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More Cover Fun
Starting to Really Have Fun… As I expected I would once I got past the panic of learning a new version of InDesign. People told me it was very similar to the old one, but problem was it had been five years since I had done much on the old one, and my old memory just isn’t that good. But when I was up in Oregon a couple weeks ago, Josh showed me how to find help inside Adobe products and that has been a lifesaver a few times. And on top of that, I am feeling in control of the mass of my short fiction for the first time…
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A Fun Book and More Videos
Pulphouse Kickstarter Hit Second Stretch Goal… That’s right, in just three days. Wow! So everyone who supports the campaign gets a free electronic book. A brand new one that will be out in the summer next year. It’s called Aliens Among Us: At Least In the Pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. And going forward, if we hit more stretch rewards, there are more fun books and workshops and lectures for writers. Check it out at NEW VIDEOS Also, I added five new videos into the Licensing Transition, talking about aspects of how to make certain decisions when it comes to licensing your work. A lot of videos so far in…
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Playing With Covers
For Make 100 Paperbacks And learning the new Indesign. Finally getting past the frustration stage of learning and into the “this is cool” stage. Thought I would show you one of the covers. I am starting from the very first story in Smith’s Monthly #1 (and yes, I will be redoing all the Smith’s Monthly issues as well in this crazy clean-up.) And I will be doing a lot of new and unpublished stories as well. On my wonderful spread sheet, I discovered that only four of the 37 stories in the first nine issues of Smith’s Monthly have been put out stand-alone and of those, only one was already…
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Friday Night and I’m Reading Stories
Nope. Not For Pulphouse Fiction Magazine… I am reading for the Great Challenge. I got behind the last three weeks in reading, so promised myself that among other things this weekend, I would get the pleasure of reading a bunch of short stories. That’s what I am doing tonight. And very excited about the Pulphouse Kickstarter and how well it has done in the first two days. Exciting and gratifying for me and all the great authors who had stories in the first eight issues. Between reading, frighteningly enough, I have been working on a spread sheet for a past Kickstarter. The Make 100 Paperbacks. Finally firing on those and…
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Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter
Yes, It Has Been Two Years… We have just launched the and wow does it have some nifty things for rewards, and add-ons, and stretch rewards. S There is a brand new workshop only included for those supporting the subscription drive. It is a three week workshop, with three assignments, the last being to write a story. The workshop is called “How to Write a Pulphouse Story” It will run both the first three weeks of October and the first three weeks of November. It will not run again, or at least not until two years from now with the next subscription drive. Only available on this Kickstarter. Plus you…
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The Myth Lecture Bundles
First Bundle of Five Lectures Done… It is five of the myths that swirl around creation of words. And this week I will be finishing up the last three lectures in the Roadblocks bundle. I want to do the last two bundles (10 lectures on myths) but not one person has bought a bundle, not one. Lifetime subscribers to the lectures get them, so I will finish the last two bundles for them. And that is the best way to buy these, as I have said. So still going forward with them, clearly mostly just for my own entertainment. (grin) And in the Licensing Transition, Kris and I have a…
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Great Dinner
With Ten Writers… Well, I was number ten, so I guess I had dinner with nine other writers. There were ten of us, total, and then we headed to a brew pub so Kevin and a few others could have a beer. Talking went on to almost midnight. These were all successful writers, indie writers, and fun people. Amazing how many writers we are seeing here in Vegas, and missed a couple last week who came through. Fantastic fun after all the years living a long ways from anywhere. So because of all the fun conversation, I was very late getting to the assignments tonight, but just got them done.…
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Ramping Back Up Everything
And Getting Caught Up… Working on a big project we will launch in two days, which was part of the reason I went north to Oregon last week. That and a dozen other things. But now that I am back, I spent today getting caught up on email, ramping back up the running, and working on some writing. Weird how a simple three-day trip can cause so much extra work. Or it seems like it is extra. I guess I just automatically do things along every day and when something stops that flow, it reminds me how much I do by piling it all in one place. And I got…
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Lots of Meetings
Some Days That Just Happens… Today was one of those days. But when talking publishing and promotions and licenses and writing, meetings are often fun. Today they were fun. And educational. And not even stressful. This new world of publishing and writing and licensing is just flat exciting. I think one reason for me is that I love learning. And the challenge of business. So on this blog and in different places I will be relaying some of the stuff I am learning over the next months. But tonight my brain is full, so headed to get some sleep early.
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RACING THE CLOCK
New Story Bundle Now Live… I’m really proud of this bundle. I love thrillers of all sorts and I got a chance to work with some of the best writers of fast-paced fiction working in all sorts of different genres to put this together. So check it out at Storybundle.com Over the next night or so I’ll give more information about the bundle and the great writers in it. But at Storybundle.com you can read the blog I did about the bundle and putting it together. If you love fast-paced books in just about every genre, this is the bundle for you. Nine novels, one collection. And I have one of…