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Write Stuff Storybundle Ends in 2 Days!!
This is a Stunning Value! Nine different writing books plus a $150 craft workshop, all for $25 bucks. And it is about to end! Here is Kris’s blog about it describing the books and everything. 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 faith as writers struggle with the blank page. This year’s bundle has four distinct elements. First, the all-important craft. J. Daniel Sawyer teaches you how to…
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Two Fun Special Workshops
Barkson’s Journey Kickstarter Special Workshops Two really amazing special workshops only available through this Kickstarter campaign. Barkson’s Journey Kickstarter… For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special treats through this Kickstarter campaign. These will only be offered through this campaign and nowhere else, so don’t miss them. — HOW TO CREATE AND USE FANTASY MAPS This is a special three-week workshop on how to create and use fantasy maps in 2024. How to use them for major discoverability and to make great money with them. And there is a short story to write for the third week’s…
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NEW SPECIAL STRETCH REWARD ON KICKSTARTER!
Barkson’s Journey Kickstarter… SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…215 Backers by Wednesday Night… Barkson’s Journey Kickstarter… If this campaign reaches 215 Backers by Wednesday Night, every backer of any reward at $5.00 and above will get a free ebook copy of the Kristine Kathryn Rusch story “Songbirds.” And for those interested in writing, Pop-Up #18… Nothing is Good Enough. This is a $150 value and yes, if you already have it you can gift it to another writer. Help us pass the word on this. We have already hit two stretch goal and there are nine days left, so lots of great extra reading and writing classes to get. Check it out at…
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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…