• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Workshop Sale’s Last Few Hours

    I’m Writing This Sunday Afternoon… Workshop half-price sale of everything on WMG Teachable is about over. It is supposed to end late tonight, but I had two people write me who said they were traveling and could I hold it open until they got back to their computers Monday morning early. I said yes, so I am telling everyone. So instead of ending tonight late it will go through noon Monday. To get the half price on anything, simply hit purchase on what you want, then on the next page put in the code: JulyRegularSale Then hit apply and you should have it half off. See yesterday’s post for the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Hidden Gems In the Workshop Sale

    So Many To Pick From… So with Kris’s help, I figured I would put a few up here that you can get for half price that are great, great deals. And hidden for the most part. SERIES INTERVIEWS… I interviewed Kris about ten of her series first stories or books. Trust me, more about writing, publishing, and writing series in these 40 videos than you can imagine. This is a stunning deal at full price, but at half price, it is amazing. BUY THREE… You can get 3 regular workshop credits, 3 pop-up credits, 3 classic workshop credits, or three lecture credits to use at any time into the future.…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Dates of the Monthly Workshop Sales

    Yes, We Are Setting The Dates… As I said yesterday, each sale will be the last week of the month, usually from Sunday to Sunday. So here are the dates… (July is going now.) I am going to include the codes to get the 50% off of anything on WMG Teachable. July 24th through July 31st… Code is… JulyRegularSale August 21st through August 28th … Code will be… AugustRegularSale September 18th through September 25th…. Code will be… SeptemberRegularSale October 23rd through October 30th… Code will be… OctoberRegularSale November 20th through November 28th (Monday)… Code will be… NovemberRegularSale December 18th through December 30th (Friday)… Code will be … DecemberRegularSale So now…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Good Time for a Challenge

    Beginning of July… Six months until the end of the year. Always a great time to start a challenge. I’m going to fire at 12 novels in six months. And yes, already got started on the first one tonight. Got four challenges on Teachable. Write six novels in one year (one every two months), write a novella per month, write a short story per week, or publish a major book every month. All four of those challenges will really make the second half of this year be a focused and good one. (I just looked at those and went “Doing all four at the same time would be great fun.”…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Challenge Mixed Bag

    Didn’t Hit It, but Still All Right… My challenge starting in 2022 was to write a short story per day. 365 days. I knew clear back in November when I finished the 70 Books in my 70th Year and started thinking about this challenge again that I would have trouble with it. And not for most writer’s reasons. I knew I would have trouble keeping track and doing something with all the stories. I thought I had that solved. Nope. I wrote 31 stories in January and a story every day in February and a story per day for the first half of March… Going fine, having no issues other…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  publishing

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch Starter Kit

    Everything Sent Out… Except the Interview Stretch Rewards with Kris…She and I are recording those now and as soon as we are done and I get them loaded, we will send out codes to get into them on Teachable So if you didn’t get the ten books in the Starter Kit, or any of the other books, first check your spam filter, then make sure you are on your Kickstarter email, and if you still don’t have them by Tuesday, write to Subscriptions@wmgbooks.com and Josh will track them for you. Again, the interviews are not among this batch. Next and final batch. Also, an update on the Fey Kickstarter. LESSONS…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    A Look Back

    To Another Challenge I Finished… 70@70 Challenge. I wanted to publish 70 major books in my 70th year on the planet. Basically from the middle of November, 2020 to the middle of November, 2021. And with the fantastic help of the crew at WMG Publishing Inc, I somehow managed it. Yeah, I know… I am that crazy. I considered a major book as any novel or novella or something I edited like a magazine or collection, or any major novel or book that had to be redone from scratch. It had to have my name big on the front cover. It had to be my book, in other words. I…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Blogging and Bill…

    August 21st, 2011… My close friend, Bill Trojan, book dealer, died suddenly on the last day of the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno.  I spent most of the next year working on his estate, which was why I ended up losing the vision in one eye. But I made a promise to Bill to honor what he had spent his life doing, and that was collecting. (Bill was a hoarder, but it is commonly known that you are not a hoarder when you collect books, comics, stamps, coins, art, and very high-priced pulp magazines, even when there is nothing more than a path in your three-bedroom home and in…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Visions of the Future StoryBundle

    Great Books and Reading in This Bundle! I curated a new Storybundle called VISIONS OF THE FUTURE. Some really, really fantastic science fiction from a lot of writers. Since I sort of buried this the first time under talking about a ton of steps I did, here is my initial blog about the Storybundle. I am very excited about this one. Great writers, great stories. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE BLOG… I knew, without a doubt, I was going to really enjoy putting Visions of the Future together as a StoryBundle. I just love science fiction of all types, and any form of looking into the future, seeing visions of the future, is…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Half-Price Sale

    Going On Now… All things on WMG Publishing Teachable are half price. Just over one week. Code to get a class or workshop or anything else on WMG Teachable at half price is: SummerHoliday Just hit the one you want, then put in the code and hit apply and the price will be half. I know this is the time of great forgetting, but a workshop or class just might help you get a little more done during this time. Also, you can get workshops, classic workshops, pop-ups, and lectures for the future. You can get three of each at a discounted price and then get half off that discounted…