• Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Jim Steinman

    Died Today at 73…. Way too young. I just spent some hours tonight watching some work by one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Jim Steinman. He wrote on Broadway and in movies and just about everywhere, and maybe wrote some of the best songs in our lives. You can look up the thousands he wrote and I bet you will go “He wrote that! I didn’t know that!” for half of them. But my favorite writing of his was always the work he did with Meat Loaf, including the two Bat out of Hell albums. My all-time favorite Jim Steinman song is “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. This…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Secrets and Lies Storybundle Has One Day Left!!!

    Don’t Miss This One… Ten really amazing books in this one if you like all kinds of mystery. Kris really put an amazing bundle together with some of the top names in mystery fiction. Get all ten books at www.storybundle.com/mystery And trust me, if you start into my novel Cold Hand: A Cold Poker Gang Mystery, hold on for the ride. It might easily be the most twisted of the series. At least so far. Also on Wednesday at 4:30 pm East Coast Time, Mark Leslie and I and maybe others will be doing a live stream and taking questions. I hope there is four or five of us writers…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Some Fun

    Secrets and Lies Storybundle Almost Done… Just a little over two days now. So Mark Leslie and a few of us who have books in the bundle are going to have some fun on a Live Stream talking about the books and writing and whatever comes up. The time for the live stream is Wednesday, April 14th at 4:30 pm East Coast Time. (1:30 pm my West Coast Time) The links to watch it live are: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBBuemHsbE Facebook https://www.facebook.com/110374909040102/posts/3851492791594943/ Listening to writers talk can sometimes be a lot of fun and Mark tends to make sure it is. Also, you might want to grab the bundle ahead. You can…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Secrets and Lies

    A Storybundle… If you love mystery stories and novels by top writers, Kris has put together what I think might be one of the best mystery StoryBundles in a long, long time. And I feel really lucky to have a book in this one, let me tell you. Here is the link to get it:  https://storybundle.com/mystery Once again I am going to put here Kris’s blog introduction to the bundle… —– SECRETS AND LIES STORYBUNDLE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Want me to pick up a book? Put the word “secret” on the cover. Secret histories, secret lives, or heck, just the word “secrets” by itself. I love secrets. Secrets imply…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Recommended Reading

    Teach

    A Best Practices Guide By Loren Coleman And trust me, folks, you ever thinking of adding Kickstarters into your fiction plans, you want this book in your library. And Loren wrote it to have it read, so he is practically giving it away in a Kickstarter Launch campaign. Folks, I have read this book. It will be the bible of how to do fiction campaigns going forward. Loren was the co-founder with me of the Best Practices class that is free on WMG Publishing Teachable. And he ran a 2 million plus campaign. And he has run small campaigns under different company names. This one is under his Pulse Publishing…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Brand New Story Bundle…

    FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LOVE MYSTERY… Kris put together what I think might be one of the best mystery StoryBundles in a long, long time. And I feel really lucky to have a book in this one, let me tell you. Here is the link to get it:  https://storybundle.com/mystery Here is Kris’s blog introduction to the bundle… —– SECRETS AND LIES STORYBUNDLE by Kristine Kathryn Rusch Want me to pick up a book? Put the word “secret” on the cover. Secret histories, secret lives, or heck, just the word “secrets” by itself. I love secrets. Secrets imply something slightly nefarious, something untoward, something that must be kept hidden for…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Post Just For Readers

    Books In The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign… Wow, are there a lot of books for readers in The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign. To start off with, everyone who backs the campaign at the $5 level and above will get a copy of the brand new Fey Novella that Kris will write to get herself back writing Fey novels. She explains it all in the video. It is at the bottom of this post. Then if you backed the reward at the $30 level, (or added it to another reward) you would get all seven books of the Fey in electronic editions. And there is also a…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  Recommended Reading

    The Return of The Fey

    Kickstarter Campaign…. Off to a great start on its first day, far more than any of us expected, which is great fun. In the first five hours we not only funded (39 minutes) but we blew through the first three stretch goals and are approaching the fourth. Wow, just wow. Check it out at The Return of the Fey. The first four stretch rewards not only gets everyone great books to read, but when we hit the fourth, that will give writers three brand new Pop-Up Classes Kris and I worked out around epic fantasy. That will be a $450 value. And, of course, everyone at every award level gets…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Recommended Reading

    Boss is Back!!

    Thieves Publishes Today!! Today New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s new Diving Universe novel THIEVES publishes today. THIEVES is a great book, to say the least. Great science fiction. Boss is back and diving the boneyard. And oh, wow, is the clock ticking. Some of you may have gotten this book early through the Kickstarter we did last fall. (Hardbacks are still stuck at the printer, sadly. And the game is still stuck in China.) So if you got to read it already and like it, help us pass the word. This is just an amazing addition to the Diving Universe. And for those of…

  • Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Book #4 Published…

    Book #4 in the Challenge… I am working to publish 70 things in the year when I am officially 70. That year started back in the middle of November, so four means I am a little behind on pace. I count only novellas, collections, novels, and anthologies (or magazine issues) with my name as editor on the cover. In other words, major books. I may also pace along with a different 70 challenge with stand-alone short stories, but will see on that. I expected to be behind at this point. Basically I need to publish about 6 books a month. I have some things coming up that will help catch…