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Having Fun
I Always Tell Writers to Have Fun… Both with the writing and publishing. But sometimes life just has other ideas and that has been a part of this entire spring and summer this year. Nothing like last fall with the smashed shoulder or the year before with the eye infection. This year just crap. The kind of overloaded, too much to do, lawyers and business crap that can suck the fun out of anything. So now I am on a campaign to bring the joy back into my life (and I hope Kris’s life) going forward. I am going to remind myself every day that I have the best job…
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New Fey Novel Coming…
Kickstarter Launches September 10th… I love these new Fey novels with the steampunk and fantasy and magic. And, of course, the Fey. Serebro Academy: A New Fey Novel is amazingly good. Check it out. And Kickstarter likes us enough to give us Project We Love weeks before we launch. So cool. And really fun merchandise and two special workshops in this one. Super fun. Jump on the list to get notified when we launch.
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Reminder of Advanced Classes and Sale
18 Total Advanced Craft Classes!! Going to put this here again as a reminder that there is about five days left in the sale which includes all the Advanced Craft classes and the Lifetime Everything Subscription. See details below on the sale… We did six Advanced Craft Classes in 2023, are in the process of doing six more in 2024, and there will be a new six advanced craft classes in 2025. 18 Total when we get to the end of 2025. Wow! The new six craft classes for 2025 are: Advanced Rule of Three Advanced Setting Advanced Cliffhangers Advanced Novel Structure Advanced Tension/Suspense Advanced Making Stuff Up Starting On…
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Some Interesting Plotting
Watching the Old Magnum… For an hour or so each night, to relax, Kris and I watch television, and for some reason we got going on the old Magnum shows. We’ll stop when we find other shows or some network television returns. But tonight we had worked our way through season seven, which was supposed to be the last season. And I wanted to watch that show ender. He’s a ghost through most of the show and at the end walks into the clouds. Really well done with John Denver music. Then they decided to have a season eight because of the ratings and the money and had to get…
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Sleep… The Final Frontier…
Seems That Sleep Stuff Is Still Rare… Back at the first of August I altered my sleep schedule to make it to the anthology workshop by 9 am. And then because of a writing project I may do this fall, I decided I needed to keep that schedule. But I slipped and as like I am doing tonight, I stayed up like the old schedule until 5 am. And the brain, that is trying to make the switch, wakes me up at 8 am. Wide awake ready to go. It is like I am switching four time zones every day. Naps are not making up for the problem, so at…
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Advanced Craft Classes Sale…
Plus Sale on Lifetime Everything Subscription… I have up all the ADVANCED CRAFT classes I am going to put up right now on Teachable, plus the bundle for all six of them in 2025. I am going to wait to put up the Sept/Oct classes and the Nov/Dec classes for 2025 until we get past the 2024 ones. We did six Advanced Craft classes in 2023, are in the process of doing six more in 2024, and there will be a new six advanced craft classes in 2025. All are available every year. See the schedule below. 18 Total when we get to the end of 2025. Wow! The new…
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Announcing New ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES
That’s Right… 18 Total Advanced Craft Classes!! We did six in 2023, are in the process of doing six more in 2024, and there will be a new six advanced craft classes in 2025. 18 Total when we get to the end of 2025. Wow! The new six craft classes for 2025 are: Advanced Rule of Three Advanced Setting Advanced Cliffhangers Advanced Novel Structure Advanced Tension/Suspense Advanced Making Stuff Up Starting On September 3rd (in one week) are… Advanced Genre Advanced Conflict Starting On November 5th (in two months) are… Advanced Emotions Advanced Unputdownable Then the schedule for 2025 for Advanced Craft Classes is the following. January/February 2025… Advanced Rule…
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Scheduling the Impossible…
Scheduling Is Something We All Get Used To… Indie writers at some level or another all get used to scheduling publishing projects. Nature of this new world and actually for me, I had so many deadlines in a year in the old traditional publishing days, I had a massive yearly schedule for writing and travel and deadlines and money flow. In indie publishing, scheduling is just something we all do at one level or another. And then there is the WMG Publishing schedule master, Kris. Two major ongoing projects (Pulphouse monthly) and Holiday Spectacular (More moving parts than you can imagine) are year-long things. Plus for our books and such,…
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The Time Travel Fun of Editing…
Sometimes Even I Get Confused… And I have been editing for 35 years in one way or another. Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #32 came out yesterday to subscribers in ebook. Paper and contributor paper copies will trail along as normal for anything paper. I wrote the introduction to that issue back in early June. Pulphouse is monthly now, which causes me to work out two or three months ahead. Two is minimum. So tonight I finished the introduction to the October issue that will come out right before Halloween. Here in the heat of August I have been writing about the fall weather and Trick-Or-Treating. And selecting a few stories in…
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Mentorships Still Availble…
Lots of Interest… But so far this is still open. Two posts ago I gave the full story on how these came about and the history. Do read that. So as I said, I can safely handle two more writers. Write me if interested and I will answer what questions I can.. Cost is $3,000. (This is just between you and me, no one else, although your partner is fine to ride along.) Any topic about writing and publishing is valid. I would be here to help you for as long as you want me to, meaning for years. But I do ask that every Sunday (or Monday or at…