Category Archives: Writing

9 Or So Years, 2.7 million words,$165K

Posted on August 22, 2020 by M. H. Lee

While I was here figured I’d drop in a state of the writing post. So the headline pretty much says it all. I hit the end of my ninth year of writing towards publication in early July. In that time … Continue reading →

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New Short Stories and New Covers

Posted on August 22, 2020 by M. H. Lee

I’d unpublished my short stories for a while there because I wasn’t really focused on writing short stories and I’m a weird person and having those up took some sort of mental real estate I wasn’t willing to give up. … Continue reading →

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Fantasy StoryBundle

Posted on March 21, 2019 by M. H. Lee

Long time no post. (I usually post at mlhumphrey.com these days.) I can say that my next year’s update, which will come in July, will be pretty exciting, though. I’m expecting to be past the six-figure mark by then which … Continue reading →

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7 Years, 2 Million Words, $40,000

Posted on July 9, 2018 by M. H. Lee

That pretty much sums up where I am right now. I started writing for publication seven years ago this month. (Yesterday was the last day on my tracker for year 7.) That’s when I said, “I’m going to write a … Continue reading →

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Priorities

Posted on October 21, 2017 by M. H. Lee

It’s Saturday afternoon and I’m sitting here at my desk trying to motivate myself to work on a story that just doesn’t want to come together. It’s a holiday story so if I want to publish it this year I … Continue reading →

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Lucky Number Seven

Posted on July 10, 2017 by M. H. Lee

This week starts the seventh year of my writing journey. I’m not where I wanted to be, but I’m making forward progress.  And I have to keep in mind that when I started down this path I had heard that … Continue reading →

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You Could, But Have You?

Posted on May 23, 2017 by M. H. Lee

That’s the much more polite version of what I found myself wanting to say more than once this weekend.  I was visiting a good friend and her spouse and the spouse–who was once incredibly successful but basically hasn’t done much … Continue reading →

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Writing Rules Are For Shit

Posted on May 11, 2017 by M. H. Lee

So on an agent blog this morning someone had written in to talk about how “bad” J.K. Rowling’s writing is.  I’ll note that they failed to mark the two times in her Harry Potter books she used a really strange … Continue reading →

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Writing Is the Easy Part

Posted on April 20, 2017 by M. H. Lee

I’m weird. I know this.  Things that others like, I hate.  And I’m almost pathological in my negative reaction to being marketed to. I do not like to be sold and I’m very, very sensitive to any signs that it’s … Continue reading →

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Let’s Talk Numbers

Posted on March 10, 2017 by M. H. Lee

So, as usual when I know I should be writing but for some reason am stuck, I spent some time today playing with my Access database where I track sales across eight different platforms, eight different pen names, and, as … Continue reading →

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