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Writing, Learning, Fun…
New Structure Format… Coming Out of Writer’s Block… I have for some time now not been writing at the pace I usually enjoy. This is from three life events. Going blind for a time, major shoulder injury and surgery, and then a discovery with our business. But as with all Writer’s Blocks caused by life events, I am emerging back into the light and my creative voice really wants me to pick up speed. So now I am deciding on what to do next. And I hope sort of a start on December 1st with a ramp into 2025. I know what I want to do on the publishing side.…
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New Blog Structure…
Or Actually an Old Structure I Am Going Back To… Three parts of the blog if I can every night. 1… Something About Writing or Publishing 2… Something About Learning or Workshops 3… Something Personal and Fun or My Writing. I will miss one part or another, depending on time and events. But will attempt to have something for all three each day. Yeah, I know that is nuts. 1… Notes From An Editor… Part 2 Reading stories over the last four days made me realize something in general as the editor of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. I love just whacked out weird stories that work as stories. You know, the…
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A Very Short Sample…
Of the Kris and Dean Video… The videos will be at least 15 minutes or so each week on just the session with Kris and I together talking. For eight weeks Kris and I will do a session together, like we started at conventions over 30 years ago, talking business and writing. People called it “entertaining” and gave it the name “The Kris and Dean Show.” This return of The Kris and Dean Show will focus on helping “Get Writers Prepped for 2025.” Eight weeks…Starting Tuesday!! Each week will have… — A 15 minute session from The Kris and Dean Show on a topic for the week. — Five videos…
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2 Days Left In Sale and Running Pictures…
First About the Sale… So we plan on ending the full WMG Teachable workshop sale late Monday… Don’t miss this one. No sale coming in the future that we have scheduled or even talked about. Every Workshop, Every Class, Every Subscription 50% Off!!! This has been in honor of the WMG Publishing Offices moving to Las Vegas. So we put everything on WMG Teachable on sale at half off. Just hit purchase what you want, and then put in the code on the next page and hit apply and you will have it for half price. Code is… OfficeMove This includes all lifetime subscriptions as well, and the Everything Lifetime…
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More Moving…
But Wow Are We Gaining On It!! All shelves in the new office are now up. And they will hold a lot of books. A lot!! Most will remain empty until we bring the rest of the big office down in April. Got Steph a wonderful new desk today, and got Kris a great desk. Both of those will be delivered on Friday. I am using my big desk that was in the old offices up north 7 years ago. I brought it down with me and it has been in storage all these years. I still have about thirty boxes of author’s copies to unload up onto shelves and…
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Wild Friday!
Continues Tomorrow Morning… I am heading to bed very early because I have to be up to get a delivery of furniture for the new WMG office tomorrow at 7:30. (Yes, I stupidly agreed to that time.) The WMG main office is on the move from Oregon, even though we will still have an office there and will remain an Oregon Corporation. I spent some time on the Writer Direct webinar since Steph literally was on the road. I thought it was fun. I spent a bunch of time today putting up shelves and unpacking boxes of Kris and my old books, author copies. I also unpacked more boxes of…
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Drop the Trop
Got Behind Because They Imploded the Tropicana Tonight… To make way for the new A’s baseball stadium. They called the event “Drop the Trop.” And I have to say it was way cool to watch on television. They had a drone show and a ton of fireworks and then the drones formed a giant plunger with a countdown clock and when it hit zero white light went from the drones to the two remaining Tropicana towers and they came down. We could not hear it downtown (I listened), but got a hunch that dust cloud is going to make things pretty rough for the south end of the Strip for…
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FEY KICKSTARTER Launches At Noon Tuesday…
West Coast Time…. I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel about an invasion of the Fey at Serebro Academy will keep you turning pages into the night . Check it out. A fantasy thriller. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun special workshops in this one. How to Write Steampunk and How to Write a Fantasy Thriller. You can only get the two workshops during the nine days of this campaign, so jump in quick. Also for the nine days,…
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Last Day for Time Travel Bundle
Get 10 Books Including My THUNDER MOUNTAIN Novel… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. Plus great stuff by professional writers Michael A. Stackpole, Ron and Jeff Collins, and Douglas Smith. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. As I have…
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New WMG Office
In Vegas… WMG Publishing Incorporated will maintain a small office in Oregon, but finally, after years of talking about it, we are moving the main office to Las Vegas. And we found a perfect place for it. And as of the first we got into it and today the cleaners came and really spiffed things up. So here are a few pictures of the office empty. Next week the first loads come in of desks to start filling the place. And shelves with books will cover all walls. First picture is a look out our balcony, furniture complements of Ron and Lisa Collins. Second picture is me standing where Steph’s…