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Special Workshops… 3 Days Left!!!
And Also Some Great Reading! Just three days until the DETECTIVES COLLIDE: A Make 100 Kickstarter ends. 100 detective short stories, 50 by me, 50 by Kris in five large volumes. (Yes, Kris put some novellas in each volume.) This ends at 7pm on Thursday, West Coast Time. And you don’t want to miss these two special workshops either. Only place they will ever be available. Here is the information on both of them and you can get both together at a discount. —- — Workshop #1… HOW TO CREATE MEMORABLE DETECTIVE CHARACTERS This is a special three-week workshop on creating unique and memorable detectives. Often entire series are named after…
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Blog 4915…
That’s 4,915 Days Without Missing… In a row. 13 years, 5 months, and 12 days. The reason I did this calculation is because a couple people asked after my post yesterday how long I really had done this, so I went back and figured it out. I started this blog daily on August 1st, 2012. I had done lots of blogging earlier, but not daily. Power outages, internet outages, two stays in a hospital, and just a lot of tired nights like tonight. (Got my pneumonia shot yesterday. I think I had it a decade or so ago, like back when I was starting this blog, but had no record…
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Almost Missed This Blog Tonight
Came Very Close… 4 am, finishing up a bunch of other stuff, when I suddenly remembered I had not put anything here to keep my 14 year daily blog streak going. Almost said, “To hell with it.” But instead came back in my office, fired back up my computer, and going to give you the information one more time on the fantastic Kickstarter we have going. This is a really good one with 100 amazing detective stories. DETECTIVES COLLIDE: A Make 100 Kickstarter Project For six years now, Kris and I have been doing this Collides Series of 100 of our short stories. 50 of hers, 50 of mine. On…
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Kickstarter Friday
Three Fiction Campaign This Week That Are Worth Studying and Backing… And yes, one of them is mine… I do this every Friday when I have a few campaigns I think are worth putting here. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I won’t post it here. And for those wondering where I get off judging Kickstarter Campaigns by fiction writers, I have now done 56 of them, every one funded and made money. My first campaign was in the very early days of Kickstarter. But if yoy are going to study campaigns that I have done,…
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My 75 Challenge
Just Having Fun… I did a page that I will put all the covers of the 75 major books I am going to do this year. Then I put on the first two collections and the five DETECTIVES COLLIDE books. I have eight other collections together, but got too tired playing with this to add them in. Nothing uploaded anywhere yet, but I am at 15 books in just over eight weeks. A good start since I tend to start slowly in challenges. I hope by the end of the month to really get firing on Smith’s Monthly as well, plus I need to finish up the last two Mary…
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GETTING A FOCUS IN THESE WEIRD TIMES…
FOR MANY WRITERS, FOCUS ON WRITING AND PUBLISHING IS DIFFICULT… … If not impossible because of all the stuff happening in the world. There is no doubt that the US government and our sick and ignorant con-man of a leader has gone off the rails in so many ways. This will pass in time, and he will be gone, but no telling how many will get hurt in that amount of time. In the years of the pandemic, there were writers who could not focus, and others of us who dove into the writing to escape the world. That is what writers need to do now. Dive into your writing…
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We Funded!! Very Quickly!
Wow, Thank You!! Kris and I really love doing these “Collides” projects, and this is the 6th one, so at 100 stories per year, that is a lot of stories. And in this one, if you have the desire, you can get all 31 books in either electronic, paper, or hardback. And if you get the hardbacks, it is free shipping and Kris and I will sign all 31 books on the title pages. So here is the information again. Hope you take a look. And remember this has a few special workshops only available through this campaign. And at the same time, remember Kris opened up one more mentorship…
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DETECTIVES COLLIDE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!
DETECTIVES COLLIDE: A Make 100 Kickstarter Project For six years now, Kris and I have been doing this Collides Series of 100 of our short stories. 50 of hers, 50 of mine. On different subjects and topics each year. This time, for the sixth year’s topic, we are doing DETECTIVES COLLIDE. The detective stories move across all genres for both of us and there are a bunch of original stories in these books this time, plus stories never seen in any of the other Collides volumes. Yes, we do have that many stories. The previous five Collides Series volumes of five books each are: Colliding Worlds (6 books) Crimes Collide…
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Once Again, Three Mentorships Available
Craft, Kickstarter, and Sales Mentorships… Get yourself really going in the right direction in 2026. Kris has one spot open in her six-month craft mentorships. One-on-one with Kris, working on what you really need to take your stories to the next level. Only one spot available… She just had one writer finish the program and said she is willing to take on someone new. Write me if interested and I will hook you up with Kris for her to decide if you would be a good fit. Cost is $2,000 for the six months. Kickstarter Mentorship… I have done 56 successful Kickstarters and I will walk you through every step…
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LAST CHANCE!!! Seminar Starts Tomorrow… 2 Spots Left…
The Seminar Launches Tomorrow (Monday) And that’s right, only two spots left, so jump in. Fear and Productivity Seminar… This is going to be great fun and a lot of learning and I hope motivation for the entire month of January that will carry you through the entire year. Prep for the new year…January 5th through January 30th Everyone signed up should have the first information. If you are signed up and did not get it, first check your spam filter and if not there let me know. The seminar is about craft, publishing, mindset, work habits, belief systems, getting past fear, and so much more. Anything that is slowing…