July started off with a bang!

July started off with a bang!

July started off with a bang!

and the noise just keeps coming…. What else is new? Fireworks, thunderstorms, and overall my writing life has been thundering along. I spent the better part of Saturday, July 9th pitching to agents at an online workshop. It was truly a learning experience. Agents are just super nice folks with a job that carries them to all sorts of events and online things. I really felt sorry for the ones with early calls, as it was done via Zoom. At least my lady was very put together and attentive. I was ever so grateful to all of them for their

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Blog: 970th post!

Blog: 970th post!

and where do I go from here? I have been blogging on this site for a very long time. I have been writing for a long time too, with a few hiatuses in between. Are you a blog lover as I am? Do you blog too? I would love to see yours. Drop a comment and link to yours below. As for me, I am not certain what I will do when I reach 1000 blog posts, and that may well happen sometime in the next year or so. I never thought of an end game. But yall, all good

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How will the Russia ie. Ukraine invasion affect books?

How will the Russia ie. Ukraine invasion affect books?

Russia. It’s what’s trending. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news Good day, friends. I hope this finds you doing well. I am sitting here thinking how this Russian invasion is going to affect a lot of things pertaining to life in general and well, maybe books and the book industry specifically. There is a lot of talk going around about how the supply chain issues that the US is experiencing will get a lot worse. Gas prices, grocery prices, etc. As if that isn’t bad enough now, this invasion is likely going to cause things to tighten even more. Personally, I hope not. I am

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Elden Ring and George RR Martin together?

Elden Ring and George RR Martin together?

I don’t get excited about epic or high fantasy too much these days. But Elden Ring caught my attention. You have to admit the trailer is stellar. And when I discovered that George RR Martin is one of the world-builders, ie. contributors to this new venture, I had to take a longer look. The question was raised, what exactly does GRRM have to do with this new game? Well, on my first run of research for this blog post, I found that he is, in fact, creating the world that the game revolves in and giving the other contributors or

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Brian Laundrie’s remains found according to news

and why writers should be paying attention to it. Hey everybody, welcome back to the blog. Today, I found that yet again the story about Brian Laundrie is the main news story. It’s because they believe they may have found his remains. This, my friends, may be the most sad news story of all news stories in the news today. Why sad, you ask angrily? Well, let me explain… You see, this couple, Brian and Gabby were high school sweethearts. They were traveling together, and something happened to them and the relationship that was unexpected and unwarranted. Because Brian may

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