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    I Love Being In StoryBundles

    For a Number of Reasons… First, I love reading, as a reader, what the other writers have put in the StoryBundle. Usually takes me the entire time the bundle is up before I get done reading or looking at them all.  But just as a reader who buys it, I love all the different books in a certain topic. Great fun. Second, it helps people find different work of mine that chances are I would write, publish, and forget. Needing a book to put into a Storybundle is a great incentive. And I have actually written a few books over the years just for a bundle. And it gives the…

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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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    A Fantastic Gift to Give…

    Maybe the Best Gift to Give in this Crazy Year… To help your family and friends stay safe this holiday, give them the gift of a bundle full of great holiday books to stay home and read. Novels, short novels, and a ton of short stories. Plus a classic book full of the traditional L. Frank Baum stories. The Good Cheer Holiday StoryBundle if full great reading by great authors. And it is scary easy to give as a gift. There is just a check box that asks, “Is this a Gift?”  You check that and pay at least $15 for all ten books. You tell them who to send…

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    Holiday Stories

    All Kinds of Ways to Get Holiday Stories… I have said this before, and more than likely I will say it again. I really like the basic Lifetime Holiday Movies and the Hallmark Holiday Movies. I tend to look at and scan through, or actually watch completely, one movie a night. Kris doesn’t really watch that kind of movie, so its me, just enjoying the journey, often with a bag of popcorn, or on some nights a mug of hot chocolate. Best movie so far that is new this year on Lifetime is a time travel one, standard letters through time plot with a portal, but it worked fine. My…

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    Last Days of a Great Storybundle!!

    I Have a New Collection In This Bundle Just over one day left to get this bundle. This collection premiered in this nifty Space Opera Storybundle curated by Robert Jeschonek. A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection of five major stories in my Seeders Universe. And the Storybundle it is in is flat out amazing.  You don’t want to miss those books if you are a fan of space opera. You also get the book that started Kris’s incredible Retrieval Artist series. So don’t miss this. Just a day to go and the bundle will be gone. My collection is not published out wide yet, and won’t be for another…

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    Thanks for the Positive Comments

    Glad The New Look Is A Good One… I sure like it and am working every day now to update all the information here. I will shout out in a month or so when I think I have most things updated. Amazing how far a web site can get behind when a person like me doesn’t much care about promotion of my own books. I just like writing them and putting them out. But now I figure if I can get this new look caught up, I have a better chance of keeping it caught up. One can dream, right? (grin) And speaking of my books, I have three collections…

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    Visions of the Future

    New StoryBundle Just Launched… I put this one together and to be honest, I am damned proud of the books I got for this one. Some really, really amazing science fiction by some top writers. I will be back tomorrow with more, but might want to check it out at: Storybundle.com/scifi

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    Fantastic New StoryBundle

    How Many Worlds Can Be Saved? I set off to put this Storybundle called Saving the World together with a goal. I wanted to find as many ways as possible to save the world and as many worlds as possible to save. I figured that would be really fun for me to read and I hoped that a lot of you would feel the same. And what I was lucky enough to end up with is eight novels and two major collections of short stories, all fantastic. And fun. And on top of that, four of the books in this bundle can ONLY be found in this bundle. That’s right,…

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    Fantastic Detectives

    Yup, I Said That… Fantastic Detectives And that is the title of a really fun new Storybundle I curated and that launched today. What a great way to start the year. There are nine novels (four are in two omnibus), and three story collections. That’s a lot of fantastic detectives and stories. Just look at the incredible list of authors. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kevin J. Anderson, Leah R. Cutter, Robert Jeshonek, Stefon Mears, Gary Jonas, Chrissy Wissler, Erik Kort and Lee French, plus a Poker Boy short novel from me and a volume of Fiction River edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. And you can toss in some money to help…

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    A Really Pointed and Fun and Funny Book

    Judge Bubba’s Christmas Letters. I mentioned this book last year and wanted to suggest it again this year because you will not only feel good reading these Christmas letters, but laugh and identify with much of it. Basically, you know the typical form letter you get from family or friends at Christmas? Well, these ain’t nothing close to typical. Judge Bubba decided the standard Christmas letter might be a little staid, so instead of polishing up and ignoring the funny or bad stuff of the year, he just puts it out there in a sort of story. Actually, a really funny story. Every year for twenty-one years. And this book…