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WMG Publishing Bought a Bookstore
North by Northwest Books and Antiques shifts to WMG… About a week or so ago I saw on Facebook a post about how the owners of North by Northwest Books was going to have to close and give the store back to Sheldon McArthur. Some sort of personal reason. To say I was stunned would be an understatement. Sheldon McArthur, who many of you know, had started that store about ten years ago after he retired from being one of the most famous bookstore owners in the country. Shelly owned The Mystery Bookstore in the LA area and sold it to retire to the Oregon Coast. But once a bookstore…
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Fun Stuff Happening Today (Monday)
So Headed to Bed Early… I got another volume of Smith’s Monthly turned in to WMG tonight. And corporation taxes (all three corporations) off to the accountant. And a bunch of reading done on the challenge stories. Plus a writer’s meeting up at WMG earlier. So now since I have to be up early for something I can tell you about tomorrow night, I am off to bed. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I loved living in that middle ground. All my writing falls in the middle ground between two places. Every story. Some more…
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Bundle
I Wanted to Focus on the Bundle Again… I had a busy day doing a ton of stuff, but since this is Saturday night and things are dead, I figured I would just focus on the bundle I curated again. I really hope you guys go grab this one. And if you want to see what my superhero ghosts are like, The Poker Chip: A Ghost of a Chance Novel in the bundle will be a great place to start. Poker Boy makes an appearance in this one if I remember right. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with…
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Scattered
Doing a Bunch of Stuff… I ended up working on a big new project that WMG is tackling that I will talk about in a week or so, then worked at WMG on workshop stuff, then home to do email, take a nap, cook dinner, and so on. Then tonight I read stories and part of a novel for the challenge, then worked on putting together an issue of Smith’s Monthly. So did just about everything today and tomorrow looks like another similar day. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I loved living in that middle…
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Running Through A Novel
Ran Through the Dry Creek Crossing novel tonight… Kris is my first reader, and since both of us work on paper, she reads my books that way and when she spots a typo or something, she marks it. That means I need to run through and fix the marks I agree with. She often catches other small issues I tend to have. And, of course, it is copyedited at WMG before going into print. But tonight I was running through Dry Creek Crossing: A Thunder Mountain Novel I wrote in the third part of the challenge last month, getting it ready to be turned in with a Smith’s Monthly issue.…
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A Fun Day Once Again
Some Questions and Some Fun… Took most of the day off to play. And got into some warmth. Amazing how the long winter here is still affecting us. It felt great to go over to the valley with the 90 temps because here it was gray and 61. Normally I like the temperature. Just needed a touch of warmth today. And I got to do some picking. The really fun find this time was about 60 kids and young adult books for the store. $15 for all of them. Some Questions on Writing into the Dark workshop Mostly, the questions were around how much different this workshop will be than…
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WRITING INTO THE DARK: A New Online Workshop
WRITING INTO THE DARK… Learn how to write clean, first-draft novels and stories without ever outlining or rewriting. Yes, it can be done and most long-time professional writers do just that. Learn how to bring the fun of storytelling back to your writing and become more prolific along the way. This class will be full of techniques, myth-busting, and exercises to help you learn to write clean, first-draft novels that never need to be rewritten. If you automatically thought that can’t be done, you really need this workshop. If you are trapped in the myth of rewriting things until they are mush, you really need this workshop. If writing is…
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I Curated THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN Bundle
THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE Just Launched… The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I grew up on Twilight Zone back in the late 1950s and through the early 1960s. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I heard the sentence, “In the middle ground between light and shadow…” in that opening sequence to the Twilight Zone. Thankfully, my parents didn’t seem to mind that I watched that show every week. And for some reason that sentence out of the opening sequence stuck with me for my entire life. I loved living in that middle ground. All my writing falls in the middle ground…
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Fun Day
COLLECTING AND WORKSHOPS… I was out at our south store talking collecting, first with Shelly, then with a great guy who used to own a comic book store in Salem. Then, as I was about to leave to head out to do errands, a guy came in with some really neat stuff, one of which was a very strange CdV photo. CdV stands for Carte de visite, a form of photography out of France that was put on cards about the size of a playing card. This form became a fad for a time in the 1850s through 1870s. What was cool about this photo was it looked like a…
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Not Many Signed Up
AUGUST ONLINE WORKSHOPS STARTING… As is normal for August, very few people are signed up for the online workshops. They start on Tuesday and I think the list of workshops is a pretty good one, honestly. But summer seems to not allow people to spend the extra three hours a week or focus on the workshops. But that is normal. I see it every year. August is when a lot of writers wake up from the time of great forgetting to discover they have done little in the summer and are not behind on goals. If that is happening to you, just take a deep breath and reset the goals…