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FOUR SCIENCE FICTION Kickstarter Campaign
Four Kristine Kathryn Rusch Science Fiction Novellas… Campaign starts Tuesday at noon. Four Science Fiction. Wow, is there some good sf reading in this campaign. Not only do you get the four novellas with every award, but you can get six of Kris’s other sf novellas. You can also get all (or choice of three) of 18 Diving Series books, and some great Kris short stories as stretch rewards. Also brand new focused Pop-Up classes as stretch goals. That’s right, brand new. And two of the best Special Workshops on science fiction we have ever done. Maybe the best ones. Here are descriptions of the two special workshops. — Workshop…
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4 Spots Left In WRITING CAREER CAMP!
Starts On the 15th!! Only Four Spots Left… Here is the information. WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six or seven years ago, we have been trying to come up with a way to bring everything in indie publishing and writing together. And have it all presented in a way that makes sense. And unlike the old master class, can be accessed at future times. So for four weeks, we are going to do our best to cover everything we can, in an orderly fashion that will help writers of all levels make sense of this new indie world.…
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Worked on Writing Career Camp
Kris and I Spent Time On Details We Will Cover… We have been doing that lately, since it starts on the 15th and we want to have most things ready or even recorded. We will be recording answers to questions every day and a bunch of other things, but for now this is great fun for me and Kris to work on the organization of how to present indie publishing. We do have one major change. We will do some basics, some regular, and some advanced information every week instead of leaving all the advanced to the last week. And yes, when we are done there will be a guide…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve… More Than One Magic Bakery Authors desperately need to learn branding. It is a major promotion tool when done correctly. Just saying… Authors also do not realize that the name above the door into their magic bakery is their author name. Not their publishing name which is for business like licensing agreements. No one ever cares about a book title, they only care about author’s names, even when the writer is only on their third book. All systems of searches boil down to the author’s name. So Dean, how do pen names work here in the magic bakery world of 2025? My first knee-jerk answer is that you…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY Chapter Eleven
Chapter Eleven… Talking Real World Business Fiction writers create stories out of mixing elements of public domain into something original to them, The form is protected with copyright, and over time and the right business, also might be protected under trademark. Both are intellectual property. In this book I have been calling these stories magic pies. And they really are magic in so many ways, and your magic bakery is magic in so many ways. But for one short chapter, I want to talk real world business terms. Yes, I will keep it simple. In the real world, the money that just appears in your cash register when your story…
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Advanced Craft and Collection Classes Starting…
Some Really Great Classes!! There are three Advanced Craft classes starting July 8th. They are all $500 each and I will be adding the Sept/Oct classes and Nov/Dec classes in a few days, plus the first four months of 2026. Here are the three starting on the 8th. Advanced Novel Structure Advanced Information Flow Advanced Voice Designed to take your craft skills to another level. FOUR COLLECTION CLASSES These have just started and are nine weeks long and $500 each. You learn about each topic and also write five stories (any stories you want) in that topic, plus learn about putting the stories together and cover design and more. When…
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Don’t Think Writing Into the Dark Works???
Here Is A Great Explanation… Sent to me by a friend… Thank you! This was in a 1923 letter from George Bernard Shaw to Alexander Baksky, author of The Theatre Unbound. “You will understand that my plays are not constructed plays: they grow naturally. If you “construct” a play: that is, if you plan your play beforehand, and then carry out your plan, you will find yourself in the position of a person putting together a jig-saw puzzle, absorbed and intensely interested in an operation which, to the spectator, is unbearably dull. The scenes must be born alive. If they are not new to you as you write, and sometimes…
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Word Count Dropped Under Pulp Speed One…
Four Difficult Months in a Row… I know that happens, but now we shall see what I can do for the last six months of the year. But going to take a climb to get back over Pulp Two (1.2 million consumable words in a year.) I keep my running monthly word count on the right of this blog. Math is my friend. I need about 720,000 words in six months. Or about 120,000 words a month. About 4,000 words a day roughly, so about 3.5 to 4 hours a day. Yup, I can do that. Hope everyone is doing well on their yearly challenges or their reset challenges. And…
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1 Day Left At Reduced Rate
Writing Career Camp… One day left at the reduced rate. And still spots open so no problem there. And yes, you can be on vacation. No assignments to do, everything recorded so you can be on vacation for part of it without missing a thing. And most importantly, since a lot of this will be advanced, you can come back and watch the recordings in the future at any point. So here is the full first post once again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. And remember, the reduced price is only good until July 1st. Just 1 day left… And spots still available. —–…
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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Ten
STARTING OFF WITH LINKS… I am getting a hunch that many people have started this series in the middle and have not read all the chapters and such. And are reading like every third chapter. Now I am pretty good at helping readers understand things, but only reading every three chapters is beyond my skill to help you. So for quick reference, here are links to the other chapters before jumping into Chapter Ten… Introduction: Chapter One: A Magic Pie Chapter Two: Market or No Market Chapter Three: Moral Rights Chapter Four: Starting a Business Chapter Five: What You Sell Chapter Six: Who Are Your Customers? Chapter Seven: The Magic…