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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.…
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All July Workshops Started
July Regular Workshops… This might be out best list for a month of workshops we have ever done with the addition of the Magic Bakery workshop and Information Flow. I am very, very pleased these workshops have come this far. And are still moving forward. You can find the workshops under Online Workshops to the right of this post. Sign up for July on Teachable.com. For credits or workshops beyond July, write me. Each regular workshop is 6 weeks long. Again, it will take you about three hours per week on your own pace to do each of these if you do the assignments. All workshops have now started, but still…
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Store Has New Sign And Fun Stuff
It’s Friday, So Some Fun Stuff… First off, one of my books from my Seeders Universe is in a nifty bundle that you can buy just about everywhere. But for a ton more information on this bundle called Sci-Fi-July Redux, go to… https://bundlerabbit.com/b/sci-fi-july-redux And I have one of my all-time favorite stories in a nifty short story bundle called The UFO Bundle. Kris has a great story in this one as well. But I love my little story because it just is flat out weird. Just look at the cover blurb. (grin) Get information at https://bundlerabbit.com/b/ufos Our South Pop Culture store has a new sign just put up today. You should…
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July Workshops and Copyright
Still Time to Jump In… Kris and I have been working some on the two new regular workshops, Information Flow and The Magic Bakery, and they are turning out really nifty so far, in my opinion. The Magic Bakery will help put this business in complete perspective. And Information Flow is going to be tough, but an eye-opener. And I had a question yesterday that made me realize that writers just don’t know much about the aspects of Public Domain, and thus Copyright. So if I asked the question… “Can your heirs still sell your work 71 years after your death, when your work has dropped into the public domain?”…
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Making A Living With Short Fiction 2018
Back By Popular Demand… Actually, I am bringing this forward from May 2016 and it is mostly unchanged. I will put in BOLD ALL-CAP ITALICS when I have changed something. ———— Can You Make a Living Writing Only Short Fiction? Every year or so I look at this topic once again, do the math, see if anything has changed over the last couple of years. And now, here in May 2016, things have changed some, but in my opinion it would still be possible to make a decent living writing only short fiction. Why do I like this topic? Actually, because I love short fiction, meaning any story under around…
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In The Heart of Forgetting
This Week Is Smack In The Middle… …of the Time of Great Forgetting. Actually, might be a little closer to the end, but it clearly is the worst week. I can see it in the number of assignments turned in, in the number of comments about posts, both in letters and online, and in the lack of chatter about writing on different lists. For those of you who have not heard me talk about this fascinating time for writers, it is when all thoughts of the New Year’s Resolutions have vanished and when writing seems to be something you will do tomorrow. It starts early May and runs through late…
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What I Learned
A Very Quick List of the Main Thing I Learned from Different Writers… Just the main thing I learned from each of them that sticks with me… I learned much more from each one, of course, but this is the main thing from each that shaped me into the writer I am today. Why I remember each of these lessons is because I learned them deep. Very deep. Ray Bradbury… I learned from Ray that writing stories one-a-day or one-a-week does not lower the quality of the story or its value. Harlan Ellison… As I said last night, I learned it is possible to write clean, one-draft award-winning fiction. Algis…