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Advanced Craft Classes Sale…
Plus Sale on Lifetime Everything Subscription… I have up all the ADVANCED CRAFT classes I am going to put up right now on Teachable, plus the bundle for all six of them in 2025. I am going to wait to put up the Sept/Oct classes and the Nov/Dec classes for 2025 until we get past the 2024 ones. We did six Advanced Craft classes in 2023, are in the process of doing six more in 2024, and there will be a new six advanced craft classes in 2025. All are available every year. See the schedule below. 18 Total when we get to the end of 2025. Wow! The new…
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Announcing New ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES
That’s Right… 18 Total Advanced Craft Classes!! We did six in 2023, are in the process of doing six more in 2024, and there will be a new six advanced craft classes in 2025. 18 Total when we get to the end of 2025. Wow! The new six craft classes for 2025 are: Advanced Rule of Three Advanced Setting Advanced Cliffhangers Advanced Novel Structure Advanced Tension/Suspense Advanced Making Stuff Up Starting On September 3rd (in one week) are… Advanced Genre Advanced Conflict Starting On November 5th (in two months) are… Advanced Emotions Advanced Unputdownable Then the schedule for 2025 for Advanced Craft Classes is the following. January/February 2025… Advanced Rule…
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Scheduling the Impossible…
Scheduling Is Something We All Get Used To… Indie writers at some level or another all get used to scheduling publishing projects. Nature of this new world and actually for me, I had so many deadlines in a year in the old traditional publishing days, I had a massive yearly schedule for writing and travel and deadlines and money flow. In indie publishing, scheduling is just something we all do at one level or another. And then there is the WMG Publishing schedule master, Kris. Two major ongoing projects (Pulphouse monthly) and Holiday Spectacular (More moving parts than you can imagine) are year-long things. Plus for our books and such,…
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The Time Travel Fun of Editing…
Sometimes Even I Get Confused… And I have been editing for 35 years in one way or another. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #32 came out yesterday to subscribers in ebook. Paper and contributor paper copies will trail along as normal for anything paper. I wrote the introduction to that issue back in early June. Pulphouse is monthly now, which causes me to work out two or three months ahead. Two is minimum. So tonight I finished the introduction to the October issue that will come out right before Halloween. Here in the heat of August I have been writing about the fall weather and Trick-Or-Treating. And selecting a few stories in…
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Mentorships Still Availble…
Lots of Interest… But so far this is still open. Two posts ago I gave the full story on how these came about and the history. Do read that. So as I said, I can safely handle two more writers. Write me if interested and I will answer what questions I can.. Cost is $3,000. (This is just between you and me, no one else, although your partner is fine to ride along.) Any topic about writing and publishing is valid. I would be here to help you for as long as you want me to, meaning for years. But I do ask that every Sunday (or Monday or at…
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Thunder Mountain
I Am Very Proud Of That Book… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. As I said, I am very proud of the book and you can get it in this amazing bundle of…
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Two Mentorships Open
First Open Since 2022 Back in 2019, I opened up what we called a mentorship where I answered questions on anything that person wanted in writing and business of publishing. I took seven mentees total in 2019 and early 2020. How it sets up is that I asked the person to report in to me every Sunday (or Monday or at least once every two weeks) about what they were doing, progress or no progress. Writing or publishing done or not done. And plans for the coming week. I was sort of a check-point each week. If there were questions, I tried to answer them, or look at a cover,…
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Determined to Get Some Sleep
So This Will Be Short… I will get eight hours somehow tonight, so got to just do little here but repeat some information. As I said, I did manage to start all of the new September Regular workshops, which includes the classic Heinlein’s Rules and two brand new workshops, Brushstroke Characters and Faking It. Both of those should be fun and great learning and they are available now on Teachable. Today is the last day on jumping into Kris’s Fall Challenge that runs to September 30th. Watch her daily writing and challenge her to match or beat her word count. That’s on Teachable. And this is the last day to…
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Fun Stuff…
Mostly Getting Caught Up On Sleep… I really, really, really screwed around my sleep schedule right when I knew there were five days in a row I had to be up before noon. So a lot of long naps to just pretend to get eight hours in a day. Man that makes a person feel like crap and no one to blame but my inability to go to bed before 5 am. But as last night’s post said, I did manage to start all of the new September Regular workshops, which includes the classic Heinlein’s Rules and two brand new workshops, Brushstroke Characters and Faking It. Both of those should…
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Two Deadlines and Two New Regular Workshops…
Yup, Adding Two Regular Six Weeks Workshops… But first, the two deadlines. The Kris Fall Writing Challenge will close on Monday the 19th. Kris sends out an email about her writing day and running day and total word count every day from August 15th to September 30. If you sign up and don’t match her word count, you get your $300 in credit on WMG Teachable. If you surpass her word count, you get twice what you paid in credit. So win/win. Right now, the letters are both being sent out and put in a post for those signing up this weekend to not miss anything. As of Monday sign-ups…