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Kickstarter Starting At Noon!!!
The Santa Series by Kristine Grayson Starting today at noon and running for only seven days, we are doing a really fun Kickstarter for Kristine Grayson’s Santa Series. She has a new fifth book in the series (all stand alone) and the entire series has been rebranded with beautiful new covers and interiors. And the electronic books will be delivered on Friday the 20th so you have time to enjoy a wonderful Santa novel before the holiday. And it has some good deals on existing workshops. Check those out. Check it out at The Santa Series Kickstarter. Only seven days long. Don’t miss this one.
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Las Vegas Aces Toy Drive…
The Santa Series by Kristine Grayson Starting on Wednesday and running for only seven days, we are doing a really fun Kickstarter for Kristine Grayson’s Santa Series. She has a new fifth book in the series (all stand alone) and the entire series has been rebranded with beautiful new covers and interiors. And the electronic books will be delivered on Friday the 20th so you have time to enjoy a wonderful Santa novel before the holiday. Check it out at The Santa Series Kickstarter. Only seven days long. Don’t miss this one. Season Ticket Holders Event… We got to go into the Aces practice facility in Henderson. Let me simply…
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Cowboy Christmas Outfit
Schedule Screwed Up… So I think I have time for a longer blog post and one of a couple topics I would like to talk about, but then when I get here the brain is shut down. But wow have I been getting up earlier. And last night I actually got eight hours of sleep for the first time in weeks, and I think I am more exhausted from that. So since this blog streak must continue, nothing to say tonight except for a picture of me at Cowboy Christmas. This is a massive show that takes place for a few weeks in December all over Vegas. Has to be…
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Great Santa Run
I Walked, as Did Most… Somewhere between 3-5 thousand people and kids and dogs all dressed in identical Santa suits, filling the streets of downtown Las Vegas with a 5K charity run/walk. Stupidly fun. I got up way to early for it and never really recovered today, so doing a short blog tonight with a few pictures and calling it a night. But I did manage to watch the Oregon Ducks game since Kris and I used to live in Eugene. I find it stunningly funny that forever, the powers that be back East thought no one on the West Coast could play football. But then they go and let…
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The Power of a Streak…
I Get Reminded of Streak Power At Times… Especially on a Friday night, after a stupidly difficult week. Why? Because I have a streak of blogging every night. And wow does this streak have power. No chance on the planet would I be at this computer tonight without this streak. But tonight is day 3,920 WITHOUT MISSING A DAY… That is flat nuts, But here I am. And sometime in March if my math is correct, if the streak does not get broken, I will pass 4,000 days without missing. Internet outage before hot spots, dozens and dozens of power outages, crashed computers, me in the hospital twice. Never missed.…
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Our Holiday Traditions…
I Like This Time of Year… Over the years here in Las Vegas, Kris and I have developed some really fun holiday traditions. We start off the holiday season with the Glittering Run 5K charity event, walking and running 5K through a billion holiday lights. That is always before Thanksgiving, but a great start. This year I walked it while enjoying all the families around me, but also an amazing cup of hot chocolate. Then around the first of December we go to storage and dig out all the holiday decorations. We did that last night and we now have stunning holiday pillows and a holiday blanket from the HOLIDAY…
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A BUNCH OF STUFF…
Trying Something Old/New Tomorrow, if the schedule allows, I am headed with a friend to hit a few golf balls. Now understand, way back in time I used to be a PGA professional and I could play pretty well for the time. But for the last number of years, I have not hit a golf ball and am not sure if I can. Why? Lost a lot of my vision two years back. Last year I smashed up my shoulder and it is now titanium. Plus with the injury I gained about twenty pounds around my middle that I have not been able to shed yet. Plus I am 74.…
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FOCUSING FORWARD…
Watching the Old Magnum Television Series… It was filmed in the eighties. We are watching it not to study anything, but to shut down and enjoy the entertainment, even though sometimes dated. Still fun. The one we watched tonight was about the internment camps of Japanese Americans on the islands. It happened 40 years before the show was aired and they kept talking about those 40 years. The show aired 40 years ago now. So interesting to think about the 80 years. 40 years ago Kris and I had not met yet (a couple of years from meeting, actually). We were both writing like crazy, but both of us were…
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HISTORY BROUGHT FORWARD…
Back in the Day… And I do mean “back in the day” when Kris and I were going to a lot of science fiction conventions (1990-1998 or so), we got asked to do a live talk on publishing. Sounded fine, even though were were two new writers, we decided to talk about what we knew about the publishing business (which was a ton because I was the publisher of Pulphouse Publishing and she was not only the senior editor, but also the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.) We were also selling novels like crazy and were in and out of of New York publishing offices all…
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New Year and the Holiday…
Wrapped Up In The New Year… As we bump into December of this year, I am really focused on ramping up my writing for the new year. Just doing all kinds of plans and ideas and possible challenges that will really get me going. Plus making some changes in my office and possible schedule. Enjoying the process a lot, actually. Not at all stressed on it or time pressured. I think that might be because I have two really good ideas, both would be challenging and fun and actually crazy to even attempt. So now just trying to think of other things along those same lines. You know, like trying…