I need some help with my new blog & story!

[personalreality]

Here's the deal.  I'm realizing that I have a lot more detail that I want to include in my "short story", but including that detail will make more of a book and less of a short story.

SO!

I need some help.  If you've got the time, do the following 3 things:

1. Go read Cydonia in a Nutshell to get an idea of the plot.

2. Then read Cydonia Teaser - Chapter 1

3. And finally, go to my publishing blog's home, Work of Hart Publications and use the poll on the left side of the page to cast your vote. 

Should I carry on and make this story a full length book, add a little more detail and make it a longish, but standalone short story, or should I be more succinct and add this story to a collection of short stories before I publish it?

Your input could really help.  So I give you all my thanks in advance.  If you can spare a few minutes to do this for me I will be forever grateful, and may be inclined to give you a free copy (maybe even personally autographed) when I finish the story in whatever form I decide on.

The poll ends on April 7th (my fiance's birthday).  So get on over there and let me know what you think!

Again, many thanks.

~PR (Rusty)

[Astralzombie]

The Cydonia teaser was one hell of a good read. I'll be glad to contribute in any way for the small fee of an autographed copy should it make it to hard print. An e-publishing is all but a guarantee IMO.

[personalreality]

The Cydonia teaser was one hell of a good read. I'll be glad to contribute in any way for the small fee of an autographed copy should it make it to hard print. An e-publishing is all but a guarantee IMO.

I'm going to sign the digital copies for those people that receive one.  Just make sure to sign up for the mailing list so you stay up to date on the book.

Like I said, this story was inspired by a song I produced (or maybe the song was inspired by the story - though it was all kind of inspired by a couple authors that I was reading at the time I created the song). 

so.  Whatever happens with this story, I will be selling it on Amazon and other ebook sites.  However!  I will also be creating a bundle that I will sell through my blog that contains the book in a few formats (epub, pdf, etc.) and an mp3 of the song that goes with the story.  The song is actually intended to be a radio transmission that comes from Cydonia's protagonist at the end of the story.

Anyway, I appreciate everyone's contribution to helping me succeed in my new authorship endeavor.