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A Dip Into the Past…
Looking Through the Twenty Issues of the Original Pulphouse Magazine… In the last Pulphouse Kickstater, we offered a stretch reward that we said would be coming out about now that was a sample of the stories I published back in the original Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine. So I was putting that together tonight. I quickly came to realize a few things. The small volume I was putting together could not be a best-of volume because there are just far, far too many great stories in those twenty volumes. I needed to pick eight for this short sample of stories from back 30 years. So this would not be a best-of…
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Proud of Smith’s Monthly Restart
I Got the First Three in Paper… January, February, and March issues of Smith’s Monthly Magazine are in my hands in paper. April issue will ship near the middle of the month. So thought I would goof around for a minute, take a few pictures, and post them here of the first three issues from this year. I do all the layout for the paper editions. Including a ton of ads all the way through. It is a two-column format and takes me about ten hours a month total to lay them out, do the covers for the short stories and the wrap cover for the magazine, and put in…
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Hit Next Stretch Reward
With Only Hours Left… And only hours left to get into the Special Writing Epic Fantasy three-week workshop. It will only be offered, ever, though this campaign. This campaign ends at 7 pm today, West Coast Time. So if you want the special workshop, you only have hours to sign up. So go to Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign and get the special workshop, plus all the extras. As far as workshops go that are extra, if you are a backer of this campaign, you will get, without any more cost than your backer amount, seven brand new Pop-Up Classes. (And they add into the Special Writing Epic Fantasy…
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Last Thirty Hours…
This Ends at 7 PM on Wednesday. That’s Tomorrow! The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign… Last chance to get the Special Writing Epic Fantasy workshop. It will only be offered through this campaign, never again. Last chance with a simple pledge to get a lot of great fantasy reading and six writing classes worth $900. Last chance to get the first seven books of The Fey at a discounted price. Only thirty or so hours left. Last full day. And pass the word to writer friends and fantasy fans. Help us reach that last stretch reward.
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Return of the Fey Kickstarter only 60-Plus Hours Left
Don’t Let This One Slip Past… Folks, after almost twenty years, Kris is returning to The Fey and she needed your help. Watch her in the video and she explains it perfectly. She needed a deadline and you have given it to her now with The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign. But now, with all the stretch rewards this campaign has hit, this is more than worth everyone backing, readers or writes, to try to hit even the next stretch reward. But only a few days left, counting down now by hours!! In the campaign there are some really cool things. Kris has already started a blog series that…
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Smith’s Monthly Magazine Covers
Doing Paperback Layout for #48 Yesterday and Tonight… That is the April Issue. So I had to do a cover for #49, the May issue, because, you know, coming-next-month kind of thing. #49 is the May issue and I still haven’t figured out what I am doing for #50. But got some fun ideas. #49 issue will have the full novel Bottom Pair: A Cold Poker Gang Novel. It will go out to the Kickstarter backers in April and then in early May will appear in Smith’s Monthly. So had to do the cover. So figured tonight, since it is Saturday night, I would take a moment to show you…
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And Old Projection Brought Forward For Fun…
What is a Print Run, Grandpa? I wrote this as a start of a blog in 2013… Projecting what I thought might be the future. Wow, took less than thirty years, except in traditional book publishers. Here is what I wrote eight years ago… ——— I can imagine myself in thirty years sitting in a bar, my cane nearby to fight off any unwanted advances from elderly women while Kris sits there laughing at my delusions. Then suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, a young writer walks up to me and asks “What is a print run, Grandpa?” And I’ll have to answer that back in the days before the oceans…
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Figuring Out a Stretch Goal
Approaching Next Stretch Goal… The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign has 5 days left and we are nearing the 7th Stretch Goal (amazingly cool!). When we hit that goal, all backers will get the fantastic novel FANTASY LIFE by Kris and another Pop-Up writing class called Freedom Indie Publishing Provides. That is a $150 value. I have promised another stretch goal above the 7th, so I know for the 8th stretch reward it will be another $150 Pop-Up class called Creating Tension in Your Writing. We just have not decided on the next book for that goal. And if we get close to that goal, we will add yet…
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Brand New Story Bundle…
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LOVE MYSTERY… Kris put together what I think might be one of the best mystery StoryBundles in a long, long time. And I feel really lucky to have a book in this one, let me tell you. Here is the link to get it: https://storybundle.com/mystery Here is Kris’s blog introduction to the bundle… —– SECRETS AND LIES STORYBUNDLE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Want me to pick up a book? Put the word “secret” on the cover. Secret histories, secret lives, or heck, just the word “secrets” by itself. I love secrets. Secrets imply something slightly nefarious, something untoward, something that must be kept hidden for…
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Covers for Issue #48 of Smith’s Monthly
Short Story Covers… This for Smith’s Monthly #48 which is the April Issue. I did these five covers tonight, took me about an hour and a half total, again the longest time was looking for the art. Just as with every month, the short story covers are all different in the issue. That’s a good thing. There is an original Marble Grant story, which has a different look to the cover using Pop Art. The other four all used the template. I have original stories from Bryant Street, Sky Tate, Cold Poker Gang and a reprint of a Pahket Jones story from the cat anthologies. So five very, very different…