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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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POKER BOY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE!!!
My 50th Kickstarter!!! Now Live!! 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. Watch the fun video that Kris did. Might have to click it twice to start.
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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…
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Poker Boy Playing Cards
Available On The Poker Boy Kickstarter… And then eventually on my store… These are so stunning, I just had to show them to you… The link is to check out more about the Kickstarter campaign and be notified when it launches on the 1st of April. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/poker-boy?ref=2uys1x I think I’ll go write some more Poker Boy stories… Wow…
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Calculate Kickstarter Profits…
Stunning How Some Writers Set Up to Fail… And I am not talking about the total gross earned on a campaign or the number of backers or the amount of promotion a campaign will bring to a book or series. All that is really good in various ways. Nope, talking money only. There is no right number for a percentage of profit from a Kickstarter campaign. I have seen it vary from 85% of the gross down to losing money. Depends on the prices you set, the products you offer to backers, and the cost of those products. So a simple round-number example: You have a campaign that does well…
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Let Me Show You A Brand…
POKER BOY BRAND… I have been writing Poker Boy stories since 1987. And over the years I tried to settle on a brand look as it became clear that Poker Boy was a main part of my writing. Marble Grant, Ghost of a Chance books and stories, Sky Tate, Pahket Jones, and others like Detective Crunch are all in the Poker Boy Universe. Finally, with all the learning I have been doing on brands and trademarks, the brand for Poker Boy finally came together with the brilliant help of Stephanie at WMG. And the look of the covers is finally settled as well. So firing up a Poker Boy Kickstarter…
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Last Day On Kickstarter
Ends 7 PM Today West Coast Time… 3 Epic Fantasy novels by Kristine Kahtyrn Rusch. All backers get them, and all backers get 8 short stories by Kris and for writers some helpful hints. I want to remind writers again about the two fantastic workshops that you can get only in this Kickstarter. Do you really know the steps and what it takes to revive a book or series that is four or five years old and not selling much if any? Or maybe the book never sold many copies and needs a first push. The first special workshop will give you a step-by-step plan on how to do it.…