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Five Days Left in the Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter
GREAT STORIES AND REWARDS… Only five days left in the Kickstarter. You get 35 original holiday stories sent to you, one per day during the holidays, plus all kinds of other great stuff. And we are well on the way to the second stretch goal, which means more great reading. These campaigns tend to go fast toward the end, so we might make more than one more, I hope. And if you want great discounts for workshops and lectures, you have five days to get them. So give it a look. WMG Holiday Spectacular. And if you want to have Kris explain exactly what this is all about, watch this…
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Misc. Stuff To Talk About and Pictures
Paypal Off on Some Workshops… Teachable is working on the problem, so if you would like to pay for a workshop through Paypal and the Paypal option does not appear, just go directly to Paypal and then send the payment to the following email address: LasVegasWorkshops@wmgbooks.com Then write me and let me know which workshop you sent the money for and I will send you a code to get into it. You can do exactly the same thing if you want to support the WMG Holiday Spectacular, but don’t want to go through Kickstarter. It will count and you will get all the stretch rewards and everything. HIT STRETCH GOAL!!…
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November and December Regular Workshops
Only Six Regular Workshops Per Month… As I said, a lot of workshops are headed to Classic Status in the first of November, and with teaching the How to Write a Pulphouse Story and How to Write a Holiday Story workshops in the next two months, we decided to not add in any more new regular workshops in the next two months. But there will be new regular workshops after the first of the year. And you can still sign up on the How to Write a Holiday Story for seven more days on Kickstarter through the WMG Holiday Spectacular. That is the only place that workshop is offered. It…
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Shared World Second Update
First Videos Going Up… They will be there later today. Not there yet. But there are still a few openings, so here is the first post about the nine-month Shared Worlds class. And my introduction video at the bottom of this. And for those of you in the class, I will email you to let you know every time I put up new videos so you don’t always have to be checking. SHARED WORLDS: What Are They, How to Do Them, and Why… This is a one-of-a-kind class. Not a workshop, not a lecture, not a study along. For years now, Kris and I have tried to figure out how…
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Almost to Stretch Goal
Just Slightly Over Halfway Done… Almost to the first stretch goal. And I think we can hit two or three more stretch goals if things go well. That would be fantastic fun. Of course, getting 35 original holiday stories delivered to you for every day of the holiday season is pretty darned cool as it is. And there are great writer workshop rewards in this one, all the way from lectures to lifetime subscriptions and even one mentorship with me for a year. And you still get the 35 stories plus a brand new Kristine Grayson holiday novel. So check it out at WMG Holiday Spectacular on Kickstarter. And if…
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At the Run
Talked with Donny Osmond for a Short Moment… About 22 or more years ago, he and I started to write a novel together. It was set up by Tekno Books and was to be a thriller. I spent a couple days on it, writing about 15,000 words and an outline, I don’t think Donny spent more than thirty minutes on it, twice talking with me on the phone. I remember vaguely that he liked it and that it would be fun. New York killed it. 22 or 23 years ago. So I barely remembered details of it and he didn’t remember it at all, which I didn’t expect him to.…
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Got To Get Up Early
To Go Run in a 5K Charity Run… Kris and I have to go out of the house at 7 a.m. at the latest. So I’m not staying up late tonight, that’s for sure. (grin) So two running pictures one year apart. Last Year at the Vegas Strong Run… I was down 45 pounds from heaviest, but still a long ways to go. Second picture this year, down 82 pounds from my heaviest. I will post pictures here when I hit 100 pounds down. What I looked like at a hundred pounds more. But these two pictures, same run, same time of year, shows some of the progress over one…
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Sometimes Just Fun
Keeping the Blog Streak Alive… Something like day 2,626 of blogs without a miss. So tonight, since I have been reading stories and such, I felt too tired to write much or post another chapter in the Trademark book, so figured I would just show you one of the covers from my Make 100 Paperbacks. Working my way right through them and having fun. So here is a new short story cover from issue three of Smith’s Monthly. Cover is front, back, and spine. I used the same art that was in the issue originally for the story. 5 x 8 inch trim. This one is the first story of…
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Some Things Made Clear
I Hope… On Licensing Art… When Kris and I first came out of the Licensing Expo, it was clear to us that art was a critical component of any license. So we assumed that it would be the best for writers to start buying more rights for the art because the royalty free sites licenses did not allow for use of the art in many ways. In theory, that is correct, and in the Licensing Transition Class on Teachable, later this winter, we will be talking about art licenses, what to do, what not to do, that sort of thing, including looking at contracts for art licenses. But for now,…
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We Made It!! Goal Hit!
WMG Holiday Spectacular Is A Go!! We hit our goal for the WMG Holiday Spectacular project. So now, all the backers of the project will get a story a day from November 28th to January 1st. 35 top stories from top professional short fiction writers. A gift that lasts an entire holiday season, every day. For 35 days. How much fun is that!! As Kris said, she spent years trying to figure out a way to make this work, and it has been a project that has been on the burner for over a year now at WMG Publishing. To see it make the goal in just six days, with…