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The Workshops in the Fey Kickstarter
And Great Reading!! Yes, there is an amazing amount of great reading in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign. We have already hit the fourth stretch goal, which means that every backer of any reward not only gets the first new Fey novel in 22 years, THE KIRILLI MATTER, but also four of Kris’s stories. And you can get all of the Fey original books in brand new editions with the fantastic covers. And more! But also in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign, there are some great workshops. Just backing the campaign at any level, you get three months so far of the Motivational Monday videos. (And…
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Fey Kickstarter Funded!
In Just Slightly Over One Hour… Doing great! And almost to the first stretch goal in the first couple of hours. Starting with the second stretch goal, we will be offering months of the Motivational Mondays classes. If you have been taking the classes on Teachable, we will be giving you credit on Teachable for as many as we hit in the campaign if you back the Kickstarter. So no worries there. If you backed the Kickstarter and we hit all the stretch goals, someone taking all the Motivational Monday classes will get $500 in credit. If you only took one quarter, you will get that in credit (if you…
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FEY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!
First Fey Novel in 22 years!!! Wow, I honestly thought I would never see the day. So Kickstarter is live now with fantastic books and stretch goals and also cool workshops. The two special workshops on this one are great ones you will not want to miss. Fey Kickstarter Check it out. Back later with a ton more details.
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Just Started Half the September Workshops
Plus Three Collections Workshops… Also, those of you who are in the second session of the special workshops from the last Kickstarter, those are up as well now. I am going to have an easy September for assignments, from the looks of it. Five of the twelve workshops have no one in them. So could be fun for me. (grin) If you want to jump into a September workshop, you can find the list to the right and get to them on WMG Teachable. FEY KICKSTARTER STARTS AT NOON Pacific Time. It will only be up for 10 days. It is for the brand new Fey novel, the first in…
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A Ton of Workshops Starting Tuesday and Wednesday
And I Do Mean a Ton!! To start with, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the September regular workshops are firing up. And in that list is the brand new Applied Depth workshop, which helps you focus depth depending on the genre you are writing. It will be a difficult workshop and you must have Depth and Advanced Depth to take it. Here is the list and you can sign up for any of them on WMG Teachable. Class #21… Sept 6th … Covers 101 Class #22… Sept 6th … Heinlein’s Rules Class #23… Sept 6th … Writing with Speed Class #24… Sept 6th… Writing Into the Dark Class #25… Sept 6th…
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Thinking About Motivation
And What Motivates Each of Us… As I put the final touches on the BRAND NEW FEY NOVEL Kickstarter campaign that will launch on Tuesday, I got thinking about motivation because in the story in this new campaign, Kris talks about how it was the first Fey Kickstarter and all the backing that got her motivated to tackle the monster project of getting back into the Fey books and cleaning them all up and writing new ones. Link to the Fey Kickstarter Promotion page is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/brand-new-fey-novel And I tried to do a short story per day challenge as motivation going into this year and it had all sorts of issues…
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Bestselling Books
Quick Post After The Earlier Sales Information… Remember, that dozen copies sold information came from a trial from a president of a big five company under oath. What he said was that half of all the books published by the big five traditional publishers sell under a dozen copies. So let’s look at that from other data sources. Here is another piece of data I found quoted from different studies. The average number of copies a book sells is 250 from the big five traditional publishers. Assuming everyone knows the definition of average. Now when you average in Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Koontz and the other hundred top sellers, plus…
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Freezing and Typing
Yes, I Know… It’s 101 Degrees Outside at Midnight Right Now… But at the moment I am thinking of trying to dig out my ski parka and if I could type in gloves I would. You see, someone in this building needs to have their air-conditioner fixed, and it seems for some strange reason they have to turn off the entire building from 1 am to 8 am. So Kris came up with the idea (or maybe I did, too cold to remember) to turn down ours very low until it gets shut off at 1 am. I must say our air-conditioner works very, very well. The low tonight will…
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Another Interesting Bit of Information…
Again Out of the Hot Sheet and New Sales Studies. 30% of traditional publishing sales comes from front list, meaning the new books they put out. 70% is now coming from the backlist. (Remember, they buy all your copyright for the life of the copyright and they can do what they want with it.) But breaking down that backlist number, 30% of it is what they are calling “newer backlist” meaning originally published in the last five to ten years. 40% of the sales are coming from older backlist (because books are still new to readers who have never seen them). Traditional publishing is learning slowly that books don’t spoil,…
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What a Number… Shocking
WHY WOULD ANY AUTHOR GO TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED?? In the trial going on between the publishers and the government to stop the merger of two of the big five publishers, this information came out, reported on the Hot Sheet. Let me quote this exactly… “During the trial, a couple of depressing statistics were shared: of the 58,000 trade titles published per year, fully half of those titles “sell fewer than one dozen books.” (Not a typo, that’s one dozen.) More broadly, 90 percent of titles sell fewer than 2,000 units. Even a small advance of a few thousand dollars would not earn out at standard royalty rates.” Seriously?? I knew it…