A Break for You, Housekeeping for Me
In Today's Journal
* Quote of the Day
* A New Short Story
* Bradbury Reminder
* Echoes of Hemingway Anthology
* For Readers of TNDJ: Re True Pulp
* Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction!
* The Writing
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Quote of the Day
"Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment." Pat Summitt
A New Short Story
"Twelve Stories in a Bus Station" went live Friday at 10 a.m. on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. Go check it out. It's free.
If you enjoy the story, please click Like. Comments are welcome too. Both help with my Substack algorithms. Then tell Everyone else.
Bradbury Reminder
Today is Saturday. Just a reminder to get your Bradbury Challenge story info in to me before the Journal goes live on Monday.
Echoes of Hemingway Anthology
We've had our first non-contributor sale of the Echoes of Hemingway anthology! Congrats to all the authors. You guys please remember to spread the word via your email list and via social media. Here's a little boilerplate text to help you out:
Along with twelve other fiction writers, I have a short story (or stories) titled (provide the name of your story or stories) in the recently released Echoes of Hemingway anthology. See what you think!
For less than 50 cents per story you get 20 excellent short stories, all of them based on an Ernest Hemingway short story or novel.
Echoes of Hemingway is available for preorder in ebook at Amazon, Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else ebooks are sold.
Or to get your copy NOW for a dollar off, buy direct from StoneThread Publishing. Available in printable PDF, .epub, and .mobi formats.
All proceeds of direct sales through StoneThread Publishing will go to the True Pulp Kickstarter.
For Readers of TNDJ: Re True Pulp
AND for friends of readers of TNDJ (so please share!), the TRUE PULP Kickstarter is rolling along.
If you make a $10 donation to the TRUE PULP Kickstarter, and then email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com to let me know, you get
True Pulp: A Noir Anthology (13 stories),
Echoes of Hemingway (20 stories), and
Mobster Tales (10 stories)
Here’s the description of Echoes of Hemingway:
The 20 stories in this anthology cross the genres from noir to action-adventure to literary to science fiction to fantasy and more.
The anthology features 13 authors from bestsellers to prizewinning prolific professional storytellers to amateurs. And every story had its seed in a story or novel by Ernest Hemingway.
Here’s the description of Mobster Tales:
This 10-story collection runs the gamut from the hokey to the humorous, the wannabes to the would’a-beens, the chilling to the childish to the deadly serious.
There are 8 stories from Harvey and 2 from his borderline psychotic persona, Eric Stringer. If you enjoy hardboiled grit and noir—if you enjoy James Cain like stories in the protagonist's own unique voice—come along for some fun.
That's 43 short stories from masterful storytellers! An average of 23 cents per story!
If you like great fiction with strong characters, you don’t want to miss either of these collections.
But be sure to email me to let me know you've made a new donation to the True Pulp Kickstarter.
Quiet the Critical Voice and Write Fiction!
This Offer Ends at Midnight on Sunday, June 28.
If critical voice is slowing or stopping your writing, PLEASE download this FREE book. It will help.
At checkout, enter the coupon code MHGUD585KD.
You can download the book in .pdf, .mobi, and .epub. Free.
Many will leave me shaking my head. They'll accept TNDJ free, but pride will stop them from accepting a book that's compiled, in part, from things I've written in TNDJ. (grin) Go figure.
The Writing
I expect the novel to wrap today or tomorrow. Notice also the title change.
Tomorrow, Heinlein's Rules Series, 4. Stay tuned.
Of Interest
Website Tools If you're looking at putting together a website, check these resources. You can also email me to get a free short tutorial on using the WordPress dashboard.
Dean Koontz interview Thanks to Anita for this.
(Repeat) 6 Types of Submission Comments BookBub Editors Love to See
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 690
Writing of Blackwell Ops 46: Sam Granger | Hell Gets Personal
Day 1…… 1814 words. To date…… 1814
Day 2…… 2645 words. To date…… 4459
Day 3…… 1507 words. To date…… 5966
Day 4…… 1664 words. To date…… 7630
Day 5…… 1283 words. To date…… 8913
Day 6…… 3126 words. To date…… 12039
Day 7…… 3454 words. To date…… 15493
Day 8…… 3973 words. To date…… 19466
Day 9…… 2837 words. To date…… 22303
Day 10…. 3565 words. To date…… 25868
Day 11…. 1641 words. To date…… 27509
Fiction for June………………………. 51545
Fiction for 2025………………………. 514997
Nonfiction for June………………....... 23390
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 149540
2025 consumable words…………….. 658027
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 12
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 30
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………..... 116
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 300
Short story collections……………………. 29
Whatever you believe, unreasoning fear and the myths that outlining, revising, and rewriting will make your work better are lies. They will always slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.
Writing fiction should never be something that stresses you out. It should be fun. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Because of WITD and because I endeavor to follow those Rules I am a prolific professional fiction writer. You can be too.
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Congrats on a sale for the new anthology! And I wish I had a mailing list to shoot it to. Working on it, though. Excited for Dean Koontz interview. Was hoping it would be shorter. It's hard to find time and sit down for a 1.45 min video. Love his library. And dog! I read that is why he's still writing at his age, obviously not still needing more $ and no children to leave it to. He wants to make sure his fund for a service dog training program he supports is "deeply funded". He has a book with a service animal in it and when doing research for that and checking out a place near him he wanted to help them. I want to help dogs when I make it big, too.