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Blog postHey folks,
Dropping in to let you know I'm still here. (grin) I want to start off this new blog with a giveaway.
As many of you probably know, I have several series. Today, I'm offering, free of charge, the first book of every series I've written. I’m defining “series” as more than two novels in a set.
What's more, there are no limits. You can get any of them or all of them. Just let me know which format you prefer. They're available in .mobi, .epub, and .pdf.
Read -
Blog postHey everyone. It’s been awhile since I learned that my blog account at my old provider was messed up. As a result, I haven’t written a blog post at HarveyStanbrough.com since early last year. But now, finally, I’ve moved over to Substack.
This blog will remain free, but it will be more for readers and fans of my fiction than the old blog was. It probably will be less frequent for one thing. For another, I’ll talk more about the characters and settings and other aspects of my stories. -
Blog postHey Folks,
I'm popping in with a special treat for some of you.
For a limited time, and in a blatant, bald-faced advertising stunt (grin), I'm giving away a Kindle, Nook/Apple or PDF electronic copy (your choice) of the first book in the Wes Crowley saga.
There are 11 books total and soon there will be 12. When I've finished Book 12, this special offer will end.
Rise of a Warrior is the first book in the series. And it's yours free in exchange for emailing me at ha -
Blog postHi folks,
I went through a 4-month writing drought, but that's all over now.
I've just released THE ARK, the first book in The Ark series.
Here's the description:
Stephen Hawking once wrote that "[E]ither a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years. However, by then our ingenious race will have found a way to slip the surly bonds of Earth and will therefore survive the disaster."
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Blog postHi Folks,
Long time no talk to.
This post is unabashedly copied and pasted from my Journal at https://hestanbrough.com. Ya'll come on over.
Be forewarned, I’m in a satirical, cynical, fun-loving, finger-wagging mood today. But with a lesson. With that in mind, read on.
I’ve read several novels in which the characters are apparently capable of quantum movement.
As I understand it (and I am often wrong) the term “quantum motion” is most often applied to descri -
Blog postHey folks,
Long time no talk-to. I hope you're all well and muddling through the various lockdowns, hurricanes, wildfires etc. that seem to just keep coming. I'll be glad when this year is relegated to history.
After a solid week of putting together six new mentorship programs and thanks to input from a former mentoring student and from my wife, I'm finally ready to pull the trigger on them.
There are six in all. Three are writing-intensive: The Writing Craft I, II, and I -
Blog postHey Folks,
A few months ago, my family and I attended a local Native American art fair in the small city park in Tombstone. There, I admired an original pencil drawing that depicted the main characters from Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove films, Augustus "Gus" McCrae, portrayed by Robert Duvall, and Captain Call, portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones.
One of my sons bought the drawing and presented it to me later as a gift. He knew what I had in mind. I can't see Robert Duvall i -
Blog postHi Folks,
Thanks for sticking with me through my absence from posting here on my author website.
As you know, this has become my virtual newsletter. In the future, I hope to share tidbits about the worlds in which I write and the characters who inhabit them.
But for today, a dual announcement—
First, I recently enrolled all of my books at Smashwords in the Authors Give Back Sale. All of my books are marked at 60% off through May 31.
That means many of my sho -
Blog postHey Folks, I hope you'll find this an exciting announcement! For some time now, I've offered short stories and novels as rewards to those who support me as a first reader or as a patron (see https://hestanbrough.com/become-a-patron/). Now I'm taking it to the next level. Six years into my journey as a professional fiction writer, I'm finally starting a street team. If you'd like to read every short story and/or every novel I publish at your leisure, email me at harveystanbrough@gmail.com. Ple
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Blog postHi Folks,
This post is especially for writers or for those who have writers in their lives.
As we all struggle to get through the pandemic and the government and public reaction to it...
Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch are offering an incredible FIFTY PERCENT OFF of everything on Teachable, but only for the next 48 hours. For details, including the special code, see "March Sadness Special" at https://kriswrites.com/2020/03/17/march-sadness-special/. -
Blog postHi Folks,
A short post today for an exciting announcement.
