• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Almost Hitting A Second Stretch Goal

    The Writing Bundle Kickstarter Campaign… It’s doing really well and has got a lot of great deals for writers. Usually we balance out campaigns with a focus on a fiction project with some workshop deals. But this one is all focused on helping writers learn writing. Five Writing Bundle Books are the core. Take a look. But we are about to hit our second stretch goal and we have come up with some really amazing stretch rewards. Worth a lot, actually. So here they are… Stretch Goal #1…$3,000 We have hit this one and everyone supporting the project gets an electronic copy of THE FREELANCER’S SURVIVAL GUIDE by Kristine Kathryn…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Main April Workshops Up!

    Just In Time For Final Hours of the March Sadness Special I have the April regular workshops up and listed. At least the ones I am sure will be done in April. I might add a couple more later and maybe a new workshop Kris and I have been talking about. But for now, the April workshops available are: #31… Endings #34… Speed #35… Teams in Writing #36… Depth in Writing (Start with this course if new here) #39… Information Flow Those are available for a few hours in the Special. REMEMBER!! Special ends exactly at 5 pm today West Coast Time. And I have shut off Collaboration Class. It…

  • Cave Creek,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Pop-Up Available

    Pop-Up #19… How Can Your Business Survive the Downturn? Kris in upcoming blogs talks about the Black Swan event we are all going through right now. And we put together this Pop-Up to help as well. Step-by-step things you need to think about and maybe act on or maybe not. But at least with this you will not be flying into the dark so much because Kris and I have made it through three major black swan events with businesses before this one. So might be worth your time, folks. BRINGING ALL POP-UPS BACK LIVE… Until yesterday the only Pop-Ups you could get were the last couple or buy the…

  • On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Licensing Expo Postponed

    No Surprise… Now scheduled for August 11-13. Same place, and if you had rooms, you can just kick them back. Licensing Transition Class (that is still open for sign-ups) will be extended into September now, so all of you in that class get a bunch of extra, besides free access to the Licensing 101 class going on now. Got a hunch that licensee’s are going to be hungry by August. I was about to book a couple of appointments with two movie studios, but will now do so for August. Fun stuff. Sign up on Teachable. OTHER THINGS… Kickstarter Best Practices for Fiction Writers is up on Teachable for free.…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Pop-Up Coming

    How Your Business Can Survive a Downturn… It will be Pop-Up #19. Available in a few days. It will be put inside of the Decade Ahead First Quarter class. We had always planned on putting it in there, with Pop-Up #18 in February and this new one in March. But we did not expect what is happening now when we planned this. Scary times. This Pop-up will help. So the Pop-Up #19 will be available in the Decade Ahead First Quarter or as a stand-alone or in the bundles for Pop-Ups. I will announce it here when it is posted. Honestly, the best deal is the Decade Ahead Bundle, get…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Going Running

    Very Early In the Morning… After Daylight Savings Time switches… Yikes… So nothing to talk about tonight, other than I was told earlier that fulfillment for the Year of the Cat Kickstarter will be going out this coming week. And I hope everyone who got the nifty How To Write a Cat Story special workshop got my letter and codes. If not, write me. And the Cave Creek Kickstarter campaign is going toward the first stretch goal at a good pace. And it is in the second stretch goal that we started to put writer rewards. So pass the word. And the special workshop that you can only get in…

  • Cave Creek,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    New Videos Are Up

    In Numbers of Classes and Challenges… New weekly videos are up in both the Publishing Challenge and the Novel Challenge. In the publishing I talk about what I did this last week in publishing and in the novel challenge I talk about my own writing, which will really pick up speed tomorrow. (Both are open for sign-ups.) New videos in the first quarter of the Decade Ahead, the first of many that will be in March this month, since March is a very important month. So four new videos there. (You can still sign up for it or for the full year.) Of course the Licensing Transition Class has the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    First Of The Month!

    Good Time To Start A Challenge… Publishing Challenge, Short Story Challenge, or Novel Challenge. All are open and a great way to keep your goals on track for the year. And a number of writers are in sight of lifetime subscriptions on the short story challenge, one on the novel challenge, and one has already gotten a lifetime subscription on the novel challenge. Keep going, folks. Only four people are signed up for the Publishing Challenge. That one seems to scare hell out of writers. (grin) This weekend I will be doing a bunch of posts about the first of March in the Decade Ahead class. And also a bunch…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Quick Updates

    Collaboration Class Still Open… Still have spots left if anyone wants to first learn all the ins and outs of collaboration, plus write a story with me for a special issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Find that on Teachable. I will close it when 15 are signed up. And 24 hours or so left on the Kickstarter. The only place you can get the How to Write a Cat Story Workshop. Plus discounts on other workshops and some great reading. Year of the Cat Kickstarter. Also, March workshops are now available on Teachable, including the new Licensing 101 Workshop and last month’s new workshop How to Write Romance Fiction. Plus…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Just Hit Third Stretch Goal!!

    Working On the Fourth… So all supporters now, for sure, get a lecture of their choice for supporting our Year of the Cat Kickstarter. That’s worth $50.00. And you can help us get to the next stretch goal in the next 65 hours and get not only more books, but a choice of Classic Workshop worth $150. And remember, I just moved about eight workshops to classic status a few months ago. So below is the update I just posted to the Kickstarter. I hope you will help us hit that next stretch goal. Thanks!! And the nifty video Gwyneth did about finding Ruby, the cat character in the third…