• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER STARTING…

    Launches at Noon West Coast Time! This is a great campaign. Four Mystery Novellas 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 to have Kickstarter tell you when the campaign launches, or if you see this after the launch, this link will get you there. 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…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  publishing,  workshops

    Lots of Great Things!!!

    Thank you, all… Kris and I both really appreciate the well-wishes on our anniversary. It means a lot to us. And, of course, we spent the entire day working. (grin) LAST DAY OF THE EARLY BIRD SALE For the DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS classes on The WMG Writer store. Don’t delay, it drops off Monday evening and unlike how Teachable works, this sale just automatically vanishes on the store. (grin) Here is the information I posted a few days back about it… A brand new series of workshops DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS on the WMG Writer Store. We just announced all three, even though we have been working on them…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    POKER BOY KICKSTARTER LAST DAY!!!

    Ends at 7pm West Coast Time Today (Thursday) My 50th Kickstarter!!! Yes, it is amazing that I have done 50 of these and all were successful. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Fun new special workshops, fun merch, and even every issue of Smith’s Monthly.  Great stuff. And if you get both Special Workshops, you get a bonus!! Take a look at these beautiful playing cards… Or these really cool mugs… And everything comes with the four Poker Boy collections in electronic. Every reward. Don’t miss this one. Today is it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Watch the fun video that Kris did. Might have to click it twice to start.

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    FLASH SALE EXTENDED ONLY ONE DAY…

    ALL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS ON TEACHABLE HALF OFF… That’s right!!  Half off. Kris asked me to extend this one day (Through late Wednesday night) so the writers on her lists could get a chance. Everything on WMG Teachable, all 600 plus classes, workshops, and courses are all 50% off. This includes all the Lifetime Subscriptions and also the Lifetime Everything Subscription. To get anything on WMG Teachable half off, just hit purchase, then use the code OneDayFlashSale Then hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Get yourself set to learn and keep writing through the Time of Great Forgetting. We figured this flash sale might help. BUT…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Two Really Special Additions…

    To the Poker Boy Kickstarter… First off… we have added a really, really special bonus for writers We are giving away a $500 class with seven classes inside it for no extra charge. Just get the two special workshops together at the $250 level and you will get both workshops plus seven more in the FOCUS BUNDLE TO LEEARN CHARACTERIZATION. (Yes, if you already have it, you can give it to another writer.) Here are the details. This does appear in the story but not in the award itself. And yes, adding on the two workshops are fine. Poker Boy Kickstarter Link Here… SPECIAL BONUS!!!   If you get both…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  motivation

    Help With Time of Great Forgetting…

    Help Coming if You Take It… This year will be a brutal Time of Great Forgetting for most authors. The cause of these months just vanishing from your writing is distractions. Lots and lots of them. Good weather, family events, graduations, gardening, sports, you name it. Massive distractions away from a great schedule you have been maintaining all winter so far with the writing. And also at the moment we have the head-shaking distraction of the craziness coming out of the US government. You combine that with a desire to cover your head or just run into the garden and it makes this coming few months maybe the worst Time…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Kickstarter for Poker Boy

    Four Poker Boy Collections! Forty stories, plus you can also get the only Poker Boy novel (origin novel) and a sequel novella. We started off great and funded in just over an hour, which is stunning considering we had stopped promoting it was coming a week ahead because of issues (which got resolved at 10 am before we launched.) And we hit the first stretch goal in about 14 hours. Wow! Thanks to you who have backed it already. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x Now we have been stuck just $120 from the next stretch goal. In this campaign there are fun new special workshops in how to write Superhero Stories and also How…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  Smiths Monthly

    Getting Really Organized…

    I Mean Really, Really Organized… So I am writing all these new stories. And they are in bunches of different series. At the moment they are just printed out and stacked by the day and month I wrote it. Yeah, that’s stupid. And I have two file cabinet drawers full of manuscripts I’m not sure where they go, or have gone, or even what they are. And I have a spreadsheet of all the stories that have been in the sixty-seven issues of Smith’s Monthly, along with in some cases the collections they have been in. Some cases. So I was having issues getting started on a story tonight because…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    PROJECT #50

    Poker Boy Kickstarter Will Be #50… All have funded.  Wow, that is a lot of projects and a lot of learning. Everyone one of them had different issues either in the project itself or behind the scenes in the building of the project. Yes, even this one. But almost all of them have been great fun to do. We did our first campaign for FICTION RIVER in August 2012. Another campaign for FICTION RIVER IN 2014, and another in 2016. Then in 2017 we launched PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE with a Kickstarter. What is great fun is that we are finally relaunching FICTION RIVER this summer with a Kickstarter campaign. We…