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Playing Some Cards and Cat Pictures
Yes, I Am Doing More Than Packing A House… Not only did we have the great Friday night meeting and another fun one on Sunday at lunch, but over the last few days I have been going with a writer friend and his wonderful wife to play in some poker tournaments. Sunday, she and I won the tournament. (Called chopping…) Last night I was the first out. Both tournaments were fun and I made some nice money overall. Then this evening a couple other professional writers joined me and our visitors for a long dinner and discussions. We actually didn’t talk much writing or cats. Just fun having dinner with…
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Promotion Package Is Back
Only For a Short Time… The fine folks at WMG Publishing Inc. (Gwyneth, Josh, and Allyson to be exact) are doing an amazing job with the promotions packages. The packages turned out stunning. So after looking at a number of them that have gone out to authors, I asked them if they would mind opening it up for a few more writers and they all agreed. Seems they are enjoying doing them and learning a ton. (Some of what they learned helped get my five-year-old book and series to the top on Amazon a couple weeks ago and the series is still selling like crazy.) So here are the details…
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Fun Day
Errands and Meetings and Fun Conversations… Day started off with errands since it was my first full day back in town. Then meetings at WMG and some planning out at the bookstore. Then a fun dinner with writers. Then a fun business meeting with even more writers. Then I worked in my office at WMG cleaning up business stuff until after 1 a.m. Home to watch some television and get some sleep now. I will answer email tomorrow. Damn I have a tough life. (grin) ———– (Blog Streak Day 2,180) ———- Found… The picture below is on the wall of my office that I am tearing apart. I will move…
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Things Always Change
And There Is Always a Lifespan… Over the decades, I have been involved in numbers of groups and writer’s events. I helped start a workshop in Moscow, Idaho. Kris and I started a group and workshop in Eugene, Oregon. And we started a publishing company named Pulphouse Publishing that, by its nature, had a limited lifespan built into its DNA. (When we started WMG Publishing we made sure it did not have that fatal flaw.) Then twenty-three years ago we moved to the Oregon Coast. We had no desire to start anything here, but as the years went by, it just sort of happened. Workshops, Sunday lunches, and over the…
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Being Behind Is Normal
I Love Being Behind… (I put up this article over a year ago, thought it made complete sense then and I needed to hear it after the last few months. So here it is again, updated to summer 2018. Just for me. I hope the rest of you get a little something from it.) In indie publishing, what I hear over and over from indie writers everywhere is that they are behind. Always behind. A simple reason for this. There is too much we all want to do, need to do, feel we MUST do. And we have to have it done YESTERDAY. I am no exception to this. I…
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August Regular Workshops Now On Teachable
You Can Sign Up Now For August Workshops… I am going to leave the July workshops available for another day or so. First week of those are done. But not much to catch up if you jump in now in the July workshops. Get information on all online regular workshops here. Any questions, feel free to ask on any of them. Here is the July and August Schedule… All have openings at the moment. Class #1… July 10th … Depth #3: Research Class #2… July 10th … Author Voice Class #3… July 10th … Dialog Class #4… July 10th … Writing into the Dark Class #5… July 10th … Writing Fiction Sales Copy Class…
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Number One Continues…
Twenty-four Hours Later From Last Night’s Post… For the last 40 plus hours, my novel Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Novel has been #1 in the free books on Amazon, as well as a bunch of sub-categories for mystery. Normally a book with a Bookbub promotion like this hits near the top or the top for a few hours and then fades off. Lots of books have churned under my book in the last almost two days, but none have knocked me off the top spot yet. It will happen shortly, when the Bookbub promotions hit on Monday morning. But what a fun run. And yes, the free part…
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Still Number One
After Sixteen Hours… Wow, what fun this Bookbub promotion has been on Kill Game: A Cold Poker Gang Novel. We put Kill Game free for this promotion. (You can still get it on Amazon US and Kobo around the world and other sites. You can get information on it and the other books in the series here.) Now I understand that all the downloads are not sales. But there are six more books in the series plus a bundle. All of them cost money and all of them are selling well. Called a halo affect. We are so far beyond making money on the halo just from Amazon, it is…
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Research and Study
We Study In All Sorts of Ways… Normally I don’t say much about my reading or other activities except when I am detailing out a few days while writing a project in a challenge. Like the five day novel challenge. I do a little more detail on the short story challenges about the life around writing them. But not all of it by a long ways. But tonight I’ll tell you what I did for a few hours. I found myself studying a puzzle mystery form. Castle, the very first season when it was great, was a great puzzle mystery series pretending to be set in a police station. Not…
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The Secret To Being A Long Term Writer
This Post Brought Forward and Updated Some… (I thought this would be a fun topic to bring up again. This is from a bunch of years back and was only part of a daily report post.) I got a question from a writer about what full time writers there were and if I would recommend some of them to study to see how full-time writers did it. Well, I am about the only long-term full-time writer who does this level of honest blogging about my life. But my way of doing things is not the only way by a long, long ways. I tell writers to find their own way.…