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FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL…
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 13th through November 7th Since we did the last master class back six or seven years ago, we have been trying to come up with a way to bring everything in indie publishing and writing together. And have it all presented in a way that makes sense. With our regular workshops and classes and such, there are so many gaps of large areas we are missing that we want to cover. Really important gaps to indie writers and publishers. So this last summer in our INDIE WRITING CAMP, we did our best in an orderly fashion that we hoped helped writers of all levels…
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New Fey Kickstarter Coming October 7th
THE UNEXPECTED HERO… Another great Fey novel… Just got the promotion page up for it. And we already got from Kickstarter the “Project We Love” designation. That’s great fun. Take a look at it, see what you think, and Kris’s introduction is there on the promotion page as well. See what you think about the new section header for About the Author. We have finally broke the rectangle look that Loren Coleman and I suggested seven years ago. THE UNEXPECTED HERO: A New Fey Book and Kickstarter
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Behind on a Couple of Workshops…
And Some Reading… Will get it all finished up tomorrow. Why am I late? Today was a second Aces game in the semifinals. We lost the first one ugly on Sunday, but then just ran over Indiana tonight in the second game to tie the five game series. Kris and I love going to these games and have season tickets. So cool to see all the young kids there cheering on their team. We left at 3:45 and had dinner with friends ahead, then made it into the game in Mandalay Bay Arena at six or so. Got home around 10 and I took a nap and we watched some…
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One Challenge Aside, Maybe Another One Coming…
Officially Tossed in the Towel on the Story-Per-Day Challenge… I will total up the number of stories at the end of the year, but got a hunch it will not be as many as the first time I tried that challenge. Just flat the wrong year for me to give this a push. Maybe on a future year I can get it off the ground. But thinking I might do a seemingly impossible challenge starting up in mid-November when I turn 75. The challenge? To publish 75 major books in my 75th year. Stand alone novels, novellas, collections, and any major product I edit with my name as editor on…
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Books Don’t Spoil….
But Covers and Sales Copy Need Refreshing At Times… At WMG, this is an ongoing thing. Kris and I are always doing new projects that take priority on the publishing side. For example, the new Fey novel I showed you last night. New issues of Pulphouse. New Collides series volumes, and so on. But we also have over a thousand titles up, or getting put back up, right now. And we have learned a lot in the last ten years and are a thousand times better cover designers than our old staff could ever dream of being. So we have a lot of books that need refreshing. A lot, to…
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Fun Updates…
We Are Slowly Gaining On Catching Up… I recorded one stretch goal class tonight and got it up. Poop-Up #92 Glass in Space for the Four Science Fiction books. I also got it to the folks with the Pop-Up subscriptions and Lifetime Everything Subscription. I will be doing the other three this next week or so. Pulphouse #40 is out and paper copies will be following in a week or so they tell me. Three Epic Fantasy Kickstarter is all done and the books have all be shipped except for a slipcased set. That one is taking longer. Those books are way cool. Poker Boy Kickstarter is all done as…
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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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Aces Won… But Sloppy…
Aces Advance to the Semi-Finals in the WNBA Seven straight seasons. But the game on Sunday Seattle just outplayed the Aces to barely win. Tonight’s do-or-die game the Aces were sloppy everywhere except for Wilson and barely escaped with the win. Barely. I really love to watch great basketball, so I hated the first half of the season when the Aces were just sort of making the motions and very, very sloppy all the time. Just hard to watch. Until at home the Lynx toasted them by 50 plus points. That woke them up and they played fantastic basketball as they can do with the level of talent they have. …
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Something For Myself Tonight…
I Signed Up for a New Edition of InDesign… This new computer screen I have is so small compared to my older ones, I had some trouble with small print and my eyes, but I made it work. More than likely at some point I will need a Mac mini and two HUGE screens to really make this easier. So I opened up a Smith’s Monthly cover template, which opened just fine with the new program. Then in just under one hour (with only three Google searches to find how to do something and two of them were wrong), I built the cover and spine and back cover for Issue…
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Aces Got Beat… Raiders Were Just Bad…
Two of Our Sports Teams Here In Vegas… Monday, the Raiders forgot to show up with all their promise for that game. Nothing to talk about. Ughh… Aces tonight went into Seattle with a 17 game winning streak and just got outplayed. A really good game, down to the last few seconds, and Seattle played just good enough to beat the best team in the league. So now we have a playoff game on Thursday night. Then (with luck and the Aces play well) another on Sunday against either Atlanta or the Fever, who just handed Atlanta their heads tonight. Wow. I love having season tickets to the Aces games.…