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A Rare Day Off (Mostly)
I Love What I Do And Don’t Consider It Work… So I pretty much work on my writing and publishing all the time, seven days a week. But occasionally Kris and I go do something else. We have the Anthropic stuff done and turned in, and Kris finished a major project and I am in a good position to run at my challenge, So we headed off to a great lunch and even had some deserts. Then off to an Aces game. Aces did not play the way they needed to play for the playoffs, but still beat Seattle by 20 points. Then instead of going home, we headed off…
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What-Ever-Happened-To?…
That Is a Really Sad Question Talking to my best friend of 62 years the other day and that What-Ever-Happened-To question came up a number of times. Half the time, sadly, neither one of us knew the answer. And for 75-year-old-guys, we are both still very sharp and have good memories. And I have no doubt that at times we all are the subject of that question in one group of people or another. Why I call it a sad question is because in the writing community, it usually means the loss of a dream. Usually some writer really pushing and learning and publishing and then something happens and the…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fun Campaigns I Think Work… It is Kickstarter season again, with lots of new and fun campaigns. I’ve been doing this every Friday now for a long time. And it certainly has been fun studying Kickstarters. I look for fiction campaigns that are not just about “pretty books” but actually want readers. I look for clarity in the campaign, meaning can I figure out what the hell is offered. I look for a good story that flows and good art. I do not bother with anyone who is so flipping lazy as to us AI in any part of their campaign. And I look to see if the campaign…
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AI Is the Wrong Name…
AI should be AS… There is nothing at all intelligent about AI. But the name ARTIFICIAL STUPID fits perfectly. AS for short. Now, please don’t try to explain to me what AI (or AS) is, I understand it. And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell me about some threat that Harlan imagined over fifty years ago and Cameron stole forty years ago. I will not have an AI (or AS) discussion here to prove how stupid humans can be. I already know that. I just wanted to point out that today alone I dealt with three ARTIFICIALLY STUPID things that businesses thought would be good for customer service and save them…
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Scam Stupid…
I Actually Get a Laugh Out of a Current Common Scam… The scam is that you get a letter from some person praising a book you wrote and wondering if you would like to have it featured on their current bookclub/newsletter/website/podcast or whatever. The letter is always glowing, written by AI, of course, and if you answer it, they give you more hot wind up your ass and tell you they have a fee to get into their sixty zillion readers. Sadly, I know a few beginning writers who have fallen for this stupidity. So what makes me laugh? The choice of the books the AIs pick to try to…
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Anthropic Copyright Fun
All Authors I Have Heard From Are Having One Issue Or Another… Filling out these forms for percentages of a book is often just head-scratching. I now no longer doubt that some payments will be going out by November 15th, but I can not imagine the special master having to untangle some of this. Going to take time. All the stuff that writers are talking about traditional publishers claiming 100% is one thing. I got some of those I have not gotten to yet. And other percentage issues. But yesterday I had one claim number I got from them that was not on my records. In fact, the three titles…
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Rebranding Covers!
Sometimes You Do Basics and It Still Doesn’t Work The other day I took a copy of a Thunder Mountain book off my shelf and opened it. I would not be able to read it because of the font size and such we used. Way too small and jammed together. There are 14 of the books in the series, all the same. So I pulled them off the shelf and spread them on a table and looked at them. They were okay, but it looked like a bunch of colored paint had been applied to all the fonts. Now these are science fiction historical novels. Many of these colers used…
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Kickstarter Ends Today!!
At 7PM Pacific Time… Get three fantasy novels by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, seven short stories as stretch rewards, and a fourth Seavy County novel by Kris because we hit a special stretch goal as well. If you take the collection reward, you get the collections, all the novels, and all the stretch goals for just about every Seavy County story Kris has written. Plus there are three extra writing classes that have been hit in the stretch rewards that everyone gets. And don’t miss out on the two special workshops you can only get in this Kickstarter campaign. We have added in two of the 3-week workshops in this new…
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One Day Left of Kickstarter
Ends Monday Evening Pacific Coast Time And don’t miss out on the two workshops you can only get in this Kickstarter campaign. We have added in two of the 3-week workshops in this new Kickstarter campaign, and wow are they great ones. And stretch goals have a few great classes in them as well, plus we are only a few backers away from hitting the special stretch goal that gets all backers the fantastic novel THE DEATH OF DAVY MOSS. Three Fantasy Novels from Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Here is the description from the campaign of the two workshops you do not want to miss. — Workshop #1… MONEY-MAKING TIPS USING…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Fun Campaigns I Think Work… It is Kickstarter season again, with lots of new and fun campaigns. I’ve been doing this every Friday now for a long time. And it certainly has been fun studying Kickstarters. I look for fiction campaigns that are not just about “pretty books” but actually want readers. I look for clarity in the campaign, meaning can I figure out what the hell is offered. I look for a good story that flows and good art. I do not bother with anyone who is so flipping lazy as to us AI in any part of their campaign. And I look to see if the campaign…