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Friday Kickstarters
I Think These Campaigns Are Worth Looking At… To study or back or both. Before I start I need to tell you that I have a campaign starting on Tuesday at noon. Four Thriller Novels. Take a look if you get a chance. The first one this Friday was one I thought was pretty good, but then I realized it had AI in it and I won’t support anything with AI. I would suggest none of you do either. So here is a good one by a writer who has been in sf as long as Kris and I have and he has made the transition to indie. He is…
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Adult Back-To-School Sale Still Happening!!
50% Off All Teachable Workshops!!! Goes until Very Late Tuesday Night, September 2nd. See all the sale information below… Now here are a bunch of the new classes Starting Septembe 2nd and after that are available at half price. ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES ADDED… There are eight Advanced Craft Classes now available in this sale. They are all nine weeks long with assignments. September/October ADVANCED TENSION SUSPENSE CLASS ADVANCED GENRE CLASS ADVANCED CONFLICT CLASS November/December UNPUTDOWNABLE CLASS ADVANCED EMOTION CLASS January/February 2026 ADVANCED RULE OF THREE CLASS ADVANCED DIALOG CLASS ADVANCED PACING CLASS INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 CLASS A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025.…
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More Copyright…
Not Really for Fun… Writers who don’t have the time to learn copyright seem to not like to have it thrust upon them. So most will just skip this and last night’s post. Just nature of the desire of the uninformed to remain uninformed. I think it is a rule of nature. I answered a comment I wanted to bring up here because I got similar in emails. Since 1987 or so (Actually March 1st 1989) in the US, copyright notice on a work is not needed or required. Reasons to put a copyright date on a work… — It can be a “notice” to the uninformed that someone owns…
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Copyright Registration Issues
Afraid to Talk About This… Honestly.. Why? Because so many writers are so uninformed, they think they need to “copyright” a work before they have protection. Uhhh, no, copyright protection is automatic when you put a creative work into a form. If you have a desire to be a writer, learn copyright. But there are reasons to register copyright. Especially here in the US. Kris and I have made it a long practice to register every work that is getting sniffed at by movies or television or streaming or gaming. But a lot of our novels and short stories, we have not registered. (For you uninformed out there, that does…
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A Saying That Has Stuck With Me…
Printed and Framed On a Card… This saying has been in my writing offices for 43 years now. Don’t really care who originally said it. But it came about because Nina Kiriki Hoffman and I were challenging each other to write one story per week, not rewrite it, and put it in the mail. Nina called it “Dare to Be Bad” and that stuck. And is the reason both of us started selling regularly. Takes far, far more courage to write and put out your work than to be so afraid as to not write and not publish anything. And that’s a fact. So the saying I have had in…
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I Have Been Having Fun With Sales Copy…
One Thing to Teach It… Another To Write it… So see what you think of the sales copuy I just wrote for four thrillers that will be in an upcoming Kickstarter, Here is the sales copy and the covers. To see the promtions page on the Four Thrillers Kickstarter, just go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/four-thrillers?ref=31yju9 HAWK RUN Evil organizations. Hidden ancient secrets. Men who would kill him without a second thought. Hawk must fight through them all. Forced to survive against all odds to find his kidnapped father. An adventure that takes Hawk into places no one dared enter before. In this page-turning novel, New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith…
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Advanced Craft Classes Added…
First Off… Extending the Early Bird 60% Discount Until Very Late Monday Night. That is because I was late getting up these Advanced Classes and also the Indie Promotion Class. See all the sale information below… ADVANCED CRAFT CLASS ADDED… There are eight Advanced Craft Classes now available in this sale. They are all nine weeks long with assignments. September/October ADVANCED TENSION SUSPENSE CLASS ADVANCED GENRE CLASS ADVANCED CONFLICT CLASS November/December UNPUTDOWNABLE CLASS ADVANCED EMOTION CLASS January/February 2026 ADVANCED RULE OF THREE CLASS ADVANCED DIALOG CLASS ADVANCED PACING CLASS INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025. You don’t need to…
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Kickstarters Worth Looking At This Friday…
I Hope To Do This Regularly… If you are starting a FICTION publishing Kickstarter, first off you can send it to me to check for you ahead of time. I will be glad to. Or you can send it to me after you launch. If I think it works and it is FICTION, I will list it here. I will say mostly only positive things about any campaign I list. If I think one does not work or has too many problems to list, I won’t even mention it. So send me your campaign by email with the subject line Kickstarter Campaign with a link. And if I don’t mention…
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New Promotion Class and Extension of Early Bird Discount…
Yes… We Are Doing A Promotion Class It is called… INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025. You don’t need to waste money on Facebook or Amazon ads. There are more great promotions than you have time for that you can do for your books that work and build a real fan base. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch together. This will have some information talked about in the Writing Summer Camp, but a lot more added plus assignments…
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List of Workshops Starting September 2nd…
Some Really Great Classes and All On Sale! All of these are on WMG Teachable. All start either September 2nd or 3rd. I have put the links with most of them, but if the link doesn’t work, you can scroll through on Teachable and find it. (Search function on Teachable is not great.) Sale information at the bottom of the post. REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 5 available starting on September 2nd… 6 weeks long with 5 assignments… I respond personally to all assignments… $300 Four of these are available every month. This month Heinlein’s Rules is added in for one month only. To find them just go to WMG Teachable and hit…