• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Launching A Brand In a Few Hours

    I’m Really Excited About This Brand Launching! Bryant Street Kickstarter. Launching Noon Tuesday! Bryant Street… where The Twilight Zone lives. A really twisted, but normal-looking subdivision street. 40 stories in four books. The seasons of Bryant Street, basically. Or four seasons of a Bryant Street television series, 10 episodes per season. I have been writing and selling and publishing Bryant Street stories since the mid-1980s. It has always been a brand I paid attention to, but really never pushed it. I did have my writer corporation for about 20 years named Bryant Street. And the trademark of Bryant Street is very solid for a number of reasons. So for years…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Bryant Street Kickstarter Starting Tuesday at Noon…

    I’m Really Excited About This One! Bryant Street Kickstarter. Bryant Street… where The Twilight Zone lives. A really twisted, but normal-looking subdivision street. 40 stories in four books. The seasons of Bryant Street, basically. Or four seasons of a Bryant Street television series, 10 episodes per season. For years I’ve wanted to do something with Bryant Street stories besides publish them in Smith’s Monthly. That time is finally here. Go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/bryant-street to sign up to be notified when it launches on Tuesday at noon. And the campaign will have two really great short story workshops that you can only get through Kickstarter, and stretch goals to write stories for…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Bryant Street Coming Next Week!

    A Really Cool New Kickstarter! Bryant Street Kickstarter. Bryant Street is where The Twilight Zone lives. A really twisted, but normal-looking subdivision street. 40 stories in four books. The seasons of Bryant Street, basically. Or four seasons of a Bryant Street television series, 10 episodes per season. Go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/403649867/bryant-street to sign up to be notified when it launches. And the campaign will have two really great short story workshops that you can only get through Kickstarter, and stretch goals to write stories for Pulphouse, and a ton of other stuff. And every backer of every reward gets the four books of Bryant Street stories. This will only last for…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Last Day of Hearts Collide Kickstarter…

    100 Strange Romance Short Stories… Half from Kris, half from Dean. These are all genres, but all have the underlying theme of romance in one form or another. All are strange, as is typical of Dean and Kris’s writing. ENDS TUESDAY AT 7PM… Plus you can get previous year’s anthologies or all 420 stories if you want. Plus a ton of other reading and two very special workshops for writers. HEARTS COLLIDE Make 100 Kickstarter. Check it out. SPECIAL WORKSHOPS ONLY AVAILABLE IN THIS KICKSTARTER FOR A FEW MORE HOURS!! For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft of writing, we are offering some very, very…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Special Stretch Goal Extended…

    Extended to THURSDAY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…100 BACKERS… If our Make 100 Campaign Hearts Collide Kickstarter reaches 100 Backers by Thursday at midnight, every backer of any reward at $30.00 and above will get a free ebook copy of The Idanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain Novel by Dean Wesley Smith. And for writers, the full Classic Workshop WRITING ROMANCE FICTION, with over 40 videos and assignments you can do for yourself. This is a $150 value and yes, if not a writer, you can gift it to a writer friend. But first we need to hit 100 backers by Thursday Night at midnight. Help us pass the word.…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Available….

    Some Classes Started And Still Available… I just posted the third week of 52 weeks of both the MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY and CREATIVE SURVIVAL classes. Every Monday morning you have four videos each class. All year long. This week on CREATIVE SURVIVAL was basically about standing up for your own work. MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY was uplifting with a great quote from Charles de Lint as the pithy comment of the week. Both of these are still available on Teachable to get either as a full year or by the quarter. Now that the first of the year has settled in a little, these might help you keep on track. DIRECTED STUDY…. Also…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Special Stretch Reward

    HEARTS COLLIDE KICKSTARTER… We are adding a special stretch reward to the Hearts Collide Kickstarter to try to get to 100 backers by Tuesday at midnight. Should very much be possible if we can get help passing the word. Here is the special stretch goal… SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…100 BACKERS… If this campaign reaches 100 Backers by Tuesday at midnight, every backer of any reward at $30.00 and above will get a free ebook copy of The Idanha Hotel: A Thunder Mountain Novel by Dean Wesley Smith. And for writers, the full Classic Workshop WRITING ROMANCE FICTION, with over 40 videos and assignments you can do for yourself. This is a…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  Kickstarter Campaign

    HEARTS COLLIDE Kickstarter is Live!!

    100 Strange Romance Short Stories… Half from Kris, half from Dean. These are all genres, but all have the underlying theme of romance in one form or another. All are strange, as is typical of Dean and Kris’s writing. Plus you can get previous year’s anthologies or all 420 stories if you want. Plus a ton of other reading and two very special workshops for writers. HEARTS COLLIDE Make 100 Kickstarter. Check it out. (ADDED NOTE… We funded in just over an hour and as I type this are well on the way to the first stretch goal.) Watch the video of me and Kris. (might have to click twice…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  Kickstarter Campaign

    HEARTS COLLIDE Kickstarter

    Launches at Noon on Tuesday!! Five Volumes of 100 short stories, half by Kris, half by me. We are calling these stories our “strange romances” because trust me, they are not regular romances. And you all know me, I write across genres, so these are science fiction, fantasy, mystery and so on, all with a romantic element. It’s the romantic element in all 100 stories that hold these volumes together. This is the fourth year of Kris and I doing these 100 story volumes for the Make 100 promotion in Kickstarter. And just as with the three years before, we have some great fun stuff with this one. In fact,…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Last Day of NEVER BEFORE SEEN Kickstarter!

    Fun Kickstarter of Six Original Kris Mysteries… Today is the last day! Kris tends to write a lot of mystery stories and sometimes she just doesn’t get them out, which allows WMG to do this really fun Kickstarter. Two novellas, two novelettes, and two short stories. All original. Never Before Seen link. And trust me, the six stories are all great!  Get the electronic editions of these six original never-before-seen mysteries by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. –Olivia’s House –Stealth Bloggers –The Viral Video Guy –Morning Shift –Every Little Thing –Take Your Daughter to Work Day All six are given with every other reward, so you will get these six great stories…