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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Ten
STARTING OFF WITH LINKS… I am getting a hunch that many people have started this series in the middle and have not read all the chapters and such. And are reading like every third chapter. Now I am pretty good at helping readers understand things, but only reading every three chapters is beyond my skill to help you. So for quick reference, here are links to the other chapters before jumping into Chapter Ten… Introduction: Chapter One: A Magic Pie Chapter Two: Market or No Market Chapter Three: Moral Rights Chapter Four: Starting a Business Chapter Five: What You Sell Chapter Six: Who Are Your Customers? Chapter Seven: The Magic…
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3 Days Left At Reduced Price!!
Writing Career Camp… And yes, you can be on vacation. Getting that questions a lot, especially since it is summer. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post once again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. And yes, still spots available. —– WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six or…
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THE UNUSUAL HEROES STORYBUNDLE…
THE UNUSUAL HEROES BUNDLE The Unusual Heroes Bundle – Curated and Introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (This is her introduction…) The best heroes are unexpected. In life and art, it’s often the unassuming quiet person in the corner—not the square-jawed alpha male—who usually comes to the rescue. If you look, you’ll find a lot of unexpected heroes in the world around you. But fiction takes unexpected from that unassuming mousey person in the corner to an actual mouse. Who goes on adventures of his own. Or an actual square-jawed hero who got demoted and spends his life saving kittens. Or a menopausal demon hunter with one more fight left in her.…
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Still Spots Open In Writers Career Camp…
Reposting This… Not sure how many people saw this originally and we still have some spots open. Just follow the instructions under the details to join in. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. —– WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine… Easy Promotion That Makes Money So you have over 20 pies in your magic bakery and also some short story pies. (If you have not read the previous eight chapters plus the introduction, don’t blame me if you are confused and lost.) Most importantly, you have stopped all your anti-promotion of your bakery. (I bet any amount of pie crust you have not.) So going to spend this chapter on easy, money-making promotion that costs very little to nothing. In a future chapter I will bring up ads and such, but for now if you think you have to spend much money at all on promotion at the…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight… The Basics of Anti-Promotion Promotion for writers and indie publishers can go in so many ways in this modern world, but going to start here with the basics of anti-promotion, or how to at least give your book and your store a fighting chance. So let me give you some guidelines. You might not like these, but alas, they have facts and studies behind them. The magic number of major books you need in your magic bakery is around 20, where discoverability starts to kick in. (Lots and lots of advertising studies back this up.) Novels, stand-alone novellas, collections, and omnibus. Discoverability is the number of ways a…
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Still Spots Open in Writing Career Camp…
Limited Spots…. Still over ten spots available in the Writing Career Camp, so no worries yet. When it gets close, I will post it here. The last two blog posts have all the information and questions. Tomorrow I get back to the Magic Bakery. Again, lots of spots available, so if interested, just follow the instructions below to sign up. DETAILS — Cost is $600. — TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT… Pay through PayPal to dean@wmgpublishingstore.com and then write me directly (not that address) — Limited. This will fill but still lots of room at the moment. — Four Weeks… Tuesday July 15th to Tuesday August 12th. (Although we may be…
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Writing Career Camp Questions…
All the Details Are In the Last Post… But I got a few questions on the WRITING CAREER CAMP we are doing for four weeks in July and August. In a couple different ways, I got the very good question “Will this cover a lot of things I have already studied?” Answer… Some, but not much. The goal of this Writing Career Camp is to take the entire indie writing career and publishing world and explain it in a way that makes sense so writers can plan ahead, make decisions, and set goals. Sure, you might have taken one class here or there on certain topics, but with this, the…
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Writing Career Camp
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. With our regular workshops and classes and such, there are so many gaps of large areas we are missing that we want to cover. Really important gaps to indie writers and publishers. So for four weeks, we are going to do our best to cover everything we can, in an orderly fashion that will help writers of all…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven… The Magic of the Business Oh, oh, to show another aspect of the magic of the bakery, I have to talk a few numbers and some pretty easy business terms. So hang on. I promise I will be gentle. To start a regular store on the corner of any town, it costs a lot before the first customer even walks through the door. Rent, set up of electric, fixtures, money and inventory systems, licenses, often remodeling and then you have to buy your inventory to stock your store. And since it has been 8 years since I started a brick and mortar store, I know I am forgetting…