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Kickstarter Friday
A New One And A Number Still Going! I do this every Friday, mostly from campaigns I was sent or a few that I found I thought worth supporting. 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.…
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Writing Sales Copy New Class
Three Weeks to Making More Money… Firing up a quick class because, to be honest, I got tired of hearing myself complain about authors killing their own sales with bad sales copy. And I wanted to give this instruction to the few taking the Sales Mentorship which includes branding, covers, sales, openings of stories and endings and moe. So here is the class. Cost is $150 and there are two homework assignments in the three weeks. Starts February 2nd. —- Writing Sales Copy: Three Weeks To More Money Yank the potential buyers into your book. Make them buy it. In a mind-blowing and shocking 3-week class, increase your sales and…
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Drifting Schedules
Schedule Shifted Again… For no reason I can figure. For a while, meaning weeks and weeks, I was up between 9 and 10 in the morning and then crashed out around 2 am. And I was happy with that. But now, tonight I suddenly realized I am writing this at 4:30 in the morning and the last few weeks I have been up this late every night and getting up later. Again, no reason why other than I think my normal time might be up until 4 or 5. I did live that way for years. So clearly I just sort of drifted back to it without any thought at…
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Easy to Be Negative…
Really Hard to be Positive… But I am going to try… Two days ago I did the two five list of the dumbest things indie writers and publishers do. Stunningly easy to come up with five, could have been ten, and then writers sent me even more. Not so easy to try to define what indie writers do well. And I finally figured out why. Asimov’s Rule. “9 Good things, one bad, you focus on the bad.” Human nature and especially the nature of writers. Indie writers, at least the successful ones, do so many things correctly, it is impossible to single out just a few. Sot let me give…
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Response On Last Night’s Post
Clearly A Lot More Than Five… Got some great letters today with writers suggesting other really dumb things writers do, and after I posted those five I thought of another five as well. And then I thought of about ten things that indie writers do that is really smart. And I bet there are a bunch more. Seems I sniff a series here. Hmmm… But not starting tonight because got to call this a night and get up early to go give some blood, part of my annual check-up. Oh, fun.
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Top Five Dumbest Things You Can Do In Indie Publishing…
I Did This For Traditional Publishing A Decade Plus Ago… Dave Letterman did a sketch every so often on the five dumbest things in a certain area, so this is just ripped off from that basic idea. I know this will be only five and a lot of you can surely add even more, and of course, this is my opinion and a lot of you will not agree. I will try to explain quickly my opinion in each one. So starting with #5 and working to the dumbest, although all of these are really dumb in my opinion, here are the five dumbest things you can do as an…
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Some Covers
I’m Slowly Getting Better… But got a bunch to learn to even get back to my skill level of ten years ago. But learning curves are fun. This afternoon I did these two covers for Kris’s collection LITTLE TROUBLEMAKERS which will be out in stores this coming week and this paperback and hardback won’t be far behind. It was one of the books featured in Wee Beasties Storybundle last month. Ten really fun stories, worth grabbing when it comes out. I used Ingram templates for InDesign and took me about three hours, since I had already done the electronic cover. I will get a ton faster at this. And I…
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Kickstarter Friday
Thank You All for the Support of Kris and My Kickstarter… All done now… But got three below that are still going and can use the help and I think are pretty good. I spotlighted all three a few weeks back before they launched, but doing it here again tonight now that they are active and you can really did into what they are offering. I was sent a few recommendations this week as well, but just couldn’t suggest them here for various reasons. But thanks for the recs. I will not say much negative about a campaign. If there is too much or it is going to fail, I…
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Learning… Scary At Times…
Learning Curves Can Freeze You Up… I know. I am in the middle of a bunch of them at the moment. For those who do not know where the term “learning curve” even means, it is a supposed representation on a graph of a person’s progress in learning a new task. Usually steep at first, then flattening out as the person gets used to what they are learning. (That is a way simple description, so shoot me, but don’t tell me about “s” curves and all that, please.) Kris and I are in a very odd position of learning at the moment. When we started WMG Publishing, we did everything…
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23 Hours Left in the Detectives Collides
Kickstarter Lists the Time Left In Hours… Just two 23 hours 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 the 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…