And Now, A Very Special Offer
In Today's Journal
* Doing the Work
* A Very Special Offer
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Doing the Work
Yesterday I wrapped up the Echoes of Ellison collection. I finished cycling and formatting (it even has an interactive table of contents) and created a cover, so it's ready to publish.
I decided not to write an extra short story for it (so no "Special Edition," at least for now).
Since I'm making it available as a bonus for the True Pulp Kickstarter (I even shared the promo below with my co-contributors) I'll hold off publishing it wide until July 26.
My first reader has the collection at present, and I'm pleased with it. I'm also pleased to be finished with it so I can get back to writing new stuff. (grin) That's where I belong.
A Very Special Offer
Note: This offer will expire when the current True Pulp Kickstarter ends. Only 14 days left!
If you've supported the True Pulp Kickstarter, Thank you!
If you haven't supported the Kickstarter yet, this is a great time (and a great reason) to do so.
To take advantage of this special offer,
you must donate at least $10 to the TRUE PULP Kickstarter. (Sorry, the offer is not retroactive to previous donations.)
Of course, your donation will get you the True Pulp anthology with its Kickstarter-only cover by default.
But if you email me to let me know you've donated to the Kickstarter, I'll also send you both the Echoes of Hemingway anthology AND either
my special-edition Echoes of Ellison 14-story collection. (You won't be able to get this special edition anywhere else until after the Kickstarter ends.) OR
your choice of any of my 10-story collections.
Here’s the description of the Echoes of Hemingway anthology:
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.
For the description of any of my 10-story collections, visit StoneThread Publishing and click on any cover that interests you.
And here's the description of Echoes of Ellison:
Echoes of Ellison contains tales reminiscent of Harlan Ellison's stories, ranging from the not-quite normal to the fantastic, from the tragic to the comedic, from the dark tale to the fairytale.
You’ll encounter a mind cleaner who enters the mind of an angel. What will he find there? You’ll climb aboard a bull with a rodeo cowboy who’s beleaguered repeatedly by a black angus bull in the arena and a raven-haired woman in his dreams.
You’ll witness what happens when the one woman whom Giacomo Casanova has loved down through the ages works to bring him back to life, and you’ll read the story of a Death Valley hiker who encounters, and questions, God face to face.
You’ll accompany a scriptwriter (and a scriptwriter’s mind) as he makes his way over rough terrain through a nuclear holocaust, and you’ll watch a storm chaser in Oklahoma as he remembers who, or what, he really is.
You’ll share the frustrations of a rural boy who was forced into manhood by the death of his father, and watch as he’d tested to his limits. You’ll learn the ground rules about all the frightening little things we don’t generally admit to noticing at all.
You’ll consider the morality of euthanasia and how you might one day pay the oldest debt, and you’ll wade deeper into the moral morass with a cruel boy who loves to crush bugs, and the price that must be paid.
You’ll also accompany an elderly Cajun man on a single-minded mission into the backwoods of Louisiana, then witness a hell on future-Earth in “Six Days in May.”
Then you’ll relive the story of Little Red Riding Hood with a new, improved Red who believes in magic and in herself.
Finally, as I wrote above, interspersed among the 13 regular short stories, an extra, 14th story is delivered in vignettes presented as chapters. That segmented final story is at once a short story, a recollection, a history, and a confession. It is a mixture of truth and fiction, reality and fantasy. I’ll let you decide which is which.
If you enjoy Harlan Ellison like stories written in the protagonist's own unique voice—come along for some fun.
If you enjoy great fiction with strong characters, you don’t want to miss the Echoes of Hemingway anthology and your choice of these collections.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
14 BookBub Myths Busted A very good article. It might surprise you.
ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY Chapter Eleven
Bestselling Author Joel Fishman is in the House! The video cut out for a few minutes a couple of minutes in, then came back. I didn't have time to vet the whole thing, but it's here if you want it.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 820
Writing of
Day 1…… XXXX words. To date…… XXXXX
Fiction for July..………………………. XXXX
Fiction for 2025………………………. 520807
Nonfiction for July………………........ 3830
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 155460
2025 consumable words…………….. 668653
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 13
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 30
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………..... 117
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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Sounds like a great book. Glad you are able to get back to your new fiction now.
Oh man, how did I miss this???? Ellison is my jam! Is there still time to buy the book?