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Author Nation…
Just Finished Here in Vegas… Author Nation is the name of the conference that took over the 20 Books Conference. Kris and I did not attend this year, but we had some wonderful dinners and lunches with writer friends who were attending. That was great fun. Everyone I have talked to so far who attended has been positive about the conference. Some very positive. So for a few years into the future, it sounds like this will be the conference to attend for indie writers and publishers. Don’t ask… I do not know if I will go next year or not. But if I decide to go or they invite…
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Voted Today… Also Sale Continues…
I Dropped Off My Ballot Today… I was born in the Truman administration , vaguely remember the Nixon/Kennedy election, remember clearly Kennedy getting shot, remember being angry Nixon was elected in 1968 and I gave up being active when he was reelected in 1972. Kris got me paying attention again to politics in the late 1980s and ever since then I have been active. But in all those years, I never remember being as scared for the results of an election as I am now. I always had policy disagreements with one party or the other, always worried about what would happen. Sure. We all did. Nature of a democracy…
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We Are In!
Part of the Stuff from Oregon Office Now Here! We still have a large four-room office complex in Oregon to bring down next April, but for now the main part of the work for WMG is going on down here. We have one wonderful employee left up there trying to clean up messes and organize things before we move the last of the business south. Steph is here now as well. So today we had six professional fiction writers helping with the unloading and I hired two professional movers to help as well. Then all the writers went to get Good Pie pizza. Yummy. And really fun. Sorry I got…
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Night Before A Holiday…
I Hate This Holiday… People with little to no sense blowing stuff up to honor something that chances are a lot of them will vote to get rid of in November… So Vets, hang in there. Get friends around you if you can. Pet owners, make sure your animals are protected and safe. The stupidity of blowing stuff up will end with some people injured or killed, others with their homes burnt down, and animal shelters full. Sounds like a bad novel. Hang in there, everyone. The celebration with carnage will be over soon. On a much more fun topic…
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Thank You All…
For the Very Kind Thoughts and Well-Wishes… Very much appreciated. And as each day goes by I notice the shoulder less and less and do more and more. Every-so-often I move wrong or try a little too much and it reminds me. But otherwise no issues. I don’t even think I have taken Advil (my pain medication of choice) for a while now. Kris is thinking of doing one more month of writing challenge to really keep her going through all the business stuff. If tomorrow she is 100% certain I will put it up on Teachable and announce it here. Two days left in the May challenge. How is…
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An Update On My Injury…
Still in Physical Therapy… But nearing the end of the process. Most of you know here that around the end of October last year, I was running in a 5K charity run, far too fast for my 73 years (staying with the leaders), tripped on a curb I did not see and went down rolling on concrete. (Rolling to save hitting my head.) Destroyed my right shoulder. First broken bones I had ever had. Surgery four days later to put in Titanium shoulder and upper arm. First surgery I had ever had. Big brace and sitting up in a chair sleeping for over a month, then started PT around the…
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Questions or Topics?
A Lazy Saturday Night… Since I did not feel up to writing another chapter in the branding book as I had planned to do tonight, I thought I would open this up on this weekend night to questions you would like to have me answer or topics you would like to have me discuss or write a blog about. Email me or put them here as comments. If nothing because this is the time of great forgetting, I will just keep on entertaining myself with things that interest me in some fashion or another. Note: For anyone who missed getting a class or workshop they wanted, the code for the…
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Looking Back…
Doing a Lot of That This Year… Because of the fact that I sold my first two short stories 50 years ago and 40 years ago I was the first to walk across the Writers of the Future stage. Those kind of “zero” year dates will make anyone look around. And, of course, looking back over time can get you that wonderful 20/20 hindsight of seeing mistakes. I got two really good examples of that at the moment. The first one is looking back 50 years at the largest mistake I made in my writing and publishing career. The one mistake of instead of continuing to do what I had…
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Filler Post On This Friday…
Just to Keep the Streak Going… A lot of years of daily posts now. So tonight a picture of me and the boys taking a nap on a rainy evening in Las Vegas. They never cuddle with me like that, so I felt honored.
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Some General Updates…
Some Housekeeping… Special Workshops from Diving Kickstarter information will go out tomorrow afternoon. Information on how to get into them will be in the letter I will send you. Down in the Details Classes will start being recorded again later in the week. I will send a notice through Teachable when each class in each one is available. Hope to have all of them done by the first week of November. Reading for Pulphouse has been going on in the Holiday subject group from August. I am slow. Sorry. Bought a couple through, which is great fun. Reading for the last group of Pulphouse Special workshops will be done by…