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Cattatude Story Bundle
Don’t You Just Love Cats? I have always been owned by cats. Actually all my adult life except for a few years when I was traveling too much. I love cats, so I did a bundle with all cat stories in it and a bunch of really great cat writers. This is my blog for that bundle at https://storybundle.com/cats Being a writer, it seems being owned by cats is almost like a requirement for the job description. What do you do for a living? Fiction Writer. Owned by cats? Yup. And one of the great elements of cats and writers is that writers tend to write stories with cats in…
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A Fun Ad
For the Crimes Collide Kickstarter Campaign… Gwyneth at WMG Publishing took the video that Kris and I recorded for the Crimes Collide Kickstarter and added all the nifty music and books and such. Then today for an ad promoting the campaign, she did a nifty video that is even more fun than the original video, all from the original video and dealing with mystery and crime, the focus of the campaign. This is the kind of thing that can be done when you are not afraid to try things and have fun and play. Think of this as an example of the billions of ways to promote a book or…
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Crimes Collide Kickstarter Is Live!!
Watch the Video! I have linked to it below here. Much fun and a ton of great workshop stuff for writers and a ton of great reading for readers. And since at times we do the half-price sales on workshops, we put some half-price workshops on the campaign as well since there is no telling when we will have another sale. And Crimes Collide is a really, really fun set of books. Kris and I are both very proud of it. Crimes Collide Kickstarter Campaign.
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Challenge Works
Challenge Tonight Forced Me To Write a Story… No chance in hell would I have written and finished a story tonight without the challenge. I wouldn’t even have gone to my writing computer. You see, I became a real person for a short time today, actually took five hours off of computers and publishing and writing and placed my old body on my couch and watched an entire football game, with yelling and everything that bothered Kris’s writing upstairs. If you didn’t yell at the Raiders/Chargers game today, you don’t know football or have died a few days ago and no one has buried you yet. Kris even came down…
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General Stuff… And Story Challenge
Five Stories So Far… Everything going fine. 3 stories in the 2,500 word range, two stories in the 4,000 word range. I got jammed today building a new Kickstarter, so didn’t get the stories uploaded to Patreon or the rest of what I was going to do there, but will shortly. And will do a challenge complete update here shortly as well, including how the days are working out as far as timing. Workshop Sale will finally end today (Thursday in the evening). Use code YearEnd if you want to grab one last class on 50% off sale. I have been holding up on my calorie limits and hitting my…
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What Did I Do On My Holiday?
Got That Question a Number of Times… Answer is basically the same thing I do every normal day of the year. I worked on getting the workshop sale up and going. You can read all about that in the last two blogs. 50% off until January 4th on everything on Teachable. (Just put in the code YearEnd after you hit purchase.) I worked with Kris at lunches on more classes. I will record those soon. And I did a bunch of recording as well including the Motivational Monday I just put up a bit ago. I wore a red shirt to record those because I recorded them on Christmas. (Does…
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A Great Reason For Almost Missing This Blog…
I Was Reading a New Fey Novella… And I got caught up in it and suddenly realized as I stood to go to the rest room that I hadn’t written a blog yet. Yes, this novella is the one for the Kickstarter, and I’ll do an update through Kickstarter as to when those of you who backed that will get the novella. And the workshop and stuff. Kris tells me she is close to also finishing at least one new Fey novel. (Yes, she writes more than one book at a time.) And all this on our anniversary. Fun day. Now, if you will excuse me, I’m going to go…
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In Person and Study Along and Novella Classes
In Person Craft Classes in Vegas Return in 2022!!! That’s right, the limited craft in-person classes are back in 2022. We announced this last summer, but now, since the reading list is about to go out on the first class in March, Kris and I figured it was time to really go over these again. There will be six classes, all limited to 15 people each here at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas. For this new series, we have taken the overall topics of Caper, Spies, and Humor and smashed them into six different genres. March 21st-24th… Thriller Humor (taught by Dean) May 16th-19th… Mystery Caper (taught by Kris)…
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Things To Do… And a Cat Picture
Had Ideas for a Blog Tonight… I was going to do Chapter Four of Wet Blanket Reality, but then, to be honest, I didn’t feel like being that negative at the moment. I’m in a positive mood about the new year and the new challenges and doing the Motivational Mondays, so I don’t need to rain on someone’s parade at the moment. I will return to that book and finish it in January. Besides, no one who reads this blog regularly is actually thinking of going to what is left of the traditional publishing world. But I still want to finish the book because I have a Storybundle I want…
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Motivation Monday Starts in a Week…
First Three Videos on Monday 20th… Kris and I at lunch today got talking about the first two extra Motivation Mondays we are doing in December before the new year starts. And we figured they would be perfect for some motivational and helpful videos on how to get ready for the new year. So we came up with six videos for the first two Motivation Mondays, all of it focused on how to help get started into the new year in a fun way with the writing and publishing. Topics like Time Control, Preparing Your Office, Setting Schedules and a bunch more. As I said, over the year I’m going…