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Kickstarter News
Brandon Backed All Publishing Kickstarters Or at least all the viable ones. How cool is that? And he helped a number of them fund and watching the video is also great fun. He, or one of his people, backed the RESCUE TWO campaign as well. Thanks, Brandon! Over the years I have backed a lot of campaigns, but never as many as he did today. Number totaled over 300. Wow! And he said at the end that readers now will start thinking of Kickstarter as a way to find books. Basically we are all creating a new market to help readers find new books, new authors, and innovative publishing products.…
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Internet Issues
So One of These Blogs… Writing this to load with the hot spot on my phone. Seems Tuesday night around midnight is a good time for the cable people to do work. Annoying. My eye is just about done with screen time for the day. Read a large number of great stories for the Thriller/Humor workshop, and did a lot of regular assignments for workshops and a ton of other stuff. So busy, but just about done. My eye is getting tired. So remember the Kickstarter has hit four stretch goals, which means three free Pop-Up classes on world building in science fiction. And more to come. And two really…
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Really Fun Ad for Seeders
At Least I Think It is Fun… Done by the fantastic Gwyneth Gibby at WMG Publishing, a slightly shorter version was up on Facebook and it just made me feel good. Sort of how I feel when I am writing the Seeders books. So thought I would show all of you. Very short. And the campaign is doing great. We hope you all keep passing the word because we made it past the fourth stretch goal, which means everyone gets four extra books and three of the Pop-Up World Building classes for science fiction worth $450. So if you are a backer, help us pass the word and get even…
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RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Doing Fantastic!!
Seeders Kickstarter Campaign… Doing Great! Actually, we funded in about 40 minutes and hit the first stretch goal very quickly after that. Then we hit the next one the first evening and are about to hit the fourth stretch reward, which means all backers get more books and so far three Pop-Up writing classes on different types of World Building in science fiction. Each Pop-Up is worth $150.00. So in case you want to take a look and help us pass the word to get as many of these Pop-Up Classes as we can, go to RESCUE TWO SEEDERS UNIVERSE KICKSTARTER. Plus we have all kinds of great books and…
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Another Friday Night
Over The Years… I think it is a total miracle that I have not missed on this blog on a Friday night. Some of you know I tended bar for 17 years, and just about always on a Friday night. So back in 1987, when I went freelance with writing and editing and publishing, I swore I would never spend another Friday night or another New Year’s Eve in a bar. But for some reason, after 35 years of not going anywhere on Friday night, the itch to go out and do something on Friday night is still there. I never want to do anything in reality, but it is…
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Twelve Hours And Doing Great!!
Seeders Kickstarter Campaign… Already Into Stretch Goals… Actually, we funded in about 40 minutes and hit the first stretch goal very quickly after that. Then we hit the next one this evening. The second one has not only a book as part of the reward for hitting the goal, but the first of ten possible Pop-Up classes on World Building in Science Fiction. Each Pop-Up is worth $150.00. So in case you want to take a look and help us pass the word to get as many of these Pop-Up Classes as we can, go to RESCUE TWO SEEDERS UNIVERSE KICKSTARTER. Here are the ten World Building Pop-Ups that if…
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RESCUE TWO KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN NOW LIVE!!!
ALL KINDS OF GREAT STUFF!! Including a ton of different workshop stuff, and with every award you get a copy of my new Seeders novel RESCUE TWO. Rescue Two Kickstarter. The two special workshops are on science fiction. — WRITING IDEA FICTION Special Workshop. All the ins and outs of writing idea fiction and how to do it and how to come up with ideas. You can take it starting April 12 or May 3rd. And remember, this is the only place to get this workshop. — WRITING ABOUT TIME Special Workshop. All the ins and outs of writing about time while in space and how to do it and…
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Brandon Helps Us All Once Again
Brandon Sanderson’s Second Kickstarter… Brandon’s campaign is about to break the record for the largest campaign in Kickstarter history. It is over twenty million as I start to write this and still climbing. And he is doing this in the FICTION category with four books. Three years ago Loren Coleman and I got it in our heads that Kickstarter could be another sales-of-books source, like a bookstore for preorders. We started a free Kickstarter for Fiction Writers place on Teachable, and Loren wrote an entire book on Crowdfunding for Fiction Writers, which is basically the bible. Our intent was to make Kickstarter pay attention more to the Fiction category like…
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Crimes Collide Kickstarter Ends Today!
Ends At 7 PM West Coast Time… You don’t want to miss this one, folks. It has done so well, we are giving a ton of books and writer’s classes away, plus you get five books full of 100 Mystery Stories written by me and Kris. 50 of mine, 50 of hers in five volumes called CRIMES COLLIDE. The two special workshops in this one will help any writer learn how to write and sell more mystery. And the Pop-Up Classes we are giving away that are focused on mystery have a value right now of $1,050.00 and could go higher this last day. (Here is a deal I should…
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Less Than 40 Hours Left in Crimes Collide
I Am Very Proud of These Books… Last year we did Colliding Worlds, where Kris and I each put ten science fiction short stories into a book and did six books for a total of 120 stories. This year in CRIMES COLLIDE we put ten mystery stories from me and ten from Kris into a book. Five books for a total of 100 stories. 50 from me, 50 from Kris. Crimes Collide Kickstarter Campaign No matter what reward you take, you will get all five volumes of CRIMES COLLIDE. Plus we have some amazing stretch rewards as we hit certain goals along the way. Right now we have gone by…