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Design…
The Book Design Seminar is a Design Seminar… I was clearly not clear in yesterday’s blog about this possible seminar. So I have gone back and edited in some clarity. And now tonight will add in more. What this seminar will focus on is how to design your books (electronic, paper, hardback, and pretty books) both covers and interior in ways that readers will not only pick up your book, but be able to read it. I put the names of the programs Kris and I use, BUT WE ARE NOT TEACHING THOSE PROGRAMS. In fact, there are great YouTube classes on both. We are teaching what your final product…
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Book Design Class
Yes, Kris and I Are Considering It! Both Kris and I have been getting a lot of questions about if we are going to do a cover class, or a book interior class at some point (past the very basic ones we have done.) The answer is yes, we have been talking about those sort of things next spring. But then, as we do, the idea kind of grew and we talked to a few people who gave us some ideas and offered to help with some details. So let me put out here tonight sort of what Kris and I are considering for the start of the new year.…
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So Glad Challenge Is Almost Over…
So Tired of Looking Backwards… Now granted, this challenge of getting 75 books ready to publish in my 75th year is very positive, but the problem is that I decided that I had to clean up and get into one place all my short stories that I wanted to take forward. So 37 of the 75 books will be original ten-story collections, holding 370 of my short stories. This is not a series and the collections are not numbered except in my own filing. And I have zero doubts that I will add more collections in this bunch going forward as I find more stories I want to take forward.…
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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…