• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing

    Secrets and Lies Storybundle

    FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LOVE MYSTERY… Kris put together what I think might be one of the best mystery StoryBundles in a long, long time. And I feel really lucky to have a book in this one, let me tell you. Here is the link to get it:  https://storybundle.com/mystery There are some amazing novels and stories in this bundle and if you love mystery, you don’t want to miss it. I even have one of my Cold Poker Gang novels in this called Dead Hand. It would be a good one to jump into the series with. https://storybundle.com/mystery On another topic, all the surveys went out today on The…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    April Workshops Starting Up

    Tuesday and Wednesday… Yes, it is that time. The April workshops are starting up. You can find them on WMG Publishing Teachable at https://wmg-publishing-workshops-and-lectures.teachable.com/ Hit “See all Courses” and look for the April classes. Also, for those of you taking the special workshops from the Colliding Worlds Kickstarter, the Writing SF Stories and the Vastness of Space three-week special classes, they are starting as well. I sent you a letter on how to find those and get into them back in February. They were only available through the Kickstarter campaign. The six-week classes open to everyone in April are: Class #31… Apr 6th … Covers 101 Class #32… Apr 6th…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Recommended Reading

    Teach

    A Best Practices Guide By Loren Coleman And trust me, folks, you ever thinking of adding Kickstarters into your fiction plans, you want this book in your library. And Loren wrote it to have it read, so he is practically giving it away in a Kickstarter Launch campaign. Folks, I have read this book. It will be the bible of how to do fiction campaigns going forward. Loren was the co-founder with me of the Best Practices class that is free on WMG Publishing Teachable. And he ran a 2 million plus campaign. And he has run small campaigns under different company names. This one is under his Pulse Publishing…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Just Some Bits…

    Saturday Night Clean-Up… I will finally get to have more hours for writing starting this coming week. Finally. So figured tonight when no one was around, I would clean up a few things. — The survey should go out on Tuesday or Wednesday for The Return of the Fey Kickstarter campaign. After that I will keep you informed on the campaign when other details go out. But next week will only be the surveys because we want to give everyone time to get them back to us. That way we don’t miss anyone. So when you get the survey, please fill it out as soon as you can. And thanks…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Master Business Class Officially Online

    To No One’s Surprise… The 2021 Master Business Class was to be held here in Las Vegas in October, but now has been moved online. And we will never have another Master Business class in person. The 2020 one was scheduled to be the last one, then because of Covid we moved the last one to October 2021. But folks, even with the miracle of the vaccines, October is still too early. And, of course, we have idiots out there who will not get vaccinated and Kris and I and WMG Publishing can’t force everyone attending to be vaccinated and prove it. And those of you jumping on planes can’t…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    A Dip Into the Past…

    Looking Through the Twenty Issues of the Original Pulphouse Magazine… In the last Pulphouse Kickstater, we offered a stretch reward that we said would be coming out about now that was a sample of the stories I published back in the original Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine. So I was putting that together tonight. I quickly came to realize a few things. The small volume I was putting together could not be a best-of volume because there are just far, far too many great stories in those twenty volumes. I needed to pick eight for this short sample of stories from back 30 years. So this would not be a best-of…

  • Challenge,  publishing,  Smiths Monthly

    Proud of Smith’s Monthly Restart

    I Got the First Three in Paper… January, February, and March issues of Smith’s Monthly Magazine are in my hands in paper. April issue will ship near the middle of the month. So thought I would goof around for a minute, take a few pictures, and post them here of the first three issues from this year. I do all the layout for the paper editions. Including a ton of ads all the way through. It is a two-column format and takes me about ten hours a month total to lay them out, do the covers for the short stories and the wrap cover for the magazine, and put in…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Hit Next Stretch Reward

    With Only Hours Left… And only hours left to get into the Special Writing Epic Fantasy three-week workshop. It will only be offered, ever, though this campaign. This campaign ends at 7 pm today, West Coast Time. So if you want the special workshop, you only have hours to sign up. So go to Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign and get the special workshop, plus all the extras. As far as workshops go that are extra, if you are a backer of this campaign, you will get, without any more cost than your backer amount, seven brand new Pop-Up Classes. (And they add into the Special Writing Epic Fantasy…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Last Thirty Hours…

    This Ends at 7 PM on Wednesday. That’s Tomorrow! The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign… Last chance to get the Special Writing Epic Fantasy workshop. It will only be offered through this campaign, never again. Last chance with a simple pledge to get a lot of great fantasy reading and six writing classes worth $900. Last chance to get the first seven books of The Fey at a discounted price. Only thirty or so hours left. Last full day. And pass the word to writer friends and fantasy fans. Help us reach that last stretch reward.

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Return of the Fey Kickstarter only 60-Plus Hours Left

    Don’t Let This One Slip Past… Folks, after almost twenty years, Kris is returning to The Fey and she needed your help. Watch her in the video and she explains it perfectly. She needed a deadline and you have given it to her now with The Return of the Fey Kickstarter Campaign. But now, with all the stretch rewards this campaign has hit, this is more than worth everyone backing, readers or writes, to try to hit even the next stretch reward. But only a few days left, counting down now by hours!! In the campaign there are some really cool things. Kris has already started a blog series that…