Over the next few months, I'll be writing stories for a great new series of anthologies set in the fictional town of Cave Creek, Nevada.
Asked how he would describe Cave Creek, the "mayor" of the town and editor of the anthologies, Dean Wesley Smith, said, "If Twilight Zone still existed, it’s home town would be Cave Creek."
The first anthology will be historical, set in the past. The se -
Blog postHi Folks,
Note: This is the final writer-instruction post in this series. Thanks for being along for the ride all these years.
If you're a writer, and if you'd like to continue to get writing tips and topics almost every day, please head on over to my Daily Journal at https://hestanbrough.com and subscribe there. It's free.
You can also stay on here. After all, what better way to verify that I practice what I preach than to read some of my fiction? (grin)
If you're -
Blog postHey Folks,
If you're going to be a writer, it helps to think like a writer. Especially if you're one of those who has trouble coming up with story ideas.
This morning, I was browsing a magazine article about the new SLS launch system that will someday land human beings on Mars. The particular rocket segment I was reading was about a mock-up, a life-sized, true-weight model.
So it wasn't the actual rocket, and it wasn't for an actual mission. The model itself will never le -
Blog postHi Folks,
Recently, Dean Wesley Smith talked in his blog about the fear of publishing. It's a good article, and I recommend it.
However, his article is tied to his Great Publishing Challenge. Seems he received a lot of comments that (to him) indicate fear of some aspect of publishing as the reason people don't want to jump into the challenge.
I was going to post a comment to his article, but I decided to publish it in my Journal and then here instead. Mostly because I don -
Blog postHi Folks, Note: This post appeared previously in slightly different form in the email in-boxes of my patrons in early December and then as a topic on my Daily Journal. "Oh, He's Indie Published? Then I Won't Bother!" (said only brain-dead lemmings ever) There. I said it. Aloud. There are people in this world who live only to be protected. They want to be told what and when to eat, which medicines to buy for real and imagined ailments, what time to go to bed and get up, and... you gu
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Blog postHi folks,
Often, writers who follow my Daily Journal email to ask me about marketing. As in, “What’s more important? Social media or ads? Which social media? Amazon (or Google or Facebook) ads? My own website and a mailing list?”
Okay, having your own website and a mailing list of folks who want to know about your next book is important. And some of the other things above maybe are helpful too.
But the number one thing I tell them is WRITE THE NEXT -
Blog postHi Folks, Every now and then over the years, especially over at the Journal, I ask fellow writers for recommendations for websites. Most often I hear crickets. I'm not sure whether there are no other websites that you visit, or whether you just don't want to share. Or maybe I'm just not specific enough with my request. I'll try again. Please recommend the websites of any authors who
1. have written and published 10 or more novels or 100 or more short stories (traditional or indie) and< -
Blog postHey folks, Note: This post appeared in slightly different form on my Journal. If your books aren't selling as well as you'd like, here's the three-step process to more sales:
1. Write the next story or novel. The more work you have out there, the more discoverable you are and the more readers will take you seriously as an author.
2. Create (or have created) a genre- appropriate cover.
3. Write intriguing sales copy that hints at the genre, introduces the main character, g -
Blog postHey Folks,
Note: The seed of this post first appeared in my Daily Journal.
I was fortunate to meet and make a friend of science fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson in the mid-1990s. One day, in his home office, the walls of which were lined floor to ceiling with shelves that held only one copy of each translation of every novel he ever wrote, he told me that his habit was to write 100,000–120,000 words of fiction (two novels) per year, year-in and year-out.
I was amazed, -
Blog postHi Folks, I've long believed it's important to make my writing goals public. First, knowing that others know what I'm attempting helps hold my feet to the fire. Second, publishing my own goals might help other writers set their writing goals. But remember, the overall goal of writing in the first place is to have fun. Seriously, if you don't enjoy writing, find something else to do. (grin) So here goes.... My personal writing goals for 2020 and beyond, strictly for the fun of it (to relieve t
