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Licensing Discoverability
The Key Word is “Discoverability.” I have had some blogs here about the magic number of twenty when it comes to major books. There is a formula that tracks mathematically the possible ways a book can be discovered and around twenty major books the number gets huge. Talked about all that. But I have always said that that number of books have to be done right, otherwise no mathematical number will get your books bought. The last few days I answered some questions on licenses and how someone who wants to license your book finds you. The answer is have a lot of your books out wide all over the…
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Licensing Income…
Got Some Fun Questions After Thursday Blog… One Basic Question first… How do you get licensing deals? Answer: Have all your books and stories wide, with well-branded covers and good sales copy. (That kills most writers right there.) Readers will find your work and readers are often people who can do a license with you. I know that sounds too simple and takes too long, but it is the truth. A point of interest here. You all license your electronic books to stores like Amazon and B&N and Kobo, but I am not talking about that. Licensing for this conversation is when a company comes to you for audio, translation,…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Campaigns I Think Are Worth Backing Or Studying Or Both! I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. 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. Also, I am not posting campaigns that are only for very pretty books. They are not good examples to study and unless you are a collector of the genre or author, not worth backing. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 60 of them, every one…
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The Fun of the Uninformed…
And Sadly, They Know How To Type Letters to Me… I have no problem at all with questions on most topics, mostly writing and publishing. And I have no real issues about what people think of me. I’ve been in this business for over fifty years. Seen some amazingly stupid things and did a few of them myself along the way. But today I got a letter from someone who seemed to have an issue with me (again which is fine) but his issue was how can I make a living with my fiction when clearly my Amazon sales numbers are so low and my author ranking is so low.…
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Fantastic New Storybundle!!
THE ESCAPE FROM 2026 BUNDLE I have a Thunder Mountain novel in this fantastic new bundle that Kris has put together. And also you can get the Classic How to Write Time Travel workshop. 14 books by some fantastic writers and one class, all for one money. Amazing deal! Here is Kris’s introduction to ESCAPE FROM 2026 BUNDLE… The Escape From 2026 Bundle – curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch If time travel existed, everyone would target 2026. Or maybe 2016. Or maybe 1980—or heck, 1875—depending on when you believe the seeds of this nightmare year were sown. I proposed this bundle in late 2025, expecting 2026 to be bad…but holy…
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Making a Living With Novels…
A Brutal Class… We decided to offer it as a regular workshop in May. It is always a classic workshop anyone can go through at any time. But as a regular workshop, even though this is a time of great forgetting, a few people are actually doing the assignments. The first three assignments are designed to cut away all excuses about not writing by forcing each person to do the math of how much time they spend writing on average every day. So say you did 200,000 words last year in fiction. And you average about 800 words an hour finished draft. Do the math… That is 250 hours of…
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Almost Missed the Streak…
Started This Daily Blog on August 1st, 2012 Have not missed a day in almost 14 years. Almost did tonight. Just got busy with recording and going over a book to put into Vellum and doing covers and then headed to watch some television and head for bed. Luckily, I had left the lights on in my office and when I went to turn them off, I could not remember doing a blog for tonight, so I checked and I had not. So wow, amazing how after almost 14 years, every day, this sometimes still falls away. So hope everyone had a great weekend. And all the people signed up…
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Great Game But the Ending Sucked…
First Real Aces Home Game of the Season… Actually there had been another home game at T-Mobile Arena where the Knights play, but the Aces play in what is called “The House” in Mandalay Bay and that is where our season tickets are. They lost both home games, one at T-Mobile and one in “The House” but have won four games on the road. Go figure. We got to see the third World Champion banner raised before the game. Third in four years since we started going to the games. Anyway, the game was close and it was great fun, but wow was that end of town crowded with not…
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Keeping Kris Challenge Open…
Still Open for Signing Up… Kris and I are offering the Kris Motivation Challenge Seminar, with two motivation videos every week (30 total videos) and three webinars. Jump in and make sure you stay focused, even if your family is taking a trip, you can write in a notebook or on a laptop. Or get your words for the week done ahead. The focus in the key, and in the videos Kris and I will be giving a ton of motivation tips on how to stay in the writing, even when the garden is calling, the pool is waiting, and the hamburgers on the grill smell wonderful. You don’t have…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Campaigns I Think Are Worth Backing Or Studying Or Both! I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. 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. Also, I am not posting campaigns that are only for very pretty books. They are not good examples to study and unless you are a collector of the genre or author, not worth backing. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 60 of them, every one…