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Last Day for Fey Kickstarter!!!
Don’t Miss This Book and Two Workshops!! The new Fey novel campaign ends Thursday at 7 pm West Coast time. Last Day!!! Counting down the hours… And wow does this have two great special workshops with it. The first one (which does not seem to be exciting too many, but excites me and Kris) is CREATING FANTASY MERCH WORLDS, meaning building a bunch of merchandise around your book or books or you. They can be fantasy or sf or mystery or romance. It all applies. For example, just on my store alone, (www.deanwesleysmithstore.com) which is still being built out, I have a bunch merch with Marble Grant and Poker Boy. …
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One Day Left!!
THE UNEXPECTED HERO Fey Kickstarter… One Day Left!!! When you only do nine day campaigns, they sure go fast. And now the new Fey novel campaign ends Thursday at 7 pm West Coast time. Just one day!! This is a fantastic campaign. Don’t miss the two really special workshops and the fantastic new Fey novel by Kris, and a bunch of really fun merch. THE UNEXPECTED HERO Fey Novel Kickstarter Campaign
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TWO DAYS LEFT…
THE UNEXPECTED HERO Fey Kickstarter in Last Days!!! When you only do nine day campaigns, they sure go fast. And now the new Fey novel campaign ends Thursday at 7 pm West Coast time. Just two days!! And wow does this have two great special workshops with it. The first one is CREATING FANTASY MERCH WORLDS, meaning building a bunch of merchandise around your book or books or you. They can be fantasy or sf or mystery or romance. It all applies. For example, just on my store alone, (www.deanwesleysmithstore.com) which is still being built out, I have a bunch merch with Marble Grant and Poker Boy. We have a…
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Aces Win It All…
From an Ugly Start… Aces were mostly counted out of even making the playoffs this year and then the Lynx came into town and blew the Aces off their own home floor by 53 points. Ugly does not begin to describe that. And in the middle of this disaster, something really fun happened at halftime. There was a baby crawl race and halfway down the floor the baby said, “Hell with it.” and stood up and took her first steps in front of 14,000 cheering people. The crowd, already beat up, finally had something to cheer for. Video attached. Watch the faces on the crowd as the baby did what…
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Fall Indie Festival Start Postponed One Week!!
Festival Will Start Monday October 20th… We sort of didn’t account for when we set the start date that we would still have a wonderful Fey Kickstarter going until Thursday and we don’t want this Fall Festival to overlap or distract. So check out Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s new Fey novel, The Unexpected Hero. Check out the campaign page here… The links to get into the Fall Indie Writing Festival will be sent to those of you signed up this next weekend. And yes, there is still room to get in and sign up. Just follow the instructions below. FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I won’t post it here. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 55 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoyu are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so. I am continuing…
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Still Room In the Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Only For a Few Writers… Bringing this back here because I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that…
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Baker and Taylor Going Out of Business…
No Real Surprise… B&T at one point in time was the main distributor to bookstores. Maybe the largest book distributor at times. It was founded in the 1800s, actually. Over the last fifty years it morphed into different forms and with different corporate owners too stupid to detail out here. And parts of the company were sold off. (Always a good plan.) When indie publishing with Amazon fired up, “extended distribution” went to B&T and for a time all indie books had a special code that basically kept bookstores from buying indie books. Can I say “shortsighted on B&T’s part. But at that point their main customers were the big…
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FEY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!
This is a Great Kickstarter for a Great Book!!! The brand new Fey novel THE UNEXPECTED HERO is the focus of this fun campaign. The campaign just launched and will run for 9 days, and wow do we have two fun special classes with this one. Building a merch fantasy world and fantasy markets. They are both going to be a blast. And some great fantasy reading and the newest Fey novel. If you have not ever read any of the Fey novels, you can get them all in this campaign and you are in for a huge treat. And this new book is a real page turner. Steam Punk…
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FEY KICKSTARTER STARTS AT NOON!!!
This is a Great Kickstarter for a Great Book!!! The brand new Fey novel THE UNEXPECTED HERO is the focus of this fun campaign. The campaign will launch at noon Tuesday (Today!!) and run for 9 days, and wow do we have two fun special classes with this one. Building a merch fantasy world and fantasy markets. They are both going to be a blast. And some great fantasy reading and the newest Fey novel. If you have not ever read any of the Fey novels, you can get them all in this campaign and you are in for a huge treat. And this new book is a real page…