Knowing How Lucky You Are…
I Know For a Fact I Am Stunningly Lucky…
Just to be alive and well. My old-time friends all say that all the time and I can’t argue with them.
I have been lucky to have friends for thirty, forty, and fifty years that I treasure and they are there when something happens and I hope I am there for them in return.
I have been stunningly lucky to have been with Kris the last 38 years.
I was lucky to be a free-style professional skier, a PGA Professional, get a masters degree in architecture, and do three years of law school.
I was lucky enough to write a lot of Star Trek, Men in Black, Spider-Man and other comic novels, plus a ton of other books and stories and you name it. And really lucky to have written so many original novels now and done 67 issues of my own magazine so far.
So going into this Thanksgiving Holiday, I am very thankful for being so amazingly lucky as I come out of some life events and really get moving forward again.
Hope you Americans are all having a good day and looking at how lucky you are to have the friends and family around you this year.
And by the way, the first story for the Holiday Spectacular Calendar just went out. Enjoy!!
WHAT IS AVAILABLE…
Starting on Tuesday, December 3rd, THE KRIS AND DEAN SHOW will run for eight weeks. Topic is PREPPING FOR 2025. Sign up at the WMG Writer Store.
The reason it is there instead of Teachable is because Kris and I will be doing a long video every week that is too heavy for Teachable. We will do that video together like we used to do the old Kris and Dean Shows at conventions. Then every week we will add four or so more videos on the week’s topic. Then the following week we will do a webinar that will be recorded if you can’t make the time. 8 weeks. Going to be fantastically fun.
It will only overlap the return of the Writer’s Block classes by a few weeks, so no issues there. (You can still jump into that, but you have to get both sessions. First session is almost all done and recorded, including the webinars. Second session starts January 7th and goes for two months. It seems to be a good class.
On Teachable we will be starting the BITE-SIZED BRANDING AND TRADEMARK on January 6th. Videos every Monday on the topics of Branding and Trademark. 4 quarters, 52 weeks of videos. That will make you more money over time than you can imagine. Jump into that one and remember that if you buy if for full price, you can also give a second one as a gift until the start of the year. So maybe two of you could go in together on that one.
The first three quarters of BITE-SIZED COPYRIGHT that we did in 2023 was given as stretch rewards for the Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter. See the updates if you are a backer to get the codes. And the 4th quarter is available for half price. Again the code is on the updates of the campaign for the backers to get the half price. And non-writers, remember if you backed the campaign you can give the workshops as gifts by sending them the code.
And one special holiday sale we are doing is the LIFETIME EVERYTHING SUBSCRIPTION. Normally it is $10,000 for the over $60,000 in workshops and classes on WMG Teachable, but right now it is $4,000. (Low as we can go.) Write me if interested. An amazing deal.
Picture of a Challenge…
Back in 2020, when I turned 70, I challenged myself to publish 70 books in my 70th year.
My rules for myself were NO SHORT FICTION STAND ALONE. (I wrote 53 short stories that year.) Only novels or collections or books or magazines I edited and did the introduction to. (Asimov counted his 500 plus books in his lifetime this way as well.)
So here is an image of the covers of the 70 books I published that year. From my birthday in early November to my birthday the following year. Some day, when I have all of these in paper, I will stack them up and take a picture.
I might do something like this again for the 75th year. Why not? Got a while to decide.
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