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Do a Kickstarter At Any Point…
How Many Books Do I Need?… … Before I can think about doing a Kickstarter? I have gotten that question a bunch lately. For a while, I thought you needed a maybe ten or so books, but then a friend reminded me of a writer I saw do a Kickstarter with their first collection. First book ever, actually. And another writer wrote me and said they had done a Kickstarter with their very first book, a stand-alone novella. Both did great, built some readers, did more campaigns as they finished new books, and kept building readers and fans so that by the time they both reached that magical discoverability level…
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November Workshops Firing Up
All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8 Weekly Assignments… — Advanced Emotion — Unputdownable REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 6 Weeks Long… 5 Weekly Assignments… — Writing into the Dark — Teams in Fiction — Writing with Depth — Killing the Critical Voice — Applied Deptj — Advanced Depth Lifetime subscriptions to Everything or Workshops, write me if you want the code for one or more of these classes. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up…
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Fall Great Deals On Learning…
Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. To get the class or workshop you want, just hit purchase on anything you want and then put in the code: FallHalfPrice You can get the class for 50% off. Two new Advanced Craft classes for November December are starting in November, along with the regular workshops that I will have up shortly. Plus as normal other fun stuff. Questions on anything, feel free to write me. LIFETIME EVERYTHING!! You get everything on WMG Teachable, about 600 classes and workshops plus anything new coming, in the Lifetime Everyting Subscription…
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Quitting is Forever…
Writing and Publishing Can Be Frustrating… But quitting is forever. I honestly have no idea looking back how I made it 51 years in this business. I went over (in a full 9-week class on WMG Teachable) about what I learned from my mentors in 50 years and another class I covered the mistakes I made in 50 years. And I have failed at things in publishing more times than I want to count. I’ve had horrid days and great days. When I am writing, I love it and the feeling of writing. When I am not writing, I wonder why I am not writing. Looking back on that first…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fiction Campaigns That Are Worth Studying and Backing… I do this every Friday, yes even tonight, Halloween, when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. Three really great ones tonight. 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 56 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,…
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Caution on Emails With Praise…
They Hit You With Praise and Then Ask for Money… For some reason, lately, this ploy has been happening. This is my third in three weeks. These folks never research who they are sending to, but do at least pretend to have read the book they are trying to get money to promote. The most recent for me was tonight… Here is the letter I got on a book that has been in print for 12 years and just reprinted this last spring with new covers. Ready for this??? Dean, My name is (Deleted) . I came across The Slots of Saturn, and it struck me as more than a…
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Getting Ready…
A Bunch to Learn or Relearn… Just to get ready to start this challenge of writing a novel every two weeks. And do collections. And other books. I got to relearn all over how to find art that is not AI. I got to relearn InDesign, which I have already started on and having a blast. Double column layouts of Smith’s Monthly issues will be a challenge. Using Vellum for regular books will seem easy people tell me. Getting my learning back up to full on Shopify will take a little time, but looking forward to that this coming year. None of that is the writing side, just the publishing…
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Half Price Sale…
I Sort of Forgot This Was Happening… This started a week ago when we started the Fall Indie Writer Festival. (Still room to join up. Talked today about toxic people and how to deal with the different types.) So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. Including the Lifetime Everything subscription that I can discount under half price if you have taken other classes and stuff. Write me for information on that. To get the class or workshop you want, just hit purchase on anything you want and then put in the code: FallHalfPrice You can get the class for 50%…
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Still Time for Fall Writing Festival!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th The first week there were 44 videos. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. So jumping in now is great as the second week starts. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is an important part of this. Kris and I will answer the questions either in an email if personal, or in a video each day for all to learn from. You do not have to have taken the Indie Writing Camp,…
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Am I Really Going To Write a Novel Every Two Weeks?
Got That Question Twice in Emails… The short answer… I think I will try the challenge. But I am turning 75 and I love the idea of publishing 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas) in my 75th year. (I don’t tend to write novellas, so it will be mostly novels and collections and anthologies/magazines. So if I started on a novel every two weeks, I would write 26 if I hit it, but only publish 22 or 23 due to the time lag between finishing and publishing. A long way from 75… So for years now I have wanted to do a series of collections to get all my short…