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Almost Forgot
But Didn’t… Got busy with other stuff, noticed the sun was coming up, and started to go to bed when I remembered this blog. Too tired to talk about anything. Just typing this and heading off to bed, Amazing what you can do to keep a challenge going, isn’t it? The power of a streak!
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REALLY FUN WORKSHOPS IN KICKSTARTER
100 MYSTERY PROMPTS IN TWO WORKSHOPS For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special treats through this FOUR MYSTERIES Kickstarter campaign. These two courses will only be offered through this campaign and nowhere else, so don’t miss them. — #1… 50 MURDER MYSTERY PROMPTS This is a special three-week workshop on 50 prompts for stories with murder in them. How to start each story from the prompt. How to present the murder. How to use depth in various sub-genres. How to create great murder mystery stories. How to make each story completely your own. This is…
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Workshops Started
Started May 6th… Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable. How About Writing and Publishing a Book in Nine Weeks? These four Collection…
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WE ARE LIVE!!!
FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER IS LIVE This is a great campaign. Four Mysteries by Kris. Three brand new and one published last year in the Holiday Spectacular that won the Derringer Award. Otherwise it has not seen print either. Check it out here. The four mystery books go with every reward. And we got some great rewards. — Signed editions of the old St. Martin’s Press hardbacks of Kris Nelscott. Only DAYS OF RAGE and THIN WALLS and five signed copies each. And a signed rare book Kris wrote as Kathryn Dexter called THE PERFECT MAN. Again only five signed available. — Two really fun special workshops, doing something we have…
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FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER STARTING…
Launches at Noon West Coast Time! This is a great campaign. Four Mystery Novellas by Kris. Three brand new and one published last year in the Holiday Spectacular that won the Derringer Award. Otherwise it has not seen print either. Check it out here to have Kickstarter tell you when the campaign launches, or if you see this after the launch, this link will get you there. The four mystery books go with every reward. And we got some great rewards. — Signed editions of the old St. Martin’s Press hardbacks of Kris Nelscott. Only DAYS OF RAGE and THIN WALLS and five signed copies each. And a signed rare…
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Lots of Great Things!!!
Thank you, all… Kris and I both really appreciate the well-wishes on our anniversary. It means a lot to us. And, of course, we spent the entire day working. (grin) LAST DAY OF THE EARLY BIRD SALE For the DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS classes on The WMG Writer store. Don’t delay, it drops off Monday evening and unlike how Teachable works, this sale just automatically vanishes on the store. (grin) Here is the information I posted a few days back about it… A brand new series of workshops DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS on the WMG Writer Store. We just announced all three, even though we have been working on them…
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39 Years Today…
Algis Budrys Told Me To Pick Up Kris… He wanted me to pick her up and give her a ride to a workshop in Taos, New Mexico. And I did and 39 years later we are still together. We celebrate the day we met, not so much our wedding day. Although that was fun, too. It has been a fantastic run and I hope we can make it another 39. Wow, did we write a lot of fiction in those 39 years. Amazing. And had a lot of fun. We can always make each other laugh. Here are some pictures. Love you, Kris. Thanks for putting up with me for…
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Challenge Reporting
Writers Reporting In… Writers taking the challenges don’t have to report into me each month, but it tends to help a lot of writers in these different challenges to stay focused and moving forward. And I report my word count each month as well on the right side of this page. A lot of writers did great in April, a lot of us (me included) did not have great months. Right now, after two bad months, I am barely (and I do mean barely) on the million words a year pace, otherwise known as Pulp 1. I am going to need some great months to pop back up to Pulp…
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Cool Video By Steph
Explaining the New Design for Indie Authors Classes A brand new series of workshops DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS on the WMG Writer Store. We just announced all three, even though we have been working on them for months and Stephanie Writt, the instructor has been getting everything in place. Check out her videos explaining the classes. Right now until Monday, we have an early bird special on these new classes. They are normally $500 each (what we always charge for nine weeks with webinar.) But until Monday you can get them for $400 each or $1,000 for all three. (The bundle for all three will be $1,200 after Monday.) Also…
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Covers, Interiors, and Kickstarter Design…
DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS… A brand new series of workshops DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS on the WMG Writer Store. We just announced all three, even though we have been working on them for months and Stephanie Writt, the instructor has been getting everything in place. Check out her videos explaining the classes. Book Cover Design is first up. 9 Weeks using mostly Canva to design beautiful book covers. A webinar every week and along the way Steph will be explaining everything detail by detail so even writers starting off with their first cover can follow along. (Again, this is design genius Stephanie Writt teaching all three of these.) Here is…