I had some strange experiences in my March reading. I taught a Gothic class in May, with an emphasis on Gothic romance. I loooove Gothic romance, and am not horribly fond of Gothic horror. But I chose a couple of books I hadn’t read before…and one of them! OMG! It started okay, had great sentence […]
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Today’s the final day to join my Four Science Fiction Novellas Kickstarter. We hit our ask and all of our stretch goals. What does that mean for you? It means that if you back the Kickstarter at the $20 level or above, you’ll get the four novellas (two of which are award finalists and one […]
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We all need heroes right now. I think that’s why the current Superman movie is doing so well. We’re all searching for people who do the right thing. That’s why I curated the Unusual Heroes Storybundle. This bundle is full of heroes. Fourteen books full of them. Every hero is unusual. One is a mouse. Another […]
Continue ReadingIf you had asked me a year ago whether or not I would write a post like this, I would have laughed at you. Then I heard from an industry friend that the sf and mystery digest magazines were for sale. It looked like, he said, they would be selling soon. They did, but it […]
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I have a lot of news, and some of it is buried inside this Kickstarter that just went live. You see…due to the intransigence of the new owners at the sf digest magazines (as well as the mystery magazines), I can no longer send them my short fiction. I actually had to pull some stories […]
Continue ReadingI’m having a blast working on book trailers when WMG does Kickstarters. I just completed this book trailer for Dean’s Kickstarter, which launched today. I hope you enjoy the video and I hope it inspires you to look at the Kickstarter! Lots of cool stuff there. (Click here for the Kickstarter)
Continue ReadingI mentioned in January’s list that I had fewer books to recommend in February and March. I read a lot but didn’t finish some of the books, and the ones I did finish, I didn’t really like well enough to recommend. As I tell my writing students, you have to stick the landing. And some […]
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I tend to write a lot of mystery novellas. They’re too long for traditional publishers, which makes them perfect for WMG. We can put the novellas in book form. Over the last year, a number of you have asked how to get my Derringer-award winning novella, “Catherine The Great,” and while you can get it […]
Continue ReadingYou’ve probably noticed that we really upped our design game at WMG Publishing in the past year. Some of that is due to the new designers we’ve brought on board, but some of it is because Stephanie Writt has a lot of design experience using modern tools like Canva. In combination with Dean, whose done […]
Continue ReadingLike to read? Like to knit? Like socks? Like fantasy? Then this is the Kickstarter project for you. Here, in a nutshell, is what it is: Socks & Sorcery will have four themed collector’s boxes, each delivered three times over the course of a year. Every box contains: A Surprise fantasy novel in the format […]
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