• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    The 67 Challenge: Book One

    Going Fine So Far… Some of you might remember that back toward the end of October I set up a challenge for myself for my 67th year. I am 67 years old and decided I wanted to try to publish my age. Golfers try to shoot their age, so I figured why not? The rules I put on myself were basically counting books the same way as Asimov counted his books. If my name was on the cover and I did a bunch of work for that, it counted. I excluded short stories because I could publish well over 6o of those per year without pushing. So these books had…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  running

    Refocus on Running Day 2

    Refocus on Running Day 2 Hit only five  miles for a second day. As I said before, for a few days here I will focus on on this gaining distance until Sunday and then will expand this blog back out more. But right now I need to be focused on the running. This is a very short-term focus. Also I want to illustrate to those of you having some focus issues how you bore down to one thing for a short time to bring that thing back into focus. Second day was fun, though, not for the running, but because of the fun dinner and conversation I had with other…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Book Cover

    New Book Cover I had every intention of starting a new novel tonight, but alas it didn’t happened. But Allyson got a wonderful new cover for the book done since we are rebranding all of the “Star” novels in the Seeders Universe. Star Rain, Star Mist, and Star Fall. I know what the Starburst program is, since I set it up in Star Fall, but no idea what the book is going to be about other than galaxy spanning stuff. (grin) But didn’t get started tonight. Just dinged around on too many other things, plus workshop stuff. Ahh, well, maybe tomorrow. ——————– New Workshop and New Schedule October workshops all have…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    A Regular Sunday

    A Regular Sunday Writers meeting with just a few writers today until after four, then I headed out for a walk with a half mile of running in the middle, then back to the office to work on workshop stuff until time to go home at 7:30 to nap and then cook dinner. Spent the evening on workshops and other things, then watched a bunch of television. Slowly feeling more rested. ——————– New Workshop and New Schedule As I said last night, a number of people have used the reward for supporting the Fiction River Kickstarter drive to buy workshops from November forward, so I wanted to get more choices up. So now…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Topic of the Night,  Writing in Public

    Bundle Ending

    Bundle Ending in One Day!! So if you want to read my novel HEAVEN PAINTED AS A POKER CHIP, you can get it in a bundle with eleven other novels from other writers from Bundlerabbit. Click on the image to go to the bundle. Trust me, there are some great writers and great books in this bundle besides me. Just click on the picture to go to the bundle. Don’t Miss This One! The Day The door of yesterday’s battle continued the fight into the office. And at one point it bit Allyson, but she is all right. The door will find a home shortly, but there may be more…