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    Time of Great Forgetting Special Offer

    Yes, We Are Smack In The Middle Of The Time Of Great Forgetting… This time of the year, writers sort of forget about their writing with all the distractions of life, summer, vacations, graduations, and so on. All the wonderful writing goals set early in the year are just sort of pushed aside. This Forgetting time period lasts from late April until late July. Then writers sort of wake up, try to get restarted, and wonder what happened to all the goals of the year. Very disheartening and it happens to many year-after-year. And it is very, very hard to restart at that point. Since we have a bunch of…

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    Some Reminders on This Friday

    Updates and New Stuff… Just wanted to mention some new workshop stuff and remind people that some things are ending. I know it is smack in the middle of the time of great forgetting, but sometimes workshops or planning for workshops can help keep a little focus on the writing during these months. So first off, we have a nifty new web site for the Vegas workshops. WMGWorkshops.com. Pretty clear and simple address and a really nifty site that just launched describing the Vegas workshops. And speaking of the Vegas workshops, we are about to end the special deal we were offering. A couple more days is all. Write me…

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    Online Workshops Update

    All Kinds of Stuff Going On… First off, since no one was signed up in June for the Weekender Pop-up Workshops, we have cancelled those. However, the entire group of them, plus two more will return in the fall, after the time of great forgetting. The Indie Game workshop turned out to be a stunner and great fun. I sure had a blast looking at a ton of writer pen name careers over ten years, seeing all sorts of patterns. Of course, the Pop-Up Workshops will remain available to all of the Lifetime Workshop subscribers. You folks can take them at any time you want. ————— Insider’s Guide Webinar workshops.…

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    Special Limited Time Workshop Offer

    SPECIAL OFFER… Since we have announced all of the 2019 workshops in the post below, and since we are now comfortable with the workshops going forward into the future, we decided to offer a special deal with this announcement. If you sign up and pay for FOUR (4) workshops, you will either get two online workshops for free ($600 value) or the Kris and Dean Show free ($500 value). Your choice. You can take the workshops over a four year period, and no need to tell us which ones. You can decide later. So you can take one workshop a year if you want. Money is fully refundable for any…

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    2019 Vegas Workshop Schedule

    Plus the Kris and Dean show is back… And a special sign-up deal. We are doing four craft workshops in Vegas, limited to 15 writers each. Writing workshops. — Creating Memorable Characters (Dean and Kris teaching) — Humor (Dean teaching) — Mystery (Kris Teaching) — Romance (Kris Teaching) Plus in the summer of 2019 we are doing the Kris and Dean show. (dates and prices below) All workshops in 2019 are now announced and confirmed dates including the 2019 Master Business Class. All workshops are now held in the beautiful convention center of the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. And it is non-smoking and you don’t have to go…

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    Thanks for the Workshop Comments!

    Got Great Comments About My Question Last Night… Plus a bunch of people wrote privately as well. Thank you everyone. Very much appreciated. I got one question that came up in the online comments and that was the suggestion we do this on video online. Answer: Simply, nope. Never will happen I’m afraid. There is a reason people call this a “show” and that would not come across at all in video. This is two very long-term, very experienced, professional writers and editors, in front of you talking and making publishing entertaining and fun while you learn. Not at all sure where, in this modern world, you would get a…

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    Workshops Starting!!

    MAY INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops Sunday the two May Insider’s Guide workshops will be starting. The first live webinars for each will be one week from Sunday and they run for four weeks, with recorded videos and assignments every week and a webinar at the end of every week. The webinars are basically me talking for an hour with you folks asking questions that I answer. It is live, but I am the only one on video. Everyone else is asking questions through a chat function. These two are going to be great fun. And I am still laughing about the first assignment Kris came up with for the Writing Detective…

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    Some Questions About the New Workshop Location

    Got some Great Questions About the New In-Person Workshops in Las Vegas. Let  me just list the questions and then below I have copied the announcement again. Question: Room Rate the Same for Both Early Bird and those who pay later? Answer: Yes. We will have the room block set for each workshop and will send those who are paid the code to the room block to get the discounts. We will send out those hotel codes as soon as you pay for the workshop. If the block fills, those who get in late will most likely end up paying a little more. We will try to solve that if…

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    In-Person Workshops Moving to Las Vegas!!!

    Starting in October… That’s right, after this summer Series Workshop here in Lincoln City, all “coast workshops” will be held in Las Vegas. That’s right, after almost twenty years here (first was in 1999), we are graduating the in-person workshops up to the next level. I will be writing those signed up for the two workshops coming up, the Business Master Class in October and the Anthology Workshop in early March to confirm if you still want to attend or not. Or you can contact me. Either way is fine.  There are slight changes to format and schedule which will make this better for everyone. (We talked to a lot…

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    Insider’s Guide Webinar Workshops…

    INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops… Yup, we changed the name. And are now taking sign-ups. They are webinar workshops, with a combination of recorded videos and a weekly in-person session webinar. Four weeks long. The workshop will have five or six recorded videos per week, plus an assignment, then the four live webinar chats, one per week, to answer questions and such after everyone has had time to go through the videos and assignments. Yup, you get to ask me questions directly. And listen to other writer’s questions. I think this will be great fun. We will limit it to 10 writers plus the Lifetime Subscribers. (Lifetime Subscribers get in if they…