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Read Kris’s New Blog Post
A Glimpse of a Day Around Here… Kris has a new blog post this week about negotiating and other topics. It has some stunning advice that if you follow will help you a great deal. She learned that from hard knocks, folks. Also, as you read her post, keep firmly in mind the Magic Bakery concept. But her blog also gives you a few hints of what a day around here is like. Kris and I talk about this kind of stuff she gets or I get. She makes the final decision on her stuff and I make the final decision on stuff like that coming to me. But we…
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Challenge Stories and Novels
Doing a Lot of Reading… At the moment I am finishing up novel after novel for the novel challenge that a number of writers signed up for. Everyone is doing great, getting more than they would have, they tell me. The challenge goes to the end of this month. I have not sent back many replies yet because I didn’t want my words in any writer’s head. But now, with two weeks to go, I will start sending out the ones I have finished over the next few days. I figure if the writer’s are going to make it, they are already mostly there. I still have a number of…
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A Fun First Day
North by Northwest Books and Antiques Back In Business… As I said yesterday, WMG Publishing just bought North by Northwest Books and Antiques. And today was our first day. Moving stuff was the order of the day. Since our stores need a large eBay and ABE sales area behind the counter, Dan worked on setting that up all day while I helped some. Going to be adding a lot of light and creating an entire room for just the nifty pharmacy stuff. Thankfully, Shelly will be back two or three times a week to help with all that. Plus the books. I think he has forgotten more about books and…
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Fun Stuff Happening Today (Monday)
So Headed to Bed Early… I got another volume of Smith’s Monthly turned in to WMG tonight. And corporation taxes (all three corporations) off to the accountant. And a bunch of reading done on the challenge stories. Plus a writer’s meeting up at WMG earlier. So now since I have to be up early for something I can tell you about tomorrow night, I am off to bed. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I loved living in that middle ground. All my writing falls in the middle ground between two places. Every story. Some more…
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Bundle
I Wanted to Focus on the Bundle Again… I had a busy day doing a ton of stuff, but since this is Saturday night and things are dead, I figured I would just focus on the bundle I curated again. I really hope you guys go grab this one. And if you want to see what my superhero ghosts are like, The Poker Chip: A Ghost of a Chance Novel in the bundle will be a great place to start. Poker Boy makes an appearance in this one if I remember right. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with…
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Scattered
Doing a Bunch of Stuff… I ended up working on a big new project that WMG is tackling that I will talk about in a week or so, then worked at WMG on workshop stuff, then home to do email, take a nap, cook dinner, and so on. Then tonight I read stories and part of a novel for the challenge, then worked on putting together an issue of Smith’s Monthly. So did just about everything today and tomorrow looks like another similar day. —————- THE UNIVERSE BETWEEN BUNDLE The Universe Between Bundle I curated this bundle and I had great fun with it. I loved living in that middle…
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Running Through A Novel
Ran Through the Dry Creek Crossing novel tonight… Kris is my first reader, and since both of us work on paper, she reads my books that way and when she spots a typo or something, she marks it. That means I need to run through and fix the marks I agree with. She often catches other small issues I tend to have. And, of course, it is copyedited at WMG before going into print. But tonight I was running through Dry Creek Crossing: A Thunder Mountain Novel I wrote in the third part of the challenge last month, getting it ready to be turned in with a Smith’s Monthly issue.…
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A Fun Day Once Again
Some Questions and Some Fun… Took most of the day off to play. And got into some warmth. Amazing how the long winter here is still affecting us. It felt great to go over to the valley with the 90 temps because here it was gray and 61. Normally I like the temperature. Just needed a touch of warmth today. And I got to do some picking. The really fun find this time was about 60 kids and young adult books for the store. $15 for all of them. Some Questions on Writing into the Dark workshop Mostly, the questions were around how much different this workshop will be than…
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WRITING INTO THE DARK: A New Online Workshop
WRITING INTO THE DARK… Learn how to write clean, first-draft novels and stories without ever outlining or rewriting. Yes, it can be done and most long-time professional writers do just that. Learn how to bring the fun of storytelling back to your writing and become more prolific along the way. This class will be full of techniques, myth-busting, and exercises to help you learn to write clean, first-draft novels that never need to be rewritten. If you automatically thought that can’t be done, you really need this workshop. If you are trapped in the myth of rewriting things until they are mush, you really need this workshop. If writing is…
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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…