• 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…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    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…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    We Have a Ghost.. Movie

    On Netflix… Kris and I watched it and not only is it funny as hell, but actually has good family stuff and emotion and a great ending. The movie is based on a short story called “Ernest” by Geoff Manaugh who is a well-known writer of architecture articles and articles on cities and such, mostly for the New York Times Magazine, among other places. He is also a. major blogger in that field. The story was first published in Vice in 2017 and optioned almost at once for a movie, but not by Netflix. I have no idea how it ended up in Netflix. And the story is not at…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Write Stuff Story Bundle

    Another Guest Post By Kris This is on the new Storybundle full of great books to help you with your writing and most importantly your writing career. Get it at www.storybundle.com/writing   THE 2023 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch These days, anyone can write and publish a book. The rise of electronic books has made publishing easy and quick. However, not everyone can have a writing career. Writing careers take patience and a willingness to learn. Writers must learn the basics of craft, which they’ve always needed to know. But now, writers also need to learn how to run a small business. They must also understand that…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Last Day of Cattitude Bundle!!!

    Ten Amazing Books Featuring Cats!! You do not want to miss this one, Fantastic books. Go to Storybundle.com/cats to see the amazing selection. And here is the blog once again that Kristine Kathryn Rusch did for the bundle. She describes it all really well. THE 2023 CATATUDE BUNDLE  Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch My cats have gotten out of control. During the lockdown, I promoted a series of projects using my co-workers as a hook. The only co-workers I had at the time were the the cats who boss me around: The Mighty Cheeps, and his buddy Gavin, a.k.a The Boys. I’d post a picture of them on Facebook, write…