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Two Days Left…
Start Getting Ready for 2026 Now! With some craft warm up deals with can’t-miss prices to help out. And remember, you can always give these as a gift to a writer friend. So starting with craft, on the WMG Writer Store, Kris did a series of 5 craft workshops that many missed. They were called The Quick and Dirty Craft Classes. Each was three weeks long with a webinar that Kris answered questions at the end. All of it is recorded now so you can go over them at your own pace and go back to them at any time. Each was $150 each. Each focused on Kris teaching you…
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Quitting Comments and Some Learning Sales
Seems I Touched a Few Writers… I got a bunch of email, but two letters were from writers who had quit as well as the other ones I mentioned. Both had less than 20 books discoverability and both didn’t understand why their books didn’t sell more than a few copies. Both had even bought into the myth of doing ads. They had no branding on the covers, dull plot-filled sales copy that no buyer would get past, and the two I looked inside at had no depth of openings at all. Alas, they wrote, but never bothered to learn how to get their books to readers. Sadly, both of them…
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Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again…
… And Expecting Different Results. That definition of insanity is often credited to Albert Einstein, but no evidence he actually said it. But wow does it ring true, and very much so for fiction writers. Every year I watch hundreds of writers just keep doing what they have been doing, make no real changes going into a new year, and then get to the end of the year wondering what went wrong. Why didn’t their word count increase, why didn’t they get those stories or books out published? And so on and so on. I suppose this is totally human nature, and patterns of behavior are very difficult to break…
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Mindset… A New Workshop Starting Dec 1st.
MINDSET: Optimism and Prosperity in 2026 A step-by-step guide to understanding how you can get your thinking ready for a great 2026 in writing and publishing. 5-week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch together. We will be honest and pull no punches, so if you want someone to pat you on the head, tell you what hasn’t worked for you in the past is how you should keep going into 2026, you won’t get that. Mindset is everything in so many things in publishing and writing and you can have a…
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2026 Warm Ups… Craft
Start Getting Ready for 2026 Now! With some craft warm up deals with can’t-miss prices to help out. And remember, you can always give these as a gift to a writer friend. So starting with craft tonight, on the WMG Writer Store, Kris did a series of 5 craft workshops that many missed. They were called The Quick and Dirty Craft Classes. Each was three weeks long with a webinar that Kris answered questions at the end. All of it is recorded now so you can go over them at your own pace and go back to them at any time. Each was $150 each. Each focused on Kris teaching…
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Half-Price Sale One More Day…
Yes… Now Only One Day Left… The half-price sale on everything on WMG Teachable and the 70% off the Everything Subscription. All that will only last one more day, ending Friday late. That 70% off of the Everything Lifetime Subscription is the best deal ever for a ton of learning for years to come. I kind of surprised myself when I listed all the Classic Workshops and all the great topics. And at least now I have a record of all of them. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. To get the class or workshop…
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FULL YEAR CLASSES and Half-Price Sale
Yes… Now Only Two Days Left… The Fall Indie Writing Festival ends and also the half-price sale on everything on WMG Teachable and the 70% off the Everything Subscription. All that will only last two more days, ending Friday late. That 70% off of the Everything Subscription is the best deal ever for a ton of learning for years to come. I kind of surprised myself last night when I listed all the Classic Workshops and all the great topics. And at least now I have a record of all of them. So tonight, with the half price sale still going, I thought I would list all the full-year classes…
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3 Days Left On Half Price Sale!!!
Yes… Only Three Days… The Fall Indie Writing Festival ends and also the half-price sale on everything on WMG Teachable and the 70% off the Everything Subscription. All that will only last three more days, ending Friday late. That 70% off of the Everything Subscription is the best deal ever for a ton of learning for years to come. Half Price And Better… So right now, every class and workshop and lecture and pop-up on WMG Teachable is half price. To get the class or workshop you want, just hit purchase on anything you want and then put in the code: FallHalfPrice You can get the class for 50% off.…
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DOWN IN THE DETAILS Science Fiction
Eight Classes Are There and Anthology Open!! Yes, finally, all eight Down in the Details science fiction classes are there and available. And yes, the anthology for them is now open. WMG Teachable Lifetime Everything Subscribers you have the code to the bundle of all eight in the first email I sent you. And yes, I hope to finish the fantasy classes and the mystery classes over the next month or so and get those open and out to backers on some Kickstarters a while ago. Each class is $150 and the bundle is $900. But remember right now there is a half-price sale. See the information below the cover…
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Collection 9-Week Classes
You Write and Build and Publish a Collection… All in 9 weeks. Opened up three for November/December. The three topics are: Spies Collection Time Travel Collection Relationships Collection Everything Lifetime Subscription folks, they are in the collections bundles. And I will be reading the stories and giving responses to the assignments for nine weeks. Here are the other workshops that are starting up right now, information on the sale, plus mentorships one more time. All of These Have Assignments Each Week… This month we have six regular workshops and two advanced craft workshops starting. (Remember, half price sale going on right now… See Below) ADVANCED CRAFT… 9 Weeks Long… 8…