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Once Again At the Store
Had a Blast… Spent from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the store, mostly talking with people and buying comics from people bringing them through the door. Great fun. Then off to dinner for a birthday of a friend, then back to the office to work on workshops. Then home to keep working on stuff here, including putting the final table of contents together for Issue #1 of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Paper copies of Issue #0 should be shipping as soon as they get here. I am very proud of how the magazine is shaping up. Great fun for me, and I hope the reading is fun as well. ————–…
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Ran the South Store for a Time Today
Tough Getting Up at Noon When I Saw Seven A.M…. And the store was deadly slow. So got lots of talking in with the owner of the small mall and with Dan who runs our bookstore which is across the parking lot from the store I was watching. It feels good to actually be out there seeing how things are running instead of just checking in a few times a week. I don’t need to do this, but I thought it would be fun, except for the lack-of-sleep part. Then I headed back to my office at the WMG offices and except going home to cook dinner, was in the…
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Christmas Cheer Bundle
THE CHRISTMAS CHEER BUNDLE! For me, great stories and Christmas Holidays go hand-in-hand. I used to buy myself books for Christmas, and Christmas vacation was always a time I got to do the most reading when I was growing up. Then when I started writing, a friend and I challenged each other to write six Christmas short stories in seven days and put them in a little chapbook for our friends as gifts. We did that every year for years, cementing in my mind that Christmas meant stories. After I met Kristine Kathryn Rusch, she and I and a bunch of other professional writers would get together every Christmas Eve…
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Went Picking Today
Not a Great Day for Picking, but Not Bad Either… I actually spent half the time in the place today in Salem on my phone on eBay looking up German and French and British vintage china to see what prices I could get for it on eBay. (For some reason there was a lot of it.) Found some really nice stuff, not sets, just parts, but the entire cost of the dishes I did find was $2.42 cents (not a typo) and I bet we will list and sell most of that china for well over two hundred bucks. Now that’s a mark-up. (grin) So a fun afternoon to break…
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Promotion and Sales Package
PROMOTION AND SALES PACKAGE OFFER FROM WMG PUBLISHING INC. 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 the ingredients needed…
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Just Workshops All Day
Moving All Workshops Takes Time… I really had no idea how long it would take to move the workshops to Teachable. Wow. But got all of December workshops there now and started. So about 80% of this battle done. So much nicer there. I will be bringing up the January workshops there over the next week plus a Classic workshop to the list. Slow but sure at this point. ————– Short Story and Novel Challenge I am only taking five on each challenge starting on January 1st. So don’t miss on this one if you want a great challenge to start off your new year. Details are a few posts…
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Beating Critical Voice For Fiction Writers
More Than Likely That is Not the Title… But you get the idea. I’m going to start a series of posts here that will turn into a short book at some point about the fight we all wage against Critical Voice (with echoes and dread horror/slasher/music.) And I hope to give a bunch of advice on how to beat back critical voice as well and get the fun back into your writing. So here with go with a short introduction first. Then I’ll go from there over the next weeks. I have sixty-seven books to put out this year. This will be one of them. But I want to write…
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December Workshops Started
Strengths Workshops Closing Again Tomorrow… If you are signed up or have credits through the Kickstarter offer, you can still get in and take them. But for new sign-ups, the window is closing. Just too much work for me and Kris to keep them open. The Strength Workshops are six workshops. You can one, two, or all six. Check the link on the right side for deals. You want to see how you are doing in different areas, there are two craft, two business, two sales. All about the same size as a normal six-week regular workshop, only these Strength workshops you do on your own pace. You might be…
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Auction and Other Fun Things Today
Thought I Might Get Started On a Novel Tonight… But nope. Spent the late afternoon out at the two south stores and then the auction until after 8 p.m. Then I headed up to the office and ate dinner while I worked on workshop stuff, not getting home until after midnight. This switching workshops to teachable takes some time. Then I watched some television and got a bunch of stuff caught up and did some reading on the challenges from October. Remember, new challenge if you are interested in jumping in starting on the 1st of January. I am only taking five for the novel challenge and five for the…
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Want To Be Challenged? I Am Doing It Again
I Am That Crazy… I am going to do it again. I am offering to be a first reader for some of you. I am still just finishing up the reading for the short story challenge that ended yesterday and the writers are still working on novels until January 15th, but that means I will have time to read again starting January 1st. What a great way to be motivated starting the new year. The first two times I did this, the challenges turned out to be fun for me. And the writers who participated said it challenged them to get writing done they might not have gotten done without…