Remaining Writing Books for Sale

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In Today’s Journal

* Remaining Writing Books for Sale
* Almost Finished
* Guest Posts Welcome
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Remaining Writing Books for Sale

The first three stand-alone writing books and the Rusch series sold within minutes of yesterday’s post going live. Here’s an updated list of the books remaining and your cost:

  • A Writer’s Companion—15.00
  • Becoming a Writer—5.00
  • Becoming a Writer | Staying a Writer—9.00
  • Character Naming Sourcebook—9.50
  • Conflict, Action & Suspense—8.00
  • How to Write Action Adventure Novels—7.00
  • How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy—7.50
  • Mystery Writer’s Handbook—10.00
  • Mystery Writing in a Nutshell—8.50
  • Now Write! Mysteries—22.00
  • Police Procedure and Investigation—10.00
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Sourcebook, 2nd ed.—10.00
  • Space Travel: A Writer’s Guide—8.50
  • Spycraft Essentials—7.50
  • The Craft of Writing Science Fiction That Sells—8.00
  • The War of Art—6.00
  • The Writer’s Complete Fantasy Reference—9.00
  • Writing Horror—9.00
  • Writing Secrets of the World’s Most Prolific Authors—7.00
  • Writing the Private Eye Novel—9.00
  • Writing the Thriller—7.00

As more intermittent readers of TNDJ catch up with these posts, I expect the rest of these to go quickly, so if you want one or more of them, don’t delay in emailing me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com.

I’ll continue to update this list until the books are gone or the sale ends.

Almost Finished

I’m almost finished with remodeling the Hovel. Still have a few things to move around and some stuff to move out, but the main components of the office are in place: my huge desk and computers and my book case.

Now I can work on getting my time under control again.

I also hope to get back to writing today.

Guest Posts Welcome

I haven’t mentioned this for awhile, so I thought I’d toss it out there again.

Writers are notorious for writing what they would like to read. That doesn’t have to be only for fiction.

If there’s a writing or publishing topic you know well, consider sharing that knowledge with others by writing a guest post for TNDJ.

You don’t have to write about writing into the dark. You can write about what works for you in your genre, your typical day as a writer, where you get ideas, what you recommend for publishing (and why), and any number of other topics.

If you’re in doubt about whether your topic would make a good guest post for TNDJ, I welcome queries at harveystanbrough@gmail.com. Any editing I do on your post will be necessary and light.

Also, I’d be happy to link to your website, Amazon or Facebook (etc.) page, to books you want to promote, and so on. (Please provide the URLs. I can turn them into links.)

Note that I will not entertain posts that encourage the fear-based myths of fiction writing: outlining/plotting, rewriting X number of times, etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Why? Because writers can find that stuff literally anywhere else on the internet, at conferences, in critique and writing groups, etc. But anything else is welcome.

Of Interest

LAST DAY of Pulphouse Kickstarter Subscription Drive

The Numbers

The Journal…………………………… 490

Writing of Blackwell Ops 47: Sam Granger | Special Duty

Day 1…… 3250 words. To date…… 3250
Day 2…… 1110 words. To date…… 4360

Fiction for August..………………….. 1110
Fiction for 2025………………………. 527757
Nonfiction for August………………… 9000
Nonfiction for 2025…………………… 177400
2025 consumable words…………….. 697543

2025 Novels to Date…………………….. 13
2025 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2025 Short Stories to Date……………… 31
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………….. 117
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 10
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……… 301
Short story collections……………………. 29

Whatever you believe, unreasoning fear and the myths that outlining, revising, and rewriting will make your work better are lies. They will always slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.

Writing fiction should never be something that stresses you out. It should be fun. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Because of WITD and because I endeavor to follow those Rules I am a prolific professional fiction writer. You can be too.

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