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Cave Creek Kickstarter Live!!
We’re Up and Going!! So anyone wants to see what this is all about, give it a check. And make sure you watch the really fun video that Gwyneth and I did (mostly her, I just talked.) Wow, this is a fun project. We have a gift card reward now, something that is limited and collectable and you can get all three anthologies on. And we added in retail discounts as well. And wow, are we giving away a lot of workshop stuff if this thing takes off. So pass the word and join the Shared Worlds class if you want to be a part of this. But first take…
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A Group of Writers
From a Long, Long Time Ago… The picture below is of Kathy Oltion, Jerry Oltion, Kent Patterson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Robert J. Howe, Christina York, Steve York and Kij Johnson in Rockaway Beach, Oregon. We had all gone to that house for a weekend of writing short stories. The picture was posted by Nina and I think was about 1991 or so. I wrote “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man” at this weekend gathering along with two other stories. And yes, wow were we all young. Wonderful to see Kent Patterson again. He died from complications of polio just a fews years or so after this was taken. I am publishing a story by Kent, Jerry, Kris, and…
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Visions of the Future
New StoryBundle Just Launched… I put this one together and to be honest, I am damned proud of the books I got for this one. Some really, really amazing science fiction by some top writers. I will be back tomorrow with more, but might want to check it out at: Storybundle.com/scifi
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Kind of Fun Cat Video
About Our Making Our Kickstarter Goal… Gwyneth at WMG Publishing did this for fun and I thought I would show it here. Nifty that we are past our goal, but we could use a bunch more help on getting the cat books, all 12 monthly anthologies, break even. And if anyone has any ideas for some rewards we hadn’t thought of, write me. Glad to consider just about anything. And by the way, if you are thinking about the mentor program with me, when this Kickstarter is over, that’s the end of them. I won’t offer them again. I’ll just keep working with the great writers I am working with…
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Changed An Image
I Tend To Do That At Times… Today was one of those times. I’m back running and losing weight and the temperature got up into the 70s today here, and I realized that I needed to get my hair taken care of since shortly it would be too warm to wear hats. So those of you watching new videos on the challenges or on the Shared Worlds or Licensing Transition, you will see a very different look. A before picture and an after picture. At almost 70, I’m just glad to have hair, to be honest. Let alone force a poor guy to spend an hour cutting it all off.…
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Pulphouse Workshop
Special Project Day… Spent all day today working on a couple special projects. One we will announce later in the week, the second one I did the How to Write a Pulphouse Story workshop. Kickstarter surveys have gone out and I expect on Monday and Tuesday those who want to take the October special workshop will contact me. If you did sign up for the special How to Write a Pulphouse Story workshop through Kickstarter and have filled out the survey, write me if you want to join into October or November. If you have workshop credit, and want to take an October regular workshop, also write me. For the…
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The Math Post… Some Additions
Some Really Fun Reactions… Before you read this, you need to have read the blog post called The Math about three posts before this. First…. I am finding it a massive hoot that not one person questioned that I gave the author 43,000 book sales traditionally (in about three months time) in my calculation, but are questioning 500 copies AVERAGE a year indie. This is a prime example that authors really do think that traditional publishers have fairy dust to sprinkle on books and make them sell. The reality here in 2019 on the sales of that traditional book would be in the range of 15,000 copies per book, most…
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Out On The Town Again
Another Great Show Tonight… Las Vegas is an amazing place to live, simply because in fifteen minutes we can be from our condo to the arena where Hugh Jackman was performing. And then come home afterwards in a very short time as well. But tonight we decided that since we hadn’t gone to the gym today, we needed steps for our Fitbits. So we left an hour sooner than we needed to, parked in Mandalay Bay, walked through that monster casino, caught the tram to Excalibur Casino, walked over the sky bridge to New York, New York Casino, through the corner of that, and then across the sky bridge to…
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On This Day…
It Was A Sunday… 1980. My girlfriend at the time was another second year law student and we were living together in this nifty apartment in Moscow, Idaho full of books, a couple of comfortable couches, a great waterbed, two study desks, and a old funky kitchen to die for. We had been in Boise to visit friends and to see my niece graduate. We were done with the semester and were both looking forward to a few classes in the summer. I was going to also work at the golf course part time and do some research for one of the professors. A beautiful May day, fairly warm, and…
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Free Lecture, Classic Workshop, and Workshop Discounts
Plus Some Fantastic Reading… Kris has a new Diving novel coming out this fall. It is huge, meaning 260,000 words. And she wanted to get it to her fans ahead of time, so she is doing a Kickstarter project. The name of the novel is THE RENEGAT. If you back the campaign at any level, you will get a copy of the book early, months before it comes out regularly. Also, Kris did two really cool special books for this Kickstarter. She took all her deleted sections and pieces from both THE RENEGAT and other Diving novels, did some essays, and put them together. It takes up two books and…