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FANTASIES COLLIDE KICKSTARTER…
…DOING GREAT!! A Make 100 Kickstarter Project just like we did the last two years. 50 stories of mine, 50 stories of Kris’s in a massive five-volume set called FANTASIES COLLIDE. Two really cool special workshops that Kris will be reading the stories from since I am behind and still injured. And some fantastic reading, including copies of the last two years of these massive collections, COLLIDING WORLDS and CRIMES COLLIDE. Science fiction short stories, mystery short stories, and now this year fantasy. Take a look at it at FANTASIES COLLIDE. We are almost to another stretch goal, but so far we have given four more books to any backer…
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Today Everything Has Started…
Stunning Amounts of Stuff… Wow, was this a busy start to a new year for new workshops, Kickstarter, diet, and exercise. I signed up for the tracking of trying to run/walk 2023 miles in 2023. For me that is just over 11,000 steps a day without missing for an entire year. Yeah, that’s a streak. Down two pounds on my first weigh-in of the year on Monday, so considering the holidays, a total win. And I am slowly trying to bring up the running a little without damaging my old knees. Mostly just walking the 5.5 miles a day at the moment. The eye is slowly improving but still really…
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New Year
Hope Everyone Has A Good New Year! I’m coming on early because Kris and I are in for the night and I wanted to wish you all a good start to the new year and a safe night tonight if you are out and about. Onward into a fun new year. I will be at my writing computer right after midnight as I always do, figuring that is always the best way to start any new year. Stay safe… Cheers Dean
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Happy Holiday
Hope It Has Been a Good One… And that you are not one of the millions trapped in airports. And are not doing Trains, Planes, and Automobiles to get home. What do two writers do on Christmas Eve? We worked for some hours this morning in our offices, then Kris went out for a run and I walked to our favorite pizza place to meet her. That’s right, wonderful pizza. And a wonderful walk home together. Then into this office to work some more, watch the Raider’s figure out a way to lose once again, them more time back in the office before I cooked us a steak dinner. Kris…
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A Cat Post
With Angel Sitting On My Lap… Posting cat pictures from the past… Why not? With half the country stuck in airports or in homes without power, a few cute cat pictures can’t hurt. Enjoy the holiday and stay safe out there. First up, Angel sitting on my lap as I get ready to record a workshop video. Second up… Gavin (orange kitten) and Suzie, (living with the Yorks for the moment}. Gavin grew into those ears and is now 20 pounds. Grubby who was way way overweight and not bright, but a love of a cat. Spike, my special guy. Still miss him. First appearance of Cheeps… Cheeps, so…
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Kris and I Married 30 Years Today
So We Spent Most of the Day Working and Writing…. Which is what we do. However, we eventually got done and headed out to look at the magnificent holiday decorations at the Bellagio. And then we went down to Mandalay Boy Hotel and Convention Center to have pizza. Way too much pizza and desert, so we spent the next hour just walking and getting our exercise steps. Then home to watch Slow Horses. 30 Years. Wow. We mostly celebrate from the day we met in 1986, but 30 years married is something to mark. It was a fun ceremony on the top of a hill in the middle of our…
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Value of IP…
Most Writers Never Think of This… But again most writers don’t understand copyright, which is a form of Intellectual Property (IP). Now some writers understand that anything they write has value, although I must admit it takes early stage writers a period of time to get past their egos and their false assumptions that they know what is good or bad in their own work. Interestingly enough, value of IP doesn’t much care about quality, at least in the early stages. Also 90% of all writers I have talked to have zero understanding that the work product they create around a book or story also has IP connected with it…
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Challenges for the New Year
We Have Four of Them To Help You… If you are looking around and trying to set some goals for the coming writing year, consider taking a challenge from WMG workshops. There are four of them on Teachable. THE GREAT CHALLENGE is to write and send me a short story every week for 52 weeks. NOVELLA CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novella every month for 12 months. NOVEL CHALLENGE is to write and send me a novel every two months, and then publish the book in a paperback and send that to me at some point down the road. PUBLISHING CHALLENGE is to publish one new major…
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Fun Run… Fun Pictures
Uphill, Both Ways… Well, it felt that way to a guy still overweight. Granted I have lost four pounds in the last few weeks, but not enough to run too much uphill on bad knees. I ran the first seven tenths of a mile to start, which turns out was slightly downhill. Feeling great. Walked a short hill, then turned a corner and all I could see into the distance was uphill. Well over a. mill uphill. So I walked it. Ran small downhill sections, but walked all the hills, far more walking than I had planned, and missed the podium by one spot. Got 4th in my age group…
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The Fun of Las Vegas
Great Friends and Fun Things to Do… Today, because housekeepers were swarming all over our place, Kris and I got out, had a great lunch, and then spent some hours in Cowboy Christmas in the convention center. Six billion booths and people on two floors of the old massive convention center. Everything you can imagine and a bunch of stuff I couldn’t imagine. But seeing the giant booth of Yellowstone merchandise was fun with the licensing side. We went in, walked to the back, and started back forward in a different aisle. Took hours just for that on one floor. I wanted to do the show to see how my…