It’s been a while since I’ve just talked about the goings-on here on the coast and on this site. So a short post tonight to update things.

First off, it’s taken some time to get the workshops all set for the coming year. The novel marketing/agent workshop worked out so well, we added the two into the schedule and doing all that and getting everything set up took time. We tend to only do these workshops about every three years or so. It takes that long for me to forget how much work they are to do. If you are interested, go to the workshop page and write me with any questions. But be serious about your writing before you do. We don’t mind that you are unpublished, but you had better have a great work ethic and have finished and have in the mail a bunch of stuff. <g>

Also, my writing is just powering along, gaining speed and projects by the week, so that’s a good thing. In fact, the writing is going so well that as of the first of June, I will no longer have my little hobby comic store. Those of you who were on the old web site saw the pictures of the construction of the store last spring and summer. Well, after a great year where the store made money every month, even in the winter, I’m selling it to my store manager.

Why sell it after only one great year? Simple. The writing is taking more and more time and that’s what I do is write. Over the decades to get to this spot, I always made the decision toward writing. Last year, when I built the store, the writing was in a lull and I needed a break, so I took one. But now the writing is back, projects are lining up, deadlines are looming, and it’s time to again make the decision toward writing.

In the early years of this business for me, I quit jobs to write, I borrowed money to go to workshops, I worked as a bartender instead of an architect or a lawyer because of the writing. That attitude got me to this spot with over 90 novels published, so I see no reason to hold onto the store. It was fun. Back to writing.

So clearing up all the details of selling the store to my wonderful store manager has been taking time as well.

And of course, there’s a little poker playing here and there as well. I doubt I’m going to make the World Series again this year, but that’s all right. I’d rather write. Maybe next year I can plan novel deadlines around a few weeks in Las Vegas for the World Series again. It’s just too much fun down there.

Looks like I will be at Worldcon (The World Science Fiction Convention) in Denver this August. It’s been over ten years since I went to a Worldcon, so I’m looking forward to seeing old friends again.

And with luck, in the next three or four weeks, a trip over to Idaho to visit family.  It’s been a year, so it’s past time for that.

And Kris and I are going back to Florida in January to that wonderful writer’s conference there. They invited us for a second year. Guess we didn’t anger the wrong people. Bluntness about writing tends to do that at times. <g> Anyhow, we’re both looking forward to that again.

And that’s the update.

One another note, I am looking for a way to set up something that will be a give-and-take about writing here.  Maybe a writing advice page where I add something every three or four days and answer questions.  Sort of a tamed down version of the old forum on my other site.  So stay tuned for that and more updates about the books I have written.  And stories about the process and writing of each book.

Cheers

Dean

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