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New Bundle Out
New Bundle Out Many of you know I have written some thrillers over the years. The main one I can claim is Dead Money. A poker-based thriller. It sort of was the anchor to my mystery series called The Cold Poker Gang series. However, under a pen name a while back in time I wrote a thriller set on and around a golf tournament. Yup, not kidding. (Remember, I used to be a PGA golf professional.) And the original book had sex in it, sort of graphic sex, actually, because that was the basis and slant of the publisher I wrote it for. So it was a sex golf thriller.…
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A Celebration
A Celebration I want to have the 36th issue out of Smith’s Monthly this month. (Go ahead, try to wrap your brain around that. A novel, four or five short stories, serial novel, all mine, every month for 36 months. Yeah, go ahead, imagine doing that. (grin)) Why this month? Because this is the 36th month since the first Smith’s Monthly came out. So since the writing is slow at the moment due to massive amounts of other things which will clear shortly, I decided to put my entire first published novel, Laying the Music to Rest, in the 36th issue. Thought that would be cool. I had been serializing the…
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New Stuff
New Stuff As I said yesterday, I drove to Salt Lake and spent a few fun days at a great romance writers conference there. Well run, lots of great writers. It was an honor to be invited. I ended up teaching two classes, one about indie and one about business. Of course, both topics are so large an hour didn’t begin to start to cover either topic. But tried to cover some basics and then opened it up for questions. Got some great questions. What I noticed the most and that was the most fun for me was being around so many writers hungry to learn. That hunger is infectious.…
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Just Got Back
Just Got Back I drove to Salt Lake and spent a few fun days at a great romance writers conference there. Well run, lots of great writers. I’ll talk more later about it when I wake up. Back to a regular post and some articles tomorrow. Night. ———————————— Totals For Year 4, Month 3, Day 9 Writing in Public blog streak… Day 1,116
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Refocus on Running Day 4
Refocus on Running Day 4 Hit the five miles for a fourth day. I have spent the last three days down in the Salt Lake area with the state chapter of the Romance Writers of America. A fantastic group, a great conference, and I was honored to be part of it, teach a couple of classes, and give a very short speech. Mostly I got to learn from all the wonderful and dedicated and driven writers there. Great time. I really love to hang around with writers who want to learn. So tomorrow I’ll go back to a more normal blog here about writing and other things since I will be home.…
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Refocus on Running Day 3
Refocus on Running Day 3 Hit five miles for a third day. And I got to learn a bunch of fun stuff from some fantastic professional writers. I’ll explain more next week. And I ate far too much. (grin) As I said before, for a few days here I will focus on on this gaining distance until Sunday and then will expand this blog back out more. But right now I need to be focused on the running. This is a very short-term focus. Also I want to illustrate to those of you having some focus issues how you bore down to one thing for a short time to bring that thing…
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Refocus on Running Day 2
Refocus on Running Day 2 Hit only five miles for a second day. As I said before, for a few days here I will focus on on this gaining distance until Sunday and then will expand this blog back out more. But right now I need to be focused on the running. This is a very short-term focus. Also I want to illustrate to those of you having some focus issues how you bore down to one thing for a short time to bring that thing back into focus. Second day was fun, though, not for the running, but because of the fun dinner and conversation I had with other…
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Refocus on Running Day 1
Refocus on Running Day 1 Got started and hit the five miles instead of seven miles. For a few days here I will focus on on this until Sunday and then will expand this blog back out more. But right now I need to be focused on the running. This is a very short-term focus. Start was good. Other things… — October workshops started up. If you want to jump in, look back a few posts for the list of October workshops and write me. — Patreon supporters will be getting two issues of Smith’s Monthly shortly. More than likely next week. — Kickstarter supporters will be getting surveys in…
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Getting Refocused
Getting Refocused Sometimes, when the world hits with far too many things, we all lose focus. I am no exception to that. But I am pretty good at getting refocused. So I have two major things I am going to refocus on. I have a marathon I want to at least start in November, so over the next weeks I need to give that some top focus. So that’s first. Very short term. So for the next month I will be reporting at times and doing some more videos on the marathon progress. That starts on Wednesday (today as you read this, tomorrow for me). Second, going to be bringing…
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Comics and Workshops and Business Diversity
Comics and Workshops and Business Diversity Last few days was a pretty good example of the business diversity of WMG Publishing Inc. Kind of fun to look at, actually. It started off a few days ago when the electronic issues of the new Fiction River went out to subscribers. Paper copies will be headed out to authors and subscribers as soon as they arrive, which should be any day now. I will also have out a few more issues of Smith’s Monthly shortly and a new novel this month will go out. All on the publishing side of things. We are publishing about five projects a month now on a normal…