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Charles Wiegand

Roaming South America

My Books on Amazon

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New book of short stories available

August 30, 2022

Hi everyone,

I published a book called Under the Stars on Amazon. It is a collection of six short stories.

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Submitting a book to a literary agent

August 20, 2022

This week I started sending out query letters to literaryagents for my book "Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone." Thisprocess is long, slow, sometimes painful, and always not fun, butis a necessary evil if you have any hope of getting your bookpublished by one of the "big 5" publishing houses.

So, what is the process? This is what I have found works best,but I am new at this, so there may be other methods that workbetter for some people.

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Chapter 1 of my upcoming book - Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone

July 14, 2022

In the My Writings section linked above you can find chapter 1 of my upcoming book - Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone

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I am published!

July 13, 2022

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It's happened! I've been published! And not by going the self-pub route, six (6) of my short stories have been published in The Short Stories and Poems Anthology available on Amazon. It was published by Bookiwrote, based in England. The book is available here: On Amazon for Kindle and in paperback.

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Bike ride to two more

July 2, 2022

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This morning I rode my bike out to visit two places, not really towns (pueblos), but rather, communities. To get to them meant riding on dirt/mud roads that were incredibly rough.

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Chip Wiegand

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Contact me:

chip at wiegand dot org

I used to teach English as a foreign language in Barranquilla, Colombia. Now I'm retired and traveling throughout South America.

I'm from Kennewick, Washington, USA. In my previous life, as I call it, I was an IT guy, systems administrator, computer tech, as well as a shipping/receiving guy and also worked as a merchandising guy in a RV/Camping store.

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