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Perspective
Sometimes I Find Perspective Hard to Hang Onto… Sometimes so much good stuff comes in at the same time, that even a little bad stuff tends to really mess up the perspective. For example, today was my last PT session after eight full months. Docs released me to the wild. Yay… We are about 90% caught up on the disaster that was this spring and early summer. At least with all the major projects. Still a lot of stuff hanging out that will come around in time, but we are all having fun now and going forward. The “issues” caused by the air conditioner water leak are resolved for the…
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Workshop Sale Ends Friday Late…
REALLY, IT’S GOING TO END!! And afraid it will be a very long time until the next one. New classes available now. — Kris has decided to do one more writing challenge. We are calling it the Fall Writing Challenge and it will go from August 15th (day after the current one ends) until September 30th. — All five of the August Regular Workshop classes are now up and available as well. They are available in the sale until Friday late. Wow, it sure seems this sale has been going on forever, with first me taking my time creating the new bundles and then I got so busy with the…
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That Was Close!!!
This Site Was Down!!! Seems we had not paid a bill because an old credit card was on the account and they shut this site down. Yikes!!! I did not notice it was down until 3:30 am. And I had no idea how to get into the hosting service to find out what was wrong. Or honestly what was our hosting service since we had changed it a year ago right before I crashed and burned on the 5K run. I emailed (on an outside chance) Lisa Silverthorne, the writer, who is a night owl like I am to see if she was up. She was and she quickly discovered…
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Three Days Left in Workshop Sale!
YES, GOING TO FINALLY END THIS SALE… It seems it has been going on forever, with first me taking my time creating the new bundles and then I got so busy with the Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter, (Thank you everyone!!) I forgot to shut off the sale. This Great Bundle Sale Now Extends to Any Class on Teachable. Any class. For three more days. Ends late Thursday night. (And this time I won’t forget to shut it off. (grin)) AGAIN THE SALE IS FOR ANYTHING ON TEACHABLE. To get any class or bundle at half price, simply go to WMG Teachable, find the class or bundles you want, and hit…
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ANTHOLOGY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP
Anthology Workshop Starts Two Weeks From Today All the writing is done for the six anthologies, both for the writers attending and the writers doing the Prepare Ahead classes. (Actually those attending got the Prepare Ahead classes for free.) Editors and those attending are now reading. The six anthologies that will be put together at the anthology class will be brand new volumes of Fiction River, our wonderful anthology series that we had to shut down because of the pandemic. They will be released through Kickstarter promotions over the next two years as we rebrand and relaunch Fiction River, all of the previous volumes, all fifty or sixty of them.…
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A Reminder of Traditional Publishing Stupidity….
The Past is Present… A few days ago I got a huge packet of royalty statements from Pocket Books… Huge. And a check for $9.12 for six months. On those statements were the “sales” and returns of thirty-seven books I did for them (I did more, but they are out of print). Most of the statements were negative by more thousands than I could imagine. That packet reminded me of a post I wrote a long time ago here about Star Trek books I wrote for Pocket Books. Turned out I wrote that post on July 7th, 2012. After I got a big packet of royalty statements. Twelve years ago…
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Great Forgotten Workshop Sale
GREAT BUNDLE SALE STILL ON… I got so busy with the Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter, (Thank you everyone!!) I forgot to shut off the Great Bundle sale. I said the day before the Kickstarter that the Great Bundle Sale Extended to Any Class on Teachable instead of only bundles. Not just bundles, but any class. But it was supposed to be for only one dy… Well, seems like that day stretched into ten days. (grin) I got distracted for some reason. And a few writers noticed and took advantage of it still going on. The great forgotten workshop sale… sigh… So to be fair, we are going to extend the…
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My Blog Streak!!
Started a Year After My Friend Died… In August of 2011, my best friend, Bill Trojan died of a massive heart attack on the last day of the World Science Fiction Convention. I was in charge of his estate and I spent 9 months getting that under control. (A full book of stories in those statements.) Then I tried to get back to writing. I had been blogging at times on my web site and also before that on the Star Trek writer web site. But I needed a focus and I was also doing a little teaching and was about ready to start up Smith’s Monthly Magazine. So on…
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Subscription Campaign Ends at 7PM West Coast Time…
Only a Few Hours Left… The Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter campaign is in its final hours. We have hit enough stretch rewards now that all backers will get ALL FIVE crazy Pulphouse anthologies (published spring 2025), two issues of Fiction River, a six issue subscription, and also a chance to submit a story to Pulphouse in August, September, October, November, and December. (I will send out guidelines for the stories at the start of each month to backers through the updates.) And don’t forget the two special workshops. They will never be available again after 7 pm Thursday Night. And thanks, everyone, for all the support so…
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One Day Left in Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter!!!
That’s Right! Ending Thursday Evening at 7PM The Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter campaign is going great. We have hit enough stretch rewards now that all backers will get ALL FIVE crazy Pulphouse anthologies , two issues of Fiction River, a six issue subscription, and also a chance to submit a story to Pulphouse in August, September, October, November, and December . (I will send out guidelines for the stories at the start of each month to backers through the updates.) Understand, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is never open to submissions. But sometimes, in these subscription drives, if we get high enough, we open submissions of one per month…