• Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Wondered Into Cave Creek Today

    Sure Felt Like It… Kris and I and Lisa went out to a 5k run/walk this morning out at a historic park up on the northern edge of Las Vegas. Big old trees, a bunch of ponds, and just about every wild bird you could imagine, all in this incredible green oasis in the middle of this really harsh desert. So Kris went off running with the crowd, and Lisa and I hung to the back because we were going to walk. And it was a beautiful walk, but amazingly windy. And the course was full of twists and turns through the trees and around the ponds and lakes, but…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Challenge Updates

    Publishing 70 Books Challenge On Target… Just under six months into the publish 70 books challenge in my 70th year and doing great so far. I have 27 books actually published and 10 more turned in for publication. And I hope by Monday to turn in three more. A new novel, a new issue of Smith’s Monthly, and a new issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. So before the halfway point I will have 40 books published or turned in and in line for publication. And if I just keep up with Smith’s Monthly through the middle of November, I will have 12 more turned in and published (six issues and…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Write Stuff Story Bundle

    Holy Smokes is This A Great Bundle!!! 9 writing books and a $150 Pop-up, all for $15.00. Kris did a stunning job rounding up these books. Storybundle.com/writing Every time I look at this bundle, I think “Wow, I want this one.” (Luckily, I get a copy. (grin)) So here is Kris’s blog about the bundle once more. Remember, these bundles are limited time offers. After that you could still get them all but instead of $15 it would cost around $200 total. Just saying. The 2021 Write Stuff Bundle  Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When it comes to the publishing business, most writers believe that the only way to make…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Behind on E-Mail

    I Will Get Caught Up By Tomorrow Evening… So if you haven’t heard from me in a day or two, hold on. I have managed to hit five days on my five miles a day minimum in exercise. Win. First days of any streak are always the hardest, especially exercise. Eating control still a problem (see picture below), but gaining on that as well slowly. So now instead of spending the next few hours cleaning up my email, I am going to go finish a new novel. And pictures below are yesterday on our anniversary. Yes, Kris can eat vegan pizza. This was at Slice of Vegas out at the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    THE 2021 WRITE STUFF STORYBUNDLE…

    It Just Went Live…. The following is Kris’s blog that is on Storybundle.com. I read earlier about each book and got done and went “Wow, I want this!” So check out each book in the bundle and for $15 plus a little donation to a great charity, you will want it as well. Here is the blog that Kris wrote for this, copied her in whole cloth. The 2021 Write Stuff Bundle  Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When it comes to the publishing business, most writers believe that the only way to make money is to do what the big publishers do. Writers put their books in bookstores and pay…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Last Day of the Workshop Half-Price Sale!!

    Ends Tuesday Evening… If you want any workshop or class or lecture or subscription on WMG Publishing Teachable at half price, simply hit purchase and then on the next page put in the code IN-BETWEEN This is the last day of the sale. ALSO TODAY, all May workshops have started. And the two May/June Collections Workshops have started. Yes, you can get any of those at half price as well. And even a lifetime subscription or jump into a challenge. We have been doing these sales to help writers stay focused and safe during this pandemic. We hope they have helped you over this last year. Now we ask one…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    TWO DAYS LEFT IN WORKSHOP SALE…

    Ends on Tuesday Evening… If you want any workshop or class or lecture or subscription on WMG Publishing Teachable at half price, simply put in the code IN-BETWEEN I am going to repeat a blog I did here last week about all the new workshops now available. Plus all the others are still there as well as the lifetime subscriptions. So here is the post about all the new workshops at the moment. There Are A Lot of New Workshops… So figured I would detail out some of them since we just announced the new Half-Price Sale. (See previous post, but the code is IN-BETWEEN.) First off, the regular May…

  • Challenge,  running

    Exercise Streak Started

    May 1st Start… This isn’t actually the start of my moving toward exercise and losing weight. In fact, I have been working on it since February to change eating habits, increase distance, and start the drop in weight. Today finally I feel I can start the daily distance streak. And yes, I know I said back on November 15th when I completed that marathon that I would not do another. Well, with luck, I lied. Maybe another one before my 71st birthday, and a few after as well. This fall I have (and am) signing up for a bunch of 10k weekend charity runs, already signed up for two half…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Regular and Classic Workshops

    These Are All Available in the Sale Since yesterday I talked a little about the really fun collections classes, today I thought I would list the regular workshops that are starting in May and June that are available to sign up for in the sale. Both months of classes include the brand new six-week workshop STAGES OF A PUBLISHER. (It is in the Lifetime Subscription for those who have or buy that.) NOTE: The next regular workshop to be launched is called: Fear Based Decision Making. You can not believe how many bad decisions writers make because of fear. Going to be a very important workshop as Kris and I…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  workshops

    Six Collections Classes

    All Six Classes Are Available Over the Coming Year… The idea is to not only learn about a topic, but also learn how to put a collection together from five original short stories you wrote on that topic and publish it by the end of the nine-week class. We have six topics and starting on the 4th of May, the Private Eye Collections class starts, as well as the Portals Collection Class. They both run for 9 weeks. But there is a way to take one or all six (if you want to write 30 short stories over a year and end up with six collections for sale). We have…