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Year of the Cat Covers
Wow, Are These Cool!!! I wanted to show you these twelve covers. And we are headed toward the second stretch goal with just over a week left on the Year of the Cat Kickstarter campaign. (Thank you, everyone!!) Now, please help pass the word so we can get up to those stretch goals with lectures and workshops involved. And get these twelve anthologies, one per month. And also, on Teachable, every month, I will be doing a Year of the Cat Class for a full year, talking about each story in each anthology and why that story worked and the writing techniques the writer used to make it work. A…
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Licensing 101 Workshop
Coming Next Day Or So… Going to add a new six-week workshop to the list for March. It is called Licensing 101, basically what the name states, a six-week run-through of the basic thinking of licensing your IP. Those of you in the Licensing Transition Class will get this free with the Licensing Transition Class. So no worries there. It will add over 40 videos to the learning there. And, of course, those of you who have a Lifetime Workshop Subscription will get the workshop as well. And it will be available to sign up for normal workshop rate of $300. But if you are thinking of doing that, sign…
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Anthology Workshop
Decision Time for 2021… A week from Friday the 2020 Anthology workshop will be starting here in Las Vegas. The writers have been writing since the last week of November and now all of us are reading like crazy. The writers wrote for seven paying anthologies and one brand new major magazine. Plus I am always looking to buy for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine during this anthology workshop. But this workshop loses WMG money and we have been talking about cancelling the Anthology workshop for next year (2021), first to save the money and second to allow Fiction River to get caught up. Actually, this year there is only one Fiction…
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Workshop Updates and Running
Saturday Night Quick Updates… — New video on the Publishing Challenge and new video on the Novel Challenge are both up. Story prompt for the Great Challenge for short stories will be Sunday evening late, as normal. You can sign up for the challenges, even though you don’t intend to start just yet, or aren’t sure when you are starting. Starting any of the challenges is your choice as to when. — Last few days to sign up for the February regular workshops. March workshops will take their place in a day or so. — Licensing Transition Class has five February videos up, more soon. — Decade Ahead Class has…
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Almost To First Stretch Goal
Just Over a Week In… And we are only $400 from the first stretch goal on the Year of the Cat Kickstarter campaign. Thank you, everyone!! Now, please help pass the word so we can get up to those stretch goals with lectures and workshops involved. Not even half way through the time yet, so more than enough time to make it. Thanks again, everyone. Link to Year of the Cat Kickstarter.
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Keeping Track
A Fun System… I heard of this idea from someone, but sadly I can’t remember who, but thank you. A fun idea that harks back to the old childhood days. And I have never tried it before, and considering how many systems and goofy things I have tried, that’s surprising. I have a hanging calendar on my wall now, as of tonight, right behind my business computer and right under a fortune cookie saying that is taped there. And thanks to Office Depot this afternoon, I have about 800 gold stars and about 200 larger colored smiling faces. So the system is simple. For every 1,000 new words, I put…
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Got a Couple Letters
About the New Pop-Up… Called “Nothing’s Good Enough.” Basically, this is about how critical voice creeps in when you least expect it. And ways to identify what is happening and stop it, get back to having fun. We put it as the first Pop-Up in the Decades Ahead Class as well as a regular Pop-Up you can buy directly. Why in the Decades Ahead Class in February? Because right about now is when this evil little part of critical voice starts showing its head and mucking around with your New Year’s resolution. One of the questions from someone who hasn’t taken the Pop-Up was if it would help the critical…
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Visions of the Future
New StoryBundle Just Launched… I put this one together and to be honest, I am damned proud of the books I got for this one. Some really, really amazing science fiction by some top writers. I will be back tomorrow with more, but might want to check it out at: Storybundle.com/scifi
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Nothing’s Good Enough
A New Pop-Up… And also part of the first quarter of The Decade Ahead class. That’s right, there is a new Pop-Up with a story prompt and everything. If you are in The Decade Ahead class, either the entire year or the first quarter, this Pop-Up is now part of that class and the link to it is under the first video in February. Or you can just sign up for the Pop-Up directly. It is Pop-Up #18: Nothing’s Good Enough. And it is also in the Bundle Pop-Up #11-20 and is also in the Bundle Pop-Up 11–20. (The Pop-Ups are $150 and the bundles make it cheaper to get…
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Kind of Fun Cat Video
About Our Making Our Kickstarter Goal… Gwyneth at WMG Publishing did this for fun and I thought I would show it here. Nifty that we are past our goal, but we could use a bunch more help on getting the cat books, all 12 monthly anthologies, break even. And if anyone has any ideas for some rewards we hadn’t thought of, write me. Glad to consider just about anything. And by the way, if you are thinking about the mentor program with me, when this Kickstarter is over, that’s the end of them. I won’t offer them again. I’ll just keep working with the great writers I am working with…