-
Valor: Military SF Bundle
I Have Had the Privilege of Curating a Story Bundle… This one is called Valor: Military Science Fiction. And wow is it a good one. https://www.storybundle.com/scifi Even though I am not known for writing military science fiction, I may have written more military sf novels than just about anyone. Not kidding. Why is that? I am known for writing Star Trek and that is military science fiction at its finest. But often readers don’t think of Star Trek as military science fiction. It is just Star Trek. My second published novel was a Star Trek novel in the Deep Space Nine series under a pen name and written with Kristine…
-
New Writing Bundle
NanoWriMo Writing Bundle… Every year Kevin J. Anderson puts together a fantastic bundle of writing books through Storybundle.com. And this year, in my opinion, he outdid any other year. I have read or looked at most of the books in this group, and I know a lot of the authors, and folks, this bundle is a real deal. Craig Martelle from the 20to50 conferences has a book in here. Joanna Pen, Kevin McLaughline, Blaze Ward, Jamie j. Ferguson, Simon Haynes, and Andrea Pearson to name just a few. Plus Kris has a great book and Kevin and Rebecca teamed up to write one as well. And, of course, I got…
-
The SF Plot Twist Bundle and Nifty Picture and Challenge
Tonight I Had Dinner With Some Writers… Here I go, headed into year seven with this blog. Tonight, Chris York, Steve York, Dan Duval, and I went out to dinner as I got ready to head out of town and Chris York wore a tee-shirt from 23 years ago. You see, Kris and I needed a ton of help 23 years ago to move to the coast. So our friends who helped got special tee-shirts that said, “What is worse than getting rejected by two magazines? Moving Them!” I was editing the first incarnation of Pulphouse and Kris was the editor of F&SF 23 years ago. How Chris York found…
-
Wow, What A Mystery Bundle!!
Man Did I Get Lucky… I am in a storybundle.com called The Femme Fatale bundle. Award-winning mystery writer O’Neil De Noux curated this bundle and has some amazing novels and writers in this one. Libby Fisher Hellman, Lawrence Block, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, to name just three major writers. And trust me, The Perfect Man by Kris is unlike any book you have ever read. And no way to ever go wrong with Grandmaster Lawrence Block. Now add in major mystery writers like Thomas Pluck and Julie Smith and this is a home run of a bundle. Wait! There is even more. O’Neil put in one of his fantastic New…
-
Nifty Bundle
Yes, I Sometimes Write Young Adult… My novel, the Adventures of Hawk reads like a young Indiana Jones fighting for his life on the Nile and discovering all sorts of nifty treasures along the way. Great fun to write and people tell me it is a great read. It’s in a bundle right now of young adult novels by some top young adult writers. I feel lucky to be a part of it, actually. So you can get my novel and some other great ones on https://storybundle.com/ya If you like young-adult adventure fiction of all types, this bundle is for you or give it as a gift to a student who…
-
Christmas Cheer Bundle
THE CHRISTMAS CHEER BUNDLE! For me, great stories and Christmas Holidays go hand-in-hand. I used to buy myself books for Christmas, and Christmas vacation was always a time I got to do the most reading when I was growing up. Then when I started writing, a friend and I challenged each other to write six Christmas short stories in seven days and put them in a little chapbook for our friends as gifts. We did that every year for years, cementing in my mind that Christmas meant stories. After I met Kristine Kathryn Rusch, she and I and a bunch of other professional writers would get together every Christmas Eve…
-
ALIENS AMONG US Bundle
A GREAT BUNDLE… Science fiction readers all know that the main theme of all science fiction is the alien among us. Early on, when science fiction was a genre only read by science geeks and kids who built their own telescopes, readers felt that they were the aliens in the larger real world. School was an alien place, other humans felt alien. Science fiction felt safe. And science fiction stories and novels helped explain so much of what they were feeling. I was no exception. I always felt different, a little odd, never really fitting in. In other words: alien. And I loved science fiction and grew up reading it…
-
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…
-
Time Is Running Out on Moonscapes
Just Over One Day Left… Ablegamers.com, the charity involved with this bundle could really use your help, folks. And you’ll get some great reading in the process. I am very proud, as I said earlier, of putting together this fantastic bunch of great science fiction novels. And of editing Fiction River: Moonscapes in the first place, which is also in the bundle. So I hope you will get this and try some great science fiction and while you are at it toss in a little for AbleGamers.com. And if you have already bought the bundle and are reading some of the great science fiction novels, do me a favor and…
-
TICKING CLOCKS
Offers That Will Vanish Shortly… A summary of offers that are vanishing shortly as we head into the summer months. Details below on each… 1… Write Stuff Bundle… one day left. (update: finished and deleted from this post) 2… Lecture Subscriptions…. Just a week or so left. 3… Strengths Workshops… Just a few weeks left. 4… Novel and Short Story Challenges… June 1st. —————— NEW SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES STARTED I will record six new lectures in May and through June. One new lecture per week in this special series will be added. Each lecture will consist of between 9 and 15 videos. These are Advanced, Advanced lectures, taking up where the…