One of the Best Indie Books of 2013—THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND

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It’s the Christ­mas present I did­n’t expect.

IndieRead­er, the trust­ed and infor­ma­tive web-zine about all things indie pub­lish­ing, has includ­ed my book of short sto­ries, The Man, The Myth, The Leg­end, on their list of the Best Indie Books of 2013.

(Mine is near the end.)

Back in July, IndieRead­er (IR) gave the col­lec­tion a 5‑star review and the dis­tinc­tion of being one of their “IndieRead­er-Approved” titles.

And now, this.

Out of the thou­sands of indie titles pub­lished in 2013, The Man, The Myth, The Leg­end was vot­ed one of the year’s best. I’m over­joyed.

What makes it even more spe­cial is that, like a good Christ­mas present, I had no idea it was com­ing.

And the icing? The fact that 9 out of the 10 sto­ries in the col­lec­tion were sub­mit­ted to, and reject­ed by, dozens of lit­er­ary jour­nals and mag­a­zines over the past three years before I decid­ed to pub­lish them on Kin­dle myself.

Since ear­ly 2012, IR has giv­en both of my Dako­ta Stevens mys­ter­ies 5‑star reviews as well—a fact that I post­ed about ear­li­er this year. I’m grate­ful to them for their sup­port of my work, but I’m also grate­ful to them for the work they’re doing on behalf of all indie authors.

 

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Seri­ous­ly, it’s an excel­lent site of curat­ed ebook & indie titles.

 

By iden­ti­fy­ing and pro­mot­ing the best indie work out there, IR is doing a mar­velous job of dis­pelling the myth that indie writ­ing and ebooks in gen­er­al are junk.

As a writer who spent many years in the gaunt­let of tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing, try­ing to find a home for his books, I am glad to now have this oppor­tu­ni­ty to reach read­ers through epub­lish­ing.

As I’ve said before, I knew that if I could just get my books into the hands of actu­al read­ers (not jad­ed pub­lish­ing professionals)—I knew that read­ers would enjoy them. And they have.

Thank you IndieRead­er, and all read­ers of indie-pub­lished books, for your sup­port. I hope you all have a great 2014.

You can buy your Kin­dle copy of The Man, The Myth, The Leg­end at Ama­zon.

By Chris Orcutt

CHRIS ORCUTT is an American novelist and fiction writer with over 30 years' writing experience and more than a dozen books in his oeuvre. Since 2015, Chris been working exclusively on his magnum opus. Bodaciously True & Totally Awesome: The Legendary Adventures of Avery “Ace” Craig is a 9-episode novel about teens in the 1980s. It’s about ’80s teens, but for adults (in other words, it’s decidedly not YA literature), and he’s applied this epic storytelling approach to the least examined, most misunderstood, most marginalized narrative space in American literature: the lives and inner worlds of teenagers.