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Distractions Suck Time From The World…
And Even If They Are Good Distractions… Today we had a guy come in to service our HVAC systems to get ready for the coming long, hot summer. A distraction, sure, but not a bad one. But sucked a few hours of my time. During the time of the service guy, we got some emails that were all great news. Basically more climbing out of the stupidity and ugliness of the last few years, plus a great offer for a possible license. A very, very, very thin slice of a magic pie. (If you have not read the Magic Bakery book, you won’t understand that, but to those who backed…
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Learning Drains Fear…
Noticed That Numbers of Times Lately… And again, tonight. I had a book all together in a Word docx file and needed to get it run through Vellum. My safety net (Kris) was working in the WMG office, so I fired up on the book at my desk in the WMG office and right at the end, 25 minutes later, I got stuck on a question that Kris didn’t even know the answer to. But I put the entire book together, laid it all out, back matter and everything, and got it entirely ready in the Vellum step to get to stores in just under 35 minutes. And no fear.…
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Learn to Listen…
If You Can Hear Yourself, You Make Better Decisions… This last week I had a decision to make about getting my writing restarted. Kris had come up with this great summer challenge idea to keep her focused on her writing through the summer. It is called the Kris Summer Motivation Challenge and I have written about it a number of times and yes, there still is six spots open. Sign up on Teachable. Information in previous blogs. So my decision as to what to do with the challenge for me was three-sided. 1… Was it too early in the organizing and publishing process to bring the writing back in? 2……
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Going For It!!
I Got Novels To Write… So even though I am publishing like crazy on my 75 books challenge, I am going to carve time out every day for new words. Kris’s Summer Motivation Challenge is a great way to get me up and started. Information about it on the blog yesterday, or you can sign up on Teachable. It is the first thing. https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com/courses/krismotivation (Again, sorry, no credits or subscriptions on this one. Does not work if you don’t have skin in the game to help with the motivation.) So after a lot of dithering, I finally decided I had some novels to write, and I want to jump back…
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I Am Going for the Kris Challenge…
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…
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Learning Curves…
One At A Time… Way back when indie publishing first started, I did everything for myself. So did Kris Rusch. I did covers with Power Point (stop laughing, it worked), loaded word docs into what each place called a “grinder” and somehow managed to get over two hundred titles up for the major Kindle Christmas. Then, for the next 12 years, I did some stuff on my own, but mostly knew how to do it from a distance. Turns out trusting others was a very bad idea, but that is another topic not worth talking about. So now, Rusch and I are on our own once again. We have the…
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Last Day for Collections Kickstarter!
Ends at 7PM West Coast Time… A really short campaign, but one that has me excited to finally get so many of my short stories out. In this campaign I will get 15 different original 10-1story science fiction collections into the world. So much fun. A Special Challenge!! We were at 78 backers early this morning. Now we are at 86 backers. If we can hit 100 backers by the end, every backer will get all five stretch goal collections in electronic editions. Another thirty short science fiction stories on top of what backers are already getting. But I need your help to pass the word and get to that…
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ONE DAY LEFT!! Collections Kickstarter
A Special Challenge!! In the last 40 hours of this campaign, it is clear we will more than likely hit the second stretch goal collection, but not the last three. So I want to make a special challenge on this last day. SPECIAL CHALLENGE!! We are at 78 backers as I type this. If we can hit 100 backers by the end, every backer will get all five stretch goal collections in electronic editions. Another fifty short science fiction stories in five volumes. So please help us pass the word and get to that 100 backers. This ends on Thursday at 7 pm West Coast time. Let’s see if we…
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Two Days Left on Collection Kickstarter!!
Very Short Campaigns Go Quickly… Seems like we just started this and it is now just two days from being over. Amazing. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/a26/five-science-fiction-collections?ref=5tysz4 FIVE SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTIONS by Dean Wesley Smith Fifty Science Fiction Short Stories in Five Brand New Collections by New York Times Bestselling Writer Dean Wesley Smith! This is my 60th Kickstarter campaign and we got a “Project We Love” from Kickstarter. Really cool. This the start of me getting out a bunch of my short stories finally. The base of this campaign is five science fiction 10-story collection. But there is a featured reward that you can get five more science fiction collections. And then in…