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Great Fun With Writers Visiting…
Wonderful Meals and Conversations… With great writers and friends. I know we live in a great world of communication where we can keep in touch with so many friends. But just nothing like sitting and talking face-to-face. Talking about writing, publishing, cats, and just about everything. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to do that for the last three days with different friends in town. And yes, our two cats manning promotion central are great. So a large writer’s lunch here today (Friday) that will have more writing skill and published novels and awards than can be imagined around one table. So, so much fun. I remember as a…
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Repeat Post Because….
… My Website Server Is Doing Work… Oh, oh, might be down is what they said, so repeating the post from last night about the great workshops starting up and the 50% early bird sale on them to make sure I keep up my daily streak… Great sale for a few more days… Starting May 6th, three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be…
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Workshops to Help Your Get Through…
… The Time of Great Forgetting. And challenge yourself and learn a lot at the same time. Starting May 6th, three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable.…
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Wearing Brands
Fun Wearing My Own Brands… I have got three hoodies for the Licensing Expo next month that have three of my brands on them. Poker Boy, Bryant Street, and Pulphouse. Amazing how much fun it is to wear your own brands and how much it can motivate you to write more. I had no realized it would feel that way for me. And I hope at the Licensing Expo to get some interest in the brands. Going to wear one per day. Some of you taking classes right now might see me recording in the Poker Boy hoodie. And speaking of a brand, we just put up THE KRIS AND…
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Gothic Craft Class…
May 5-8th in Las Vegas… In the WMG office in downtown Las Vegas. Starts in three weeks. Craft class taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. We have two openings in the In-Person class if interested. Write me. $750 fee. And on WMG Teachable, we will be doing the Gothic Study Along class. $300 fee. Basically I use Kris’s notes from the class to record what she has done and I read your story assignments. Not as good as being here with Kris, but a ton cheaper. (grin) Four days of videos plus two assignments to write stories. Those who are attending in person will be hooked up on an email list…
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Reading Pulphouse Stories…
Out of Order… So don’t panic if you get a response from me for an October or November story and you have not gotten a response for a story from a previous month yet. I am just jumping around so I don’t get in a rut with the same theme. Plus if I think I might buy a story, I put it aside and read it again in a few days. However, that said, the HEAT WAVE stories are all responded to. TWILIGHT ZONE stories only have a few left. Fascinating patterns I am noticing in the writing. For example, a lot of the stories are pulling me in, but…
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Quick Update on Challenge at Day 100
Not As Good As Last Time… But last time I hung it up, this time I am making plans for the next 100 days of short story writing. Yes, I am behind some stories, but honestly, the insanity of the last three months, it feels great to have gotten done what I did So firing onward. I hope in the next 100 days to find the time to fire back up Smith’s Monthly in some way or another. At this point I might just make it a short story and collections magazine for a time, I sure got enough. (grin) So stay tuned as I ramp back up and work…
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Read a Great SF Novella By Kris…
Did a Bunch of Other Stuff… But mostly just enjoyed the read and took the night mostly off. I will do an update on the ups and downs of my challenge in the next day or so. Plus a number of other topics I want to talk about. So stay turned. Now going to go watch television… And this post serves to keep my blog challenge going. I started this daily blog challenge on August 1st, 2012 and have not missed a night for 12 years and 8 months and 11 days. 4,362 days without missing. That is just nuts, but sometimes I do nothing blogs like tonight to just…
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POKER BOY KICKSTARTER LAST DAY!!!
Ends at 7pm West Coast Time Today (Thursday) My 50th Kickstarter!!! Yes, it is amazing that I have done 50 of these and all were successful. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Fun new special workshops, fun merch, and even every issue of Smith’s Monthly. Great stuff. And if you get both Special Workshops, you get a bonus!! Take a look at these beautiful playing cards… Or these really cool mugs… And everything comes with the four Poker Boy collections in electronic. Every reward. Don’t miss this one. Today is it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Watch the fun video that Kris did. Might have to click it twice to start.
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FLASH SALE EXTENDED ONLY ONE DAY…
ALL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ON TEACHABLE HALF OFF… That’s right!! Half off. Kris asked me to extend this one day (Through late Wednesday night) so the writers on her lists could get a chance. Everything on WMG Teachable, all 600 plus classes, workshops, and courses are all 50% off. This includes all the Lifetime Subscriptions and also the Lifetime Everything Subscription. To get anything on WMG Teachable half off, just hit purchase, then use the code OneDayFlashSale Then hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Get yourself set to learn and keep writing through the Time of Great Forgetting. We figured this flash sale might help. BUT…