• Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Thunder Mountain

    I Am Very Proud Of That Book… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. As I said, I am very proud of the book and you can get it in this amazing bundle of…

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    Write Stuff Story Bundle

    I Spent Too Much Time Tonight On Other Stuff… So you get a reminder that this really great Storybundle is happening. Here is Kris’s blog about it since she put the bundle together with some great writers. This is an amazing group of writing books and one of our workshops in one Storybundle. Let me have Kris tell you about it. THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    The Write Stuff Storybundle Launched…

    Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch This is an amazing group of writing books and one of our workshops in one Storybundle. Let me have Kris tell you about it. THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE   The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the faith as writers struggle with the blank page. This year’s bundle has four distinct elements. First, the all-important craft. J. Daniel Sawyer teaches you how to put words on the page…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    How Writer’s Fail… How To Avoid Some Failures…

    A Writing Book By Kris… How Writers Fail… Analysis and Solutions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I know a lot of you liked the post about failure must be an option in writing. So to help on that topic, I would highly suggest that as you plan to restart and get going in 2024, you grab this book. This a blunt, straight-forward book that might save your career or at least help you head off some really, really ugly bumps in the road in the coming year. It is focused at indie writers. (If you are headed toward traditional publishing, you have already failed.) Here is the sales copy… “Everyone fails…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  Recommended Reading

    New Halloween Story Bundle

    This Just Launched!!! And this new bundle is a great one, curated by Kris. And with great writers in it. I would grab this one quick at Storybundle.com. Here is Kris’s full blog she wrote about it, explaining the books and writers in it. THE HALLOWEEN BUNDLE Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch I love Halloween. I like it much more than the winter holidays, including Christmas and New Year’s, even though I edit annual winter holiday projects. If I’m going to buy holiday merchandise, I’ll get Halloween merchandise. I love a good Halloween short story too. Because scary stuff is fun. Unless it’s real life scary stuff. The people of…

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    Quick Post On AI Lawsuit

    Has To Be Quick Since Aces Game Early Tomorrow… For those of you who do not watch any news at all, this last week most of the remaining bestselling traditional writers and the Author’s Guild filed a lawsuit to stop the theft of their work by ChapGPT. I am not a lawyer, but reading the complaint is very clear and powerful. Lots and lots of artists are already filing suits against AI art companies. And this big suit by old bestsellers is just a part of the massive wave of lawsuits for copyright infringement that have already been filed and will be filed. Simply put… AI in art and in…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Recommended Reading

    A Bunch of Kickstarters

    I Push Different Kickstarters For Writers… If a person is on the free Kickstarter for Fiction Writers class on Teachable and starts a campaign and lets me know, I try to look at it (and I often back it) and then I write a group letter to all the others in the free class telling everyone about it. There are about 1,500 writers in that class, so sometimes it helps some. (This is that letter.) And I focus on what writers should study about each campaign. If the campaign doesn’t work, I won’t list it, and sometimes a campaign ends before I can get it listed. Just my schedule issues…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Recommended Reading

    Great New Novel

    Diving Kickstarter Is Going Great! IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is in the middle. IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. And some great writing classes as stretch goals. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book, Ivory Trees. So don’t…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Recommended Reading

    New Diving Kickstarter

    Launching Tuesday at Noon West Coast Time… The New Diving Novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is launching on Tuesday, September 5th at noon. Promotions Page is here… IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special workshops that are really cool as well. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book. So don’t miss it. And this book you do not have to have read any other Diving novel to enjoy it.…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    How Writers Fail…

    A New Writing Book By Kris… Just released…  How Writers Fail… Analysis and Solutions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. This a blunt, straight-forward book that might save your career or at least help you head off some really, really ugly bumps in the road. It is focused at indie writers. (If you are headed toward traditional publishing, you have already failed.) Here is the sales copy… “Everyone fails at times. Writers fail in predictable ways—ways both foreseeable and preventable. In this WMG Writer’s Guide, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch addresses the pitfalls writers face and offers solutions to help them overcome those obstacles. Because the best writers push…