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New Promotion Class and Extension of Early Bird Discount…
Yes… We Are Doing A Promotion Class It is called… INDIE PUBLISHING PROMOTION 2025 A step-by-step guide to understanding how promotion is done for books in 2025. You don’t need to waste money on Facebook or Amazon ads. There are more great promotions than you have time for that you can do for your books that work and build a real fan base. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch together. This will have some information talked about in the Writing Summer Camp, but a lot more added plus assignments…
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List of Workshops Starting September 2nd…
Some Really Great Classes and All On Sale! All of these are on WMG Teachable. All start either September 2nd or 3rd. I have put the links with most of them, but if the link doesn’t work, you can scroll through on Teachable and find it. (Search function on Teachable is not great.) Sale information at the bottom of the post. REGULAR WORKSHOPS… 5 available starting on September 2nd… 6 weeks long with 5 assignments… I respond personally to all assignments… $300 Four of these are available every month. This month Heinlein’s Rules is added in for one month only. To find them just go to WMG Teachable and hit…
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Kickstarters That I Suggest… New Weekly Feature…
Yes, Going To Try This… If you are starting a publishing Kickstarter, first off you can send it to me to check for you ahead of time. I will be glad to. Or you can send it to me after you launch. If I think it works, I will list it here. I will say only positive things about any campaign I list. If I think one does not work or has too many problems to list, I won’t even mention it. So send me your campaign by email with the subject line Kickstarter Campaign with a link. And if I don’t mention it, please don’t be angry with me. …
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A Look At 13 Years Ago… For Fun…
In 2012 Indie Publishing Was Just Starting… Since I started this blog 13 years ago today, I thought it might be fun to look back. Kris and I had been getting books up indie for over a year, and I had just finished time taking care of a friend’s estate. I had also done all the covers and loading and everything. Over 300 books at this point, mostly short stories by me and Kris and some of Kris’s novellas and some of her novels. I had put up about sixty of my short stories indie, but if you looked at the Amazon sales page under my name, the only thing…
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Still Reading for Pulphouse…
Finding Some Great Writing… In fact, it is easy to say that almost none of the stories I have been reading are slush material. Almost none. Most of the stories pull me into the story with good depth and great characters and sometimes great voice. Yet I still am sending back a lot of them. Why? They don’t shout “Pulphouse Story.” Clearly they are good stories, maybe even great stories, but if they don’t have that “Pulphouse” feel, I stop reading and send it back and tell the writer why. I will be through the last stories sent in from the Series Collides Kickstarter in a week and in the…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fourteen… Magic Paperbacks… Today talking with a friend on the phone and he told me he had just bought two of my writing books for his granddaughter. Seems she is reading a ton and loving the idea of writing her own books. Cool that he did that. Then he asked how much I made on the books. I said, “Electronic… 70%.” He said they were paper and told me which ones. Both are thin and priced at $12.99. I told him I made about six bucks total for the two books, and he said, “Wow, that’s not bad.” He was right, not bad at all. He asked how many…
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Last Day of Four Science Fiction Kickstarter!!!
Four Kristine Kathryn Rusch Science Fiction Novellas… Campaign ends at 7pm West Coast Time on Thursday. Hit SEVEN stretch goals and those have five brand new Pop-Up writing classes on details of writing science fiction. Value is $750 in workshops alone, plus seven Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories for all backers. So jump in and become a backer and get all the great stuff. Check it out at Four Science Fiction. Ends today Thursday at 7 pm. Wow, is there some good sf reading in this campaign. Don’t forget, you also get the four science fiction novellas with every award, but you can also get six of Kris’s other sf novellas.…
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Writing Career Camp Started!!
First Day Is Up… And off we go for four weeks, five or more videos per day, five days a week. Everything recorded and outlined to be easy to find later. Lots of questions answered, special presentations, and major discounts on add-ons, including the Lifetime Everything Subscriptions on both Teachable and The WMG Writer Store. Each week we are going from easy to difficult. Major topics of the weeks are: Week #1… Writing and Publishing Week #2… Book Design, Branding, and Licensing Week #3… Promotion Week #4… Business And Letters Have Been Sent Out To Those Signed Up!!! It started early this morning with the first videos appearing and other…
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Writing Career Camp Starts Tomorrow!!!
And Letters Sent Out To Those Signed Up!!! It starts on Tuesday with the first videos appearing and other stuff. And yes, you can still get into it, Here is the information in more detail and how to sign up… WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six or seven years ago, we have been trying to come up with a way to bring everything in indie publishing and writing together. And have it all presented in a way that makes sense. And unlike the old master class, can be accessed at future times. So for four weeks, we are…
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Only Two Spots Left in Writing Career Camp
And Letters Sent Out To Those Signed Up!!! It starts on Tuesday with the first videos appearing and other stuff. Those that are signed up should have gotten an email from me tonight with the location of the camp and how to get into it. If you are signed up and did not get that email, please write me directly!!! The information is below and how to sign up. Two spots left… But first let me give you a very short video we did to promote the Writing Career Camp… Here is the information in more detail and how to sign up… WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August…