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Fall Indie Writing Festival Starting…
Five Videos Plus Extras About Reviews on First Day… Just getting started and this time around, instead of offering the 20 or so people signed up (yes, still room to jump in), we are making all of WMG Teachable Courses half price. All six hundred plus of them. For everyone… And we will give you an even better discount on the Lifetime Everything Subscription to WMG Teachable. Ask me if interested. This first week is all on Readers and Fans and getting more of both, which also means you will make more money. Here is the basic information on the Fall Indie Writing Festival followed by the basic information on…
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Mentorships and Fall Writing Festival Starting
All Kinds of Great Learning… KICKSTARTER MENTORSHIP… That’s right, one-on-one, I will help you build and launch a book kickstarter in the next three or four months that will fund, and get you readers for your books, then I will continue to help you with how to fulfill the campaign. You can start any time you want with this. Even into next year, but need to sign up now. I will cut this off after a few. And then in the following six months after the first one is done, I will help you with a second campaign. You will have two successful campaigns from this and have the confidence…
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Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Two Spots Still Open… I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that point, the story is a product.)…
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Fall Indie Festival Start Postponed One Week!!
Festival Will Start Monday October 20th… We sort of didn’t account for when we set the start date that we would still have a wonderful Fey Kickstarter going until Thursday and we don’t want this Fall Festival to overlap or distract. So check out Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s new Fey novel, The Unexpected Hero. Check out the campaign page here… The links to get into the Fall Indie Writing Festival will be sent to those of you signed up this next weekend. And yes, there is still room to get in and sign up. Just follow the instructions below. FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to…
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Still Room In the Personal Sales Help Mentorship
Only For a Few Writers… Bringing this back here because I still have room for two more writers. And you can start now or next year, either is fine. Here is why I am going to do this. To put it bluntly, many writers are simply creating stories that won’t sell for one reason or another, often having nothing to do with craft. Sometimes learning this stuff early helps before you get to twenty or more major titles published, but often a writer gets to that discoverability threshold of 20 books and still does not see an increase in sales. That means something is off in the product. (At that…
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Baker and Taylor Going Out of Business…
No Real Surprise… B&T at one point in time was the main distributor to bookstores. Maybe the largest book distributor at times. It was founded in the 1800s, actually. Over the last fifty years it morphed into different forms and with different corporate owners too stupid to detail out here. And parts of the company were sold off. (Always a good plan.) When indie publishing with Amazon fired up, “extended distribution” went to B&T and for a time all indie books had a special code that basically kept bookstores from buying indie books. Can I say “shortsighted on B&T’s part. But at that point their main customers were the big…
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Last Day for Early Bird Discount!!!
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th Going to put this basic information here again since we still have more than enough spots open. We will have a minimum of five videos a day, often over ten when we do special focus things. There will be between 150 and 200 learning videos in the four weeks you can do on your own time. No assignments at all. But staying up with the videos as they go along also allows you to ask questions, which is an important part of this. Kris and I will answer the questions either in an email if personal, or in a video…
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Takes Balance in Indie Publishing…
Indie Takes Knowing Major and Minor Skills… Back in traditional publishing days, hundreds of thousands of writers worked to get past the gate keepers and get their books bought and into print. A few out of those thousands actually made it for a ton of varied reasons. And so few out of those who made it actually had careers longer than a few books. Reasons… Many were just not good storytellers, rewrote everything into mush, and had no voice, didn’t understand the entire business process of submission, or more than likely, just did not have the drive to keep going and keep learning and working to get better. They claimed…
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FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL…
FALL INDIE WRITING FESTIVAL… Online October 20th through November 14th 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 this last summer in our INDIE WRITING CAMP, we did our best in an orderly fashion that we hoped helped writers of all levels…
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My Attitude Toward Helping With Copyright…
I Am Not a Lawyer… And would never give legal advice. But I am a long-term professional fiction writer of over 50 years and I know copyright because (duh) that is how I make all my money. So when I say something to inform about copyright, I say what I say not as a lawyer, but in the interest of helping writers learn and avoid issues. A super nice person who has forgotten more of the legal fine details of copyrght that I know often responds to my posts. I need to be clear here. Court cases and attorneys are cheap when you need their help to consult or look…