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What Makes the March Seminar Different??
Got That Question Three Times… And Kris and I both went, “Oops, forgot to explain that.” We have done three seminars now in the last year, and more than likely this well be the last. The format is difficult on us, to be honest, because there is so much information crammed into four weeks. The last one we did was Fear and Productivity. We focused on the mental side of writing, the mental and other side of publishing, and the mental and work levels of productivity. A lot to cover in four weeks and the four webinars were fun and really learning experiences. So when Kris and I were talking…
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March Seminar Taking Early Bird Sign-Ups…
Best (and Worst) Indie Publishing and Writing Practices… Here is the new seminar we are going to do in March and all the details. Kris and I are both very excited about this one. Should be a blast. INDIE WRITING AND PUBLISHING BEST (and Worst) PRACTICES SEMINAR Four Weeks Long. At least 5 videos per day, five days a week. Starts on March 2nd. No assignments. Watch at your own pace. 4 Webinars for Questions and Discussion. (Updated…) Week #1… The business of writing, including getting to the chair, dealing with life rolls, and being prolific. Best practices and some really bad ones from a business side talked about as…
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Top Five Dumbest Business Practices in Traditional Publishing…
The Top Five Dumbest Business Practices in Traditional Publishing I wrote this originally eleven years ago. Thankfully, I know of no indie writer who still believes in all this. But new writers do come in with the “dream” of publishing a book with one of the four big publishers left. Sadly, there is often nothing that can change their mind and they are lost. From the real world perspective, publishing is really, really, really known for its head-shaking stupid business practices. But inside of traditional publishing, these practices have become so common and set in “the way things are done” as to be defended by otherwise sane business people. So…
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Kickstarter Friday
Some Campaigns I Think Are Worth Backing Or Studying Or Both! 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 57 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, study the last year or so. I…
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BEST (And Worst) PRACTICES…
In Case You Missed It Yesterday… Here is the new seminar we are going to do in March and all the details. Kris and I are both very excited about this one. Should be a blast. INDIE WRITING AND PUBLISHING BEST (and Worst) PRACTICES SEMINAR Four Weeks Long. At least 5 videos per day, five days a week. Starts on March 2nd. No assignments. Watch at your own pace. 4 Webinars for Questions and Discussion. Week #1… Writing, including getting to the chair, dealing with life rolls, and being prolific. Best practices and some really bad ones talked about as well that can hurt your writing. Week #2… Publishing. Getting…
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Best Practices for Indie Writers…
This Came Up In a Question… What is the best practice to do (blank)? I responded that there are no right ways, just your way, but hundreds of wrong ways that can get you going in the wrong direction. My answer, as you might expect, was not very satisfying. What was that writer’s way, how would they even know, and how would they identify a wrong way? Well, that got Kris and I talking on that topic and how to even begin to think about all the aspects of best (and worst) practices. We decided that for us, this indie publishing breaks clearly down into four areas to be successful.…
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TWO DAYS LEFT!!!
FOUR ESSENTIAL INDIE PUBLISHING BOOKS Kickstarter Campaign. We have hit all six stretch goals, which means all backers not only get the four books, but $2,275 in workshop value. Wow!! And I can’t stress enough you should take the two special workshops with this one. They will be that good. FOUR ESSENTIAL INDIE PUBLISHING BOOKS Kickstarter Campaign… Here is the information on the two special workshops again. This ends Thursday at 7pm Pacific and these two special workshops will never be offered again. TWO SPECIAL CRAFT WORKSHOPS Here are the details… — Workshop #1… HOW TO CREATE BELIEVABLE MADE-UP WORLDS WHILE WRITING INTO THE DARK… This is a special three-week workshop on…
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Three Days Left… Essential Indie Books
Check Out the Kickstarter Before It Is Too Late… FOUR ESSENTIAL INDIE PUBLISHING BOOKS Kickstarter Campaign… Already have hit four stretch goals, which means all backers get four extra writing classes, and it is on the verge of hitting a big stretch goal where the class all backers get is valued at $1,500, TWO SPECIAL CRAFT WORKSHOPS Here are the details… — Workshop #1… HOW TO CREATE BELIEVABLE MADE-UP WORLDS WHILE WRITING INTO THE DARK… This is a special three-week workshop on creating unique and memorable made-up worlds without planning while writing into the dark. There are numbers of techniques to help make sure your worlds are full of depth and richness…
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Power Words for Authors…
Most Authors Have Trouble… Hyping themselves in any fashion is just not a “comfortable” thing for writers to do. In the sales copy class, the first assignment was for each writer to come up with 10 power words that they could use in sales copy to describe themselves. Power words are words (not clauses) that carry emotion with the word. There are negative, neutral, and positive power words full of emotion. We wanted ten positive words a writer could use in a promotion sentence about themselves. Numbers of writers got ten, numbers put full clauses, and so on. Fear once again raises its ugly head for no reason at all.…
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Attitude is Everything!
Wow, Am I Having Fun… When Steph went down the road, Kris and I decided we wanted to make the switch to doing everything ourselves. Now we had done that in the early days of indie publishing, but employees took over some things and we didn’t learn some new ways. Now we are. And to be honest, we are both having a blast. I call them learning curves and I made a list of the top ten areas I needed to learn. First was get my skills back in InDesign. Check. And so on. Today Chris York and I worked our way through a pretty massive Excel spreadsheet. Now, she…