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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…
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2 Days Left… Detectives Collide…
Kickstarter Lists the Time Left In Hours… Just two 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 the two special workshops either. Only place they will ever be available. Information on both of them is on yesterday’s blog or in the Kickstarter and you can get both together at a discount. This is year #6 for Kris and my Collides Series of books. And all are available in this campaign. COLLIDING…
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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,…