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Fun Video For Pulphouse Subscription Drive…
Kickstarter Campaign Starts This Coming Tuesday… Going to be a great one. Lots of fun stuff and reading and so on. And Kris did this really fun video that shows the fun and all the great covers and merch and things for Pulphouse. So cool. Very short, take a look at it on YouTube. https://youtu.be/jotMzBoxxm4 And we already have been rewarded the designation of “A Project We Love” from Kickstarter. How cool is that!! So you can get some more information at Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2025. And there you can see the 12 covers for next year. They are stunning.
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I Really Like Sports…
Not Enough To Play Any of Them Anymore… But I love living in what has now become a major sports city. Tomorrow morning, (in the middle of my night) Kris and a number of other professional writers are headed off to an Ace’s game. We have season tickets and I love the games, but the one tomorrow starts at noon and I won’t be out of bed by then. Tonight, I saw an article about how the construction was going on the new “A”s baseball stadium. That will be a work of art when it is done. And then in the very next article I saw the renderings of a…
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A Look At 13 Years Ago… For Fun…
In 2012 Indie Publishing Was Just Starting… Since I started this blog 13 years ago today, I thought it might be fun to look back. Kris and I had been getting books up indie for over a year, and I had just finished time taking care of a friend’s estate. I had also done all the covers and loading and everything. Over 300 books at this point, mostly short stories by me and Kris and some of Kris’s novellas and some of her novels. I had put up about sixty of my short stories indie, but if you looked at the Amazon sales page under my name, the only thing…
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13 Years… Every Night… Without Missing
Not a Clue How I Did This… But somehow, since August 1st, 2012, I did some sort of blog here on this web site every night, without missing a night, for 13 straight years. 4,745 Days. During those years we started and built WMG Publishing with lots of ups and downs along the way. We moved suddenly to Las Vegas. I was in the hospital twice overnight, once for major surgery. I went through more power failures than I care to remember, and the internet went out even more. I never once posted a blog from my phone and did have help from Kris on a bunch of occasions typing…
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Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2025
Starts on Tuesday August 5th… Going to be a great one. Lots of fun stuff and reading and so on. And we have already gotten from Kickstarter the designation of “A Project We Love.” How cool is that!! So you can get some more information at Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2025. And see the 12 covers for next year. They are stunning.
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Too Late To Write Anything of Value…
Got to Start These Blogs Earlier in the Day… After four am is just too much of a gamble I will forget to do it as well. Considering I only have a few days left to keep this streak alive for 13 straight years every night, that would be a shame. So to be honest, my mind is mostly shut off, I need some sleep, and the last week has been great fun and a bunch of great news. So nothing tonight but about a hundred words of typing. Maybe I will do better tomorrow night. Maybe… Check back to see if it actually is more nothing. Now that would…
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Still Reading for Pulphouse…
Finding Some Great Writing… In fact, it is easy to say that almost none of the stories I have been reading are slush material. Almost none. Most of the stories pull me into the story with good depth and great characters and sometimes great voice. Yet I still am sending back a lot of them. Why? They don’t shout “Pulphouse Story.” Clearly they are good stories, maybe even great stories, but if they don’t have that “Pulphouse” feel, I stop reading and send it back and tell the writer why. I will be through the last stories sent in from the Series Collides Kickstarter in a week and in the…
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How I Write Clean One-Draft Fiction…
Writers Can Not Seem to Understand This… So first, let me say I averaged 1.3 million words of fiction a year from 1992 until 2023. You do the math. I wrote 106 novels in traditional publishing under a ton of pen names, and even more in indie. I have published north of 800 books and written over 700 short stories. Well over 35 million copies of my books are in print. All were written by the exact method I am about to tell you about… Tonight for a short story I came up with a title by combining two half-titles. “The Real Shape of Death.” So I started typing and…
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Story Going Long
So This Will Be Very Short Tonight… Besides, I think I stirred up enough dust last night. Interesting that the feedback and emails I got the most on was not rewriting (Heinlein’s Rule #3). It seems there are a ton of people who are dead set on destroying their creative voice by rewriting. Wow, is that myth strong. Now back to the ever growing story on my own computer. Have a great weekend.
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Some Basics About Writing That I Believe…
Okay, This Might Be Blunt… But here are some hard-held beliefs of mine that have helped me get through 50 years of writing and selling fiction. 1… I do not believe that anyone, for any reason, should tell another person what to write in their fiction. No one tries to tell me on fear of death, so this is not a problem that I face, but poor early stage writers are constantly bombarded by how they should write to market and so on and so on… I have told a lot of writers over the years to grow a backbone and write what they want. 2… I do not believe…