Bringing Readers of Lawrence Heibel Monthly Updates on Current Writing Projects

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Welcome to the October 2015 Heibel Media Newsletter

The newsletter now has a new look! I am using a mobile enhanced template so you can read this easily on a phone or tablet. October is a busy month with two book shows and prep for next month's NaNoWriMo. So lets get on with the news!

Edition 26

Great Lakes Book Bash Saturday October 10 11 to 4 p.m.

Come out and see me if you're in Kalamazoo Saturday

Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites

100 W. Michigan Ave, Kalamazoo MI

I'll be one of nearly 80 authors selling and signing and talking about my books.

Meet Me at Comic Con October 16-18

Grand Rapids Comic Con

DeVos Place Convention Center

Downtown Grand Rapids, MI

Friday October 16 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Saturday October 17 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sunday October 18 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Great Lakes Authors will be at Grand Rapids Comic Con signing and selling and talking about our books!

A Trail of Michigan Authors

Friday November 6 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Barnes & Noble Muskegon

5275 Harvey St. Muskegon 49444

Meet me in Muskegon!

Book SIgning and DIscussion with 50 local Michigan authors in support of The Friends of Hackley Library

Random Passage from My Books

Each month I'm going to give you a sample of my books direct from their pages.

I'll rotate through the books starting with my oldest writings to my newest.

In the title story

Will You Please Listen, Please the book cover picture depicts a scene from the title story. In the story the wife is wearing a short robe and is naked underneath. This picture uses artistic license to change that. The story alternates between the wife and husband with ***** showing the change in point of view character

She could hear the annoyance in his voice. She was interrupting him; bothering him. But that was how things got started down here. Come down and distract him with her big boobs he so loved. Or at least, he once seemed to love. All she needed to do was step in front of the TV in her robe. Maybe even sit on his lap, that would get his attention.



But what if he doesn't pay attention to me and just watches TV?

     She needed him upstairs. She needed him to show her he needed her. She needed to be needed.

     "No thanks," she replied. "I ran a bath. You could join me."

* * * * *

     Of course she didn't want to watch the movie with him. That would mean sex. She'd have to sit in his lap and she couldn't sit there without getting him in the mood. Why did he even bother to ask? She drew a bath. So what? She had to interrupt his movie to tell him that.

* * * * *

     No answer from Adam disheartened Tracy. He wasn't listening. She had to get his attention, because if she didn't this was going to all go wrong. She stepped from around the chair and stood between him and the television. He leaned to look past her at the TV.

     He doesn't even care that I'm wearing nothing but this robe he loves!

     Tracy pulled on the robe as if adjusting it and pulled the top open enough to show some serious cleavage. She still didn't have his attention.

     "I'm probably going to bed after my bath," she said softly.

* * * * *

     When Tracy stepped in front of him, Adam felt the blood rush to his head.

     Get the hell out of the way! You're blocking the TV!

     He was furious that she would block his view of the TV. That scared him. He was over-reacting. Yet she had also worn his favorite robe to rub his nose in the fact that all that was off limits to him. That stoked the fury even more.

Write 365 Initiative 2015-16 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://www.heibelmedia.com/365weeklyupdates.html

Here is an up to date (as of 9/30/15) summary of everything I've written since I started this on April 11, 2015:

Met Goal Initiative 100% in September: Wrote 30 of 30 days

Year to Date I have met goal initiative 87.3%: 151 Days Completed Successfully of 193 Days!

I wrote 40 new pages of Magi Harvest in September, the same number as in August

To date: Wrote 416 new pages of Magi Harvest

My record for consecutive days writing at least one page is 781 days

My current streak of consecutive days writing is 59.

The Last Thing I Wrote

I thought it'd be fun to share something I had just written. You'll get no context just the last 100-200 words of the last thing I worked on before putting out the newsletter. This is from book 3 of the Gods' Powers Trilogy The Magi Harvest.

Further into the house, a single large bed resided in the corner and its frame containing what looked like the finest pelts was made of steel. There he found the middle-aged couple lying asleep.

Ganan carefully removed his magi robe and brought it to the kitchen where it wouldn't get soiled. Naked except for two daggers on a leather belt around his waist, Ganan walked over to the bed and withdrew the daggers from their sheaths.

The pent up excitement exploded in a fury of stabbing and slashing. A dagger ran across each of their throats, cutting off any noise. The couple thrashed but Ganan crawled onto the bed and hacked and stabbed and slashed wildly until his passion subsided.

He knelt amidst a red mess of flesh no longer recognizable as human. He tossed the daggers onto the blood splattered wooden floor and then reached into the couple's bellies and pulled out handfuls of intestines. The reek of shit, piss, bile and blood led him to close his eyes and savor the unique odor of death.

Ganan opened his eyes as the lights in the house came on as if it were the top of the day.

ReWrite 365 Initiative 2015-16 Progress Update!

The ReWrite 365 Initiative is a year-long project of mine to rewrite 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://www.heibelmedia.com/365weeklyupdates.html

Here is an up to date (as of 9/30/15) summary of everything I've rewritten since I started this on April 11, 2015:

Met Goal Initiative 100% in September: Rewrote 30 of 30 days

Year to Date I have met goal initiative 88%: 152 Days Completed Successfully of 173 Days!

I revised 54 pages of When Love Breaks Down.

TO DATE:

Novels 1,718 Pages

Short Stories 6 Pages

Flash Fictions 2 Pages

Book Club Deal!

Purchase 10 or more of the same title book for your book club and I will come to your book club and speak about the book FREE of charge! Purchases of any of my five titles qualifies for a free visit!

Travel expenses are extra for locations north of Mount Pleasant, Michigan and outside of Michigan.

This is an opportunity to learn the interesting details behind the books writing and story.

To take advantage of this special contact Lawrence at

lawrence@heibelmedia.com

Writing 500,000 Words in 2015

September Total Words: 8,102

Short of Monthly Goal: (33,565)

Total Words to Date: 216,116

Total Goal to Date: 375,041

Short of Goal by (158,925)

Novels: 209,461 new words written total

Soul Bearer Harvest 122,310 Words 1st Draft

Magi Harvest 87,151 words 1st Draft

Short Stories: 6,663 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

Flash Fictions: 860 Words

What's On Tap for October?

Novels:

Work on First Revision of When Love Breaks Down

Continue First Draft of Magi Harvest

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 Headlines from September: