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Welcome to the Heibel Media Newsletter

April 2015

March flew by with lots of exciting activity. April will be intense as I finish two somethings, start three somethings and resume something. What does all that mean? Read on.

Let me recap March a moment. It is ALWAYS exciting to release a new book and my 5th book and second collection of short stories was released March 13! Will You Please Listen, Please? was launched at the Great Lakes Authors Expo at the West Michigan Women's Expo in downtown Grand Rapids. I sold dozens of books and was very happy with that as I worked with 30 other authors.

The Write 365 Initiative ends April 10 and I'm on track to complete year 2 without missing a day! The 500,000 Word Challenge took a hit with the expo. Read below to find out about that.

So much more excitement in April coming, so read on fellow readers and writers!

Thanks for your support!

Edition 21

In this issue

Great Lakes Authors

New Book OUT NOW!

What's Ahead!

Write 365 Initiative Progress Report

Writing 500k Words Update

As I Write Blog Update

REUNION now available

Print and Digital Collections

Links to All Heibel Media Sites

THANKS TO ALL THE SUPPORTERS

of Michigan Authors Who made up the

Great Lakes Authors Expo at the

West Michigan Women's Expo

March 13-15

The Great Lakes Authors Expo featured 23 authors representing a total of 31 authors and their combined 77 book titles. We all had a great time and are looking at repeating the expo in 2016 bigger and better than ever!

THE NEW BOOK

Will You Please Listen, Please

AVAILABLE NOW!

How well do you listen? These stories are based on communication with ourselves and others-how we listen and how we don't often hear.

TWENTY EIGHT stories written over the past two years and three stories from my college years. The three returning stories are included because they were "revisited" with new stories following up on those stories.

The book's stories all have the same thread of looking at how we communicate with ourselves and others.

On the Facebook Page I've already revealed interesting tidbits about the first two

stories, The Squashing of a Toad and "Shit! I'm Dead!"

Watch the Facebook Page for updates, previews and excerpts!

Like the New Book's Facebook Page

See the title's of all the stories on the Heibel Media website. Click here

Like Short Stories? Check out: Termination Notice

What's On Tap for April?

Great Lakes Authors:

Assessing Results of Expo and Outlining Future plans for the group

Short Stories:

No Plans

Novels: Finish Something and Start Something and Resume Something:

FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT OF Soul Bearer Harvest.
Start the first draft of Magi Harvest
Begin Revision of When Love Breaks Down

Write 365 Goal / Edit 365 Goal / 500,000 Words in 2015 Goal: Finish Something and Start 2 Somethings

Complete the 2nd Write 365 Goal and Write at least one page a day
Start the 3rd Annual Write 365 Goal and Write at least one page a day
Start the 1st Edit 365 Goal by Editing at least one page a day

To revise When Love Breaks Down in one year I'll need to edit 4.5 pages per day

Write 365 Initiative 2014-15 Progress Update!

The Write 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to write at least 1 new page of fiction every single day for a year. I keep a chart that is updated weekly on the website of my progress. Follow this link to see the chart and read about the progress of all my stories: http://heibelmedia.com/asiwrite365.html

Here is an up to date (as of 3/31/15) summary of everything I've written since I started this on April 11, 2014:

Met Goal Initiative 100%: 355 Days Completed Successfully of 355 Days! JUST 10 days to go!

March I wrote 166 new pages of Soul Bearer Harvest

2,135 New Pages Written Total!

Novels: 1,958 new pages total

When Love Breaks Down: 723 new 1st draft pages written and FIRST DRAFT DONE!
Metal Harvest: 231 new 1st draft pages written and FIRST DRAFT DONE!
Soul Bearer Harvest: 1,004 new 1st draft pages written

Short Stories: 177 new pages total

Spilled Cereal 6 pgs.
Wind in the Wires Revisited 11 pgs.
When Monsters Die Revisited 8 pgs.
Alone at Last 4 pgs.
A Night Without Television 11 pgs.
Small Talk 22 pgs.
I Want to Die 10 pgs.
When He's Away 7 pgs.
Gaps 7 pgs.
A Lonely Man 2 pgs.
Song Bird 12 pgs.
Slipping 9 pgs.
Momma's Boy 11 pgs.
If You Knew What I Knew 3 pgs.
Shit! I'm Dead ! 7 pgs.
Why Do You Hate Me? 16 pgs.
Author's Notes and Preface
to Will You Please Listen Please 31 pgs.

Writing 500,000 Words in 2015

March Total Words: 34,619

Total Words to Date: 120,491

Total Goal to Date: 125,000

Short of Goal by 4,509

Novels: 80,069 new words written total

Soul Bearer Harvest 114,688 Words 1st Draft

Short Stories: 5,803 new words written total

Author's Notes to Will You Please Listen, Please: 4,497 Words
Preface to Will You Please Listen, Please: 1,306 Words

As I Write: My Blog

Every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m. I post an article about writing. It may be what I'm working on or something about stories and writing in general. It's a fun and interesting look at how a writer looks at things. I'm looking for people to read the blog, comment on the articles and follow my blog.

Here are the topics from March:

Out In Front and Behind
Closing in on the End
Famine, then Feast
Getting Ahead of the Drama
Great Lakes Authors Expo Wrap Up
Will You Please Listen, Please On Sale TODAY!
Great Lakes Authors Expo Friday!
February in the Rearview Mirror
Short Stories or Novels?

You can get to the blog via the Heibel Media website or easier yet this link: heibelmedia.blogspot.com

MY FIRST FULL LENGTH NOVEL

REUNION is Available NOW!

Front Cover of Reunion

Pam Mondy leaves her abusive husband Ray only to have him die before she leaves. Five years later, Steve Thorndyke, a naive medium returns Ray's soul to the world of the living. While Pam and her second husband Ron Candleson reunite with his children at a Michigan State Park Campground, Ray prepares to reunite with his cheating wife while Steve plans to reunite with Ray and prevent his terrible vengeance.

FROM REUNION:

The blonde looked at Steve and he knew that she knew.

"Five years. Seems like just yesterday," she whispered to him.

She followed her friend and Doug into the kitchen where they pulled on their boots at the door. Steve stared at the blonde. What could he say? No one would believe him anyway.

The three pulled their coats on. When the door opened, a strong gust reached in grabbed Steve, rushing a chill up his spine. Doug and the brunette pushed outside, but the blonde held back. She smiled at him and looked straight at him.

"Thanks for the ride. Maybe when I'm done, I'll see you on the other side."

She winked, turned and stepped out the door, pulling it shut tightly behind her. Steve stood and listened as the Ram roared to life. He turned and looked out at the swirling snow out the window. Headlights flashed in the window briefly.

How long could he possess her? Steve wondered. Ray had no life line connecting him to her body. What were the chances that Pam was still around where Ray could find her? His chances of reuniting with her were slim to none. But if he did?

The truck turned left and headed south, its red taillights glowing through the snow. Steve didn't know the girl's name and he was sure Doug didn't either. Ray was lost to him. He had to find Pam and warn her. Because if he could find her, so could Ray.