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Kickstarter Friday
Nothing Sent To Me This Week… At least I hope I didn’t miss a campaign. And I spent some time yesterday and today on Kickstarter, not working on my own (which launches on Tuesday) but looking for some campaigns I wanted to back and talk about here. There are a lot of active fiction campaigns, but most focus on a special edition and three I found were anthologies that just didn’t look to me like they would be worth reading, but all three had funded, so good for them. So another Friday with nothing. Sigh… So here is the link and the header for my new nonfiction campaign starting on…
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A Nifty Honor…
Kickstarter Liked Our Coming ESSENTIAL INDIE PUBLISHING BOOKS Campaign So they gave us the “Project We Love” designation before we even launched. That is a very real honor. How do we know we got it before we launched? Simple. Just hit the promotions link below. (While there hit the button to be reminded when we launch on Tuesday.) Essential Indie Publishing Books Kickstarter campaign. Then on the right, under my name, you will see that it has “Project We Love” there. When we launch that will go under the header. So cool!! That means Kickstarter, the organization, will spend a lot of time and space promoting our campaign because they…
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How is the 75 in 75 Challenge Going?
Got That Question a Few Times This Week… So the answer is great! 10 weeks into the challenge. The challenge for me this year is to publish 75 major books in my 75th year. 10 weeks in and none published yet, but 10 books not far away. And another ten a week or so later. MY SOCKS ROLLED DOWN and Nine Other Stories appeared in a Story Bundle. I will publish it wide in three or four weeks with nine other ten-story collections I have already put together. FIVE DETECTIVES COLLIDE were in the Kickstarter for January and will be out by March. Paper in June. FOUR ESSENTIAL PUBLISHING BOOKS…
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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…