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Five Days Left On Early-Bird Seminar Pricing…
Almost Forgot to Do A Post Tonight… Today was Kris and my wedding anniversary and even though we celebrate the day we met a lot more, we had a great evening with a fantastic dinner at one of our favorite restaurants. So after watching some television and doing some writing and reading a great Kris blog that will be on her Patreon page tomorrow, I shuffled off to bed to then suddenly realize I had forgot this. How annoying. Streaks will do that to you. Here is all the information on the seminar. Going to be great. FEAR AND PRODUCTIVITY SEMINAR Preparation for the New Year January Seminar January 5th…
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Pricing Silliness and a Learning Lesson
Five Years is Forever in Indie Publishing… Well, I spent the last two nights going back and trying to update and then even fisk my own post from five years ago about pricing. What a fool’s errand. The post was so out of date, I just kept shaking my head in amazement and wondering who wrote it. I was looking at it through 2017 glasses and a ton of new knowledge. Stunning, just stunning how many changes in this business have happened. In the last five years we have done a master business class here on the coast every October, the next one in a few weeks. And every year…
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Working On Pricing Post
Plus Working On Workshop Stuff Last Call for the October Online workshops that are starting. Still room in all of them. Online Workshops I will announce officially with description the new online Novel Structure workshop tomorrow while posting the November workshops. Actually I now have workshops posted out until April for those thinking of taking advantage of the Kickstarter workshop specials. There are some slots that say (TBA) for new workshops to come along. This Novel Structure Online Workshop will not be a “how to outline” workshop, but instead a workshop to teach you at a deep level the structure of novels. In numbers of genres and with different types of…
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Returns and Ingrams…
This is a Great Topic and Question… Basically, when loading books to Ingrams paper and hardback, should you accept returns? Allowing book returns started as a promotion to help bookstores in the depression in the 1930s. And after that, no one publisher had the guts to take the hit by ending the allowance of returns. This made the bookstore owner take no responsibility in the books they ordered. A horrid practice. When I came into the business in the 1970s and up through the mid 1990s, this practice was so bad that you could stand in the mall and look into a B’Dalton’s mall store and know that in six…
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Calculate Kickstarter Profits…
Stunning How Some Writers Set Up to Fail… And I am not talking about the total gross earned on a campaign or the number of backers or the amount of promotion a campaign will bring to a book or series. All that is really good in various ways. Nope, talking money only. There is no right number for a percentage of profit from a Kickstarter campaign. I have seen it vary from 85% of the gross down to losing money. Depends on the prices you set, the products you offer to backers, and the cost of those products. So a simple round-number example: You have a campaign that does well…
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A Few Great Questions Today…
First A Question on Priorities… The question boiled down to this… “What is more important? Writing, Learning, Reading, Publishing?” Great question, and I honestly had to stop and stare at it for a moment because in the publishing world of 2024, all of those are important. There needs to be a balance of feeding them all regularly. But writers tend to get into trouble over time when they drop one or two. “I don’t have time to study another author’s book or to take a class or worse yet, I don’t need it right now.” So learning gets left out and the writer goes stale and dull in time. “I…
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One Day Left On Discounts
Early Bird Discounts End Thursday Night at Midnight… Get a pretty major discount for both parts of the WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM classes. Remember, the first session starts on October 1st. That is just next week. Wow. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9 webinars. December off and you must take part one to take part two. (Webinars will be recorded and are not mandatory to attend, so no worries.) Each week will have five or six videos plus an assignment. The assignments are not…
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Early Bird Discount Ends Thursday
These Writer’s Block Freedom Classes Are Special… The more Kris and I work on putting these together, the more excited I am getting about it, especially with the two parts over four months and the weekly webinar that will be recorded. It will still be available after Thursday, just more expensive. And remember, this starts on October 1st. Not very far away. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9 webinars. December off and you must take part one to take part two. (Webinars will…
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Early Bird Discount Extended…
WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM Early Bird Discount… Discount now extended to Thursday, September 26th at midnight West Coast time. Why, because the discount is the difference between getting into the class and not for some. And we had a number of people ask if they could have a few extra days and when we said yes to one we wanted to make the extension for everyone. And remember, this starts on October 1st. Not very far away. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 1… October/November (starts October 1st) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 7 webinars. WRITER’S BLOCK FREEDOM PART 2… January/Feb (starts January 7th ) 9 weeks of classes, 8 assignments, 9…
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Expectations…
One of the Big Evils… Expectations can come from about a billion places for all of us. But most of the time we don’t even know when we have let an expectation in. Sometimes we do, though, and those are so deadly so fast, it is amazing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I have heard a writer say, I’m going to quit my day job for one year and I hope to be making a living after a year. Of course, that is flat insulting to any professional writer who has worked years and years to learn their craft and business, but we all know that…