Kickstarter Special Stretch Goal!
SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…
Reach 125 Backers by Monday late…
If this campaign reaches 125 Backers by Monday Night Late, every backer of any reward at $20.00 and above will get two free electronic short stories by Dean Wesley Smith.
You will get “Cat Leading the Way”and “The Story of Jean.”
For writers, since Marble Grant is a well-developed and a fun character, you will also get the CLASSIC AUTHOR VOICE workshop worth $150 to learn how to create a character such as Marble Grant. You can take it at any time and at your own pace.
So pass the word and help us reach 125 backers by Monday night.
Also the two workshops in this one might be the most fun workshops we have done. I know I am going to have a blast with them, since Marble Grant and Sims are both ghosts in Las Vegas who love to party, love each other, and love to help people.
Here is the information from the campaign about the two special workshops…
— Workshop #1… HOW TO WRITE GHOST STORIES
This is a special three-week workshop on how to write ghost stories of all types. From comedy ghost stories like TOPPER and MARBLE GRANT to horrific ghost stories and hauntings and suspense that will keep your reader up all night with the lights on.
And there is a short story to write for the third week’s assignments that Dean will read for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, and if he likes it, he will suggest you send it to him as a submission. No requirement to do so.
This special workshop will only be offered through this Kickstarter. Plus you get the four volumes of MARBLE GRANT books in electronic editions.
— Workshop #2… HOW TO WRITE PARANORMAL CREATURES OF ALL KINDS
This is a special three-week workshop on how to write paranormal creatures of all kinds in all genres. Vampire, werewolves, and talking bats who only speak in one-liners. Even Alexa and Siri could be considered paranormal creatures. All kinds, nothing off limits in this class.
And there is a short story to write for the third week’s assignments that Dean will read for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine and if he likes it, he will suggest you send it to him as a submission. No requirement to do so
This special workshop will only be offered through this Kickstarter. Plus you get the four volumes of MARBLE GRANT in electronic editions.
Plus you can get both for a discount. They will be offered in March..
Here is the link to it. Marble Grant Kickstarter
Story Challenge
Story #7 in February. This afternoon and tonight I spent some time getting some January stories ready for Kris to read. Spellchecking them and printing them out and such. Tonight I wrote a Thunder Mountain story “In Search of the Lost Graveyard.”
Over the years back when I was younger, I spent some time searching for pioneer graveyards. Numbers of them were lost to time even in the sixties and early seventies. No telling how many more are lost now with the passage of fifty more years.
In 1964 or 65, I had my grandmother one day point out a location of a graveyard, when we were visiting the ruins of a mining town they had actually lived in 30 plus years before. It was a half mile back down the mountain valley we were in and up on a ridge line.
Even with my grandparents help, my dad and I never did find it. I could tell it really bothered my grandmother because she said she knew of at least ten graves that were in it when they left the valley thirty years before.
It took me two hours to find the Thunder Mountain graveyard with its ten official graves. It was a half-mile down the valley from Roosevelt Lake and the only reason I found it was that a society called The Thunder Mountain Preservation Society was keeping it up and had put a rope around the location and a metal sign on a tree with the names. Since all the markers had been wood, most of them were gone and the ground had sunk in over most of the graves.
Chances are the “Society” was an older couple who had relatives in the region.
I opened my novel Thunder Mountain with a character finding that graveyard just as I had found it.
SoI love playing in Thunder Mountain stories with lost graveyards. They are far, far more common than you can imagine.