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April Regular Workshops…
Two Extra For Only This Month… For just this month, Heinlein’s Rules and Applied Depth are back as Regular workshops, meaning I will respond to assignments sent in on them. Only for April!! If you have a lifetime workshop and want to have assignments, just write me and I will get you the code to get into the April classes. Here is the April list of Regular Workshops and their start dates… #32… Apr 2nd… Heinlein’s Rules (this month only) #34… Apr 2nd… Writing into the Dark #35… Apr 2nd… Teams in Fiction #36… Apr 3rd… Writing with Depth (start with this one) #37… Apr 3rd… Applied Depth (this month…
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ANTHOLOGY WORKSHOP DETAILS…
Wow, Will This Be Fun! Those of you already signed up, no worries, I will be contacting you in a few weeks or so. But right now I wanted to let everyone know we have the editors all lined up. First let me tell you how this works. Months ahead of time, through me, the editors all send out guidelines for their anthologies. You have a deadline to write each story for each anthology. Usually one week.) All the editors read every story, even if the story is for another anthology. Then during the workshop all the editors up front comment on the story, usually a —“I really liked this…
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The Write Stuff Storybundle Launched…
Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch This is an amazing group of writing books and one of our workshops in one Storybundle. Let me have Kris tell you about it. THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the faith as writers struggle with the blank page. This year’s bundle has four distinct elements. First, the all-important craft. J. Daniel Sawyer teaches you how to put words on the page…
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Publishing Masters Program At Western Colorado…
Yes, You Get a Real Masters in Publishing… This is the brain child of my good friend Kevin J. Anderson and it has been going now for six years. Sometimes I get to do a lecture for him on copyright, but this program is a year long for the students. One week in Western Colorado University in the summer and the rest online. And you get a real masters degree. Helping out Kevin is Allyson Longueira and Gwyneth Gibby, both from WMG Publishing. And also a ton of guest speakers along the way. For a ton more information on this, go to https://wordfire.com/publishing-masters-degree/ This is an amazing program, one of…
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Expanding Your Market…
Sell Dozens of Things vs One Thing… I will be talking about this concept some in the branding series, but because I had some comments and emails on this topic, I figured I would address it head-on. I have been talking about the future of indie publishing is Shopify stores. I got a couple of comments and four different emails pushing back on this and asking why I was feeling this way. Answer boils down to simple math, actually. Let’s say a writer has one series of 12 books and 12 short stories not in the series. 24 items to sell through Amazon, Kobo, D2D and the rest. Great. Not…
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The Art of the Novella Series
First Class Starts in One Week… You can see the information for each 3-month class on WMGWriterStore.com The first class is Science Fiction Novellas. Nine weeks of classes and one month of writing. 4 different genres over the year. For more information, go to the writer store and watch the videos that Kris did about the classes. We have another smaller series starting up this week. Stay turned. And the new quarters of Motivational Monday and Creative Survival are starting next week as well. Plus the 2024 words per day challenge in 2024 will have an April restart or fresh start. If you are an Everything Subscriber in the challenge,…
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Fiction Branding… Part 6
One More Preliminary Suggestion… Before getting into more details on branding in general. The suggestion: Have a Shopify store. Is it possible to build a brand with only books selling through Amazon and other bookstores world wide? Sure. My gut sense is that unless you have been living under a rock for the past 15 years or sticking your head in the traditional publishing cesspool, you have already been branding your own series. More than likely you have branded to genre. And your author name has a brand if you got out of your own way and didn’t hide your name in small print at the bottom of the cover.…
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Been Writing…
And My Arm is Sore… So not any time or desire to write any thing tonight. Tomorrow… But I really want to get this story done that so far has turned into two novels. So we shall see. But now I have kept the blogging streak alive. It is just a streak of blogging. Didn’t say the blog had to be about anything. Call this a Seinfeld blog.
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Fiction Branding… Part 5
Not All Stories Are Created Equal… I hate to bring up this topic, but sort of needed for this series right about now. Why do I hate saying that not all stories are suited for branding? Because writers have the lowest opinions of their own work and will automatically take this as an excuse to not bother on some stories or series that could be branded. Here is the reality. Just because you can’t yet think of how a brand would even happen with a series of stories or novels does not mean it can’t happen. And the reverse is true. Just because you think a series of stories would…
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Only Hours Left…
6 SF Novellas Kickstarter Ends Thursday at 7pm… The campaign has hit six stretch goals. That means that all backers of any reward, including workshops, gets all six Kristine Kathryn Rusch science fiction novellas, plus six science fiction novelettes. Wow, that is a lot of great science fiction reading. And also for writers, so far they get four writing classes worth $150 each. $600 value. Again, wow!! Only hours left!!! Don’t miss this one… Check it out here! Special Workshops only in this kickstarter…. For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special workshops through this…