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Eight Books Published
Year of the Cat #11 and Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11 That is so much fun. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine has now hit its new issue every two months schedule now solidly after taking some time off in the pandemic. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12 is now turned in and I am about to turn in #13 which is the August issue. Exciting and I am working through some fantastic stories I got from writers back before the pandemic, finally getting them in print. Year of the Cat #11 is also out and #12 will follow in May. I am behind on talking about the stories. But should be completely caught up by the…
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Writing Quote From Joe Lansdale
Wonder Where I Have Heard This Before? Joe Lansdale said on Facebook today… “The writer who thinks the whole purpose of writing is suffering isn’t one I’m much interested in. The one that tells a story for the joy of telling it is the one I’m interested in. Writing can be hard, but it shouldn’t be miserable. Some days it might be, but on the whole it should be an exciting, if occasionally, frustrated adventure. A story is made better by style, character, dialogue. All the tools that make it work, but the most important component is joyful passion and a willingness to improve on your passion to make it…
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Jim Steinman
Died Today at 73…. Way too young. I just spent some hours tonight watching some work by one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Jim Steinman. He wrote on Broadway and in movies and just about everywhere, and maybe wrote some of the best songs in our lives. You can look up the thousands he wrote and I bet you will go “He wrote that! I didn’t know that!” for half of them. But my favorite writing of his was always the work he did with Meat Loaf, including the two Bat out of Hell albums. My all-time favorite Jim Steinman song is “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. This…
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4:30 A.M.
This is Even Late For Me… I even got up an hour early this morning, and it still took me this long to get everything done today. And sadly, not a bit of it was my writing. So I am done except for a few more stories to read tomorrow morning. Over this next period of time WMG will be sending out rewards and stretch rewards for The Return of the Fey Kickstarter. I will contact everyone with the special workshops information later in the week at some point. So now once again I have typed something here on this blog to keep my streak alive and I am going…
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Going Light Tonight
Been At This Computer Too Long… We are doing the mystery study along right now and I am recording the last couple of Pop-Ups, so basically I have been at this computer since noon, so except for a lunch and dinner break, that is 13 hours and my poor eye is tired. Too tired to type anything of value here tonight. So going to do nothing but type a little to make my streak and call it a night. Maybe tomorrow. But at least the streak of almost nine years of daily blogging has held so far. Night.
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Pulp Speed Writers (Take Two)
A Post I Wrote in 2016… Talks about the kind of writers who are or were Pulp Speed Writers. After yesterday’s post, I thought it would be worth bringing back as well. Answer a few questions. Pulp Writers’ Abilities… I got a great question today about some of the basics the really prolific pulp writers did to be so productive. And how to go about finding out about a lot of their styles. How I have learned about so many of the older pulp writers is by reading books about them, often in their own words, reading books about the era, and just finding anything I could to read about…
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Pulp Speed Flashes To The Present
Fourth Time Brought Forward I wrote this post in 2014, then brought it forward again in 2015, and then again in 2019. Got a few questions about it, so figured after two years, one of which lasted forever, it couldn’t hurt on a slow Friday night to bring it back once more. PULP SPEED… Not at all sure why this idea sort of hits me right. I think because it flies in the face of all the myths. A writer has to have all myths under control to even attempt this. So this post might just make you angry because it hits at belief systems I’m afraid. The second reason…
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Updates On Some Classes
Slowly Seeing The Light… Amazing how the pandemic just ground so much of all of us (and the world) down to a halt. At WMG Publishing last spring and through the summer, we spent all the time making sure we were solid. Some projects were put on hold, others cancelled, until by the time we got to late August, we felt pretty solid as a company and a business. But at that time we still had no idea at all where the world, business, and publishing in general was headed, what with the second wave at that time on the pandemic and the strange political craziness here in the States.…
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New Classes Available
Three New Classes Today… More coming over the next four days. NEW SIX WEEK WORKSHOP ADDED IN MAY… This one is called: May STAGES OF A PUBLISHER. Talked about adding it a month or so back, finally got it starting in May. (And yes it has been added to the Lifetime Workshop Subscription.) This turned out to be an eye-opening workshop. I wouldn’t miss this one. Might make you a ton more money down the road. Maybe not so far down the road, actually. Also we started two new Pop-Up classes as many of you expected. #29 Pop-Up: EPIC FANTASY WORLD BUILDING #30 Pop-Up: CREATING BELIEVABLE EPIC FANTASY NAMES These…
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Secrets and Lies Storybundle Has One Day Left!!!
Don’t Miss This One… Ten really amazing books in this one if you like all kinds of mystery. Kris really put an amazing bundle together with some of the top names in mystery fiction. Get all ten books at www.storybundle.com/mystery And trust me, if you start into my novel Cold Hand: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery, hold on for the ride. It might easily be the most twisted of the series. At least so far. Also on Wednesday at 4:30 pm East Coast Time, Mark Leslie and I and maybe others will be doing a live stream and taking questions. I hope there is four or five of us writers…