Interesting Perspective…

Writers Getting Mad At Me…

Not really a surprise. I am totally used to it over the decades because people don’t like my outspoken nature especially when it grinds up against a dearly held myth of theirs.

But at the moment they are angry because they feel they should be able to submit to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine without being a subscriber first. Not kidding, but outside of a Kickstarter promotion, not even subscribers can submit to the magazine. (grin)

Right now, if you get a six issue subscription for $30 in the Kickstarter, you also get 2 different Fiction Rivers to read, plus four special Pulphouse anthologies, and backers get to submit stories in four different months.  Really good deal.

Now Pulphouse is always closed for submissions. I have no desire to read slush ever again.

But I do want to thank the writers who support the magazine with a subscription by letting them submit under closed conditions stories I might buy. I can handle one per month from each backer. And when I did this last year I bought numbers of stories that have or will appear in the magazine.

And I had a blast reading because the writers who were sending stories in knew the type of fiction I bought. Why? Because they had read some issues of the magazine, that’s why.

Yet out there writers who have never read an issue of Pulphouse and wouldn’t begin to understand the fiction I buy are complaining that they can’t send me a story without supporting the magazine.

I find that laughingly stupid and funny. I wonder how many of them who send stories to Asimov’s or Queen have ever read an issue. And yet I bet those kinds of writers get upset when their story is rejected.

As I have said many times and it applies to those writers complaining… You can lead a writer to knowledge but you can’t get them to think.

Speaking of the Pulphouse Fiction Magazine subscription drive Kickstarter, ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT!!!

YIKES…

The Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter campaign is going great.

We have hit enough stretch rewards now that all backers will get four crazy Pulphouse anthologies , two issues of Fiction River, a six issue subscription, and also a chance to submit a story in August, September, October, and November to Pulphouse.

Understand, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is never open to submissions. But sometimes, in these subscription drives, if we get high enough, we open submissions of one per month per backer. And we are there.

So please help us pass the word. More really cool stuff to get and more months to send in stories. But we need your help.

Only TWO days left in the entire campaign. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter.

And now, a reminder one more time on the workshops you can not get anywhere else but in this campaign…

SPECIAL WORKSHOPS!!!

We have two really fun special workshops with this campaign that Kris and I are both looking forward to teaching. Both will be great fun.

Both workshops are three weeks long, are offered only twice, and the final week’s assignment for both workshops will be to write a short story that Dean will consider for Pulphouse. (Not as submissions, just how Dean will look at the stories and tell you he is interested in seeing it sent back as a submission.)

You have your choice of taking either three-week workshop starting July 30th or starting August 20th.

“PUT JOY IN YOUR SHORT STORY WRITING” Special Workshop #1

This workshop will teach you how to have fun and enjoy writing short stories. There are a lot of techniques that can help with this and once you can bring joy and fun into your short story writing, you will write better and more. 

Even if you already enjoy writing short fiction, this class can give you more techniques and craft methods to use if you run into that “rough” story that we all do at times.

This is a craft of writing workshop. Only offered through this campaign. 

You also get a six-issue electronic subscription to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine with this reward.

“HOW TO TURN SHORT STORIES INTO NOVELS” Special Workshop #2

Many, many, many professional writers start off with a short story and then think, “That would make a great novel.” Or a reader says that to the writer. As an editor, I say that to writers all the time after reading a short story.

But how to do it? There are techniques and writing craft tricks that make it fairly simple, actually, once you know them. This class in three weeks will give you those techniques.

This is a craft of writing workshop. Only offered through this campaign.

You also get a six-issue electronic subscription to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine with this reward.

FOR A DISCOUNT

You can get both special workshops under the $250 reward level ($50 discount) or as an add-on. In these two short classes you will take your writing to another level.

You also get a six-issue electronic subscription to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine with this reward.

You have your choice of taking either three-week workshop starting July 30th or starting August 20th.

So jump into a workshop, get a six issue subscription with it, and help us hit more stretch goals. We are almost there.

TWO days left!  The Kickstarter clock is ticking in hours now.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter

The video for the campaign is fun and short. Might have to click twice to run it.