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PULPHOUSE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE
PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE is launching… We just launched the Kickstarter for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. It will be quarterly with well over twenty stories per issue. Electronic and paper editions. First issue will be in January and if you support the Kickstarter, you also get Issue Zero as a bonus. You can subscribe through the Kickstarter or at www.pulphousemagazine.com The kickstarter is at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/pulphouse-fiction-magazine You really want to watch the fun video that Kris did to show the history of Pulphouse. WORKSHOP AND LECTURES And yes, just as with Fiction River kickstarter a year ago, you can get some deals on workshops and lectures. The Strengths Workshops are only available through…
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Just Going To Call It A Day
Not Much Else to Say About Today… Stuff happened, things got done, battles were waged, the internet was slow everywhere, and the day went past. And sometimes that’s all you can say about a day. And sometimes that is more than enough. ———— Challenges THEY START ON SUNDAY… As I have said over and over, only five people have signed up for the short story challenge so far. I expanded it and the novel challenge to eight writers, so still room in both challenges. If interested in signing up, just write me. They are going to be great fun. Here are the details once again. Starts October 1st, WHICH IS…
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New Issues of Smith’s Monthly
Subscribers and Patreon Supporters Got Three Issues… That’s right, in the last week three issues of Smith’s Monthly went out. As many of you know, I’ve been working to catch up with the date on the issues. I was hoping to be caught up by the 50th issue, but not it might take a little longer. And coming shortly, meaning a few weeks, two more issues will go out. Issues #41-43 went out to subscribers and Patreon supporters over the last week. That’s a bunch of reading. (grin) And there was a new Thunder Mountain novel in the group. In the coming Pulphouse Fiction Magazine kickstarter drive starting Thursday, there…
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A Collectables Day Finally
Got to Play With Stuff Today… After the writer’s lunch I went over to Sheldon McArthur’s place and had a blast talking and working with Shelly and his wonderful wife. First off, because I missed last month’s auction, Shelly bought a bunch of stuff that he knew I would want and he was spot on the money. Great stuff. And then we looked at a massive Coca Cola Christmas collection we will be picking up for the stores later in the week. And also an original Dell Comics stand. That’s right, a Dell Comics comic stand, in stunningly good shape. And I collect Dell Four Color comics, so they will…
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A Saturday Post
Mystery Workshop Finished Here… Kris, who taught the workshop is tired. Everyone who took the workshop is tired, but all seem happy. Sheldon McArthur, Chris and Steve York, and Dan C. Duval showed up tonight to talk with the writers before they headed out of town. So a fun Saturday evening. And a good week having writers in town and in the offices. —————————– I really hope some of you who like science fiction will give this bundle a try. You probably know of Kevin and Doug and Kris and Mike and me, but trust me, the writers in this you might not have heard of you will want to.…
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Well, That Was Fun
SOME GREAT COMMENTS… Both on the post about Beta Readers and privately. Thanks, everyone. I had forgotten how going after a sacred belief of beginning writers can really cause waves. Some were very happy about my opinion, calling them freeing. And some, in private letters, worked to justify their need for their very special beta readers. None of the later actually had the courage to do so in public. And I said nothing to them but “Good luck to you…” in my responses to them. What else can I say? No one really commented at all about my not even having a first reader when I started out. Nina Kiriki…
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The Runabout: A Diving Novel
It’s Out!!! Publishing today!!! For those of you who are major Diving Universe fans, Kris has a new Diving Universe novel out. It was the very first full novel to ever be in Asimov’s Magazine and now it is out stand-alone so you can get a copy of it. In case you can’t tell, I am a major Diving Universe and Boss fan. And this novel has it all. You can find it right here…. https://books2read.com/u/bQZrje Here is a bunch of cool stuff about the book… A graveyard of spaceships, abandoned by the mysterious Fleet thousands of years earlier. Boss calls it “the Boneyard.” She needs the ships inside to…
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Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Beta Readers Help You
This chapter came from me just hearing over and over about how writers are using multiple beta readers. And I honestly just got tired of shuddering every time I heard that stupidity. Chapter Six Beginning writers have a belief that the more people who read their work, the better their work will be. Of course, that flies in the face of any creation of art by an artist. But the fear is great among young writers, most of who are indie writers these days. Long term pros? What do they do? Maybe have one first reader, maybe not. Most not. Why? Because creating original fiction is not a group effort,…
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Working on a New Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing
Working on Stuff… Almost done with the new Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing chapter. In fact, there are a few head-shaking things that have come up over the last few years I think it’s time I say something about. So tomorrow I will have one of those done. In the meantime, challenges both have a spot or two open in them. Information below. And I am in a fantastic new science fiction bundle I helped curate. And I have a book in it as well. So here is all that information below and then tomorrow I will make some of you angry with my take on one of the silliest…
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ALIENS AMONG US Bundle
A GREAT BUNDLE… Science fiction readers all know that the main theme of all science fiction is the alien among us. Early on, when science fiction was a genre only read by science geeks and kids who built their own telescopes, readers felt that they were the aliens in the larger real world. School was an alien place, other humans felt alien. Science fiction felt safe. And science fiction stories and novels helped explain so much of what they were feeling. I was no exception. I always felt different, a little odd, never really fitting in. In other words: alien. And I loved science fiction and grew up reading it…