Publisher's Note
Publisher’s Note: Wishing you a Very Merry Pulphouse!
At long last, Christmas is almost here! My daughter is so excited. She’s on break for the next two weeks and I’m taking some time off, so we’ll be spending time together finishing up the shopping, making Christmas cookies, going out to lunch, and all sorts of other things we don’t have time for when she’s in school and I’m working.
So, if you’re like us, and you’re still celebrating everything holiday, our latest new release is just in time for some last-minute holiday reading.
Publisher’s Note: Holiday Happenstance
Isn’t it strange when fiction bleeds into real life? Sometimes, it’s a sense of déjà vu, where you could swear you’ve read or seen something before. Sometimes, it’s the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (also called the Baader-Meinhof effect or frequency illusion) where you learn something new and suddenly start noticing it everywhere. (It’s an interesting phenomenon…you can read more about it here.)
And sometimes, it’s just a strange coincidence.
Publisher’s Note: Travel without Traveling this Holiday Season
I don’t travel for the holidays anymore. At least, not if I can help it. Between the brain surgery and the pandemic, I have a really hard time with crowds now. And traveling at the holidays is a guaranteed way to find crowds. So, I’ve found ways to travel without...
Publisher’s Note: I can finally say it: Happy Holidays!
Okay. It’s official. The Christmas season has begun!
Our tree is up, our lights are strung, our house is decorated, and the holiday music and movies are streaming!
I love the Christmas holidays, as you might have gathered.
My daughter is very excited, too. And we haven’t even started the advent calendars yet. This year we have three: our annual Jacquie Lawson electronic advent calendar, an Escape Advent Calendar (which I supported via Kickstarter), and one I do myself (little drawers that I fill with different things year after year).
As you can see, we love advent calendars here at WMG.
Publisher’s Note: With Gratitude
I was talking with a friend recently about vision issues, and I was trying to articulate what it’s like to have lived for as long as I can practically remember with extreme nearsightedness. I’ve needed a correction of more than -10 diopters for my entire adult life, and I was at greater than -3 by middle school. For those of you who are mercifully not nearsighted, -3 diopters of nearsightedness puts you at about 20/400 vision (unable to see even the big E on the top of the chart).
I’m currently at a correction of -15 diopters, which puts my vision at about 20/2,000. But that’s not really accurate, either, because who can see 2,000 feet away?
What’s really relevant here is that I haven’t truly seen the world since I was 8. I mostly see it. But not what it really looks like.
Publisher’s Note: A Free Trip to the Old West
I promised last month that I’d tell you about another of our free first-in-series ebooks in November, and that time is now!
Dean Wesley Smith’s Thunder Mountain series is deftly blends together science fiction and time travel with the old west, and even throws in a little romance, to boot.
Publisher’s Note: BOGO for the Holidays!
It might still be a couple of weeks until Thanksgiving, but I’m already feeling gratitude. Our WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Kickstarter was a great success, with more backers than ever before. Thank you so much to all of our supporters. If you missed the Kickstarter...
Free Fiction Monday: All Treats, No Tricks
Happy Halloween!
Although the ghosts and bats and skeletons and spiders decorating my house will get packed up tomorrow, the pumpkins will be with us for a while longer. Those hang around until the day after Thanksgiving, when I can finally decorate for Christmas!
Not that I’m not enjoying the fall holidays. I love them. But Christmas is my favorite holiday season of the year.
That’s one of the reasons I love our annual WMG Holiday Spectacular!
We’re in the final days of the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Calendar of Stories, which is edited by the amazing Kristine Kathryn Rusch and gives readers 39 stories over 39 days, from American Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day.
Publisher’s Note: Gift-Giving Season is in Full Swing
My daughter’s seventh-grade year is in full swing. She just wrapped up her volleyball season. And we’ve just completed the fall parent/teacher conferences (all six of them). During our conference with her Advanced English Language Arts teacher, we got to read a poem...
Publisher’s Note: The Calendar of Stories Returns!
This fall feels different. The world is in motion again, with all the distraction and worry that comes with it.
So, with that semblance of normalcy in mind, I’m getting settled into my holiday routines.
I’ve already started my holiday shopping. And you can, too, with this year’s WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Kickstarter, which lauches on Tuesday, Oct. 18, and features our annual Calendar of Stories.
With the WMG Holiday Spectacular 2022 Calendar of Stories, you’ve got 39 days of something to look forward to. And that’s just for starters.