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Sprint to the New Year With Kris!
A Two-Week Writing Challenge With Kris! The challenge is to write as many consumable words from Monday, December 18th through December 31st 2023 as Kris writes. What are “consumable” words? — Any fiction of any type (no requirement to publish during the challenge time) — Any nonfiction that others will consume such as blogs, introductions to collections things like that. You can NOT count emails and comments on Facebook and other social media or comments on blogs. They do NOT count. No genre limitations. Rules 1… Every day Kris will send a letter through the class email system to just those in the challenge talking about the words she wrote…
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Second Special Stretch Goal!
Kris Is Having Fun!! The NEVER BEFORE SEEN kickstarter is about six unpublished Kristine Kathryn Rusch mystery stories. All backers at any level get all six, even if you take the nifty workshop. And she added a really fun special stretch goal if the campaign hit 120 backers by Sunday, which it did. So all backers are now getting not only the six original stories, plus two stretch goal collections of her mystery stories, plus the special edition of “The Wedding Ring” with the published version and the original version in it. Now Kris added another special stretch goal. If the campaign gets to 140 backers by late Tuesday, every…
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First 5K In the Books…
Scary Slow But I Finished… And no, I did not run. I honestly didn’t even walk fast. I just walked. Felt strange in a couple of places. I usually start up at the beginning of the pack, but this time I waited until most had started and then took off. Secondly, I was far, far from last in the 5K. I figured I would be. Had a great lunch with Kris, then we hung our medals and then I took an afternoon-long nap since I am now sleeping again on the bed after almost seven weeks of trying to sleep sitting up. So back to doing full 5K distances. Going…
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First Week of Regular Workshops…
Started On Tuesday and Wednesday… Still time to get in and get everything. We are down to the five core workshops this month. We will be adding in new workshops all through the coming year, so if you have missed a core class, this would be the month to grab it. The December Regular workshops are: #54… Dec 5th… Writing into the Dark #55… Dec 5th… Teams in Fiction #56…Dec 6th… Writing with Depth (start with this one) #59…Dec 6th… Advanced Depth #60…Dec 6th… Killing the Critical Voice
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New Special Stretch Goal!!
Never Before Seen Kickstarter Campaign… The campaign consists of two novellas, two novelettes, and two short stories. All original mystery stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Never Before Seen link. Right Now the Campaign is Doing Great. It has 92 backers in just the first few days. But Kris has come up with a very special stretch goal for all backers if we can get to 120 backers by late Sunday evening, three days from now. Special Stretch Goal! If the campaign gets to 120 backers by late Sunday, all backers get a very special electronic edition of the mystery novella, “The Wedding Ring.” Actually you will get two versions and…
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2023 Good Cheer StoryBundle!
All Short Stories This Year! And a lot of them. We figured we all might now have time to read holiday novels, but always time here and there for a holiday short story or two. Here is Kris explaining the project and the books of stories included. This is a really fun one, folks! —– The 2023 Good Cheer Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch The holiday season goes by so very fast. I always have a dozen books lined up to read, filled with holiday stories to make me smile—or, in some cases, grimace. I do holiday charity runs, look at some of the free holiday events here…
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Kickstarter is Live!!
Fun New Kickstarter of Six Original Kris Mysteries… Kris tends to write a lot of mystery stories and sometimes she just doesn’t get them out, which allows WMG to do this really fun Kickstarter. Two novellas, two novelettes, and two short stories. All original. Never Before Seen link. And trust me, the six stories are all great! Campaign is only going to last nine days. Get the electronic editions of these six original never-before-seen mysteries by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. –Olivia’s House –Stealth Bloggers –The Viral Video Guy –Morning Shift –Every Little Thing –Take Your Daughter to Work Day All six are given with every other reward, so you will get…
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Never Before Seen!
Fun New Kickstarter of Six Original Kris Mysteries… Kris tends to write a lot of mystery stories and sometimes she just doesn’t get them out, which allows WMG to do this really fun Kickstarter. Two novellas, two novelettes, and two short stories. All original. Never Before Seen link. Launches at noon. And trust me, the six stories are all great! Campaign is only going to last nine days. Get the electronic editions of these six original never-before-seen mysteries by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. –Olivia’s House –Stealth Bloggers –The Viral Video Guy –Morning Shift –Every Little Thing –Take Your Daughter to Work Day All six are given with every other reward, so…
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Still Typing One-Handed…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words… Here is a great picture of our Angel kitty. That’s worth at least a thousand words.
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December Regular Workshops
Start On Tuesday and Wednesday… Down to the five core workshops this month. We will be adding in new workshops all through the coming year, so if you have missed a core class, this would be the month to grab it. The December Regular workshops are: #54… Dec 5th… Writing into the Dark #55… Dec 5th… Teams in Fiction #56…Dec 6th… Writing with Depth (start with this one) #59…Dec 6th… Advanced Depth #60…Dec 6th… Killing the Critical Voice