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Nifty Book Trailer
For the Novella Weather Duty… Kris did this tonight for her novella that is part of the Four Novella Kickstarter campaign. Check it out at Four Science Fiction. I love this new world where we can do these level of trailers and promotions. Take a look. Great fun.
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THE UNUSUAL HEROES STORYBUNDLE…
THE UNUSUAL HEROES BUNDLE The Unusual Heroes Bundle – Curated and Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (This is her introduction…) The best heroes are unexpected. In life and art, it’s often the unassuming quiet person in the corner—not the square-jawed alpha male—who usually comes to the rescue. If you look, you’ll find a lot of unexpected heroes in the world around you. But fiction takes unexpected from that unassuming mousey person in the corner to an actual mouse. Who goes on adventures of his own. Or an actual square-jawed hero who got demoted and spends his life saving kittens. Or a menopausal demon hunter with one more fight left in her.…
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Broadway Play Tonight
I Hate Romeo and Juliet… Hate it with a passion brought on by too many years of having to deal with it and the pure stupidity of the plot. So when the show & JULIET came up on our Broadway season tickets, I was not excited, to say the least. But Kris said a number of times this was one she had been looking forward to, so I trusted her. She was the one who tricked me into going to see COME FROM AWAY and that is my third all-time musical and not a chance would I have seen it if I had known what it was about. My first…
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A Fun Day!
Off To The Old Ball Game… Basketball, actually. Aces. I managed to crawl out of bed and get ready just in time for us to head out to first get yummy pizza before the game. (Pizza for breakfast just ain’t something I am going to complain about. (grin)) Game was fun, even though we lost. Frustrating, but worth watching. And good friends there. And watching the little kids play a game at halftime was so, so much fun. Made my heart feel good to watch the girls and boys battle it out. And one of them actually made a shot. The entire place cheered. Then Kris and I headed for…
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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…