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Bits and Pieces

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I have my newest book, Recall up on a promotion on Smashwords.com. For a limited time, it will be free to download. Go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Connie+Cockrell and use coupon code SW100. Go today. This promotion won’t last long.

So many things are running thru my mind today; goals for the week, contemplating doing a ghost story anthology release in September for October’s Halloween celebration, getting my series not only written but revised for a January 2014 release of the first book.

I’ve been reading some blogs today. People are talking about their eating plans, their weekend, their newly released book.  The world is awhirl with activity. My day should see me reach 50,000 words in my July Camp National Novel Writing Month. That’s not the end of the book. I’ll still have 6 – 8 more chapters to write to finish it. I hope to have it completed by the 31st.

My garden is doing well, especially since the monsoons have started. I’m already getting eggplant and the pole beans are now producing. I picked my 1st three cherry tomatoes yesterday and used them in a macaroni salad.  Soon I’ll have more cherry tomatoes than I can give away but the first ones are always so sweet. I also have a cantelope growing. I’m looking forward to eating that.

Enough blogging. Time to go for a walk, get some oxygen into my brain, and reach that 50K word mark!Image

July’s NaNo Challenge Progress

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I’m eight days into July and 13,000 words into my July Camp National Novel Writers Month, called July Camp NaNo http://campnanowrimo.org for short. I’m also checking out another community, called July Novel Writing Month http://julnowrimo.com/. I have writing friends working in each site and some, like me, recording our progress on both sites. Each site is a community, (see my post on July 18th on Community!) dedicated to helping the writer get through a challenge to write 50,000 words in the month.
So far, I’ve been writing about 2,000 words per day on my 2nd book in the series I used to call TriPoint Station and have since changed to Gulliver Station. CJ Cherryh wouldn’t have been threatened at all by my use of her name for a space station but why cause her any embarrassment. There are four books in this series. I wrote the 4th book first, in November 2012. I know, but I hadn’t planned for it to be a 4th book, I was hoping it would be a 1st book in a completely different series. After I wrote it, I realized I didn’t have series material for my protagonist. But I was captivated by the space station world I had just developed. Go figure.
Anyway, I wrote book 1 in April, Gulliver Station: A New Start (all titles subject to change.) And now book 2, Gulliver Station: The Challenge. Book 3 will be drafted in November: Gulliver Station: Revolution. The 4th book is called Stories from Gulliver station. It contains a novelette and some short stories. None of the drafted books have been revised yet. I’m still hemming and hawing over exactly how I want them to come out, as well as still struggling to learn my craft enough to revise them properly. I hope to start publishing in January 2014. We’ll see how that turns out.
Speaking of publishing, I have my newest book, Recall, up on a promotion on Smashwords.com. For a limited time, it will be free to download. Go to http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Connie+Cockrell and use coupon code SW100. Go today. This promotion won’t last long.

Cover Reveal for The Adventure of Creation, an Anthology

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In January 2013, the moderators of Holly’s Forum (that’s us), approached her with the idea of an anthology. With the 5th anniversary of “How to Think Sideways” drawing nearer, it seemed a good idea to match the release date with the anniversary. Holly agreed to the idea and even added a monetary price for the top stories. After a very, very difficult selection process, we settled on thirty-five stories. It’s a pity that we couldn’t take them all. The scores were so close. we had lengthy discussions and finally went five stories over the 30 story limit we had planned.

With the stories selected and in Holly’s hands to pick a winner, we are proudly presenting to you:

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The Adventure of Creation

The Think Sideways Anthology #1 presented by Holly Lisle

35 marvelous short stories by gifted new writers

Follow a girl to the Below-World to slay the Sharkshadow, or help a timid girl to overcome the destructive criticism of her art teacher. Witness a solitary drone on Mars or a naive homunculus struggle to become human. Sew with a mother who lost her daughter in a quilt, defeat super-villains in a bank robbery with an unlikely superhero, or join a great mage in the fire.

In thirty-five imaginative stories, emerging authors present the diversity of their creativity. Each author found a different angle for the unifying theme: The Adventure of Creation. Witness the talent nurtured by writing teacher, Holly Lisle. For the 5th anniversary of her first big writing course, How to Think Sideways, this anthology features the best of her talented students in a great variety of genres.

The eBook and print book will be released on the 24th of July. Help us spread the word. If the anthology is successful, we might do another one next year.

I’m one of the lucky 35 so get ready, it’s going to be a fabulous book!