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Respect the Distance…
A Runner’s Saying…. No matter what distance you plan on running, you need to understand the distance and the time and training it will require to finish that distance. Respect the distance. And that goes for all projects and goals in life. For writers, it can apply to writing a novel, or learning publishing, and so on and so on. As a runner, I finished two full marathons. 26 plus miles each. One when I was thirty and one when I was seventy. I trained well for the one when I was 70 because I knew the distance because I had finished 5 half-marathons in the previous five years. I…
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Thank You, Everyone!!
For The Kind Comments On My Challenge… And for following along for the entire year. Very much appreciated. And it is a weird feeling that I now am not automatically thinking I need to work on this book or that book for the challenge. Maintaining a pace that would eat that elephant was critical. And annoying to be honest. So over the coming year I will be back writing a bunch more, and getting these books into paper and hardbacks and into promotions and other things. So thank you all again for the kind comments. Means a lot. Onward.
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CHALLENGE DONE!!!
I Did 75 Major Books in My 75th Year!! And not one hint of AI on any of them. (Kind of sad I have to say that right up front.) I did every bit of this myself. Writing, covers, layout. Everything. So here is how it all worked out. 38 Major ten-story collections. No duplicates on stories. (Collection name list is below under art.) 5 Detective’s Collide. 3 new Thunder Mountain 10-story collections. (Ready for a Kickstarter this spring.) 2 new Sky Tate 10-story collections.(Ready for a Kickstarter this coming year.) 14 complete revamps of Thunder Mountain novels, including all new covers, new interiors, and sales copy. (Ready for a…
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Last Push On My Challenge…
Too Busy Tonight To Write Anything… But tomorrow night I will have the final update and the image of all 75 books for my 75th year on the planet. Assuming of course I don’t spend time writing something here and get back to those last few books. Tomorrow,,,
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Challenge Update 32 Days to Go…
Yup, I Am Behind… But this is still possible. I have 32 days to go and 20 books to finish. That is an elephant, to be honest. Numbers of setbacks caused by my ugly disorganization over years with my short fiction. I first thought I would have 50 short story collections, but then with doubling up on titles, a ton of stories I did not want to move into the future, and just my miscounting, I ended up with what I thought would be forty collections. Nope, turns out it is 37 ten story collections. Three hundred and seventy stories I can find and that I want to move into…
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75 Challenge Update…
Mid-Month Update… 47 Days To Go… For the first time, I have figured out what each book will be in the challenge and I actually think I might publish 76 books in my 75th year. (The challenge was to publish 75 major books in my 75th year on this planet.) I had determined a month ago that I was going to be short with only my collections. Way short, actually. So since Kris and I are in this clean-up and rebrand mode, I talked about doing my Thunder Mountain books. New covers, new interiors, new paper and hardbacks, and a large print edition. And I spent a few days working…
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Update on 75 Books Challenge!
Still In The Fight!!! The challenge was to publish 75 major books in my 75th year on the planet. From November 10th, 2025 to November 10th, 2026. As I have said before, the first six months was mostly still cleaning up the WMG business stuff, and more than that, getting an organization system on 40 plus years of short fiction. My secondary goal is to get all my short fiction into ten-story collections, roughly by genre. No repeats of any story. About 520 stories, 52 collections. That will be a good base in the 75 books challenge. So along the way I did five DETECTIVES COLLIDE collections with Kris, and…
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A Few Details Tonight…
Just Cleaning Up Some Stuff… First off, got a few questions about why we are not doing a Pulphouse Kickstarter this summer. Answer is pretty simple. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is still on hiatus and we want to get everything cleared up before we even think of moving forward. But I really do appreciate the interest and support. Just not ready yet. In fact, we have a few authors to still pay from Issue 40, the last one we did. We hope soon. We are getting closer and closer to having the mess of the last three years totally cleaned up. Sunday (later today since I am writing this early in…
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How People Are Watching My Challenge…
Like It’s A Car Wreck… Mouth open, saying nothing, not believing it is happening. You know the feeling. My challenge of 75 major books in my 75th year just sort of smacks one too many belief systems for most writers. Interestingly enough, in all my years in traditional publishing, all the hundreds of anthologies I got invited into by top editors, not once was I offered a collection of my short fiction. And now, thanks to indie publishing, I am going to do 53 or 54 of them. Tonight I finished up a 51,000 word science fiction collection that the backers of the recent Kickstarter will get in a few…
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75 Book Challenge Update…
Exactly Three Months To Go… The challenge ends on my 76th birthday on November 10th. In case you have missed what I am doing, I am attempting to publish 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas, omnibus are all major books. You know, 20 books to 50K thinking…) Publishing for this challenge is getting it up on Bookfunnel because I need everything there I will need to make them wide, and a lot of these I want to use for Kickstarters, bundle exclusives (2 are together in an exclusive Storybundle.com right now) and a ton of other things like getting many of them to my Patreon backers. So Bookfunnel is my…