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Passive Income…
Passive Income: A Concept Critical in Copyright… No smart writer sells any copyright. (Now this leaves out all stupid-as-a-post traditional writers.) No copyright ever leaves the control of the writer. Writer’s license the use of a story to another party. No copyright changes hands. It really is that simple. But writers who do not understand copyright think they must sell their stories to make money. Nope. All income from your fiction writing comes to you in hundreds and hundreds of ways as passive income, meaning you don’t have to do anything to the copyright to get it. You have a reader buy your electronic book on Amazon (actually they licensed…
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A Top Question I Get…
I Get This Question In Some Fashion Once or Twice A Week… In general, the question boils down to this… “What do I (Dean) consider prolific?” Or more honestly put (which some do), “How much do I (writer) need to write to be enough?” I got this question twice because of my last post about professional writers always being behind on the publishing side. That post seemed to just boggle the mind of writers starting out, not imagining how they could write more than they could publish. So the question then comes up, “How much…?” My answer… I always start with the fact that every fiction writer is different. Writing…
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Interesting Problems…
Being Consistent and Prolific Is Fun… But often the publishing just doesn’t keep up with the writing and production. I know a lot of writers who have told me they are a number of books behind getting them out and published. Kris and I are both that way at the moment. Kris has a fantastic novel she wrote over a year ago that we were going to do a Kickstarter for, but then life, business issues, and other things got in the way and now we have that planned for this fall. She has two Fey novels, both new, that have not seen the light of day yet. One will…
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What-Ever-Happened-To?…
That Is a Really Sad Question Talking to my best friend of 62 years the other day and that What-Ever-Happened-To question came up a number of times. Half the time, sadly, neither one of us knew the answer. And for 75-year-old-guys, we are both still very sharp and have good memories. And I have no doubt that at times we all are the subject of that question in one group of people or another. Why I call it a sad question is because in the writing community, it usually means the loss of a dream. Usually some writer really pushing and learning and publishing and then something happens and the…
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Literary Agent Stupidity…
Or Better Put… Don’t Look At Your Agent… They Didn’t Take Your Money… They Have a Cannon of Ethics… That’r right, the organization that pretends to govern literary agents has put out Cannons of Ethics for literary agents. Yeah, right… Only way you can make sure that a literary agent will not screw you is to never hire one. Even then, be careful if you are in the same room with one. And, of course, the writers stupid enough to hire a literary agent in 2026 are also too stupid to do a basic background check on the person or a criminal record check on the person or their business…
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40K Seminar
Over The Next Five Days… Instructions will be going out to those signed up on how to get into the class and there you will find a free book to download and read before the class starts. It is my Advanced Magic Bakery 2026 book. If by next Monday, August 10th, you have not got the instructions from me and you are signed up, write me directly. (Check your spam filter first.) This going to be an amazing class and still room to sign up. See instructions below. So many writers are getting discouraged by not making much money, and yet they don’t even realize how the cash streams are…
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LAST DAY FOR EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT
Yes, Still Room in the 40K Seminar But today, July 31st, is the last day to take advantage of the early bird discount. And about five days ago I answered a bunch of questions about the 40K Seminar, so check that out and the other posts before that on the basic topics. This is going to be amazing fun. Already is for me and Kris, that’s for sure. THE STRUCTURE OF THE SEMINAR… Five days per week, five or more videos per day. Four weeks long. Questions will be answered either privately or in videos for all to see as extras, depending on the question. Four webinars, one per week…
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2026 FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES…
This Is Stunning For All Fantasy Readers… Every bundle of fantasy books is exclusive to this Storybundle.com/fantasy. All 15. I am just blown away by the amount of great reading in this one, and I even got to put in two original collections, never before published anywhere, into a bundle and made it exclusive to this. That’s right, two of the collections I have working on and talking about here are now available to read. Kris put this all together so I will let her explain. https://storybundle.com/fantasy THE 2026 FANTASY BUNDLE OF BUNDLES BUNDLE The 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles – Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When I contacted writers…
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Early Bird Discount Expires Friday Night…
Yes, Still Room in the 40K Seminar But just four more days to take advantage of the early bird discount. Ends Friday night late. And about five days ago I answered a bunch of questions about the 40K Seminar, so check that out. This is going to be amazing fun. Already is for me and Kris, that’s for sure. THE STRUCTURE OF THE SEMINAR… Five days per week, five or more videos per day. Four weeks long. Questions will be answered either privately or in videos for all to see as extras, depending on the question. Four webinars, one per week to focus on each week’s topics and what has…
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The Bad Thinking With Book Sales Numbers…
I Hate Writers Talking Sales Numbers… Actively hate it. Why? Because most writers do not understand that every number is a person who reached for the money and paid for one of the writer’s books. Real people that chances are the writer does not know. I have always personally found it an honor when someone buys one of my books or stories. So writers who talk about only selling 100 copies just can’t imagine 100 strangers lined up paying good money to read their work. Flip the numbers into real people and you will make a lot better decisions. And for me, when the numbers get too high, I have…