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Thunder Mountain
I Am Very Proud Of That Book… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. As I said, I am very proud of the book and you can get it in this amazing bundle of…
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Two Mentorships Open
First Open Since 2022 Back in 2019, I opened up what we called a mentorship where I answered questions on anything that person wanted in writing and business of publishing. I took seven mentees total in 2019 and early 2020. How it sets up is that I asked the person to report in to me every Sunday (or Monday or at least once every two weeks) about what they were doing, progress or no progress. Writing or publishing done or not done. And plans for the coming week. I was sort of a check-point each week. If there were questions, I tried to answer them, or look at a cover,…
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Determined to Get Some Sleep
So This Will Be Short… I will get eight hours somehow tonight, so got to just do little here but repeat some information. As I said, I did manage to start all of the new September Regular workshops, which includes the classic Heinlein’s Rules and two brand new workshops, Brushstroke Characters and Faking It. Both of those should be fun and great learning and they are available now on Teachable. Today is the last day on jumping into Kris’s Fall Challenge that runs to September 30th. Watch her daily writing and challenge her to match or beat her word count. That’s on Teachable. And this is the last day to…
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Fun Stuff…
Mostly Getting Caught Up On Sleep… I really, really, really screwed around my sleep schedule right when I knew there were five days in a row I had to be up before noon. So a lot of long naps to just pretend to get eight hours in a day. Man that makes a person feel like crap and no one to blame but my inability to go to bed before 5 am. But as last night’s post said, I did manage to start all of the new September Regular workshops, which includes the classic Heinlein’s Rules and two brand new workshops, Brushstroke Characters and Faking It. Both of those should…
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Two Deadlines and Two New Regular Workshops…
Yup, Adding Two Regular Six Weeks Workshops… But first, the two deadlines. The Kris Fall Writing Challenge will close on Monday the 19th. Kris sends out an email about her writing day and running day and total word count every day from August 15th to September 30. If you sign up and don’t match her word count, you get your $300 in credit on WMG Teachable. If you surpass her word count, you get twice what you paid in credit. So win/win. Right now, the letters are both being sent out and put in a post for those signing up this weekend to not miss anything. As of Monday sign-ups…
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Naps…
A Writer’s Best Friend is a Nap… I have been taking too many of them since the anthology workshop, trying to get caught up on sleep while at the same time doing a ton of planning to really ramp back up my writing with some really fun projects. This fall is the anniversary of my first two short fiction sales 50 years ago, so I plan on celebrating that over the next year with a number of fun things. But right now, because of the nap that went on too long, I am behind and have to save time by doing a quick nightly blog. But it was still a…
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Thunder Mountain in a Storybundle…
Kris’s Editorial… Kris curated this fantastic time travel bundle, and wow does it have some great stuff in it, including Kris’s own GALLERY OF HIS DREAMS, plus a collection by Robert Jeschonek, and a novel by Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert. Plus if you have never read the fantastic novels of Lisa Silverthorne or Kathryn Kaleigh, you are in for a couple of fantastic treats. And if you have never ventured into my Thunder Mountain series, included is the first book called THUNDER MOUNTAIN. So here is Kris’e editorial. Don’t miss this bundle, folks. It has some amazing reading in it. THE BIG TIME BUNDLE The Big Time Bundle –…
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Kris’s New Writing Challenge…
Starts Tomorrow (Wednesday) Runs from August 15th to September 30th. Every night those signed up get a letter from Kris talking about her day and writing and reporting her word count. Turns out it is great fun to follow along and I live here. (grin) Kris is doing these to stay focused on her writing as we wade through a bunch of crap in the business and since this is the third one, she says they are working. From her word count in the one ending today, I would say so. If you sign up for the $300 fee and can’t match her word count, you get the $300 in…
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Kickstarter Fun…
Kickstarter and Fiction… One of the main topics after hours and at dinners at the Anthology Workshop this last week was Kickstarter. That sort of makes sense since Loren L. Coleman was there and I was there. Loren did a 10 million dollar Kickstarter and I have done 42 of them now. There were a number of writers attending who had done varying sizes of campaigns along the way as well, so it was a popular topic for the week. So for fun here on my blog, as I get back in and revamp the Kickstarter Best Practices to update it some with Loren’s help over this next month, I…
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Workshop Updates
A Bunch of Them… Getting back on track with different projects and I thought I would first update the different workshop information and news before jumping back into more branding and stuff. — Special Workshops from the Pulphouse Kickstarter. All letters have been sent out with the links and codes to get into the different special workshops. The first session starts on Tuesday. If you were signed up and didn’t get a letter from me tonight, please check your spam filters because there are links in the letters. If not there, write me. — Anthology Workshop early August 2026. Sign-ups are open right now for the early-bird price of $750.…