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Workshops Updates
All Special Workshops Sent Out… For the 6 Novellas Kickstarter. If you did not get a letter from me tonight and expected to with the codes and links to the special workshops, please check your spam filter (they emails have links in them) and if not in the spam, write me. Also, I did as folks suggested and started a class called Fifty Years of Learning Through Mistakes. It is now available and will start on May 7th. And yes, those of you with the Everything Subscription, it is already in your bundle of classes. The focus on that class will be the learning from each mistake and how that…
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An Interesting Experience…
Kris and I Went to Follies… You know, the musical written by Steven Sondheim. It was both amazingly cool and amazingly awful at the same time. It was being held in a great small theater in a local casino (really nice one). And the reason Kris and I went was because it featured some of the real Vegas showgirls from the past. And it was only going to be there for five days and never again. When the woman who originally danced in the Moulin Rouge was introduced and came on stage, and they had big pictures on screens of her in the 1950s, I was just in awe. And…
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Still Reading December Stories…
But Almost Done… And then I will start reading the March stories. This has been great fun for me to do this. Even though I got a ways behind because of my injury, it was still fun. And I really appreciate everyone giving me the time. So thank you! Barkson’s Journey Kickstarter is doing really, really well. Gaining on the second stretch goal in just three days. Wow. (And note the branding as per the series I am doing here. Plus check out the very special workshops you can only get through the campaign.) Here is the video with Kris talking about the Fey and BARKSON’S JOURNEY. (Might have to…
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Fiction Branding… Part 9
Lack of Knowledge… For some reason, fiction writers have an aversion to learning anything about the one thing that makes them money. That is copyright and licensing that copyright. For upwards of thirty years now, I have been trying to figure out why this aversion happens. Even though learning copyright is far, far more important than say learning how to pace a story or indie publish a story, writers just ignore it or if they are even aware, they simply say they will get to it someday. Now, I tend to be kinder to writers who are just unaware of how copyright works vs those who purposely do not want…
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BARKSON’S JOURNEY is Live!!
The New Fey Kickstarter Is Live!! Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… Barkson’s Journey… A Race Against Time and The Fey So much fun… And we have the very first Fey map in this Kickstarter, some fun merchandise, great reading with other books and stretch goals, plus two really special workshops you can only get through this campaign. HOW TO CREATE AND USE FANTASY MAPS and HOW TO CREATE GREAT FANTASY MAIN CHARACTERS. Again, only offered through this campaign and never anywhere else. Check it out at Barkson’s Journey… (And yes we got a Project We Love from Kickstarter before we launched.)
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New Fey Novel Kickstarter…
Launching at Noon Today!! Barkson’s Journey… A Race Against Time and The Fey When Augusta Kirilli discovers that someone wants to destroy her entire family, she needs to warn them. Warning her family, scattered all over the Qavnerian Protectorate, proves almost impossible and extremely dangerous. So she hires the one person who can reach them quickly—Lucinda Barkson. Lucinda Barkson, tough and dedicated, with a mysterious past. Lucinda Barkson, who sets out immediately, armed with fourteen letters for the Kirilli family, a partially accurate map, and a dozen different weapons. Lucinda Barkson, who soon realizes she faces warriors from the greatest military in the world—The Fey. With its nail-biting pace and shocking…
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The Last Big Workshop Clean-Up…
Down in the Details Classes… Wow did I get behind, first because of my eye issues and then because of the shoulder surgery and recovery. But now I am back focused on finishing all of these. There are five groups of 8 classes each. Science Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy, Perfect Crime, and Holiday Stories. All have story prompts attached that can be submitted to a paying anthology for each class. Perfect Crimes Through Time and Holiday Stories are not posted yet on Teachable. They will appear in May as I record them. Science Fiction has five of the eight topics done, Fantasy has one, and Mystery none. Some of these were…
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50 Years…
Sold My First Two Short Stories 50 Years Ago… I just finished recording and putting up on Teachable a nine-week class called A FIFTY YEAR PERSPECTIVE OF LEARNING. Five videos each week for nine weeks talking about what I learned from my mentors over the years, and from others along the way, that got me to this place fifty years down the road. Tonight, as I was recording a topic on both the weekly CREATIVE SURVIVAL and MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY classes, I got thinking about the idea of doing a class that would talk about what I learned in fifty years from crashes, mistakes, and setbacks and what I learned from…
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Fiction Branding… Part 8
Here We Go…. I have come at fiction branding from a number of different directions in the first seven posts, not counting the “small author name” post. But as I have said, that is only the basics and most writers can’t even do all the basics of marketing well not from lack of skill but just from lack of being willing to study a little. So to make this as simple as I can, let me break up fiction branding into three major areas. 1… Marketing (discoverability… what I have been talking about so far) 2… Value (copyright and trademark) 3… Licensing (products and derivative sales) There is a fourth…
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Write Stuff Story Bundle
I Spent Too Much Time Tonight On Other Stuff… So you get a reminder that this really great Storybundle is happening. Here is Kris’s blog about it since she put the bundle together with some great writers. This is an amazing group of writing books and one of our workshops in one Storybundle. Let me have Kris tell you about it. THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the…