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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Actually a lot of authors in the fantasy or urban fantasy genre tend to issue free shorts on their blogs or websites that fit in between their books and the novellas of the longer series.
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This is true. I think publishers encourage the in between stories to remind people about the series and keep the buzz going. Not all of them are free--some are done for anthologies. Some are done to gauge interest (I did two shorts, one for each of my series to see how the downloads would go. I ended up writing another novel for each of the series).
It's funny how long it has taken places like GR and Amazon to allow listing of the in between stories. I don't know if Amazon has done it yet. I know some sites let you, but I don't think Amazon does yet.