The Journey Home Saga Continues
In Today's Journal
* Echoes of Hemingway Reminder
* A New Short Story
* Bradbury Reminder
* The Journey Home Saga Continues
* The TRUE PULP Kickstarter Push
* Of Interest
* The Numbers
Echoes of Hemingway Reminder
If I accepted your story(ies) for the EOH anthology, please get your final version of you story(ies) back to me in the next few days.
I want to get this thing put together and get it published.
A New Short Story
"Freddie Salomar" went live Friday at 10 a.m. on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. This is an odd short story that just touches the Blackwell Ops world. 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.
The Journey Home Saga Continues
Over on Your Morning Serial (still free, by the way) I've decided when The Ark is finished, I'm gonna continue the story by posting the second book in the saga, yes, also in serials.
The Journey Home: Part 2 will begin posting on July 2. Each novel stands alone, but to get the most out of Part 2 you should really read The Ark first.
If you haven't jumped in and started through the story yet, The Ark is only up to Chapter 13, so you can still catch up.
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A Special Offer
When the last installment of The Ark posts on June 30 AND when the last installment of The Journey Home: Part 2 posts on July 29, you'll also find a special offer! (grin) You'll be able to get the entire 10-volume Journey Home saga in one book for 25% off.
The TRUE PULP Kickstarter Push
We're going great guns over at the TRUE PULP Kickstarter. We're reaching for that first stretch goal.
As I reported on June 6,
ANYONE who donates at least $20 to the True Pulp Kickstarter will receive
EITHER the complete, 10-volume set of The Journey Home SF Saga (a $35 value)
OR the Nonfiction Omnibus PLUS Writing Better Fiction (a $34 value).
And if you donate at least $35, you get both (a $69 value).
Additionally, as I reported on June 8, if you contribute $10 (or $10 more if you’ve already contributed) to the TRUE PULP Kickstarter, I’ll give you my pulp-noir 10-story collection Mobster Tales free in .pdf, .mobi, and .epub.
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. Come along for some fun.
Any questions, please email me.
Of Interest
Why I Dropped WordPress for PayHip Very interesting and informative. If I were younger in my career I would definitely consider this.
AI can’t have my em dash Interesting. The article started out okay, but it went so wrong so quickly it isn't even funny re the uses of the em dash.
If you want to know how and why to use an em dash in your writing, read Punctuation for Writers. Like all punctuation, the em dash creates a particular effect in the reader.
The Numbers
The Journal…………………………… 540
Writing of
Day 1…… XXXX words. To date…… XXXXX
Fiction for June………………………. 24036
Fiction for 2025………………………. 487488
Nonfiction for June………………....... 10450
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 136600
2025 consumable words…………….. 617578
2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 12
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 27
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………..... 116
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 297
Short story collections……………………. 29
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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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