• Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    New Novel Out

    Heads Up: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery… That’s right, I almost never announce one of my books here, but a lot of people have asked me when the next Cold Poker Gang novel will be out, so it published yesterday. There, I announced one of my own books. Don’t expect me to do that much this next year. I am gaining speed again so will publish too many things to do that. However, I will have a writing web site that will be different and I will announce that around the first of the year. There you can track what I am publishing. So anyhow, here is the sales copy…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Saving The World Storybundle Almost Done!

    ONLY DAYS LEFT… I set off to put this Storybundle called Saving the World together with a goal. I wanted to find as many ways as possible to save the world and as many worlds as possible to save. I figured that would be really fun for me to read and I hoped that a lot of you would feel the same. And what I was lucky enough to end up with is eight novels and two major collections of short stories, all fantastic. And fun. And on top of that, four of the books in this bundle can ONLY be found in this bundle. That’s right, they are exclusive…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  Recommended Reading

    Holiday Spectacular

    Kickstarter Backers Got a Deal… And the surveys are out and rewards and stretch rewards will be going out shortly. And on November 28th, the original stories will start arriving in people’s inboxes. Thirty-five holiday stories in a row for 35 days. Now, if you missed the Kickstarter, but would still like to have the stories every day, or give the stories as a gift to a friend, you can. All original and all written by top authors, including two by Kris. Here is how you can get them, and watch the nifty new very short video that explains it all. Simply go to this page to subscribe. $25 for all…

  • Challenge,  News,  On Writing,  Recommended Reading

    Fantastic New StoryBundle

    How Many Worlds Can Be Saved? I set off to put this Storybundle called Saving the World together with a goal. I wanted to find as many ways as possible to save the world and as many worlds as possible to save. I figured that would be really fun for me to read and I hoped that a lot of you would feel the same. And what I was lucky enough to end up with is eight novels and two major collections of short stories, all fantastic. And fun. And on top of that, four of the books in this bundle can ONLY be found in this bundle. That’s right,…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Five Days Left in the Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter

    GREAT STORIES AND REWARDS… Only five days left in the Kickstarter. You get 35 original holiday stories sent to you, one per day during the holidays, plus all kinds of other great stuff. And we are well on the way to the second stretch goal, which means more great reading. These campaigns tend to go fast toward the end, so we might make more than one more, I hope. And if you want great discounts for workshops and lectures, you have five days to get them. So give it a look. WMG Holiday Spectacular. And if you want to have Kris explain exactly what this is all about, watch this…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Fantastic Detectives

    Yup, I Said That… Fantastic Detectives And that is the title of a really fun new Storybundle I curated and that launched today. What a great way to start the year. There are nine novels (four are in two omnibus), and three story collections. That’s a lot of fantastic detectives and stories. Just look at the incredible list of authors. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson, Leah R. Cutter, Robert Jeshonek, Stefon Mears, Gary Jonas, Chrissy Wissler, Erik Kort and Lee French, plus a Poker Boy short novel from me and a volume of Fiction River edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. And you can toss in some money to help…

  • Fun Stuff,  Recommended Reading

    A Really Pointed and Fun and Funny Book

    Judge Bubba’s Christmas Letters. I mentioned this book last year and wanted to suggest it again this year because you will not only feel good reading these Christmas letters, but laugh and identify with much of it. Basically, you know the typical form letter you get from family or friends at Christmas? Well, these ain’t nothing close to typical. Judge Bubba decided the standard Christmas letter might be a little staid, so instead of polishing up and ignoring the funny or bad stuff of the year, he just puts it out there in a sort of story. Actually, a really funny story. Every year for twenty-one years. And this book…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    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…

  • On Writing,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    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…

  • On Writing,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Updates on All Sorts of Stuff

    Smith’s Monthly Issues Headed Out… Patreon supporters and Smith’s Monthly subscribers, you will be getting three issues of Smith’s Monthly, about one every other day, for the next week. Finally making a run at getting caught up. Paper subscribers won’t go out until the middle of August. Then in August everyone will get three or four more. Then in September three or four more issues. Then another one or two in October. Lots of reading headed your way. Thanks, everyone, for all the support. ————- I’m Slow Reading Challenge Stories… I will be reading some for the rest of the week, but will mostly get caught up in early August.…