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New Kickstarter Campaign for Nonfiction Writing Books
Put the Covers Up Last Night… Kickstarter approved the campaign and now I got a link where you can read more about it. And the header. — ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY basically explains in a simple metaphor how indie publishing works. — ADVANCED WRITING INTO THE DARK gives you all the tools to write clean, one-draft stories and novels without ever outlining or rewriting. — ADVANCED STAGES OF A FICTION WRITER helps you understand where exactly you are at on the road to being a professional writer and what to do to move forward with your dreams. — DISCOVERABILITY AND PROMOTION gives each writer a sense of what kind of promotion…
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Better Covers and Four Books
Advanced Magic Bakery and Three Others… Four basically new indie writing and publishing books. Don’t go looking for any of these yet, but they are coming. But since I put up two covers that really didn’t work very well, I thought I would put up all four tonight. To say I am having fun with these is an understatement. Doing four new updated and advanced editions for Indie Publishing 2026. And yes, a ton of new stuff and older stuff updated to apply today in Indie Publishing in 2026. There will be a Kickstarter for these four books very soon. — ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY — ADVANCED WRITING INTO THE DARK…
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Some Surprising Numbers…
At Least They Surprised Me and Kris… Teachable sent us a bunch of facts from 2025. First time in our ten years with them that they have done that. Seems we have 1,469 courses, and zero were made with AI help. Duh… We have many of those 1,469 courses turned off (unpublished) as dated or duplicates, but we have around 600 active courses. Wow, see why the Lifetime Everything Subscription is so good? (grin) We have 5,692 writers who have taken classes over the decade and 179 new writers joined in 2025. They also sent us a bunch more information such as total income, numbers of hours of classes watched,…
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Advanced Magic Bakery Plus…
Two New Books Coming… Two brand new indie publishing books. Advanced Magic Bakery: Indie Publishing Made Simple Discoverability and Promotion: Indie Publishing Promotion Made Simple Since the bakery books is all about magic pies, figured I would put pies on the cover. (grin) And discoverability and promotion just brings in gold if you do it correctly, so gold on that cover. Yes, both of these will be in book form and the bakery book has a number more chapters than what I put up online. And I have added bits along the way in the earlier chapters as well. Discoverability and promotion book is all brand new. Take a look…
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Kickstarter Friday
A New One And A Number Still Going! I do this every Friday, mostly from campaigns I was sent or a few that I found I thought worth supporting. 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 57 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoy are going to study campaigns that I have done, study the last year or so.…
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Writing Sales Copy New Class
Three Weeks to Making More Money… Firing up a quick class because, to be honest, I got tired of hearing myself complain about authors killing their own sales with bad sales copy. And I wanted to give this instruction to the few taking the Sales Mentorship which includes branding, covers, sales, openings of stories and endings and moe. So here is the class. Cost is $150 and there are two homework assignments in the three weeks. Starts February 2nd. —- Writing Sales Copy: Three Weeks To More Money Yank the potential buyers into your book. Make them buy it. In a mind-blowing and shocking 3-week class, increase your sales and…
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Drifting Schedules
Schedule Shifted Again… For no reason I can figure. For a while, meaning weeks and weeks, I was up between 9 and 10 in the morning and then crashed out around 2 am. And I was happy with that. But now, tonight I suddenly realized I am writing this at 4:30 in the morning and the last few weeks I have been up this late every night and getting up later. Again, no reason why other than I think my normal time might be up until 4 or 5. I did live that way for years. So clearly I just sort of drifted back to it without any thought at…
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Easy to Be Negative…
Really Hard to be Positive… But I am going to try… Two days ago I did the two five list of the dumbest things indie writers and publishers do. Stunningly easy to come up with five, could have been ten, and then writers sent me even more. Not so easy to try to define what indie writers do well. And I finally figured out why. Asimov’s Rule. “9 Good things, one bad, you focus on the bad.” Human nature and especially the nature of writers. Indie writers, at least the successful ones, do so many things correctly, it is impossible to single out just a few. Sot let me give…
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Response On Last Night’s Post
Clearly A Lot More Than Five… Got some great letters today with writers suggesting other really dumb things writers do, and after I posted those five I thought of another five as well. And then I thought of about ten things that indie writers do that is really smart. And I bet there are a bunch more. Seems I sniff a series here. Hmmm… But not starting tonight because got to call this a night and get up early to go give some blood, part of my annual check-up. Oh, fun.
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Top Five Dumbest Things You Can Do In Indie Publishing…
I Did This For Traditional Publishing A Decade Plus Ago… Dave Letterman did a sketch every so often on the five dumbest things in a certain area, so this is just ripped off from that basic idea. I know this will be only five and a lot of you can surely add even more, and of course, this is my opinion and a lot of you will not agree. I will try to explain quickly my opinion in each one. So starting with #5 and working to the dumbest, although all of these are really dumb in my opinion, here are the five dumbest things you can do as an…