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Halloween is in the House!
It’s October, which means it’s time to get my pumpkin on! I love this time of year. It’s the best time to have a birthday, in my opinion, because I can celebrate all things fall, like pumpkin patches and apple cider and light-up ghosts and…well, you get the picture....
Diving into Another Grand Opening Sale!
You already know you can buy books directly from WMG, right? And now we have another brand-new online store for you to shop.
In addition to our main WMG online bookstore (aka the Mothership), and the Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Diving Universe! And we’re having another grand-opening sale this week to celebrate!
You can save 30% on books, 25% (plus free shipping) on merchandise (US only), and 50% on everything we offer on WMG’s Teachable site.
Last Chance for a Great Adventure
My husband and I have been watching a lot of movies lately. Rewatching some old favorites, actually.
We both love Star Trek, so we decided to rewatch the alternate reality movies. But once we got through the second movie, Star Trek Into Darkness, we decided to go down a Khan rabbit hole. We watched The Original Series episode “Space Seed” and then Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn.
The Art of Paper Folding, Hardcover-Style
My daughter started school last week, and something struck me. She’s never brought home a textbook. Everything is on the computer now.
That is so strange to me. One of my favorite parts of the beginning of the schoolyear was putting covers on my textbooks. There was an art to cutting and folding those paper grocery bags to get the perfect dust jacket (of course, I didn’t know that’s what I was making back then) and then decorating it so it was personalized.
Nola has never had the chance to make her own dust jacket. Times have changed. Technology has advanced. But it makes me a little sad.
Diving into New Territory
We all look to the stars. Or at least to the moon. And last week’s blue supermoon was no exception.
Call it superstition if you wish, but ask any cop, ER doc or journalist and they’ll tell you full moons definitely affect people.
It’s that pull. That feeling that something celestial is tugging at us.
I love looking at the moon. And wondering what is out there.
That’s probably why I love Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Diving Series so much.
Celebrating the Sisterhood
At WMG, we have long celebrated women in science fiction. Not the least of which is because we publish one of the greatest science fiction writers of our time—Hugo Award-winning and international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
It’s a sisterhood, really, women in science fiction. And Kris is a powerful voice in that sisterhood.
Take A Swing At This
Despite all the news about the Pacific Northwest heat wave, it’s been beautiful on the Oregon Coast this week. The marine layer has stayed offshore, but the ocean winds have kept us in the upper 60s most of the week. The wildlife is enjoying it, too. I’ve seen more species of butterflies and dragonflies recently than I’ve ever seen here. It’s amazing.
I also noted, as my husband and I drove to our favorite French café for breakfast last week past one of the resorts in town, that it’s perfect weather for golf.
I don’t have a lot to say about golf. I’ve always been, um, directionally challenged when it comes to my golf swing, so I’ve never really committed to learning. But we do have a resident golf expert in the company.
This Summer is Sizzling
This summer stands a good chance of being declared the hottest summer on record (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere). Even if it doesn’t hit that mark, it’s certainly breaking a lot of records. [link to https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/summer-of-record-breaking-heat-paints-story-of-a-warming-world-scientists-say]
That certainly comes as no surprise to me. I suffered from heat illness myself this summer while in Las Vegas during the July heat wave. That’s something I haven’t experienced since Madrid in ’92. Years of living on the Oregon Coast have made me more susceptible to heat because we don’t get much of it here.
Grand Opening Sale!
Did you know you can buy books directly from WMG? Well, you can! And we have a brand-new online store for you to shop.
In addition to our main WMG online bookstore, we now have a dedicated store for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. And we’re having a grand-opening sale this week to celebrate!
You can save 30% on books, 10% (plus free shipping) on merchandise, and 50% on everything we offer on WMG’s Teachable site.
That 30% off on books goes for every ebook we have for sale at pulphousemagazine.com and wmgbooks.com.
Last Call for Some Fun Stuff
Our 2023 Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive on Kickstarter ends on Thursday, so you only have a few more days to get some really cool stuff.
We’ve hit our third stretch goal, which means that every backer at the $25 reward level and up gets three bonus ebooks: Fiction River Presents: The Unexpected, Fiction River: Universe Between, and a brand-new Pulphouse book that will be created because of this Kickstarter: The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped.
That’s on top of six new monthly issues of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine coming your way. And that’s not all!