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Post Just For Readers
Books In The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign… Wow, are there a lot of books for readers in The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign. To start off with, everyone who backs the campaign at the $5 level and above will get a copy of the brand new Fey Novella that Kris will write to get herself back writing Fey novels. She explains it all in the video. It is at the bottom of this post. Then if you backed the reward at the $30 level, (or added it to another reward) you would get all seven books of the Fey in electronic editions. And there is also a…
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Post Just For Writers
A Summary of Classes in the Kickstarter. We are just ten days from the end of The Return of the Fey Kickstarter campaign. So thought I would summarize where we are with classes and stretch rewards with lots of time left. First off, there are two amazing classes you can back on this campaign. You can get one or both, actually. Special Three Week Writing Epic Fantasy workshop. This will only be offered through this campaign. You can start it May 4th or June 1st. (I may have said different dates on the campaign, but these are official start dates.) Cost is $150.00 Lessons from the Writing of the Fey.…
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Saturday Night…
Too Busy Working On a Novel… To spend too much time writing a long, thoughtful post. So basically this is another one of those filler blogs to keep my streak alive. I think this is 3,100 days in a row without missing writing and posting a blog here. Might be 3,101 days in a row. Too busy to spend the time and check exactly. (grin) Now I admit that is silliness. But still going. And the Return of the Fey Kickstarter campaign is still going and Kris and I are putting final touches on a Pop-Up class every day and I am recording one a day. Which is why I…
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Colliding Worlds Sent to Backers…
All Six Books in Electronic Format… At the moment, only the backers on the Kickstarter Colliding Worlds project got them. The paper and signed copies will take another month and it all will go on sale in the middle of April. I am really looking forward to seeing this set on my shelf. Kris and I are both really happy with how it turned out, to be honest. We each gave a new life to sixty of our short stories, ten each in each book. What a fun idea that was. I will let you all know when they are for sale to the general public. Amazing how many science…
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April and May Workshops Now Up
Room in Both Months for New Workshops… Stay turned if we start a few new workshops in April and May I will announce them here. We have created room in both months. So I will announce if there are new workshops coming. But right now you can jump into any in April and May and if you haven’t taken a workshop yet, start with Depth. That is the basics workshop for all of them. ON ANOTHER TOPIC… Loren’s Crowdfunding Your Fiction: A Best Practices Guide is going great. Folks, you can get the book for $2 in this campaign. Anyone who has ever thought about doing a Kickstarter for a…
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Thank Heavens For Naps…
A Nap Day Today… Actually, a three-nap day, although it was actually only two because the first one was interrupted by a phone call I had to take. Now I normally take a twenty-minute nap once a day, usually right before dinner. And since I am freelance, I can do what I want. There are advantages. But today I woke up exhausted. Kris and I managed to get one of our cars into the shop for a standard tuning ,and then we got an amazing lunch that we ate sitting in the car looking at basically nothing with 1970s music playing. But the moment I got home, the first aborted…
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Crowdfunding Your Fiction
Kickstarter Best Practices for Fiction Writers… If you are a writer and have even given one thought to doing a Kickstarter campaign, you need this book. This book will become the bible for fiction Kickstarters. Done by Loren L. Coleman, who has done small campaigns and million dollar campaigns, he puts all the details together. This book will not only tell you how to run a successful campaign and make a bunch of money, but also will keep you from making some really silly blunders. He is launching this book as a Kickstarter. Duh. You can get the book for $2.00 electronic. No reason to not have it. Plus he…
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Trying To Decide About #50
A Very Fun Problem… Now that I have relaunched Smith’s Monthly and have three issues out so far, I am starting to face a problem that when I started this crazy magazine seemed very far off. What am I going to do with Issue #50? Something special or nothing at all? That’s right, with the June 2021 issue, I will have published 50 issues of Smith’s Monthly. All with my own work completely in it. A magazine between 50,000 and 70,000 words per month. It will have held 50 novels, over 220 short stories, and a ton of other nonfiction stuff. As I said, a very fun problem. Part of…
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The Fey Returns Kickstarter
Doing Great!! In fact, we are gaining on the 6th stretch reward. The Fey Novella Kickstarter. When we hit that, it will mean that readers get seven extra books counting the new Fey Novella, and five brand new Pop-Up classes for writers, each worth $150.00. In fact, next week Kris and I will start recording all those new Pop-Ups. And we are hoping to have to record more than five. And we are hoping to reach stretch rewards we haven’t put up yet. And if we go high enough, Kris has promised to write a second brand new Fey novella and give it to everyone. So please keep passing the…
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More Reading To Buy
All Done Now… Finished just as I lost an hour, vanished into some silly idea called “Annoying Savings Time.” I’ve been reading about time travel to different timelines now for a week, so that was kind of creepy. (grin) I wanted ten stories per volume in the Cave Creek Anthologies of Past, Present, and Future. Ended up (since this is getting turned in tomorrow) with nine, nine, and eight stories per volume. That works great, actually. I was thinking I could write a few stories to fill the gaps, but now no time. Into the publishing chain they all go. Deadlines. But there will be more Cave Creek volumes in…