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Why Do We Do Kickstarters?
I Got That Question Today… The question sort of caught me by surprise, to be honest. First off, surface reasons. 1… It gets new books to readers ahead of the publication date and at a discount. Fans of a series or a writer enjoy that. I know I do, which is one of the reasons why I back so many campaigns. 2… It gets our work out to readers we might never find and they might then buy more of our work. This is called discoverability. 3… It is amazing promotion and advertising and you don’t have to pay for it. In fact, if you do it right, you get…
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Repeating Details About the Workshops In the Kickstarter
FOUR DAYS LEFT!!!! Yes, there is an amazing amount of great reading in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign. We have already hit the fifth stretch goal, which means that every backer of any reward not only gets the first new Fey novel in 22 years, THE KIRILLI MATTER, but also five of Kris’s stories. And you can get all of the Fey original books in brand new editions with the fantastic covers. And more! But also in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign, there are some great workshops. I talked about this a couple days back, but wanted to repeat it now that there are only four…
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Fun Video
Lessons from the Writing of the Fey… This is a really fun video, and on the BRAND NEW FEY NOVEL Kickstarter for six more days you can get the videos at a discount, or get them through the major workshop we are offering there, or buy the entire group of them on Teachable under Lessons from The Writing of the Fey. Gwyneth and Allyson did this the last day and Kris and I thought it fun. And trust me, those videos Kris did for Lessons from the Writing of the Fey will amaze you if you are a writer or a reader. Really stunning.
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Got Closer to Buffet Challenge
Took My New iPad to a Buffet… Sort of a test run. Didn’t plan on doing any writing, just mostly setting up a bunch of programs on my iPad, including Microsoft Word and Outlook. Got interesting, to say the least, but 90% there. Only killed the only email I have left twice, but managed to save it both times. Yikes… Even set up a word doc that I can use sort of for a template. And wrote the start of a story. The first line of the story is… “The 1950s called and they want their food back.” Yup, the buffet I was in was that bad. And I like…
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The Workshops in the Fey Kickstarter
And Great Reading!! Yes, there is an amazing amount of great reading in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign. We have already hit the fourth stretch goal, which means that every backer of any reward not only gets the first new Fey novel in 22 years, THE KIRILLI MATTER, but also four of Kris’s stories. And you can get all of the Fey original books in brand new editions with the fantastic covers. And more! But also in the Brand New Fey Book Kickstarter campaign, there are some great workshops. Just backing the campaign at any level, you get three months so far of the Motivational Monday videos. (And…
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Fey Kickstarter Funded!
In Just Slightly Over One Hour… Doing great! And almost to the first stretch goal in the first couple of hours. Starting with the second stretch goal, we will be offering months of the Motivational Mondays classes. If you have been taking the classes on Teachable, we will be giving you credit on Teachable for as many as we hit in the campaign if you back the Kickstarter. So no worries there. If you backed the Kickstarter and we hit all the stretch goals, someone taking all the Motivational Monday classes will get $500 in credit. If you only took one quarter, you will get that in credit (if you…
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Just Started Half the September Workshops
Plus Three Collections Workshops… Also, those of you who are in the second session of the special workshops from the last Kickstarter, those are up as well now. I am going to have an easy September for assignments, from the looks of it. Five of the twelve workshops have no one in them. So could be fun for me. (grin) If you want to jump into a September workshop, you can find the list to the right and get to them on WMG Teachable. FEY KICKSTARTER STARTS AT NOON Pacific Time. It will only be up for 10 days. It is for the brand new Fey novel, the first in…
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A Ton of Workshops Starting Tuesday and Wednesday
And I Do Mean a Ton!! To start with, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the September regular workshops are firing up. And in that list is the brand new Applied Depth workshop, which helps you focus depth depending on the genre you are writing. It will be a difficult workshop and you must have Depth and Advanced Depth to take it. Here is the list and you can sign up for any of them on WMG Teachable. Class #21… Sept 6th … Covers 101 Class #22… Sept 6th … Heinlein’s Rules Class #23… Sept 6th … Writing with Speed Class #24… Sept 6th… Writing Into the Dark Class #25… Sept 6th…
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Thinking About Motivation
And What Motivates Each of Us… As I put the final touches on the BRAND NEW FEY NOVEL Kickstarter campaign that will launch on Tuesday, I got thinking about motivation because in the story in this new campaign, Kris talks about how it was the first Fey Kickstarter and all the backing that got her motivated to tackle the monster project of getting back into the Fey books and cleaning them all up and writing new ones. Link to the Fey Kickstarter Promotion page is: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/brand-new-fey-novel And I tried to do a short story per day challenge as motivation going into this year and it had all sorts of issues…
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Bestselling Books
Quick Post After The Earlier Sales Information… Remember, that dozen copies sold information came from a trial from a president of a big five company under oath. What he said was that half of all the books published by the big five traditional publishers sell under a dozen copies. So let’s look at that from other data sources. Here is another piece of data I found quoted from different studies. The average number of copies a book sells is 250 from the big five traditional publishers. Assuming everyone knows the definition of average. Now when you average in Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Koontz and the other hundred top sellers, plus…