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Two Amazing Bundles of Books
And I Curated One of Them… First off I have a Thunder Mountain novel in the Storybundle I curated by the name of Visions of the Future. My book plus 9 other great science fiction books in there by some great writers. Kris has a Diving Novel in here as well. Image of the ten books below. Get it at Storybundle.com/future Then I also have a book in a Storybundle Robert Jeschonek curated basically called Weird. The book I have in there is a Pulphouse short story anthology of really whacked out stories titled THAT’S REALLY MESSED UP. Great writers in that anthology, but then you look at the writers…
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One More Vague Post…
Breakthrough Today On the New Challenge… Poor Kris and Allyson. I think I have officially driven them both crazy with trying to figure out all the details on this coming challenge and working the details all through. Of course, Kris and Allyson both know me well enough to know that I just go over and over and over the same thing until I have thought about every detail. Then once I make up my mind, I just do it and stop talking about it. Got a hunch they both are praying that day is almost here. (grin) Tonight alone, after Allyson had gone home, I called her to talk about…
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Pulp Speed Brought Forward Again
I Figured I Would Bring The Original Pulp Speed Post Forward Again… (I wrote this post around 2014, then brought it forward to 2016, then 2017, and just about every year or so since.) Not at all sure why this idea of writing at Pulp Speed sort of hits me right. I think because it flies in the face of all the myths. A writer has to have all myths and critical voice under control to even attempt Pulp Speed One. So this post might just make you angry because it hits at belief systems I’m afraid. The second reason I can’t shake this idea is because for all of…
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Our Holiday Season Started
With A 5K Run/Walk Under the Holiday Lights Three miles of holiday lights with over 2,000 people, mostly families, in pajamas. It is held at the big Nascar track and they decorate the entire area under the grandstands, around both ends of the track, and along the edge of the big track. Three miles of some of the best holiday lights I have ever seen. For the entire holiday season it is for cars to drive around under it with their radio tuned to a holiday music channel. But to open it, they do this massive charity 5k run with everyone wearing pajamas. Families of parents, kids, and grandparents all…
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The Wet Blanket Reality– Chapter Three
Chapter Three…You Get An Agent This book is a travelogue through the steps it takes in 2022 to become a traditionally published fiction writer. So please read the Introduction and First Chapter and Second Chapter before this one. You do that, this chapter will make more sense, as much as this chapter will ever make sense to a sane, thinking person. (Writers are neither sane or thinking at this point in this process.) So after years of work, you declare your novel masterpiece finished and have a party. Then you spend a ton of time and effort sending out query letters to agents. (Your book never leaves the house, just…
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Holy Smokes… Two Bundles
Books in Two Storybundles at the Same Time… First off I have a book in the Storybundle I curated by the name of Visions of the Future. Ten great science fiction books in there by some great writers. Image of the ten books below. Get it at Storybundle.com/future Then I also have a book in a Storybundle Robert Jeschonek curated basically called Weird. The book I have in there is a Pulphouse short story anthology of really whacked out stories titled THAT’S REALLY MESSED UP. Great writers in that anthology, but then you look at the writers in this bundle and you just shake your head. Jeschonek has outdone himself…
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Back Tomorrow…
Back to Full-Time At All This Tomorrow… Today I turned in another issue of Smith’s Monthly and did some email catch up today, but tomorrow I am going to spend most of the day catching up on email and reading manuscripts and other stuff. (Maybe a nap or two as well.) So hold on if you have been waiting for me to respond on something, I do appreciate your patience and I will be catching up tomorrow and Saturday. And after a week or so I will be starting to get ready for my new challenge. That one will take some ramp-up and I will talk about it here as…
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Thank You!
For All The Congratulations and Well Wishes… I am going to spend some blogs over the next few weeks talking about segments of the challenge from last year and my thinking on them. Down into the details on how much time and effort I spent on each of the 70 books. And how much WMG did. And I got a few other things planned with the challenge and then I will announce next year’s challenge, not from Birthday to Birthday like this one was, but for the 2022 year. So the post yesterday was like the opening chapter in a book about how to do this sort of craziness. I…
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The 70 @ 70 Project
THE SUMMARY… This challenge was to publish 70 major books from my 70th birthday to my 71st birthday. (A major book is a novel, a novella, a collection, and any major editing project with my name as editor on the cover.) Individual short stories do not count. I published 51 total of those stand-alone. And see the image of all the books in order at the bottom of this post. Keep in mind this started a week after the election here in the States and months ahead of any vaccine. Yes, this was that year… Here is a list of all publications and the date and type. November Nov 10th:…
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A Couple Updates…
Yes, I Am Still Reading… Over this last week I read a bunch of stories from the Monetize and Writing a Pulphouse Story workshops. And even made offers on two of them for Pulphouse. But since I am really working to give every story a fair shot, meaning my eye isn’t tired and I have time to read the entire story if need be, the process is slow. But I think I have about 15 stories left is all, so with luck by the end of the week. So hold on, folks. I will announce when I got them all. Tomorrow I will post here my 70@70 list and more.…