Happy 4th of July!

 250 and Counting!

A fine Independence Day!

Festive Fun! 

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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Stage

 

Flashback Fun 

 

GRACE Ballet

Black and White TV Asks About Life on Other Planets

When I'm 64

A charming peek at a lost time.

ABC News in-depth

Freakazoid Scoring Session 1996

Back Before Everyone Had a Camera Glued to Their Hand 

 

 

 

Paul Rugg's Froynlaven 

Writer Beware Spots the Scams

 Grift in the Publishing Industry?

 Sadly, yes, and Writer Beware helps to pinpoint the publishing-agenting-AI schemes that attempt to part writers from their money and rights. Give it a peek. You owe it to yourself.

 

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Readers Prefer Books—For Now

 Ebooks, Phone and Audio On The Rise 

Such is the state of reading preferences according to Pew Research. I still prefer a fine hardcover or paperback. It's one less daily screen for my eyes to fix upon. 

 

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Substack Explained in Brief

 Intriguing place, this Substack, alive with many facets. A social media replacement? A platform for fiction? Go here to discover more: https://tinyurl.com/mw6dx8k9. I have and don't regret it.

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Hero Boy Anime Parody Celebrated in Song

Up in the Skies, He Flies Around

Yes, he does, that Hero Boy. Alas, upon landing he stinks at battling oversized monsters and is laughed at by all. This minor character from the animated series Freakazoid! was recently gifted with his own song, courtesy of Suno AI. A parody of Astro Boy, young Hero Boy rates a tune. Listen and decide. 

 

50 Publishers Not Requiring Agency Submissions

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Writers! You Are Free!

Submit That Manuscript Today!

Get that fantasy novel off the computer and out the door without someone else's approval. This can be good and bad, but if you lack representation or can't get any movement out of your agent then these 50 + spots await your pages. In a stunning binary move, some publishers also accept non-fiction. Hence, all tales are free to seek a home. 

 

Penning Short Stories Absorbs Me

So I haven't queried any of these publishers just yet. But experience dictates that their slush piles are  immense, equaling long response times. But that could be just what you need to start your next book, finishing around the time the first publisher responds. (That's why many authors self-publish, but less on that today.) They are all free-of-charge. Beware publishers that ask for money.

So go-do-experience.

  

 

 

Markets Galore at Publishing . . . And Other Forms of Insanity

Are These Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry Markets? 

By the Fulsome Beard of St. Crispin, They Are Indeed! 

 

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A pause in writing as I prepare to send out a brace of short stories. Naturally, I visited Erica Verrillo's Publishing . . .And Other Forms of Insanity. A dense blog stuffed with literary markets of all kinds, primarily paying ones, as well as agents and book publishers open to submissions, and literary contests of all varieties. There's more, but go-see-discover. 

 

This is my first stop when lining up a market. If you're a writer, give it a go.

 

NOTE: I've been informed that the image is not that of St. Crispin, but jolly old St. Nick. In any case, the beard remains fulsome. 

Happy Easter!

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