• Brand,  Branding,  Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Fiction Branding… Part 13

    Branding Is Fun!! No clue if any of these branding posts go into any kind of order. I will figure that out down the road if I decide to do something with them. At the moment I am just learning and thinking. I realized a while back that branding a series was fun in a bunch of ways. Ways that hit me where I write and live, actually. I realized this when I found myself doing a “chart” of a brand on a series. (More like a rough spreadsheet.) Not anything for public consumption or a sales tool to a licensee. Just sort of me, for fun, keeping track of…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    GHOST OF A CHANCE is Live!!!

    This Is A Fun One… And short one. Only lasting nine days. Ghost of a Chance Kickstarter… I have put the video below, done by Kris… It is great fun!!! And very short. And here are the two special workshops in this one. I am going to have a blast with doing these. — FINDING YOUR READER This is a special three-week workshop on how to find the readers for the books you wrote. In essence, what this entire campaign is all about. This class will talk about branding, covers, interiors, and, of course sub-genres to help you find and market your books to the correct readers. For years I had…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Here We Go Again… New Kickstarter

    After a Couple of Months Away… Tomorrow we launch at noon the GHOST OF A CHANCE Kickstarter Campaign. We are finally rebranding my GHOST OF A CHANCE books into something I can be proud of. Let me tell you, the previous covers sucked… And sold worse. I love these five books and these new covers and rebranding this as Romantasy has got me excited to write more of them. And I am really excited about the two special workshops included with this campaign. — FINDING YOUR READER This is a special three-week workshop on how to find the readers for the books you wrote. In essence, what this entire campaign is…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Great Bundle Sale Still Going!!

    Any Bundle on Teachable (Including The Six New Ones) Any bundle is 50% off on Teachable. And as some suggested, we are adding in new bundles to focus on certain topics We have six now with more coming soon. To get a bundle at half price, simply go to WMG Teachable, find the bundle or bundles you want, and hit purchase. Then put in the code… GREATBUNDLE And hit apply and you will have it for 50% off. And most bundles are really good deals to start with. We are doing this because we are launching the FOCUS BUNDLE series. But first let me list the large bundles, the ones…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    We Missed a Great Game Today…

    Aces vs Liberty… Here in Vegas and we have season tickets, but the game started at noon, which meant me getting up around 9 am and leaving at 10 am. Middle of my night, so I had decided to not go and Kris decided to stay home as well and get the video for the new GHOST OF A CHANCE Kickstarter done. (she did and it is really nifty…) So by the time I made it downstairs, Kris had been watching the Aces’ game for a while and from what she said we had been down, then way up, then way down. I watched the last quarter as we could…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Ghost of a Chance Kickstarter…

    Lunches Tuesday at Noon!! Five of my Ghost of a Chance books. Really fun, with ghosts doing things you can’t really imagine ghosts doing. Mostly solving crimes and also falling in love. Yes, these are not scary ghosts. More romantic ghosts trying to figure out how to save other people. Also, Poker Boy guest stars in a couple of these. They all stand alone. These are really fun books and with any reward you get all five. Also there are two really fun and special workshops with this campaign that you can only sign up for through the Kickstarter. Plus other fun stuff like we always do. So take a…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Focus Bundle to Learn Characterization…

    Again, By Writer Request… Got off my bundle schedule for another day and did a F0cus Bundle on Characterization and how to write great characters. I am sure having a good time grouping these classes and putting them in an order to be the best to learn. We did so many of these classes over a number of years and not in this order. We just weren’t that smart to them in order. (grin) If you have a lifetime subscription to the Workshops, you have most of this one already. Of course, Everything Subscriptions and Lifetime Workshop subscriptions are half price right now in this bundle sale. See below for…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Focus Bundle to Learn Beyond Simple Depth

    A New Focus Bundle and the Bundle Sale Continues… Classes to take to really learn how to use depth in your stories beyond the basic depth classes. They are all in this new bundle. This is in response to a couple of questions about what to learn after the basic foundational depth classes. I realized we had done a full bundles worth more. So here is… FOCUS BUNDLE TO LEARN BEYOND SIMPLE DEPTH… The order to take the classes inside the bundle is… 1…Plotting with Depth 2…Information Flow 3…Pacing 4…Power Words 5…Cliffhangers 6…Creating Tension 7…Emotion Here are the other four FOCUS BUNDLES so far. FOCUS BUNDLE TO LEARN DEPTH… The…

  • Challenge

    Connection Issues

    Internet Down All Day… Actually it went down when I was writing my blog last night, so I used my hotspot on my phone to finish. In six years in this town, our internet service has been down for maybe an hour four or five times over the years. Stunning service and reliability, so suddenly this happening was really strange. And Cox was texting us every hour or so with updates. Stunningly organized on their part. We discovered after we got back from the Aces game (wow are they having issues at the moment) that a hub for Cox had a fire late last night.  They got back up all…

  • 70 Book Challenge,  Challenge

    Something Big!

    Trying to Figure Out What Big Thing to Do! I am in my 50th year since selling my first two short stories. And this fall I turn 74 and I would really like to challenge myself in that year before I turn 75. It has been a hard few years for me and I want to come out of them screaming forward. (grin) I keep coming up with all sorts of really fun (for me) ideas. And really crazy. I mean really, really off the beam when it comes to writing and publishing. Asimov is known for doing a lot of books in his lifetime. A vast number of them…