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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…
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Great Santa Run
I Walked, as Did Most… Somewhere between 3-5 thousand people and kids and dogs all dressed in identical Santa suits, filling the streets of downtown Las Vegas with a 5K charity run/walk. Stupidly fun. I got up way to early for it and never really recovered today, so doing a short blog tonight with a few pictures and calling it a night. But I did manage to watch the Oregon Ducks game since Kris and I used to live in Eugene. I find it stunningly funny that forever, the powers that be back East thought no one on the West Coast could play football. But then they go and let…
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The Old House…
PUTTING TOGETHER ISSUES… Spent a few days putting together an issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Problem is that I glance at a story I want to include and end up getting sucked into the story and reading again. So it takes me way longer than it should to write an introduction to the issue, do author introductions, and get it all ready. But I love the process. And I am finishing up a little bit of misc story reading and then diving full force back into the stories that have been sent for the Pulphouse Kickstarter stretch rewards. Just a tad farther behind than I wanted to be with the…
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Fun Day!
US Thanksgiving Holiday… We had intended to head out a 6:30 am to a park to the north of Las Vegas for a charity 5k run that started at 8 am. Intended was the operative word, but due to events the day before with business and other stuff, Kris and I both managed to stumble to be round 2 am. (I was a little later.) So the towel was tossed and we got extra sleep. Then I cooked (with a ton of help from Kris) a turkey dinner and we were were joined by four great friends and we had a blast. Kris had baked a bunch of fantastic pumpkin…