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 […]
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Great Storms Rolling Over… So this is a quick one while the power is still up and I can use my phone as a hot spot for the internet. Smith’s Monthly subscribers and Patreon supporters should have an issue of Smith’s Monthly yesterday. If not and you think you should have, write me. Challenges still […]
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ACTUALLY THREE ISSUES OVER THE NEXT WEEK… Yup, slowly getting back on track. Got a ways to go yet, but getting closer. I would like to be back on track by issue #50. (And yes, when I think about filling my own magazine with 50 novels and over two hundred short stories and other stuff […]
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Writers in the Back Room… Tonight at 7 p.m., a bunch of writers from around the country gathered in the meeting room in the WMG offices for a mystery workshop taught by Kris. Looks like a great group and I got to spend about thirty minutes with them before Kris kicked me out and into […]
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Been Going Steadily All Day… Took out about forty Black Cat Magazines from 1895 to 1900 for Billy at Pop Culture to sell. That was fun. They are very rare and mostly in fantastic condition. They are a digest-sized magazine that Kris and I have had for a very long time and neither of us […]
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Working on An Issue of Smith’s Monthly… And I had so many things that sort of crowded ahead of it that I didn’t get it done tonight and turned in as I had told Allyson I would at WMG. Now she won’t be surprised, but I am disappointed in myself to be honest. I wanted […]
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I Have For Most of My Writing Career… My very first published young adult novel was an Iron Man novel. It was called, if I remember right, Steel Terror. Part of a series one publisher was doing back in the early 1990s in conjunction with Marvel. I had fun writing it, but the series died […]
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A Lot Like What Is Needed To Write A Novel… Since I have been talking about the challenges the last two nights, and I got some great letters today from a few brave souls who are interested, I thought I would go over in general the attitude it takes to do a challenge like these. […]
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A Few More Details… For those interested in the challenges I announced last night, here are a few more details about them. Still lots of room in both challenges. First I want to stress the point of this is to help writers and have fun and get some novels and stories done. I also function […]
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I Am That Crazy… I am going to do it again. I am offering to be a first reader for some of you. I am basically done with all the reading from the summer challenges I did. Those challenges were simple and turned out to be fun for me. And the writers who participated said […]
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https://storybundle.com/aliens
I am super proud to be a part of this bundle and having a chance to work with Allyson Longuiera to put it together. Take a look. I don’t think you can find a better group of science fiction novels at this price.
Yes, I sometimes write young adult as well.
My very first published young adult novel was an Iron Man novel. It was called, if I remember right, Steel Terror. Part of a series one publisher was doing back in the early 1990s in conjunction with Marvel. I had fun writing it, but the series died and that was it.
Over the years I wrote a few other young adult novels and stories here and there. But I have two ya novels that were in Smith’s Monthly, first as a serial, then as stand-alone novels. Now, you can get one of those novels in a nifty Storybundle called THE LIGHT IN THE DARK YA BUNDLE.
The book I have in this bundle is a pure western young adult called The Life and Times of Buffalo Jimmy. I hope this winter to write more Buffalo Jimmy novels for Smith’s Monthly.
Get it at https://storybundle.com/ya
This small area will be to keep track of each Smith’s Monthly progress in being put together. Instead of tracking the writing every day, you can track the progress here if interested.
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SMITH’S MONTHLY #41 (In Production)
Novel: Tombstone Canyon: A Thunder Mountain Novel
Non-fiction Serial: Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing Part 2
Short Stories
— The Theft of Regrets: A Marble Grant story
— A Deal at the End of Time
— Not Easy to Kill the Light Next Door: A Bryant Street Story
— An Immortality of Sorts
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SMITH’S MONTHLY #42 (In Production)
Novel: Death Takes a Diamond: A Mary Jo Assassin Novel
Non-fiction Serial: The Magic Bakery: Part 1
Short Stories
— Delightfully Dizzy: A Marble Grant story
— The Five Roads Tavern and Eatery
— Through the For Sale Sign: A Bryant Street Story
— Smile
— Habit
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SMITH’S MONTHLY #43 (In production)
Novel: Dry Creek Crossing: A Thunder Mountain Novel
Non-fiction Serial: The Magic Bakery: Part 2
Short Stories
— A Lady in Heat: A Marble Grant story
— In the Dream of Many Bodies: A Bryant Street Story
— The Last Short Putt of a Fearful Man
— Tombstone Canyon: The Short Story: A Thunder Mountain Story.
— The Last Man
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SMITH’S MONTHLY #44 (In early production)
Novel: Burn Card: A Cold Poker Gang Novel
Non-fiction Serial: Heinlein’s Rules
Short stories to be determined.
I now have a Patreon page with some nifty rewards for your monthly support.
Just click on the image to go to my new Patreon page.
To get more information about each issue of Smith's Monthly, simply click on the cover image to go to Smithsmonthly.com
To get more information about each issue of Smith's Monthly, simply click on the cover image to go to Smithsmonthly.com
To get more information about each issue of Smith's Monthly, simply click on the cover image to go to Smithsmonthly.com
To get more information about each issue of Smith's Monthly, simply click on the cover image to go to Smithsmonthly.com
