Dean Wesley Smith and I had a lot of fun over the holidays as we assembled five collections for our new Kickstarter, Hearts Collide. The volumes in this Kickstarter feature our romance stories, half from me and half from Dean. I insisted on the subtitle, though, because the stories are often strange. I mean, look […]
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I’m making some changes for 2024. As many of you know, I discontinued the weekly publishing blog about a month ago. I will continue to talk about publishing on my Patreon page, but probably in a more personal way. Then, because I felt the need to ramp up my fiction production after a really awful […]
Continue ReadingThe Never Before Seen Kickstarter ended tonight, with more backers than I could have hoped for. Thank you to everyone who backed the Kickstarter and to those of you who shared it! I greatly appreciate it!
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With little less than 24 hours to go on the Never Before Seen Kickstarter, I need to up my game if I’m going to tell you about all of the stories that you’ll get if you become a backer. I still have two stories to cover. Just a refresher: we’re running an experimental Kickstarter to […]
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We are running a Kickstarter which is, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, quite an experiment. We’ve been trying to see how well the Kickstarter works for those extra short pieces of short fiction that I seem to compose more often than I want to think about. We have six of my short crime stories […]
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Because we need a bit of a holiday right now. Dean & I curated a holiday Storybundle, filled with wonderful short holiday fiction, from whimsical tales to a few dark crime stories. Lots of reading, but the main point of it all is that these are bite-sized stories, things you can read during your very […]
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As I mentioned on Tuesday, we’re doing a short Kickstarter that features six original pieces of short crime fiction. We called the Kickstarter Never Before Seen because those of you who back the Kickstarter will be the first to see these new pieces. So now, I’ll do a short series on what each one is. […]
Continue ReadingJust a quick heads-up to let you know that a brand-new Kickstarter has gone live. We’re experimenting to see how short fiction works in a Kickstarter. I have six mystery unpublished mystery stories here that vary in length from novella to short story. You can be the among the first to read them, as they […]
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It doesn’t seem like I’ve been all that silent here, but I have been. We experienced one of those life events that knocked us out of our routine and put us into a whole new world. A week ago Sunday, Dean tripped during a 5K run. He was going very fast, passing people and enjoying […]
Continue ReadingA lot of reading in June, but mostly for various editing projects. One of them, the Holiday Spectacular, will have a Kickstarter that goes live in October. Before that, though, you can sample our Christmas in July promotion of the Spectacular with the compilation of last year’s stories. What I did read outside of that […]
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