You know, sometimes cats make great assistants, and sometimes, no matter how hard they try, they’re not up for the task. Angel tried to help me with my writing challenge in December, but it didn’t work. First of all, I gave up writing on yellow legal pads in the seventh grade. (Although I did write […]
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Tuesday’s election results in the United States have left a lot of people feeling shocked, dismayed, upset, and angry. Others are pretty happy with that result. And even more people have moved on, thinking, Well, that’s over. It’s not over, really. Whenever a new administration comes in the White House, changes occur. I suspect that […]
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Right now, every single person I speak to in the United States mentions how stressed they are. We have a lot going on here. It’s a week from the election, two days from Halloween, and it’s been a weird summer (at least here in Las Vegas). At WMG, we’ve been dealing with all sorts of […]
Continue ReadingDean and I just finished outlining the entire Mystery Novella class that we’re co-teaching. It’s based on the writers workshops that I have always wanted to do in person, but I think it would take at least two weeks, several hours per day, to teach one novella class. Right now, that’s cost prohibitive here in […]
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As many of you know, Dean and I had a heck of a year. I had more dental surgeries than I want to think about. Dean fell during a 5K and shattered his shoulder, having major surgery and PT. We had (and still have) a major business issue to deal with. Of course all of […]
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We have hit the last day of the Kickstarter for the newest Fey book, Incident at Serebro Academy. The book is a standalone adventure in the Fey saga—the perfect place to start. You can get the ebook with every reward, and that includes a discounted price on all of the Fey novels. We’ve hit stretch […]
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For a long time, we’ve been trying to figure out how to bring new writers into our online writing workshops. Over the years, we’ve put together almost a thousand workshops. Many (most) are geared toward already established writers who want to improve their craft. But a lot of them are good for beginners as well. […]
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Before the pandemic, we did an Anthology Workshop in person every year. The last one was in February of 2020. Yeah, you all know what that means. We decided to return to the Anthology Workshop this year. They take a lot of work to set up and get underway. This year’s will happen in August, […]
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Oh, my goodness, I’ve had fun with videos this spring. Once again, I’m the one doing the videos for WMG Publishing, Inc., a fact that makes me very happy. Our videos lacked voice for the past several years. (I’ll share an example of that later in the week.) I did the video for the Ghost […]
Continue ReadingWe are offering a series of Prepare Ahead classes for the writers who are attending our in-person Anthology workshop in August. That workshop is closed, but you all can learn about the craft of writing to a particular subgenre without attending. The Prepare Ahead classes are open to anyone. On Sunday, the latest class, Military […]
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