• Challenge,  workshops

    Spring Workshop Sale

    Spring Workshop Sale Starts Sunday the 3rd of April… Wanted to let everyone know about the sale starting now. Go to https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com/ Then hit “See All Courses” and find the course you want. It will be half price by hitting Purchase and then on the top of the next page put in the coupon code: SpringSale That will get you the class, the workshops, the lecture, Pop-Up, subscription, challenges, everything at half price. And you can buy as many as you want, but you have to do it one at a time since Teachable does not have a shopping cart. The spring sale will last until Thursday, April 14th at…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Watched Bridgerton

    Yes, I Watched a Regency… For the second year in a row. Four episodes in the last two days. Kris had to explain a bunch of stuff to me, but some pretty good acting and the characters were likable, so I’ll watch the third season if there is one. Interesting difference in plotting from this show to others. These episodes were mostly an hour in length and if the characters had only talked, nothing would have happened, but as it was not a lot happens. Where, say, The Rookie fifty things happen, ten viewpoints, and a ton of stuff, and it is only 15 minutes into the episode. When Magnum…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Aliens Among Us Storybundle

    Yes, Still Going On… Six days left and some great science fiction books by great writers. I got to curate this and I even mentioned it here when I was looking for books. Fun putting it together. Following, I am going to reprint my blog about it. I put this blog here two weeks ago just before we started the Kickstarter. I hope you grab a bundle for some great reading. WWW.Storybundle.com/aliens Here is my original blog… One thing science fiction fans think about when you say “Aliens Among Us” is aliens like body snatchers, or Grays flitting around Area 51. None of that in this group of great novels…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Why All The Stretch Rewards?

    Why Give So Much Away? Got that question a lot this time, more than any other campaign we have done, although I must admit, that question is pretty normal for our campaigns. If a person does a $5 pledge to get an early copy of RESCUE TWO in electronic form, as I write this they get ten more books and nine workshops worth $1,350.00. But that is about to jump one more goal to eleven books and ten workshops. Why do this? Why give so much away? Two major reasons, actually. First, this is a campaign for my new Seeders novel RESCUE TWO. It stands alone, but gives a good…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    LESS THAN 40 HOURS LEFT!!

    Ends on Thursday at 7 pm West Coast Time. RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign Only forty hours to get the two special workshops, or deals on other workshops, or great deals on a bunch of my books. Just not much time left. Yesterday we hit the 9th Stretch Goal. And there is time to get to one more I think. But right now hitting 9 Stretch Goals means any backer of any reward gets the following extra books and Pop-Up writing classes on top of whatever award they took. Ebooks A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection Life of a Dream: An Earth Protection League Novel Ball of Confusion: An Earth…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Only Two Days Left!! RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign

    Clock Is Ticking… This ends on Thursday at 7 pm West Coast Time. RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign Last night I talked about the really nifty special workshops available only in this campaign. Earlier I detailed out the two Lifetime Subscriptions, including the new one for Pop-Ups, available in this campaign. Today we hit the 9th Stretch Goal. So that means any backer of any reward gets the following extra books and Pop-Up writing classes. Ebooks A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection Life of a Dream: An Earth Protection League Novel Ball of Confusion: An Earth Protection League Novel The End Might Be Interesting After All (short story collection) Time…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Two Special Workshops

    Only Available In the RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign. These both fit in well with the space opera and science fiction nature of the Seeders books. And both are going to be great fun. RESCUE TWO KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN… ONLY THREE DAYS LEFT!!!  —  WRITING IDEA FICTION Special Workshop!! NOT OFFERED ANYWHERE ELSE BUT IN THIS CAMPAIGN. Idea fiction is an entire area of science fiction, and many writers believe that is all that makes up science fiction. They are wrong, but it is a large part of the genre.  An important part to know how to do. Kris and I have put together this three-week class to help you understand what makes a…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Lifetime Subscriptions

    Lifetime Pop-Up Subscription… We are going to add it, and the first time it is being offered is for half price as a reward in the RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign. It will be up next weekend at full $3,000 price on Teachable. And shortly there will be 79 different pop-ups included in it.  With more coming all the time. Also, a real amazing deal is the Lifetime Workshop Subscription. It is also a reward on the Kickstarter at half price for the four days the campaign has left. We also have Lifetime Subscriptions to the Study Along classes (included all the old ones already done) and lectures, but neither of…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Kickstarter News

    Brandon Backed All Publishing Kickstarters Or at least all the viable ones. How cool is that? And he helped a number of them fund and watching the video is also great fun. He, or one of his people, backed the RESCUE TWO campaign as well. Thanks, Brandon! Over the years I have backed a lot of campaigns, but never as many as he did today. Number totaled over 300. Wow! And he said at the end that readers now will start thinking of Kickstarter as a way to find books. Basically we are all creating a new market to help readers find new books, new authors, and innovative publishing products.…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Playing With Marbles

    Took A Couple Hours… And met with an antique dealer friend here in Vegas and sorted marbles. She has a shop that I have been buying marbles from and when I showed up today she started pulling out bags and boxes of unsorted marbles, so for two hours I helped her stock her display case and figure out which marbles were new and which were older and expensive. To a marble collector like me, that was heaven. I also bought a antique 30s or 40s leather marble bag with the word “marbles” on it and a cowboy on a horse. No idea what or when it came out, but way…