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A Rare Day Off (Mostly)
I Love What I Do And Don’t Consider It Work… So I pretty much work on my writing and publishing all the time, seven days a week. But occasionally Kris and I go do something else. We have the Anthropic stuff done and turned in, and Kris finished a major project and I am in a good position to run at my challenge, So we headed off to a great lunch and even had some deserts. Then off to an Aces game. Aces did not play the way they needed to play for the playoffs, but still beat Seattle by 20 points. Then instead of going home, we headed off…
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Fun With Video
Kris Had Fun… She did this really short video for the new Seavy County Three Fantasies Kickstarter we have launching on Tuesday. Not only is it perfect for Seavy County, but really fun. Take a look and then check out her introduction in the link above.
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Anthropic Burped…
There Is Movement… May Mean Nothing… Most of you know that Kris and I and WMG Publishing have a lot of tittles in the Anthropic settlement. And I do mean a lot. And the expectation of any kind of payment is pretty much on the bottom of any reality. But some folks who know a lot more than I do are saying that payments are in process and it could be as soon as September 17th. Yup, and pigs really can fly. But today, Kris and I both got emails from Anthropic on books that were opted out. Disney, in their not caring at all about creators, opted out all…
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Wonderful Day!!!
I Got To Work All Day!! I can not begin to tell you how rare that is. It is so rare from the last three or four years that I noticed it today. Nothing good or bad happened and I just got to work and not do anything special for any reason. Here is how the day went. Got up after eight hours sleep and Kris and I headed out to lunch for her and breakfast for me. A wonderful place called Bagelmania. I don’t get near their fantastic sandwiches which are HUGE, just an egg bagel and soup. Wonderful!! Then we came home and Kris went off to do…
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2026 FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES…
This Is Stunning For All Fantasy Readers… Every bundle of fantasy books is exclusive to this Storybundle.com/fantasy. All 15. I am just blown away by the amount of great reading in this one, and I even got to put in two original collections, never before published anywhere, into a bundle and made it exclusive to this. That’s right, two of the collections I have working on and talking about here are now available to read. Kris put this all together so I will let her explain. https://storybundle.com/fantasy THE 2026 FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES BUNDLE The 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles – Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When I contacted writers…
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Aces Game
Aces vs. Lynx The two best teams in the WNBA league went head-to-head tonight here in Las Vegas. Both teams played at the top of their games, and wow was it a game. Right down to the last few shots and the Aces pulled it out. It is wonderful to watch great basketball. Then on the way out we stopped in a restaurant for dinner that had every television on the last quarter of the New York game, and wow was that good basketball and except for a few Texas cowboys at the bar, the entire restaurant went wild and cheering when New York won it. So a basketball day.…
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Wee Beasties Storybundle.com
A Great Bundle!! I have an exclusive, brand-new, ten-story collection in this bundle called MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN and other stories. Kris also has an exclusive collection in this. There are 14 books in this bundle by top writers, and eight of them are exclusive. That is a record for www.Storybundle.com. I even have a Pulphouse anthology in here that I edited full of ten great Pulphouse stories. Kris is the curator and she explains it all really well in her introduction to the bundle, so here is her intro. Jump into this one, folks. Some really great fantasy reading. THE WEE BEASTIES FANTASY BUNDLE The Wee Beasties Bundle –…
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Learning Curves
Pacing Myself… Learning One Major Thing Per Day… With Steph being gone, there are a number of things I just never got around to learning over the last number of years. (Sort of like many of you with copyright… Sorry, too easy…) She just did the tasks in her wonderful way. Today I learned, with the help of Chris York who has better eyes than I do, the inner workings of Zoom and recordings for webinars and so on. Plus today I did a couple covers in InDesign (Canva is a coming learning curve for me…) and also put most of a collection together to get ready to put into…
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Fun Day…
Great News Is Always Fun… Especially after all the problems these last two years. When things have been bumpy, you really enjoy the good stuff when it happens. So after Kris got done with her webinar this afternoon, and we got the cleaners out of our condo, we headed off to Crossroads Restaurant in Resorts World to celebrate the good news, just the two of us. Fine dining with cloth tablecloths and more service than should be allowed. Stunningly wonderful-tasting food. Just perfect. And nope, good news stays with us and close friends. Sorry. Just trust me, it was stunning news and worth a great meal. (grin) And then we…
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Behind on a Couple of Workshops…
And Some Reading… Will get it all finished up tomorrow. Why am I late? Today was a second Aces game in the semifinals. We lost the first one ugly on Sunday, but then just ran over Indiana tonight in the second game to tie the five game series. Kris and I love going to these games and have season tickets. So cool to see all the young kids there cheering on their team. We left at 3:45 and had dinner with friends ahead, then made it into the game in Mandalay Bay Arena at six or so. Got home around 10 and I took a nap and we watched some…