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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Up From Indolence: Down with Runnng

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 Here's a runner who is 100 years old and still going. I'm much younger, but I have the strength and endurance of a 200 year old man. I read my notebooks from years past and find the same issues: erratic training pattern, weight gain, ignoring core and stretching. 

So far, I've been striving for consistency, running and walking 3x a week. Today will mark the third week in a row that I've been hitting the pavement. l travel a bit over two miles each outing and that's good enough for now. 

Nothing noticeably amiss with my heart. My next goal is to run three miles an outing before aging up to the century mark.