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    New Kickstarter Launches At Noon!!

    MARY JO ASSASSIN books… I love writing Mary Jo stories. It is amazing how complex killing someone can get. At 1,000 years old and a member of the Assassin’s Guild, she is well trained and practiced. Oh, if you are looking for magic or swords or things like that, afraid none of that in these books. She is sexy and deadly and doesn’t age, but she does love her partner, another assassin, and a good Screwdriver after a job well done. (Vodka and Orange Juice.) She might be called a completely modern assassin. Leaves no trace and has a very powerful code of ethics. And she is one of those…

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    How to Achieve Your Dreams…

    New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable.  Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…

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    New Workshops and Regular Workshops

    HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS… That’s the name of the new class we are offering starting June 10th. How to Write More, Get More Readers, and Make a Living with Your Fiction. Cost is $500 and it is 9 weeks long with eight assignments. Again starts on the 10th. Everything Subscribers got a letter from me about it tonight with the code to get in. Wow am I excited about this one. We have been thinking about doing this for some time now and to help people stay focused through the time of great forgetting, we figured this would be a good one to offer. You can find this on…

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    Ticking Clocks…

    Two Great Deals Expire Tuesday Evening… First off, for only one thing, the Lifetime Everything Subscription, we are doing a Memorial Day Sale. (It is Memorial Day here in the States on Monday.) Until Tuesday Evening, the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION that is normally $10,000 is 60% off. That’s right… $60%… That means you can get EVERYTHING on WMG Teachable for $4,000. All 600 or so classes that are there now, plus all the new stuff coming. (Actually more new stuff coming tonight.) Just click on the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION on WMG Teachable and then hit purchase and on the next page put in the code MemorialDaySale And hit apply and…

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    MEMORIAL DAY SALE…

    LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION Sale For only one thing, the Lifetime Everything Subscription, we are doing a Memorial Day Sale. (It is Memorial Day here in the States on Monday.) Until Tuesday Evening, the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION that is normally $10,000 is 60% off. That’s right… $60%… That means you can get EVERYTHING on WMG Teachable for $4,000. All 600 or so classes that are there now, plus all the new stuff coming. (Actually more new stuff coming tonight.) Just click on the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION on WMG Teachable and then hit purchase and on the next page put in the code MemorialDaySale And hit apply and the price will be…

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    SUPER Great Challenges

    Blog Early Tonight Because of Licensing Expo… Starts tomorrow morning, so I might be late a touch on a few things, but will try not to. And will give a report here and on a couple of the classes later in the week. But quickly, I want to announce what is not up yet, but will be shortly on Teachable (shortly meaning a day or so.) THE SUPER GREAT CHALLENGES… Right now we have the following challenges you can sign up for at any time… Any genre… — The Great Challenge (write a story per week and send it to me for 52 weeks.) — The Great Novella Challenge (write…

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    LAST DAY OF FOUR MYSTERIES KICKSTARTER

    Get Four Of Kris’s Short Mystery Novels… The four books are new, and except for a publication in our Holiday Spectacular Calendar last fall of one of them, none of these have seen print. (Out of that Calendar, the one story won the Derringer Award.) Fantastic reading and all four books come automatically with any reward in the Kickstarter. In total we have hit six stretch goals counting the special backer one, which means all backers get six more Kristine Kathryn Rusch stories, plus for writers, four writing classes worth $1,650. That’s right, $1,650 value in writing classes for free for backing this campaign at any level. And if we…

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    Missing Great Workshops

    They Just Started This Last Week!! Still time to jump in without missing anything I am giving one last reminder here because these classes are so good.. Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you…

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    REALLY FUN WORKSHOPS IN KICKSTARTER

    100 MYSTERY PROMPTS IN TWO WORKSHOPS For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special treats through this FOUR MYSTERIES Kickstarter campaign. These two courses will only be offered through this campaign and nowhere else, so don’t miss them. — #1… 50 MURDER MYSTERY PROMPTS This is a special three-week workshop on 50 prompts for stories with murder in them. How to start each story from the prompt. How to present the murder. How to use depth in various sub-genres. How to create great murder mystery stories. How to make each story completely your own.  This is…

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    Workshops Started

    Started May 6th… Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable. How About Writing and Publishing a Book in Nine Weeks? These four Collection…