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2026 FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES… Wow!!!
I Have Two Collections In This Bundle!! If you are following my challenge, you can get two of my collections bundled together in this fantastic fantasy bundle. Every bundle of fantasy books in this is exclusive to this Storybundle.com/fantasy. All 15. About 47 different books. Wow, just wow. I am just blown away by the amount of great reading in this one, and I even got to put in two original collections, never before published anywhere, into a bundle and made it exclusive to this. That’s right, two of the collections I have working on and talking about here are now available to read. Kris put this all together. https://storybundle.com/fantasy…
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A Brand Thought…
Humans Know Brands… Authors Do Not… Yeah, I know, authors are humans (for the most part), but they take nothing they know about branding and apply it to their own books. Author… “I like designing my books and I want every one to look different.” Same author/human in the grocery store searching for a favorite breakfast cereal. Say Cheerios. God help the store if they moved those big yellow boxes, or if someone in corporate headquarters decided they wanted Cheerios to look different, so they cut the size of the name down, put the name in some green and blue art near the bottom and removed all the yellow color.…
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Titles Do Not Sell Books…
But Indie Writers Love Their Titles… They make them huge on their books and at the top, as if it will help sell the book. Does nothing. Zero. Nada. Flat Nothing. Stephen King tends to be an exception. Readers remember his titles. But I challenge you to think of five Nora Roberts titles or Dean Koontz or five titles from any major writer. You might have a favorite book or two, right? But how do you tell another person about the favorite book? You give the author name first and then the title. Example: “James Lee Burke wrote this fantastic novel called In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead.”…
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Licensing Discoverability
The Key Word is “Discoverability.” I have had some blogs here about the magic number of twenty when it comes to major books. There is a formula that tracks mathematically the possible ways a book can be discovered and around twenty major books the number gets huge. Talked about all that. But I have always said that that number of books have to be done right, otherwise no mathematical number will get your books bought. The last few days I answered some questions on licenses and how someone who wants to license your book finds you. The answer is have a lot of your books out wide all over the…
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First Report On Licensing Expo…
First Report To start off with, the best way I can describe this year’s Licensing Expo is great! And bigger. And no chance I saw everything in three days, And even with walking down an aisle two or three times, I still wouldn’t see something until the third day. It has been over a week now and we are still just starting to make contacts with some of the people there we connected with for various reasons. Steph even did an hour of “Speed Licensing” on Sunday. She will explain it on Writer’s Direct zoom meeting on WMG Writer Store. I can hardly even imagine it. (grin) Kris had some…
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Brain Not Fully Returned…
Licensing Expo Was Amazing… Took all my focus for most of last week and then this last weekend I slept because I have messed my schedule around so that I was getting up at 9 am, three plus hours before normal. Still on the 9 am schedule until after tomorrow, then will ease it back so I can get back to writing. But still not enough brain to even begin to describe a part of the expo. And not enough brain to do another chapter on the Advanced Magic Bakery. Maybe in a few days on both. I actually managed to only take one nap today. So maybe tomorrow. Plus…
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New Kris Mystery Novellas
Four of Them to Be Exact… Three are unpublished, one was published in the Holiday Spectacular Calendar and from there ended up winning the Derringer Award. Yes, it is that good. Four brand new short crime novels (novellas) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Where can you get them? In our next Kickstarter, that’s where. Still a number of weeks out, but take a look at the header and those covers (and the branding… none of these have the same character or are even slightly related, so take note of the branding.) Four fantastic mystery novellas. Amazing stories and reading. Yes, two weeks before it launches we got a “Project We Love”…
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Having a Great Time with Merch…
Drinking Iced Tea Out of My Poker Boy Mug… And I have a Poker Boy hoodie, a Bryant Street hoodie, and a Pulphouse hoodie to wear, plus a Marble Grant mug. Why am I even mentioning this? Well, after 50 years since I sold my first short story, this is the first time I have ever had any merchandise with my own characters and worlds and brands on it. And what have I discovered? Makes me want to write more. Not kidding. Just having this brand stuff and merch as a possibility, let alone being able to actually have the stuff, really has me energized to do more. And create…
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Gothic Study Along Workshop
First Story Assignment Up… The Gothic Workshop taught by Kris in person here in Las Vegas from May 5th to 8th is going to be great fun. Way too late to sign up for the in-person part, but on Teachable we have a “study along” class that goes on at the same time. (Actually delayed a few hours behind the one here because I am doing it using Kris’s notes.) Same story assignments and I read them instead of Kris. (She is way too busy with the writers attending in person.) Those who are signed up on the Study Along, the first story assignment is up now. So not too…
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Wearing Brands
Fun Wearing My Own Brands… I have got three hoodies for the Licensing Expo next month that have three of my brands on them. Poker Boy, Bryant Street, and Pulphouse. Amazing how much fun it is to wear your own brands and how much it can motivate you to write more. I had no realized it would feel that way for me. And I hope at the Licensing Expo to get some interest in the brands. Going to wear one per day. Some of you taking classes right now might see me recording in the Poker Boy hoodie. And speaking of a brand, we just put up THE KRIS AND…