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Broadway Play Tonight
I Hate Romeo and Juliet… Hate it with a passion brought on by too many years of having to deal with it and the pure stupidity of the plot. So when the show & JULIET came up on our Broadway season tickets, I was not excited, to say the least. But Kris said a number of times this was one she had been looking forward to, so I trusted her. She was the one who tricked me into going to see COME FROM AWAY and that is my third all-time musical and not a chance would I have seen it if I had known what it was about. My first…
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Still Spots Open In Writers Career Camp…
Reposting This… Not sure how many people saw this originally and we still have some spots open. Just follow the instructions under the details to join in. 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 again. A lot of great questions answered four or five posts back. —– WRITING CAREER CAMP… Online July 15th through August 12th Since we did the last master class back six…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine… Easy Promotion That Makes Money So you have over 20 pies in your magic bakery and also some short story pies. (If you have not read the previous eight chapters plus the introduction, don’t blame me if you are confused and lost.) Most importantly, you have stopped all your anti-promotion of your bakery. (I bet any amount of pie crust you have not.) So going to spend this chapter on easy, money-making promotion that costs very little to nothing. In a future chapter I will bring up ads and such, but for now if you think you have to spend much money at all on promotion at the…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight… The Basics of Anti-Promotion Promotion for writers and indie publishers can go in so many ways in this modern world, but going to start here with the basics of anti-promotion, or how to at least give your book and your store a fighting chance. So let me give you some guidelines. You might not like these, but alas, they have facts and studies behind them. The magic number of major books you need in your magic bakery is around 20, where discoverability starts to kick in. (Lots and lots of advertising studies back this up.) Novels, stand-alone novellas, collections, and omnibus. Discoverability is the number of ways a…
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Still Spots Open in Writing Career Camp…
Limited to 25 Writers… Still over ten spots available in the Writing Career Camp, so no worries yet. When it gets close, I will post it here. The last two blog posts have all the information and questions. Tomorrow I get back to the Magic Bakery. Again, lots of spots available, so if interested, just follow the instructions below to sign up. DETAILS — Cost is $600. — TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT… Pay through PayPal to dean@wmgpublishingstore.com and then write me directly (not that address) — Limited to 25 writers only. This will fill but still lots of room at the moment. — Four Weeks… Tuesday July 15th to Tuesday…
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Writing Career Camp Questions…
All the Details Are In the Last Post… But I got a few questions on the WRITING CAREER CAMP we are doing for four weeks in July and August. In a couple different ways, I got the very good question “Will this cover a lot of things I have already studied?” Answer… Some, but not much. The goal of this Writing Career Camp is to take the entire indie writing career and publishing world and explain it in a way that makes sense so writers can plan ahead, make decisions, and set goals. Sure, you might have taken one class here or there on certain topics, but with this, the…
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Writing Career Camp
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. With our regular workshops and classes and such, there are so many gaps of large areas we are missing that we want to cover. Really important gaps to indie writers and publishers. 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…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven… The Magic of the Business Oh, oh, to show another aspect of the magic of the bakery, I have to talk a few numbers and some pretty easy business terms. So hang on. I promise I will be gentle. To start a regular store on the corner of any town, it costs a lot before the first customer even walks through the door. Rent, set up of electric, fixtures, money and inventory systems, licenses, often remodeling and then you have to buy your inventory to stock your store. And since it has been 8 years since I started a brick and mortar store, I know I am forgetting…
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Advanced Magic Bakery… Chapter Six
Chapter Six… Who Are Your Customers? Right now this Advanced Magic Bakery metaphor is getting a little extended. You think? So to understand exactly what this is about, make sure you have read the Introduction and first five chapters. So you have been baking for a number of years and getting better at making your pies (stories) taste better and be more desirable to readers. And you have a bunch of short fiction pies and over twenty major book pies in your magic bakery. (In your magic bakery means you have published your stories wide around the world. That is all.) The pies are all on your wonderful magic bakery…
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A Fun Day!
Off To The Old Ball Game… Basketball, actually. Aces. I managed to crawl out of bed and get ready just in time for us to head out to first get yummy pizza before the game. (Pizza for breakfast just ain’t something I am going to complain about. (grin)) Game was fun, even though we lost. Frustrating, but worth watching. And good friends there. And watching the little kids play a game at halftime was so, so much fun. Made my heart feel good to watch the girls and boys battle it out. And one of them actually made a shot. The entire place cheered. Then Kris and I headed for…