• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Looking at An Old Post

    New Year Making Me Look Back… Plus I was cleaning up things, killing some old posts, and I ran across this post that was originally called “The Death of an Indie Writer.” How’s that for click bait? (grin) I wrote it in July 2011, way back in the start of all this craziness. And frighteningly enough, I was right on almost all of it and I am still seeing this same thing today, even though most new writers coming in have lots of information and this new world is pretty stable. That doesn’t seem to be helping. So here is the long post, updated only slightly to 2017. I thought…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Last Day for Promotional and Sales Package

    PROMOTION AND SALES PACKAGE OFFER FROM WMG PUBLISHING INC. LAST DAY TODAY! As a one-time offer, limited to only ten, WMG Publishing Inc. will be offering to put together an entire sales package for one of your books. A holiday offer to the writers who have supported our projects and workshops over the years. This package will be put together by the entire team at WMG Publishing. And yes, I will be helping as well, even though I don’t work officially at WMG. The idea of this is to help you (or whoever you buy the package for) set up a sales and promotions plan for a book, with all…

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    Finding Treasures in the Back Room

    That Sounds Strange, huh?… It actually is sort of a strange circumstance. For a dozen years Sheldon McArther owned North by Northwest Books and Antiques. And Shelly is a picker extraordinaire. Especially with books and glassware. And he knows something has value when he sees it. So much of the extra books and stuff he found over the years ended up in this large back room of the bookstore in boxes and then when he sold the store to his manager, she cleared out stuff she didn’t want to carry in the store and stuffed it in the back room as well. It was impossible to even go in that…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Anniversary Day Boxed Set

    Now Out!! All eight of Kris’s fantastic Retrieval Artist series in the Anniversary Day Saga in one book. Three years ago Kris released these books one per month. If you missed them, take a look at this video to see if you want to give them a try now. This story is amazing. You can get the boxed set of all eight books just about anywhere and for more information go to WMGPublishing.com WATCH THIS VIDEO ON FULL SCREEN. REALLY COOL!

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Took Lots of Naps

    Everyone Thinks I Am So Busy… And sometimes I am. Sometimes, I just putter through the day, going out to the stores, doing some workshop stuff, cooking dinner, taking a nap, doing some reading, taking a nap, watching television, doing more reading. I think there was another nap in there somewhere. And that was the day. Not sick, so nothing to worry about. Just getting caught up and taking it easy at the moment. And I wouldn’t even be posting here about today if I didn’t have this running streak of days posting. (grin) —————- Ghosting Novels Over the last few days I have gotten the same basic question twice.…

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    Patreon Post Up

    Just Reposted #43 and Put Up New #44 of Smith’s Monthly… I wanted to take down the first posting of Smith’s Monthly #43 I put up a few months ago and repost it to the public on Patreon. I haven’t done a public post there yet, so I figured doing that would allow my Patreon supporters to have a month or so to read it before it went public. Then right behind that I put up Smith’s Monthly #44 for just supporters. I figured that now that Patreon has backed off its stupidity on the fees, it was time to get back in the game. Thank you to all of those…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Writing in Public

    A Nifty Christmas Video and Bundle

    Day 1,570 of Daily Blogs Without Missing… Now that’s a stunner, huh? Every day, through internet crashes, trips, sickness, and nothing to say, I have been here typing something every night. Sort of like a bad faucet you can’t get a plumber to fix. Just keeps on dripping. (grin) ————– Got a nifty Christmas books video from WMG Publishing I wanted to share. Kris did a draft of this last year, then Gwyneth updated it for this year. Plus, I got a great bundle going on right now that is all Christmas books. It’s called Christmas Cheer bundle with Storybundle that I curated. Not one, not two, but three of the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Some Time Off And Other Stuff

    Usually Don’t Need Time Off… Mostly because what I do is not really work in any form. Sure, it’s tiring at times, but I get to write as much as I want, work with other writers in workshops to help them advance, and play with collectables. Nope, not work. This last three or four weeks have been pretty nonstop, so I just decided today to stop for a bit, do something slightly different just to break the routine. I headed into the valley to do some picking by myself. Took my time getting back. Nap, cooked dinner, watched The Voice, another nap, did a few assignments I hadn’t gotten done…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Writing Focused Tonight

    Getting Rested and Working On Starting Novels… What I do to get ready to start novels is actually clean the area around my writing computer. When writing I have yellow legal pads and sticky notes and books scattered everywhere around me. So when I go a time (like the last few weeks) without writing and then are ready to go back, I clean up. Sort of telling my mind it’s time to get back to playing. So that felt good tonight after doing the assignments for the workshop. No idea what I will write, but my little voice kinda wants to write a Cold Poker Gang mystery. No idea why.…

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    Back At The Store for the Third Day

    And Once Again I Had a Blast… Spent from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the store, mostly talking with people. The rock shop owner across the parking lot outed me as a writer to a few really nice young people who were science fiction fans. It was a joy to talk with them, actually, because they were fans of reading. Kris showed up on her walk after a time and they got to talk with her as well. Really nice people. They had no idea who we were actually, but they were sf fans and loved Star Trek and Star Wars. I headed back to my office at WMG…