In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * A Little Whining Is Healthy * A Little More on KDP Notifications of Preorders * Twitter and Facebook * Another Comment * For Any Quilters Out There * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “I threw my manuscript into the Cloud [self-published] in disdain and began plotting my second book, Don’t Come Looking. By the end of the year, I had completed a very rough draft.” AJ Campbell Began plotting? Completed “a very rough draft” in a year? I would much rather roll a sheet of paper into … Read more

In today’s Journal * The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * If You Use Dropbox * A Major Change (Read This) * Of Interest * The Numbers The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting To take part, write at least one short story per week (or add to your novel), then submit the story title, word count, and genre to me each week for publication in the Journal on Monday. The whole point is to have fun and grow as a writer. You can join or rejoin the challenge at any time. There’s no cost. You can even do it on your own, … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * My Daily (Writing) Routine * Great Questions * A New Video * Of Interest * The Numbers See StoneThreadPublishing.com for all your fiction and nonfiction needs. Buy Direct! Quote of the Day “The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.” Robert Peary My Daily (Writing) Routine And an Accidental Deep Dive on Cycling I get emails sometimes either asking outright about my daily writing routine or hinting at it. So I thought it might be of interest to some of you. … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * A New Short Story * Bradbury Challenge Reminder * A Personal Challenge for You * The Writing * Of Interest * The Numbers See StoneThreadPublishing.com for all your fiction and nonfiction needs. Buy Direct! Quote of the Day “If you’re not publishing as often as possible, you’re missing out.” Vin Zandri A New Short Story “The Bad Man and the Boxer” went live yesterday on my Stanbrough Writes Substack. Go! Read! It’s free! If you enjoy it, tell Everyone. If you don’t, shhh! (grin) Bradbury Challenge Reminder Today is Saturday. You … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * Subscription Drive * YouTube Semi-Swan Song * Of Interest * The Numbers See StoneThreadPublishing.com for all your fiction and nonfiction needs. Buy Direct! Quote of the Day “Page 98 will never be as “good” as page 1 because it has a ton of context supporting it. Page 1 stands alone.” Harvey Stanbrough (see Of Interest) Subscription Drive I was going to run this yesterday, but I had a tussle with Stripe. They didn’t “recognize” the physical address I’ve lived in for the past 15 years. But it’s all ironed-out now, so … Read more

In today’s Journal * An Excellent Question * I Was Going to Finish-Up on Payhip * Of Interest * The Numbers An Excellent Question I received an excellent question about Payhip yesterday in a comment, and it’s about something I haven’t discussed here yet: websites. The writer mention she doesn’t have a website yet, and wondered whether she should set that up before going to Payhip. Payhip stresses that if you have a website, you can imbed Payhip on your site, or you can link items on your site to Payhip (that’s what I did). But here’s the thing: If … Read more

In today’s Journal * Organizing Your Book Files * A Little More on Payhip * Of Interest * The Numbers Organizing Your Book Files Thanks to Vin Zandri for this topic. See Of Interest. As always, I can only share what I personally do and why. What you take from it or do with it is up to you. I’ve always found it most convenient to keep everything for each book in a file folder (on my laptop and in my Dropbox) for that book. The folders are “nested” so every aspect of every novel is easy to find. In … Read more

In today’s Journal * Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting * YouTube * Two New Books * An Amazon Hack * More on Payhip * Of Interest * The Numbers The Bradbury Challenge Writers Reporting To take part, write at least one short story per week (or add to your novel), then submit the story title, word count, and genre to me each week for publication in the Journal on Monday. The whole point is to have fun and grow as a writer. You can join or rejoin the challenge at any time. There’s no cost. During the past week, in addition … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * Reminder * Confirmed: Payhip Is Hyper-Easy * About the Promo Doc * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” Ernest Hemingway (This bears repeating.) Reminder Remember I’ll go Live from the Hovel this afternoon at 1 p.m. Arizona time. Drop by if you can. Not sure yet what I’ll talk about, but I imagine I’ll get around to Payhip for at least part of the time. Confirmed: Payhip Is Hyper-Easy Okay, here you go. Probably everything you need to know about Payhip. … Read more

In today’s Journal * Quote of the Day * Correction * TJ Blackwell: The Origin Story * A New Short Story * Reminder * PayHip Etc. * Yesterday * * * Of Interest * The Numbers Quote of the Day “Write hard and clear about what hurts.” Ernest Hemingway Correction In Numbers, with the completion of the novel yesterday, I now have 6 novels on the year, so I’m on track to reach my annual goal of 24 novels by December 31. TJ Blackwell: The Origin Story is also my 88th overall novel since October 19, 2014. TJ Blackwell: The … Read more