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Challenge Mixed Bag
Didn’t Hit It, but Still All Right… My challenge starting in 2022 was to write a short story per day. 365 days. I knew clear back in November when I finished the 70 Books in my 70th Year and started thinking about this challenge again that I would have trouble with it. And not for most writer’s reasons. I knew I would have trouble keeping track and doing something with all the stories. I thought I had that solved. Nope. I wrote 31 stories in January and a story every day in February and a story per day for the first half of March… Going fine, having no issues other…
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Wow, I Am Surprised…
Time of Great Forgetting and an American Holiday… Got all that. But I guess I am wrong. Two classes I thought we would get a lot of people signing up for, and being excited to take, and no one. Crickets… At least so far. First off, having Kris talk for almost four hours about writing and the business of writing and surviving in the business for thirty years in the Interview Classes. She talks about ten of her major series over four hours of me asking her questions about the series and publishing and writing. The people who got it free on the Kickstarter are signing up, but not one…
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Interview Videos With Kris
The Interview Videos with Kristine Kathryn Rusch Are Up! The 10 series interviews were a part of the Stretch Goal bonuses in the Kristine Kathryn Rusch Starter Kit Kickstarter Campaign. I was to interview Kris about the ten series that were in the starter kit. Each interview was going to be separate on Teachable, but Kris and I soon realized that would not be the best, so we still did the ten interviews, but they are now ten different sections of the same class. Over 40 different videos. We were going to charge $50 each interview per series, but then decided that by combining them we could charge just $300…
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Diving Into the Wreck is Free!!
Doing a Bookbub On Diving into the Wreck. The first book in Kristine Kathryn Rusch DIVING SERIES, Diving into the Wreck is free for a few weeks. Normally it is $5.99, but there is a Bookbub on it and you can get it free for the next week or so. If you have not yet met Boss and been introduced to this massive series, now is the time. Lots of books in the series. Great reading. The link to find it free on your favorite store is: https://books2read.com/u/47kdKj PULPHOUSE FICTION MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION DRIVE 2022 The campaign is going live in a week or so. Going to have some really fun…
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Might Be A Few Minutes of This Site Being Down…
Tuesday Morning and some through the day… Yes, the site is moving to a new host after that last stupidity. Everything is already moved as I type this, but tomorrow morning all the direction stuff will be switching over. Site this place might experience a little downtime, but should be short. And for a short time it will read “Not secure” as things switch over, but it is and will read secure in short order. After that I will spend a number of days cleaning up stuff that has desperately needed to be cleaned up for a few years now. Other than the slight breaks, and the “not secure” for…
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Heinlein’s Rules and Media Kit Workshops
All July Workshops Now Available… Both new workshops starting in July are available now. (Both are on the Lifetime Subscription as well.) Heinlein’s Business Rules Workshop will be far, far more than just going over the five simple rules. It will be how those simple five rules can turn you into a full-time professional fiction writer. They really are a major secret to writing and for the first time, Kris and I are going to give those business rules six full weeks of attention. You will be stunned at what you think you know about then, but really do not. Media Kit workshop is going to be for those really…
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Steve Martin and Martin Short
Time Off… Shocker… Even two people who never take much time away from writing and publishing, take part of a night off at times. Dinner in a great restaurant at the Wyn, And we even had deserts. Real shocker. Then walked around to get some steps before the show, mostly over to the big poker tournament to see how things were looking there. We had great seats. Mezzanine level, front row. Perfect. I went in not knowing what to expect, but wow were they funny. Hour and forty-five minutes of funny. Haven’t laughed that much in a long time. And as with any good comics, they pulled no punches on…
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Finished Kris’s New Fey Novel
Stunningly Good! I’m not going to say anything about it in detail, because I don’t want to ruin it for all the fans, but I will just say this: It is amazing and I can hardly wait for her to finish the next one (third one). And now the first novella makes a ton of sense. How she does it is beyond me. Bunch of stuff coming out this coming week. A new Smith’s Monthly and a new issue of Pulphouse Magazine, among two of them. And working on a new Pulphouse Magazine Kickstarter subscription campaign that will be out in a few weeks. That will be a fun one.…
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Make More Than Coffee Money
The First In a New Series of Classes… Kris and I tend to spend a lot of lunches out in restaurants with a notebook, planning workshops. Usually we have a focus, like a certain week in a class that needs to be recorded. We make sure that I am recording the workshop we want it to be. Between the two of us, we think we hit good workshops more than we miss. And sometimes in these lunch discussions we just end up with new ideas for workshops that we think would be fun or valuable. A couple details have to be in place before we talk about it enough to…
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Kristine Kathryn Rusch Starter Kit
Everything Sent Out… Except the Interview Stretch Rewards with Kris…She and I are recording those now and as soon as we are done and I get them loaded, we will send out codes to get into them on Teachable So if you didn’t get the ten books in the Starter Kit, or any of the other books, first check your spam filter, then make sure you are on your Kickstarter email, and if you still don’t have them by Tuesday, write to Subscriptions@wmgbooks.com and Josh will track them for you. Again, the interviews are not among this batch. Next and final batch. Also, an update on the Fey Kickstarter. LESSONS…