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FOUR THRILLERS CAMPAIGN NOW LIVE!!!
THIS IS A REALLY FUN CAMPAIGN I am so excited to see these four thrillers coming back into the light of day. Actually they never were in the light of day since I published them without telling anyone. Just put them out and kept on writing. FOUR THRILLERS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN All backers of any reward get all four thrillers. All backers. Any reward. So check it out and writers, this one is a gold mine for craft. You want to keep readers from ever putting down your books and keep readers wanting more of your work, these two workshop taken together, will do that.(Yes, we are highly recommending these two…
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FOUR THRILLERS Kickstarter Campaign Launching!!!
Fires Off At Noon on Tuesday, September 2nd! This is a really fun one. I am so excited to see these four thrillers coming back into the light of day. Actually they never were in the light of day since I published them without telling anyone. Just put them out and kept on writing. FOUR THRILLERS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN All backers of any reward get all four thrillers. All backers. Any reward. So check it out and writers, this one is a gold mine for craft. You want to keep readers from ever putting down your books and keep readers wanting more of your work, these two workshop taken together, will…
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One Day Left on Workshop Sale!!
50% Off All Teachable Workshops!!! JUST ONE MORE DAY!! Goes until Very Late Tuesday Night, September 2nd. See all the sale information below… Now here are a bunch of the new classes Starting Septembe 2nd and after that are available at half price. WMG Teachable ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES ADDED… There are eight Advanced Craft Classes now available in this sale. They are all nine weeks long with assignments. September/October ADVANCED TENSION SUSPENSE CLASS ADVANCED GENRE CLASS ADVANCED CONFLICT CLASS November/December UNPUTDOWNABLE CLASS ADVANCED EMOTION CLASS January/February 2026 ADVANCED RULE OF THREE CLASS ADVANCED DIALOG CLASS ADVANCED PACING CLASS INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 CLASS A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion…
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My Attitude Toward Helping With Copyright…
I Am Not a Lawyer… And would never give legal advice. But I am a long-term professional fiction writer of over 50 years and I know copyright because (duh) that is how I make all my money. So when I say something to inform about copyright, I say what I say not as a lawyer, but in the interest of helping writers learn and avoid issues. A super nice person who has forgotten more of the legal fine details of copyrght that I know often responds to my posts. I need to be clear here. Court cases and attorneys are cheap when you need their help to consult or look…
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Friday Kickstarters
I Think These Campaigns Are Worth Looking At… To study or back or both. Before I start I need to tell you that I have a campaign starting on Tuesday at noon. Four Thriller Novels. Take a look if you get a chance. The first one this Friday was one I thought was pretty good, but then I realized it had AI in it and I won’t support anything with AI. I would suggest none of you do either. So here is a good one by a writer who has been in sf as long as Kris and I have and he has made the transition to indie. He is…
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Adult Back-To-School Sale Still Happening!!
50% Off All Teachable Workshops!!! Goes until Very Late Tuesday Night, September 2nd. See all the sale information below… Now here are a bunch of the new classes Starting Septembe 2nd and after that are available at half price. ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES ADDED… There are eight Advanced Craft Classes now available in this sale. They are all nine weeks long with assignments. September/October ADVANCED TENSION SUSPENSE CLASS ADVANCED GENRE CLASS ADVANCED CONFLICT CLASS November/December UNPUTDOWNABLE CLASS ADVANCED EMOTION CLASS January/February 2026 ADVANCED RULE OF THREE CLASS ADVANCED DIALOG CLASS ADVANCED PACING CLASS INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 CLASS A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025.…
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More Copyright…
Not Really for Fun… Writers who don’t have the time to learn copyright seem to not like to have it thrust upon them. So most will just skip this and last night’s post. Just nature of the desire of the uninformed to remain uninformed. I think it is a rule of nature. I answered a comment I wanted to bring up here because I got similar in emails. Since 1987 or so (Actually March 1st 1989) in the US, copyright notice on a work is not needed or required. Reasons to put a copyright date on a work… — It can be a “notice” to the uninformed that someone owns…
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Copyright Registration Issues
Afraid to Talk About This… Honestly.. Why? Because so many writers are so uninformed, they think they need to “copyright” a work before they have protection. Uhhh, no, copyright protection is automatic when you put a creative work into a form. If you have a desire to be a writer, learn copyright. But there are reasons to register copyright. Especially here in the US. Kris and I have made it a long practice to register every work that is getting sniffed at by movies or television or streaming or gaming. But a lot of our novels and short stories, we have not registered. (For you uninformed out there, that does…
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A Saying That Has Stuck With Me…
Printed and Framed On a Card… This saying has been in my writing offices for 43 years now. Don’t really care who originally said it. But it came about because Nina Kiriki Hoffman and I were challenging each other to write one story per week, not rewrite it, and put it in the mail. Nina called it “Dare to Be Bad” and that stuck. And is the reason both of us started selling regularly. Takes far, far more courage to write and put out your work than to be so afraid as to not write and not publish anything. And that’s a fact. So the saying I have had in…
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I Have Been Having Fun With Sales Copy…
One Thing to Teach It… Another To Write it… So see what you think of the sales copuy I just wrote for four thrillers that will be in an upcoming Kickstarter, Here is the sales copy and the covers. To see the promtions page on the Four Thrillers Kickstarter, just go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/four-thrillers?ref=31yju9 HAWK RUN Evil organizations. Hidden ancient secrets. Men who would kill him without a second thought. Hawk must fight through them all. Forced to survive against all odds to find his kidnapped father. An adventure that takes Hawk into places no one dared enter before. In this page-turning novel, New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith…