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Walking Again And Not Attending 20Books..
Got Two 5K Runs This Saturday… One run in the morning, one run in the evening. I am a long ways from being in good enough shape and down enough weight to actually run both of them. But both are great charities and worth the support, so we are going to try it. I will do a bunch of walking. One is a Donny Osmond run, meaning he uses his name to support the charity. I actually talked with him a couple years back about a book I started to write for him that fell through thirty years ago. He didn’t remember and I would have been shocked if he…
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Went to “Cats” Broadway Touring Play
Amazingly Good and Fun… The Smith’s Performing Arts Center opened back up tonight after what they call the longest intermission in history with a performance from the touring company of “Cats.” I had never seen it, and I found it fantastic fun, amazing dancing, and great music. Everyone had to show their vaccination card to get in. Three women were walking toward the entrance behind us when one said to the others, “Get out your cards and driver’s license and get your mask on. (We had to wear it the entire time. No big deal.) One woman said, “I don’t have a card.” I glanced back as two were putting…
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Refunds for the Game Will Take a Full Week…
So Give Me a Little Time… I will get to them all. Thanks! Tomorrow, unless I tell you otherwise, at some point the codes to get into the six stretch goal Pop-Up writing classes will be going out to everyone who backed the Ten Little Fen Kickstarter campaign. So watch for those from WMG and if you haven’t gotten them by Wednesday and I haven’t said they are delayed, check your spam filter and give it another day. If still not there, contact Josh at subscriptions@wmgbooks.com Over this next week I will also be contacting each person who signed up for one or both of the special workshops with the…
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Diving Universe Game Refund
Going Out This Week! The Diving Game that many of you picked up as a reward in the RETURN OF BOSS Kickstarter Campaign is still lost somewhere in this pandemic and international shipping mess. The game started off being delayed in one factory last October for almost three months. Then we pulled it from that factory just before it closed and got it in another. From that point we have heard (but can’t confirm) that it was shipped a long time ago. With so much cargo backed up in containers all over the world, and this being only 1,000 copies of a small game, we have no way of knowing…
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Last Day of the Sale!!
Ends on Sunday, October 10th, late in the evening, so don’t miss this one. Everything on WMG Publishing Teachable half price. Just use the code: FALLSPECIAL Lots of new workshops and writing classes. Normally we ended these sales on Thursday, but this time we only wanted to do a week and move on, see if people were still interested. Especially since we have some really amazing new workshops. POWER WORDS… That workshop started October 5th and then it is offered again on November 3rd and every month for a while after that. Going to be amazing. And difficult. MAKING A LIVING WITH NOVELS… That is starting on November 2nd. We…
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Only Two Days Left For the Workshop Sale!!
Just Two Days!!! Ends on Sunday, October 10th, so don’t miss this one. Everything on WMG Publishing Teachable half price. Just use the code: FALLSPECIAL Lots of new workshops and writing classes. Two months ago when we did the last sale, we suspected it would be the last one, but we had thought that before. And over this last month we have gotten a lot of questions about doing another sale. So in the end, after two months, we felt we could do a week-long sale to help out and keep people learning this fall. Plus, we have some really amazing new workshops. POWER WORDS… That workshop started October 5th…
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Got a Third…
That’s Right!! While off shopping at the grocery store, I noticed the pharmacy wasn’t busy, so stopped by and got my third Covid shot, my booster. Free. So two weeks ago I got my double-dose old-person’s flu shot and today got my third shot for Covid. Doing the best I can to protect not only myself, but people around me. Took me ten minutes and then I went back to shopping. I was marveling at how simple it was and how so many people are just too cowardly to spend the ten minutes to protect their own family. Even if you listen to Fox, at least have the courage to…
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The Wet Blanket Reality… Chapter Two
Chapter Two… The Query This book is a travelogue through the steps it takes in 2022 to become a traditionally published fiction writer. So please read the Introduction and First Chapter before this one. You do that, this chapter will make more sense, as much as this chapter will ever make sense to a sane, thinking person. (Writers are neither sane or thinking at this point in this process.) So after years of work, you declare your novel masterpiece finished and have a party. So what next? EVERYONE KNOWS (stupid common knowledge and not true, but we’ll go with the myth here) that you must have an agent to sell…
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That Was Close…
Almost Missed Doing a Blog… Day 3,351 in a row writing something here. Got done with all the workshop stuff, including starting the last of the October new workshops, then went back to my writing computer to work on a novel, then after a few thousand words headed to watch some television. Then after a short time, headed for bed. I was just about to doze off when I wondered what I had written about on my blog. I couldn’t remember. Then it dawned on my that I couldn’t remember because I hadn’t done it. Didn’t want to get up, almost tossed it in right there, but I climbed out.…
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October Workshops Starting…
Tuesday and Wednesday… The October regular workshops are starting, plus the second sessions of the special workshops from the Pulphouse Kickstarter. Those two are not available for sale, but the eight October regular workshops are available and there is a half-price sale going on. See the last two posts for information. I have two more chapters in the Wet Blanket Reality book done, both on the next steps a writer goes through with agents to get to being traditionally published. So stay tuned for that. Or as they say in traditional publishing, “Hurry Up and Wait.” (Not kidding.) Remember the two new six-week regular workshops, POWER WORDS starting tomorrow and…