I got an exciting email from Smashwords today! I’m excited because now YOU can easily know when I put out a new story or book as soon as it happens. Smashwords is a great place to get books, short stories, and more in ANY digital format you prefer, whether that’s for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple, or others. Here’s the email from Smashwords If you have books/stories on Smashwords, you got an email like this personalized for you. Hello Ronda Del Boccio, We are excited to announce Smashwords Alerts, a new feature that notifies Smashwords customers of new releases from their favorite... Read More

Recently I’ve discovered the coolness that is Smashwords, a free way to publish in a variety of digital book formats. Simply by uploading a Word doc file, I can get my book into places like Kobo, Apple iBooks, and Barnes and Noble. So I figured that I would put up some of my work, including a couple novellas and today, “Trouble’s Turn: a Mystical Animal Allies Short Story.” Dreaming Stories I had a dream that became this story. Though this tale doesn’t resemble the dream, it got me thinking of the life of the animal Allies of Native American spirituality and what... Read More