Dark Secrets, which contains my story A Mistaken Identity,  is an anthology of short stories and edited by Dorothy Davies is now on sale - http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-static-movement.html

Local Heroes goes on sale

Local Heroes, which contains my story The Letter,  is an anthology of short stories and edited by Brandon L. Rucker is now on sale - 
http://www.pillhillpress.com/shoppe-static-movement.html

Do What Works

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas, of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence—an overwhelming determination to succeed.
SOPHY BURNHAM

Failure is Part of It

Failure is part of it. You will be rejected dozens and dozens of times. The best way to prepare for it is to have something else in the works by the time the rejection letter arrives. Invest your hope in the next project. Learning to cope with rejection is a good trait to develop.
PO BRONSON

Be A Sublime Fool

To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling.
You must write every single day of your life.

You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.
I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime.
I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you.
May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories—science fiction or otherwise.
Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
RAY BRADBURY

Become A Slow Reader

Learning to write sound, interesting, sometimes elegant prose is the work of a lifetime. The only way I know to do it is to read a vast deal of the best writing available, prose and poetry, with keen attention, and find a way to make use of this reading in one's own writing. The first step is to become a slow reader. No good writer is a fast reader, at least not of work with the standing of literature. Writers perforce read differently from everyone else. Most people ask three questions of what they read: (1) What is being said? (2) Does it interest me? (3) Is it well constructed? Writers also ask these questions, but two others along with them: (4) How did the author achieve the effects he has? And (5) What can I steal, properly camouflaged of course, from the best of what I am reading for my own writing? This can slow things down a good bit.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN

Cross Out As Many Adjectives and Adverbs As You Can

Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. It is comprehensible when I write: “The man sat on the grass,” because it is clear and does not detain one’s attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: “The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully.” The brain can’t grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.
ANTON CHEKHOV

The Eleventh Hour - Now available from Amazon

The Eleventh Hour - eleven tales of dark fiction 

is now available in paperback from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Eleventh-Hour-collection-fiction-published/dp/146636632X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319044131&sr=1-1

Some of the fantastic reviews on 'The Eleventh Hour'

Now Available in paperback at https://www.createspace.com/3693657

Review on Sep. 11, 2011 :
An excellent selection of short, dark fiction. Each of the eleven stories is well paced, nicely written, and there's some surprising twists. Highly recommended!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review on Sep. 11, 2011 :
A wonderful collection of dark fiction tales. I thought all the stories were good, some great and one in particular, brilliant. Well worth the read and I hope to see more published. 5 stars from me.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review on Sep. 05, 2011 :
A great collection of short stories. My favourite was 'The Journal'. Would definately recommend it.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 03, 2011 :
A great collection, I especially enjoyed 'The Journal', will recommend to others.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 02, 2011 :
This is a wonderful book! I especially enjoyed "The Borrowed Book" story; amazing twist! Would recommend this collection to a friend!
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 02, 2011 :
This is a great collection of short stories. It's hard to pick a favourite, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it.
(reviewed the day of purchase) 

Taken from ebook sales at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85666 

The Eleventh Hour - Now available in paperback

 

https://www.createspace.com/3693657  

My ebook 'The Eleventh Hour' is now available in paperback from createspace.

A collection of eleven dark fiction short stories by published author, Daniel Kaye.

If You Get Stuck

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.
HILARY MANTEL

The best way is always to stop

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never get stuck. - ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Don't Look Back Until You've Written an Entire Draft

Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . the edit.

WILL SELF

Writing a Book is an Adventure

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

“Very” is the Most Useless Word in the English Language

“Very” is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because it invariably weakens what it is intended to strengthen. For example, would you rather hear the mincing shallowness of “I love you very much” or the heart-slamming intensity of “I love you”?

FLORENCE KING

It Is People's Secrets We Want to Know

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! 
It is people’s secrets we want to know -- it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Reviews on 'The Eleventh Hour'

  Some of the fantastic reviews on 'The Eleventh Hour'

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85666

Review on Sep. 11, 2011 :
An excellent selection of short, dark fiction. Each of the eleven stories is well paced, nicely written, and there's some surprising twists. Highly recommended!
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review on Sep. 11, 2011 :
A wonderful collection of dark fiction tales. I thought all the stories were good, some great and one in particular, brilliant. Well worth the read and I hope to see more published. 5 stars from me.
(reviewed within a week of purchase)

Review on Sep. 05, 2011 :
A great collection of short stories. My favourite was 'The Journal'. Would definately recommend it.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 03, 2011 :
A great collection, I especially enjoyed 'The Journal', will recommend to others.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 02, 2011 :
This is a wonderful book! I especially enjoyed "The Borrowed Book" story; amazing twist! Would recommend this collection to a friend!
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review on Sep. 02, 2011 :
This is a great collection of short stories. It's hard to pick a favourite, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it.
(reviewed the day of purchase)