unthinkable”
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It Came From Beneath The Slush Pile

 20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroines. Fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and students.

 If there’s one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it’s occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories. Holly Lisle and a group of her students put all of the most clichéd, badly formed, and just plain wrong techniques into as few words as they could, and gathered them together as a way of leading by (horrific) example and illustrating why sometimes, the rules really are there to help (and yes, run-on sentences are bad too).

For learning should always be fun.

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I wrote two and co-wrote one of the twenty stories in this little anthology. And it was terrific fun to throw off all the usual literary shackles of grammar, punctuation and storytelling decency, and literar-ally run amuck. I felt like Mark Twain frolicking in his oh-so-wrinkly birthday suit on the sands of Miami Beach!

Literar-ally. Yes, it’s a real word. I made it up because I can. After all, I have a writer’s license. 🙂

And after I joked that I’d put a knight in a tutu on my book covers if that would sell my books, my co-authors decided to give that a try.

We published this little beauty in October 2016. And it has been a consistent Best-Seller among humor books on Amazon ever since, with untold tens of thousands of copies now “in print.”

Of course, being FREE didn’t hurt. And it is a bit of a blow that my only best-seller to date earns me zip and mocks the real books I write.

But hey, at least we all had fun!

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Now you, too, can get the book FREE from one of these online booksellers!

Kindle eBook at Amazon.com

iTunes eBook at Apple.com

Nook eBook at Barnes&Noble.com

eBook on InstaFreebie.com

eBook at Kobo.com

eBook at Scribd.com

And thanks for being My Reader!

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  • Welcome To Tom Vetter Books!
  • About Tom Vetter
  • Tom’s Books
    • “Call to Crusade”
      • “Call To Crusade:” An Excerpt
      • Siege Engines in action . . . THESE are cool!
    • The Siege Master’s Song
    • March To Nicaea
    • “Bone-Crusher:” a Godric MacEuan novella
    • “30,000 Leagues Undersea”
      • 30,000 Leagues Undersea: the e-books
      • I Read 30,000 Leagues Undersea: Author’s Intro
      • I Read 30,000 Leagues Undersea: “Whale Fall”
      • I Read 30,000 Leagues Undersea:“Sinking Boat”
      • I Read 30,000 Leagues Undersea: “The Unthinkable”
    • Guido’s Bus Of DEATH
    • Hello Again, Europe!
    • It Came From Beneath The Slush Pile
    • “The Adventure of Creation: Think Sideways Writers Anthology”
  • Curious? Write Me!
  • Something Wrong? I’m Sorry…Tell Me About It
  • Privacy Policy and Website Terms of Service
  • The EU and GDPR
  • It’s done! March To Nicaea is out!
  • Head’s up! — Free Books!
  • So Where The Heck Has Vetter Been?
  • Just in Time for Christmas—Something Good To Read: The Siege Master’s Song!
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  • DONE! — KING’S MAN is in the can!
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