Today is the last day to join me in a writing challenge. I’m going to focus on writing (as well as the holidays) for the last 2 weeks of 2023. I need the focus, as I explained in the first post about this. It’s been a heck of a year, but the upside is that […]
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Nowadays this holiday—if we can call it a holiday—is called “Take Your Daughters And Sons To Work Day,” which is a mouthful. How come we can’t call it “Take Your Children To Work Day”? Anyhow, this story, the last to discuss from the Never Before Seen Kickstarter is set in the 1990s when this day […]
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With little less than 24 hours to go on the Never Before Seen Kickstarter, I need to up my game if I’m going to tell you about all of the stories that you’ll get if you become a backer. I still have two stories to cover. Just a refresher: we’re running an experimental Kickstarter to […]
Continue ReadingI got a lot less reading done in September. School started, and we were reading a play a week. I had some other projects to finish as well, which required reading. Plus we actually had some theater to attend, and the Las Vegas Aces were in the playoffs (and I had playoff tickets for the […]
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Wow, you folks are incredible. We hit the second special stretch goal for the Never Before Seen Kickstarter 24 hours before the deadline. Thank you, backers!!! I promised I would tell you all about the stories in this Kickstarter. The idea behind the Kickstarter was to see if we could Kickstart short fiction effectively. You […]
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…which is only available through the Never Before Seen Kickstarter. Provided, of course, we hit a brand new special stretch goal of 140 backers by midnight tomorrow (Tuesday, Pacific Time). The collection includes a never-before-seen Spade/Paladin novella. Never before seen because I finished it just this week. It’s twisty and fun. The collection, The Assorted […]
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Dean and I had a fascinating afternoon in the fall of 2019. We were on our way to the gym when we saw an estate sale in a wealthy neighborhood in old Vegas. There aren’t many parts of Vegas that can be considered “old,” but this part is truly iconic. Frank Sinatra had a place […]
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The Never Before Seen Kickstarter is going much better than I ever could have hoped—and that’s because of all of you. Thank you for the support! The Kickstarter features some of my short crime fiction. The stories are original and never before seen. Backers of the Kickstarter will get to read these tales first. I […]
Continue ReadingI am slowly catching up on the Recommended Reading Lists. The books are stacked all over my office in date order. The fall was too hectic to get to the lists, and what I did have would go live unexpectedly, so I had to delete. I’m now rebuilding, without anything scheduled at all, leaving them […]
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We are running a Kickstarter which is, as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, quite an experiment. We’ve been trying to see how well the Kickstarter works for those extra short pieces of short fiction that I seem to compose more often than I want to think about. We have six of my short crime stories […]
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