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Fun Writing Project!
This Will Start in the New Poker Boy Kickstarter… It has been decades or more since I Turckerized anyone. Tuckerization was mostly started when Wilson “Bob” Tucker would put his friends and other writer’s names into his stories and books as a joke or as a shout out to them. He did it so often, it became known by his name. (Bob was a very friendly guy and I was lucky enough to spend time with him in the early 1990s.) In this modern world, you never do that without asking the permission of the person being Tuckerized. For example, in one Star Trek book Kris and I wrote, we…
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Poker Boy Playing Cards
Available On The Poker Boy Kickstarter… And then eventually on my store… These are so stunning, I just had to show them to you… The link is to check out more about the Kickstarter campaign and be notified when it launches on the 1st of April. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x I think I’ll go write some more Poker Boy stories… Wow…
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A Lot of Great Fantasy Reading…
Great Fantasy in the Kickstarter and Now a Fantasy Bundle… So Yesterday at noon we started a really fun Kickstarter project for three of Kris’s Epic Fantasy novels. And the campaign has a lot more fantasy stories included. Check it out. About to hit the second stretch goal as I write this. Now tonight, Kris with Storybundle.com has put together a bundle of bundles of fantasy. 38 fantasy books included, ten writers. It includes my four Bryant Street collections. A bundle of bundles… So cool. Here is Kris’s introduction to it all… And below that an image of all 38 books. Wow. THE FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES Introduction by Kristine…
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Half Marathon 13.2 Miles In the Books…
I Was Feeling Great at the 10K Turn… And since I was signed up for the half marathon, off I went. And if it had only been 13.2 miles, I would have been fine. But nope. Today I did exactly 20 miles. It took me three miles to get where I was meeting Kris and the others for pizza. Three miles of climbing stairs to get to sky bridges and wondering lost in casinos. And then another mile to the car from the restaurant, and two miles from where we parked the car to the starting area. Twenty miles. To say my feet are sore would be an understatement. But…
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Valuation and Story #26
Been Working On Copyright Valuation… Trying to figure out a way to explain it. But so many elements to it, it makes it tough. But writers believe, especially indie writers, that their work has no value. Yet every time you license a book or story to say, Amazon, and they license it to a customer, you are making money from the value of your work. You license a copy from your own store to a reader, you are making money from the value of your work. Same with doing a Kickstarter campaign. And on and on and on… Copyright is property. So is trademark. So every time you create a…
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Creative Process
I Was Paying Attention Today… For a moment, at the beginning of the new story, because I was tired. Only lasted a paragraph or two before I went down into the story, but figured this might be interesting to a few of you. I started off with my half-title sheets like normal. Saw the phrase “The Last” and then a couple of pages later, keeping the phrase “The Last” in my mind, my creative voice spotted “Summer Girl.” “The Last Summer Girl” Depending on how the story went, I could hyphenate Last-Summer to change the meaning. Fun title. No idea of a series jumped to mind, so I just started…
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Happy Holiday!
Hope The Holiday Is a Good One… Kris and I are staying quiet, just enjoying the free time to work and get caught up on a bunch of stuff. And considering the last few years, this is heaven. I have even managed eight hours of sleep for a few nights in a row. Wow. Mostly we are just getting ready for our writing and publishing in 2025. And looking forward like that also feels great. So this is an ideal holiday for us. Sure hope your holiday, no matter how or what you celebrate, if at all, is a good one. Twelve Days of Workshop Sales… General Information… We are…
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Challenges for 2025…
I Love Challenges… Of course, most of you know that. And at some point I will be talking here about my personal challenge and goal for 2025. Today, I sent out a letter to everyone in the three Beautiful Trophy Award challenges for 2024 to see how they were doing and to get a sense of how many trophies we will need to have hand made. If you did not get that letter, make sure your email is turned on with WMG Teachable. The “Beautiful Trophy Awards” are hand-blown glass floats made in small glass shops on the Oregon Coast. They are stunningly beautiful and every one is different. We…
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Las Vegas Aces Toy Drive…
The Santa Series by Kristine Grayson Starting on Wednesday and running for only seven days, we are doing a really fun Kickstarter for Kristine Grayson’s Santa Series. She has a new fifth book in the series (all stand alone) and the entire series has been rebranded with beautiful new covers and interiors. And the electronic books will be delivered on Friday the 20th so you have time to enjoy a wonderful Santa novel before the holiday. Check it out at The Santa Series Kickstarter. Only seven days long. Don’t miss this one. Season Ticket Holders Event… We got to go into the Aces practice facility in Henderson. Let me simply…
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Cowboy Christmas Outfit
Schedule Screwed Up… So I think I have time for a longer blog post and one of a couple topics I would like to talk about, but then when I get here the brain is shut down. But wow have I been getting up earlier. And last night I actually got eight hours of sleep for the first time in weeks, and I think I am more exhausted from that. So since this blog streak must continue, nothing to say tonight except for a picture of me at Cowboy Christmas. This is a massive show that takes place for a few weeks in December all over Vegas. Has to be…