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A Day of Naps… And Magic, Monsters, and Myths Storybundle
I Even Managed a Few Emails… Not Many… Mostly just kept sprawling out on the bed and passing out every hour or so. Watched some television, napped, did a few emails, napped, got some steps, napped. Tomorrow I should be back to half-human. But I got something I need to remind you all about tonight, before I pass out yet again. Since this will be done late today, I need to tell you that I have a book in the Storybundle Magic, Monsters, and Myths that Kris curated. The books in this bundle are amazing. Maybe one of the better bundles I have seen in a while, to be honest.…
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Rejections From The Past
Makes Me Realize Why I Am Here… Today, towards the end of the 16 hour day of packing and moving, I was sorting through boxes of old filing and stuff that needs to come to Vegas and I came across a banker’s box completely full. It had five of those massive photo albums in it, all bursting with too much stuff. Each album contained an entire year of rejection slips. I used to put all my rejections in these big photo albums before I learned that the rejection slips need to be filed with a copy of the story and so on. So I opened up one of the big…
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Decade Ahead
A Crazy Thing… Right now, one of the main conversations I am having with writers is how is this year going to turn out? No one has a clue. And we are all afraid to try to forecast anything in 2020, since this year started here in the States with an impeachment that didn’t hold and then gave free run for the same president to really screw us with this pandemic. So at the moment the States are a dangerous place to be as almost a thousand people a day are dying from this virus. That’s right… Every day. So it was a great, great idea in January of 2020…
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Kickstarter Full Workshop
Finally Going to Do It! Kris and I have been talking about this for some time, but it just never seemed like a right time to launch it. And we have the Best Practices on Teachable already that is free, but without a workshop structure, that can only cover so many details. But today, as we were talking about different aspects of what Brandon is doing and why over the years more writers don’t use Kickstarter and other sites like it, the reason became clear. The details. Writers are overwhelmed by the details. What do you do first, what do you do next, how do you set stuff up, how…
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Changes In Publishing
A Glimpse of a Future As many of you know, I have been around and working in publishing and fiction writing professionally since 1987. Sold my first two short stories in 1974. Over the years, I have watched publishing change numbers of times. I knew the distribution collapse of the 1990s, caused by Safeway and invoicing, would alter publishing forever. And it did. And I watched as the Kindle changed everything in publishing and created the indie movement which is now the major part of publishing (even though traditional writers and publishers don’t want to think so.) And I have watched and wondered how this pandemic was going to change…
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Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter
In the Fiction Section under Publishing… This is huge and great news for all of us writers because finally the fiction section of Kickstarter will start getting some attention. Loren Coleman and I have been trying to get fiction writers to put up Kickstarter campaigns. And put them in the fiction section. Why? To get readers and buyers used to looking in Kickstarter for new books and authors, just as gamers go first to Kickstarter for new games. But just like with the gaming side, it needed a huge name to come in and blow the number out of the water so that the entire category will get more attention.…
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Last Day of Half-Price Workshop Sale!!
Ends Tuesday Evening… The half-price workshop sale is almost done and no telling if we will ever do another. If the governors of the States can get this mess under control, people wear their face masks and stay six feet apart, this pandemic in the States might drop back under control. The only reason we have done these sales during this pandemic time is to help writers stay focused on learning and writing and stay home when possible. Focusing on writing and reading is a great distraction. And I sure hope this Summer Sale helped a few of you. We are sure bummed we had to do another one. So…
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Organizing Classes, Study Alongs, and Subscriptions
What Are They All? We are doing a half-price sale right now of everything on WMG Publishing’s Teachable classes and workshops for writers. Just hit purchase and then put in the code: SummerSchoolSale You will get anything you pick, or as many classes, workshops, lectures, or subscriptions as you want, at half price. This will end late on Tuesday. The last four nights I have been taking this opportunity to finally update and put together a complete curriculum of everything on WMG Publishing’s Teachable School. You can find everything I have done in the last four posts or under the Workshop Curriculum tab on the right. Actually updated. And Kris…
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Organizing Lectures
There are a Bunch of Them… All WMG Publishing workshops, Pop-ups, lectures, subscriptions, challenges, and classes are half price at the moment on Teachable. Just hit purchase and put in the code: SUMMERSCHOOLSALE The sale will be going for a few more days is all. And while this has been going on, I thought it might be a good time to tackle the curriculum project of helping people know what workshops, pop-ups, or lectures to take to match not only their interests, but also in what order. The first night I got the top 20 craft workshops and put them in an order. Find that here. Second night I did…
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More Organization
We’re Having a Sale… Everything on WMG Publishing Teachable site, including Lifetime Subscriptions and challenges, is half price. Simply hit purchase, then put in the code word… SummerSchoolSale and you will get what you want at half price. Lasts only until July 7th at 5 pm West Coast Time. While that is going on, I thought I would spend some days trying to give order to all the massive number of workshops, classic workshops, lectures, classes, and Pop-Ups we have. And the order I am trying to get this all into I decided to sort by areas of learning. So two nights ago I listed the top twenty workshops to…