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    Mary Jo Assassin Kickstarter Ends Today!!

    Ends At 7 PM West Coast Time Thursday Night!! That’s right, just hours left on the fun MARY JO ASSASSIN KICKSTARTER campaign. Lots of fun reading, and I hope you all got a free Mary Jo Assassin short story to read. Two novels and two 10-story collections. And the four books come with every reward. And we have already hit two stretch goals, which means more reading and two writing classes for all backers worth $150 each. And we are in striking distance of another stretch reward with another writing class, so help us pass the word. And two really great special workshops also. Here is all the information about…

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    Sale and Kickstarter…

    I Won’t Shut Off the Half Price Sale Until Noon Wednesday. See the last few days blog posts on details and how to get everything half price. But right now only two days left on the fun MARY JO ASSASSIN KICKSTARTER campaign. This ends at 7 PM Thursday night. Lots of fun reading, and I hope you all got a free Mary Jo Assassin short story to read. Two novels and two 10-story collections. And the four books come with every reward. And two really great special workshops also. Here is all the information about them. Both will be fantastic craft classes. TWO GREAT SPECIAL WORKSHOPS IN MARY JO ASSASSIN…

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    New Kickstarter Launches At Noon!!

    MARY JO ASSASSIN books… I love writing Mary Jo stories. It is amazing how complex killing someone can get. At 1,000 years old and a member of the Assassin’s Guild, she is well trained and practiced. Oh, if you are looking for magic or swords or things like that, afraid none of that in these books. She is sexy and deadly and doesn’t age, but she does love her partner, another assassin, and a good Screwdriver after a job well done. (Vodka and Orange Juice.) She might be called a completely modern assassin. Leaves no trace and has a very powerful code of ethics. And she is one of those…

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    How to Achieve Your Dreams…

    New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable.  Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…

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    SUPER GREAT KICKSTARTER CHALLENGE…

    The Super Great Kickstarter Challenge… Yes, we went there because, honestly, we were asked and honestly, a few of us spent some time today trying to figure out what was a good number of Kickstarters a year for a writer with a day job. So we all came up with the number five.  More than one every quarter. Here is how we figured the time. Two weeks to get most of the parts together for a campaign. Two weeks to get the campaign approved by Kickstarter and promote it ahead. Two weeks (17) days for the campaign. Four weeks to fulfill. That’s about 10 weeks. So five per year would…

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    LAST DAY OF FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER

    Get Four Of Kris’s Short Mystery Novels… The four books are new, and except for a publication in our Holiday Spectacular Calendar last fall of one of them, none of these have seen print. (Out of that Calendar, the one story won the Derringer Award.) Fantastic reading and all four books come automatically with any reward in the Kickstarter. In total we have hit six stretch goals counting the special backer one, which means all backers get six more Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, plus for writers, four writing classes worth $1,650. That’s right, $1,650 value in writing classes for free for backing this campaign at any level. And if we…

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    Missing Great Workshops

    They Just Started This Last Week!! Still time to jump in without missing anything I am giving one last reminder here because these classes are so good.. Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you…

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    Special Stretch Goal!!

    On Four Mysteries Kickstarter… SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…Hit 120 Backers By Late Tuesday Night!!…  If this Four Mysteries campaign hits 120 Backers by late Tuesday night, every backer of any reward at $20.00 and above will get the Kristine Kathryn Rusch crime story SCARS  in electronic edition. And something special for writers. If we reach this level, all backers will get the Kickstarter Classic Workshop: Writing Mystery Stories. If you already have this or are not a writer, you can give this away to another writer. We are at 93 backers here on Saturday evening so getting to 120 backers by late Tuesday is very possible if we can pass the…

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    WE ARE LIVE!!!

    FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER IS LIVE This is a great campaign. Four Mysteries by Kris. Three brand new and one published last year in the Holiday Spectacular that won the Derringer Award. Otherwise it has not seen print either. Check it out here. The four mystery books go with every reward. And we got some great rewards. — Signed editions of the old St. Martin’s Press hardbacks of Kris Nelscott. Only DAYS OF RAGE and THIN WALLS and five signed copies each. And a signed rare book Kris wrote as Kathryn Dexter called THE PERFECT MAN. Again only five signed available. — Two really fun special workshops, doing something we have…