About Short Friction: Short Stories, Novelettes, Randy Cade:
This is a collection of stories of one kind or another (they’re all stories, right?). According to one Internet source, there are Short Stories, Novelettes’, something called Flash Fiction and Novellas, the differences revolving primarily around the number of words used. Here is what that one source says:
Flash Fiction: 53 – 1,000 words
Short Stories: 3,500 – 7,500
Novelettes’: 7,500 – 17,000
Novellas: 17,000 – 40,000
Novels: 40,000 + words
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Author Bio:
Randy Cade Bio
I have lived in California all my adult life, growing up in the 60’s and 70’s and 80’s in Northern California and moving to Southern California in the 80’s. I was part of the San Francisco music scene around the Fillmore Auditorium in the 60’s, graduated from UC Berkeley and became a book publisher in the 70’s, and was a pioneer in the computer industry in the 80’s.
Since then I have been a consultant to the computer industry and worked in health insurance and finance. I have traveled extensively throughout the US and Europe and often use real places as settings for scenes in my novels. I am now semi-retired in Southern California and am writing Crime Fiction with a Sense of Humor.
If you like Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiassen, George V. Higgins, Bud Shulberg, Damon Runyon, David Milch and John D. MacDonald, you’ll probably like what I write. I mention these great authors of Crime Fiction only out of deference. I am a new author and am not in any way suggesting I am as skillful or polished as the above mentioned greats. That’s why when I write I just try not to take myself, and life, too seriously.
I want to present stories that have an element of realism and the traditional smattering of raw dialogue, violence and surprise plot twists that have traditionally inhabited the pages of crime fiction. And I want to do it with a sense of humor and in the way people really talk when they are among friends. And enemies.
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What are you working on??
Probably have written about a dozen inspired by the crime genius writing of Elmore Leonard I decided to try it on my own. From 2013 (Call Me Harry), to now as I am working on a novella (The Dead Guy), and also the 3rd in the Harry Parnes Series called “Snares of Hope”. I hope you like this stuff you know where to find me. – RC
Yes. I am nocturnal and often have my best ideas while unconscious. I have written entire novels by dreams and taken entire chunks out of my lifetime to serve as nightmares.