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FEY KICKSTARTER Launches At Noon Tuesday…
West Coast Time…. I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel about an invasion of the Fey at Serebro Academy will keep you turning pages into the night . Check it out. A fantasy thriller. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun special workshops in this one. How to Write Steampunk and How to Write a Fantasy Thriller. You can only get the two workshops during the nine days of this campaign, so jump in quick. Also for the nine days,…
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Last Day for Time Travel Bundle
Get 10 Books Including My THUNDER MOUNTAIN Novel… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. Plus great stuff by professional writers Michael A. Stackpole, Ron and Jeff Collins, and Douglas Smith. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. As I have…
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New WMG Office
In Vegas… WMG Publishing Incorporated will maintain a small office in Oregon, but finally, after years of talking about it, we are moving the main office to Las Vegas. And we found a perfect place for it. And as of the first we got into it and today the cleaners came and really spiffed things up. So here are a few pictures of the office empty. Next week the first loads come in of desks to start filling the place. And shelves with books will cover all walls. First picture is a look out our balcony, furniture complements of Ron and Lisa Collins. Second picture is me standing where Steph’s…
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Moved Marble Collection…
Refrain From Stupid Jokes… Heard them all. The only collections I kept on the move to Vegas was first a digest collection of mystery and sf digests. They are way cool and are close to complete from 1943 to 1999 in mystery, sf, fantasy, and horror. Missing a few issues here and there, but unless I get them out on shelves again, I just can’t tell. (They are in boxes in an air-conditioned interior storage unit. Got a hunch they will remain there into the future. They take up a lot of room to say the least.) The second collection I kept was marbles. 3 to 4 hundred thousand of…
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Having Fun
I Always Tell Writers to Have Fun… Both with the writing and publishing. But sometimes life just has other ideas and that has been a part of this entire spring and summer this year. Nothing like last fall with the smashed shoulder or the year before with the eye infection. This year just crap. The kind of overloaded, too much to do, lawyers and business crap that can suck the fun out of anything. So now I am on a campaign to bring the joy back into my life (and I hope Kris’s life) going forward. I am going to remind myself every day that I have the best job…
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Two Mentorships Open
First Open Since 2022 Back in 2019, I opened up what we called a mentorship where I answered questions on anything that person wanted in writing and business of publishing. I took seven mentees total in 2019 and early 2020. How it sets up is that I asked the person to report in to me every Sunday (or Monday or at least once every two weeks) about what they were doing, progress or no progress. Writing or publishing done or not done. And plans for the coming week. I was sort of a check-point each week. If there were questions, I tried to answer them, or look at a cover,…
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Reading for Anthology Workshop…
Wish I Could Talk In General About Craft Stuff… But not going to because that will be for those attending in person the anthology workshop. But reading this many stories at once sure is something. All the writers are good, but just what and how makes one story work and another not work. Plus we are reading across six topic genres. SF Mystery, Cozy, Military SF, Fantasy Regency, Ghosts, and Halloween Romance. All the stories were written for those FICTION RIVER anthologies, all edited by different people, and I am reading the stories overall for Pulphouse. A great story for the anthology would not be a great one for Pulphouse.…
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A Reminder of Traditional Publishing Stupidity….
The Past is Present… A few days ago I got a huge packet of royalty statements from Pocket Books… Huge. And a check for $9.12 for six months. On those statements were the “sales” and returns of thirty-seven books I did for them (I did more, but they are out of print). Most of the statements were negative by more thousands than I could imagine. That packet reminded me of a post I wrote a long time ago here about Star Trek books I wrote for Pocket Books. Turned out I wrote that post on July 7th, 2012. After I got a big packet of royalty statements. Twelve years ago…
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Signing… How Strange…
I Am Signing Books in a Bookstore… That’s right, for the first time THIS CENTURY (that I can remember), I have agreed to do a book signing. Signings are a waste of time for me. But because Writers of the Future folks think they are worthwhile for their award winners, and I am a judge, and my friend Lisa Silverthorne was a winner this year, I agreed to go along for support. And then the Writers of the Future folks roped in Ron Collins (a winner from years back) and another judge, Todd McCaffrey. So it will be great fun sitting there for three hours talking with my friends. I…
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Fiction Branding… Part 13
Branding Is Fun!! No clue if any of these branding posts go into any kind of order. I will figure that out down the road if I decide to do something with them. At the moment I am just learning and thinking. I realized a while back that branding a series was fun in a bunch of ways. Ways that hit me where I write and live, actually. I realized this when I found myself doing a “chart” of a brand on a series. (More like a rough spreadsheet.) Not anything for public consumption or a sales tool to a licensee. Just sort of me, for fun, keeping track of…