• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Doing a Live Chat

    Friday Morning at 2 PM Eastern Time… Eleven AM West Coast Time. (Yes, I am getting up early for it.) This chat will be with four or five other authors in the incredible Write Stuff Storybundle 2021. Kris put this together and it is amazing. This has nine books and a Pop-Up Class that you can get for $15.00 or so. Stunning stuff and great authors. So it will be fun to watch for thirty minutes or so, or watch it later if you can’t watch it live. Links are: Here’s the YouTube Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdv5oYTzyvc Here’s the Facebook Link https://www.facebook.com/310151126146218/posts/1080343399126983/ Come listen to some of the authors talk about what…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  publishing,  running

    Made Ten Days on the Exercise Streak

    5 Miles Per Day Minimum… And with starting any streak, the world said, “Not so fast.” First six days went as planned. I got to the gym each day and did a decent pace.  Then on the next day I ended up not going to the gym for various reasons and ended up later in the evening walking around our building. Thankfully, it has not gotten hot yet, but that will change in the next numbers of weeks and late-night walking outside won’t be an option. Last three nights I ended up cutting it so close, I was walking in the hallway outside our condo at 15 minutes until midnight…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Challenge Updates

    Publishing 70 Books Challenge On Target… Just under six months into the publish 70 books challenge in my 70th year and doing great so far. I have 27 books actually published and 10 more turned in for publication. And I hope by Monday to turn in three more. A new novel, a new issue of Smith’s Monthly, and a new issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. So before the halfway point I will have 40 books published or turned in and in line for publication. And if I just keep up with Smith’s Monthly through the middle of November, I will have 12 more turned in and published (six issues and…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Write Stuff Story Bundle

    Holy Smokes is This A Great Bundle!!! 9 writing books and a $150 Pop-up, all for $15.00. Kris did a stunning job rounding up these books. Storybundle.com/writing Every time I look at this bundle, I think “Wow, I want this one.” (Luckily, I get a copy. (grin)) So here is Kris’s blog about the bundle once more. Remember, these bundles are limited time offers. After that you could still get them all but instead of $15 it would cost around $200 total. Just saying. The 2021 Write Stuff Bundle  Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When it comes to the publishing business, most writers believe that the only way to make…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    THE 2021 WRITE STUFF STORYBUNDLE…

    It Just Went Live…. The following is Kris’s blog that is on Storybundle.com. I read earlier about each book and got done and went “Wow, I want this!” So check out each book in the bundle and for $15 plus a little donation to a great charity, you will want it as well. Here is the blog that Kris wrote for this, copied her in whole cloth. The 2021 Write Stuff Bundle  Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch When it comes to the publishing business, most writers believe that the only way to make money is to do what the big publishers do. Writers put their books in bookstores and pay…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    TWO DAYS LEFT IN WORKSHOP SALE…

    Ends on Tuesday Evening… If you want any workshop or class or lecture or subscription on WMG Publishing Teachable at half price, simply put in the code IN-BETWEEN I am going to repeat a blog I did here last week about all the new workshops now available. Plus all the others are still there as well as the lifetime subscriptions. So here is the post about all the new workshops at the moment. There Are A Lot of New Workshops… So figured I would detail out some of them since we just announced the new Half-Price Sale. (See previous post, but the code is IN-BETWEEN.) First off, the regular May…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Regular and Classic Workshops

    These Are All Available in the Sale Since yesterday I talked a little about the really fun collections classes, today I thought I would list the regular workshops that are starting in May and June that are available to sign up for in the sale. Both months of classes include the brand new six-week workshop STAGES OF A PUBLISHER. (It is in the Lifetime Subscription for those who have or buy that.) NOTE: The next regular workshop to be launched is called: Fear Based Decision Making. You can not believe how many bad decisions writers make because of fear. Going to be a very important workshop as Kris and I…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  workshops

    Six Collections Classes

    All Six Classes Are Available Over the Coming Year… The idea is to not only learn about a topic, but also learn how to put a collection together from five original short stories you wrote on that topic and publish it by the end of the nine-week class. We have six topics and starting on the 4th of May, the Private Eye Collections class starts, as well as the Portals Collection Class. They both run for 9 weeks. But there is a way to take one or all six (if you want to write 30 short stories over a year and end up with six collections for sale). We have…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Colliding Worlds Publishing Today

    Six Volume Collection of Kris and My SF Short Stories… The electronic copies went out to the Kickstarter backers who took the full set a month ago, the paper copies have all shipped and are now available for sale as well. Only the signed limited hardbacks are still going through the final shipping steps. Kris and I are both very, very proud of this collection. 60 science fiction short stories each. How much fun is that? And by reading these volumes you can really see the difference in our writing and our approach to the same genre. And we hope be entertained for a very long time. (grin) Here is…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Books Don’t Spoil…

    I Have Been Saying That For Years… In traditional publishing, books are like bananas that go bad after a short time on the shelves and must be replaced with a fresh banana. But in indie publishing, years can go by before a book finds its true market. The book didn’t spoil in that time frame. Brandon Sanderson got well past a million bucks just doing a Kickstarter campaign for a hardback of a ten year old novel. Thankfully for him, he understood that books don’t spoil. So I fight this stupidity all the time in a lot of ways. And one way I try is by adding reprint stories in…