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Gaining On The Second Stretch Goal. 44 Hours Left!!
Thank you, Everyone! We Are Gaining On It… North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We made our first stretch goal. So cool! And on the way toward the second one. REMEMBER… if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. $450 value for only $250. (And yes, you can get more than one. Get as many as you want, actually. Just increase the pledge by $250 per workshop.) And you can also get a discounted lifetime subscription to all of the WMG…
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Two Days Left… We Made the First Stretch Goal!!
Thank you, Everyone! North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We made our first stretch goal. So cool! And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Two Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… ————- And yes, I am still working on my 67 challenge. Slow at the moment which was completely expected when I set this up. I…
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Three Days Left
North By Northwest Kickstarter… Where you can get discounted workshops and lectures or give books to your local library or school system anywhere in the country. We are within $200 of our stretch goal. And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Three Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… And on that note, one more time…how about the nifty video we have on the site about the project and our bookstore. I was in there a lot…
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Five Days Left
On the North by Northwest Kickstarter… We are within $700 of our stretch goal. And if you get a regular workshop through the Kickstarter, you also get a classic workshop for free. But what I love about this project is the ability to help out your local school or library. So Five Days!! Don’t miss this one. Check it out right here… And on that note, how about a nifty and very short video about the Kickstarter nearing our stretch goal? (grin)
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Podcast and Cool Video
A Really Fun Conversation… The other day I got to talk with John Best and Kevin J. Anderson for about forty minutes on their wonderful podcast Creative Futurism. We talked about all kinds of stuff, including the new world of publishing. Great fun for me and I think it would be a fun listen for all of you as well. http://www.creativefuturism.com/be-nimble-publishing-in-the-21st-century/ —————– On another topic completely, Gwyneth at WMG Publishing did this nifty video for Kris’s new Diving Universe book coming out in September. It’s on preorder now. The video is short and fun. So thought I would show it to you. North by Northwest Bookstore Kickstarter It has…
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More Misc. Stuff Once Again
A Bunch Of It, Actually… Some of you know I have been blogging every day without missing a day for numbers of years. I just thought I would point out that I have been doing this for almost 1,700 straight days. Almost there. If I remember, I will make note of the passing… Next, a reminder… about the North by Northwest Kickstarter. We have added some nifty rewards and one major one that is not there yet, but it is official. Here is is… Classic Workshops Added as a Bonus… That’s right. If you get a workshop credit through the Kickstarter we have going for our bookstore, you will also…
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Some Reasons To Avoid Traditional Publishing
There Are So Many… I mentioned that I had taught at a wonderful writer’s seminar called Superstars. Put on by Kevin Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, Eric Flint, Dave Farland, Brandon Sanderson, and a fantastic staff. I was a guest instructor on the writing side. I had a blast and the conference ran perfectly from my perspective. There were also industry guests like Mark Coker from Smashwords, a New York agent, some editors, and other fun people. The conference tries to help everyone and I was, of course, on the indie publishing side of things, even though I have published over a hundred novels with traditional publishers. The conference really does attempt…
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Fun Reading Time
Great Stories and Stuff… I am at a fun time I go through every year. I have a massive number of really good short stories to read for the anthology workshop. I actually look forward to this every year, to be honest. I am also finishing up the last notes on the novel challenge and will get those back in the next day or so to everyone in the last novel challenge. So really fun writing there as well. So having fun reading. Not as much fun as writing, but still great fun. And also writing the interstitials for Fiction River: Hard Choices. That’s great fun looking back over those…
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North by Northwest Kickstarter Getting New Rewards
Classic Workshops Added as a Bonus… That’s right. If you get a workshop credit through the Kickstarter we have going for our bookstore, you will also get a classic workshop for free. One classic workshop for every workshop you pledge. (And you can get as many as you want just by adding to the workshop rewards in increments of $250.) So the workshops (just for the duration of the Kickstarter) are $250 instead of $300 and you get a free Classic Workshop worth $150.00. Pretty good deal if you are thinking of taking some writing or publishing workshops. You can see all the details of every workshop under the “online workshop…
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Two New Weekender Workshops Just Started
It’s Midnight on the West Coast of the US… …and two weekender workshops just started up and will go for four days. Still time to jump in today only (Thursday) and I will read your first assignment even if late, no issue. Go to https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com and hit “see all courses” and look for the February Weekender workshops if interested. But they close tonight (Thursday). I just got done recording both of them over the last two weeks and honestly I think both of them are good ones. POP-UP WEEKENDER WORKSHOPS Descriptions Controlling Fear of Failure Fear cripples every writer, without exception, at one point or another. And the root of…